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- i r- i y i P mm@-. "We will cling to the Pillars of thie Temple of our Libertkg, and if It must fall, we will Perish anidst the Ruins." W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFIELD, S. C., FEBRUARY 2, 1853. O- a ....V. 3. THE SEXTON'S SPADE. ALL battered and worn is the sexton's spade, Andl soon 'twill lie throwna as;de: tt iatl lasted well; and mani a zrave H1ath it slwled ftull deep :md wide! And many a .;e coul!d that old spade tell Tales if the churchyard dre:r Of tie silent step. and the dohi-1,uI knell, Onhe coflin, shroud, and bier: It could tell of children who died in spring, When rorcs were lioomiang arousl: W'hile the niorning lark its earol would sing, As it flew o'er the hurial ground Ilow it liartel aide with its iron blade The g'-ass which so lately grew; And a grave for tile yiuang was carefully made 'Neath the shade of the broad-spread yew It could tell of tihose in the bloom of youth, Whose steps were so light and free; [truth. ' hote thouglhts were pure, and whose hearts were But who n1,w sleep silen-itly How their craves were ma-.e in the summer tinle, When the tlowers arotuni were bright, And wreaths were made of the eghantine, And placed o'er their brows so white. It could tell us of manhood's slow decay And how in the hour of pride, The spirit ltli left its iiouse of clay, Anl all that was mortal died hlow the autumn h aves that strewed the ground Were quietly brushid away. While sorrow:ing frieaIs were gathered round, When the clay returned to clay! It coubl, te'l us of weak and boary age, With its feeble step and sow. Who gladlu seized upon the gmie 'The gau! tiet Death diid throw Ilow graves were made waia- ohl winter's breath Had b!own ol the flawers si fair; All seasons anl ages belon g toi death Youth, Manlood, nir Age will lie spare ! All batterel anl wotn is the sexton's spade, And soon 'twill lie thrown asie; t It hath lasted well. andI many a grave lath it shaped full deep and wile ; And many a tale could that old spade tell Tales of the ehurih-yPrd drear; Of the silenut step and the dolefull knell Of tle coffin, shro ud, and ber ! SWEET BE THY DREANS. SwEEr be thy daeams when baatay sleep Ier soothing influenee round thee throws! "-Vhat if my faded eyes shoula weep? Jome lovelier. one wdr 1haiunittyrest- t tcare not what tliose dreams may be, So they are sweet, and thou art blessed. ]Bright be thy hopes ! why shoul1d one cloutd 01 sorrow dim thy radiant eye I Go milgle with tle gay aand1 proud, And learn to smi!e. thouagh I may sigh ; Go Climb the loftiest steep of Inac, And wreathe a laurel rounad thy brow; And wheln tholit!q won a g.aious tamaae, Low at the slr:ne of b.:auty bow. Light be thy lacart ! why shouldst thou kecp Sadaness within its seer t etls ? Let n' 't thy eye one tear drop weep, t'niess that tear of rapture t'ls Go! shed on alt thy br glates bamlis I wonlI, bait mnust not, lid thae' -'tay. Sweet viio of any sweetest dreans, Ill udr,-aa-ike beaty pass' away. THE LADY AND THE ROBBERS. Int a charmaaing viilh go, situated inl attruily roaintic coutryta~ , but a cotnswideriable dhis tace fromn thae high roa~d, was Barona R. ate- t customted to spiend the3 summera. H-Iis aaan siona bttilt tuponm an emnncetI, was perfect ly adlapted toi his fortunt... [t was a sptaiouas building,~ very elegant w(ithain talmi withoutit, and( exthbited a glod styie aif atrebiteture, :and it was abiout two htundred pacees fr oam 2 the village. Busitness obligted tache baon toi take a journey of a few' days. i~s wife, whoi wvas bitt twentyv yeaars of' age, very beautifual, re mtaaned at homea.. ie tooik wiitha haim two of lhis serv'a,.ts, anad the ithler two were left with the btarone~ss. No violationa oh' the pulic security had ever b~eena heard of' itn tha' piart ot thae country', aind ;ts the blaronea(ss did anot belong to the timid piortiona of her sex, thec idea of daanger was fa r from ean terinag haer tainad. Thec evenuing after the biaron's depaurture, as she was stepinlg inato bied, she hteard tan alarming tnise itn an a partmenw~t neaa hter chamaber. Shae called out buat received tno aaswer. The confusion and sceaminag in creased ev'ery' mioment. Shec was att a loss to conceive whaat wats thec attter, and hastI Iy puattinag on her garmetaits. wenat to the door to dliscover thacecause. A ho (rrid spec tacle presenited itseltf! HeIr two settants, halt' naked, were extended lifless oat the floor. Tfhe room wats full of strange looking~ meni ; the baroness' chamttbermnaid was k neelinag beforec onie of thetm, and inastead of the tmerev she implored, she received the fattal stroke. No soonetr did the dotor open thatn two barbiaariaans, witha drawnt swords, ruisheda towartds it. Whlat wvomtan, or ceen mnan, would not hiave been struck with the tmtrost terror, and. givenm up his life~ anad et-erythaing as lost ? A loud shrtiek of des pailr, a flighat of a fe-w paces, would probia W- haave beetn the last resort of many.a. Thea baroness, however, conducted haerself itn a different mannter. SAna' you have come at Ilast ?" exchtimed she, with a tone oh' heart-felt joy, tad ad vaneaig towards her assailants, witha a haaste that high1y, astonished thaem, they lowered their uplifted weaponts. "A re yout comte at last ?" repeated sihe. "Such visitors as you I have lonag wished to see." sins. " What do you mean by that? But stay, I'll-" He iad already raise( his cutlass, but a comrade averted the stroke. " Stop a mo ment brother," said he; "let us first hear what she would have." "Nothing but what is your pleasure, brave comrades. You are men after my own hetart, and neither you nor I shall have any reason to repent it, if you will listen for two minutes to what I have to sav." " Speak ! speak !" cried the whole com pany. " But be quick," added one of the fiercest, for we liall not make much ceremony." " Nevertheless, I hope you may. You raiint me a hearing ? Know, then, that al. though I am the wife of tile richest gentle. man ill the country, yet the meanest begrar cannot he more unhappy thaln I am. My busband is one of the moyt jialons aid figgardly tellows on the earth. I hate him is I hate the-, anid it Is long been tile lervent wish of my heart to get out of his Inteies, and :t the same time pay off old cores. All ilv servants were his spivs, and hat felow, vlose business you have d1one o comPletelvy, was the worst of all. I am carcely - twentv.one, and a flatter myself, 1.r1 from1 Ingill" nIlv. If aylV Of you CIOSC 0 take le :long111 witl you, I'll accompany 7(n1 to tle woods or the village ale-house. or shall :any v of vou have reason to repent paring my lire. You are in a well-stored I MiI oil, but it is impossilile that you should e aeilinted with all its secert corners. lhese I will show yon, and if I do not make on richer bv six thousand diliars, then erve ie as von have m y chamibermaid." Robliers of this kind are certainly villains, mit, nevertheless, they are still ien. The rhIily lunexpected tendency of the baro ess' address, add to the more than ordinary eanty of tile feanle, altogether produced powerful effect on men whose hands were ekillg nI ith blood. Thev all thel stepped side and consulted togrether in a low tone r some millutes. Thle barolless was left iite alone, but she betrayed not tile least ish to escape. Sie heard two or three mns express themselves, " Let's despatch er and the game will be up." She, how ver, scarcely changed her color, for the op osition of' tle ,others (lid not escape her cute ear. One, vho was probably the t ptain of the banditti, now advanced to ards her. He asked twice or thrice whether he ight rely on the truth of what she said hlether she actually wished to be released om]' the tyranny of her husband and go . ih them, and whether she vas ready to sign herself to one of them-himself,. for I 4ia-Uinii re fjIi et-ii-tie a etrmaP ve to all these questions; having not O.ly difered tle warm embrace of tie robber, I it returned it (for what will not necessity I (Cuse,) he at length said: " Come along, then, and lead us raund. I 'he d-I trust you ladies of rank, but we'll nture for (lice. But let me tell you be. >reland, that if you were twice as hand >me aS you are, this weapon should Cleave our skull the moment we saw the least dis t'sition to escape or betray us." "Then it will be safe enouighl ; and if this i ,ere tile only condition of my being put to en1til, I would outlive you all, and even the 'allderill Jew himself." 'Tle baroness smiled when she pronounc d these words,nd hastily caught up tile carest lmp Is thiough she was as anxious s any~ ot thenm to colleet tile plunlder and( e g~one,' contducted tile whlole companly b~roiugh every apartmIent, openled every or, every dirawer and1( every chest; assisted II emptring thleml an~d packing up tile valua. ,es ;loosked with the utmost indin'erence ,ver* thte mleltOdd bodies; spoke with the alniliarity of anl old aecquaintande~l to each meC of the hlorridl troop, and( willlingly aided vitht her delienlte hands in the most labo iols occulpation. Phate, mon11ey, jewvels and other valtuables lere now~ collected together, and the cap. ;lin of the bandlitti was abiout givinlg the rder for mta rchling whlen his dest inled bride :ghlt him t by thle armt. "' Did I not tell 01,' said Shle, " t hat von would nlot replent nking' a lIit Ii ot m1e antd spalring myl life. fou maly inldeedl ha~ve youtr fling ill places :ou find openl; buit it is a5 pity von cannoot -omlle at treasurl es tihat are a little concealed. [o you suppose that amon~lg cof'ers so fidl lire are no0 secret places ? Look here, and hel you will be convinced to tile conltrary." Sh'e poinlted to a secret spring iln tile bron' s writng-de'sk. TIhey pressed uplon t and out fell tweve hundred dotllars. "Zounlds !" e.ijed thle leader of tihe rob-.' Iers, "no 11W see youI are anl inopa l w~omanIl. I u ill keep you for this as a ducess." A 1An1 perhaps better still," site replied, lauglingr " whetn I tell you one( thlingmnore. I oln well aware thlat you mu1(st have had spies who informoed yon of the absence of my tyranlt ; butt they' dlid not~ tell yotu of the( tour huLndred guli'ders whlicht he received vesterdayV." "Not a syllable. W here are they ?" " 0, satfe enotugh unider half a dlozen oks anid bolts. You woeld certainly not havel them and the iron chlest had it not beetn for meW. Come along,~ comradles. We have fiised above stairs no0w we'll see what's to be done undner it. Collo along wvith m~e, I say, inlto tile cellar." T1he robbers followved, but not with pre cautionl. At tile enttranlce of the cellar, pro vided with a strong trap-dioor, a man was p~osted as senltinel. TheI baroness did not tlke thle least notice of this. Sh~e conduct ed thle whole trooip to a vatult at thle farthest of tile cellar. Shle unlocked it, an~d ill tile corter of thlis rom stood the chest she had described. " Here," said shle giving the captin a bunch of keys ; " here, unlock it and tatke whalit you can find as a wedding gift, if* you can obtain the consent of your coupI~mions as readily as you have gained Th le robber tried one key after another, but noneW woul fit. Hie grewv impatienlt, and~ thle baronless seemed still mlore so. "Le nd 1m thlem," Enid slIe. " I shall hnd the way sooner. Indeed, if we don't make haste tie morning may overtake us. " Ia! the reason why neither of us could unlock it is because I have the wrong bunch of keys. I'll soon obtain another." She ran up stairs and presently they heard her coming down, but she went slow. l as if out of breath with the haste she had made. " I've found them !" cried she at a distance. She was within three steps of the person placed at the entrance of the cellar when she made a spring at the wretch, who as little expceted the dissolution of the world as such an attack. A single push with her strength tumbled him down the stairs from top to bottom. In a twinkling she closed the trap-door, bolted it, and thus had the whole company secured in the cel lar. This was the work of a single mo ment. In the next she flew across the court-vard, and n ith a candle set fire to a detached jig.stye. The watchman in the neighhboring village, perceiving the flames, inIst:aitly gave the alarm. In a few minutes the inhabitants were out of their beds, and a crowd of fharmers and their servants has. ened to the mansion. The baroness waited for them at the gate >f the court-yard. " A few of you," said he, " will lie sufficient to put out this fire )r prevent it from spreading. But now rovide yourselves with arms, which you vill find iii abundance in my husbrand's rmory, post'yourselves at the avenues of* Ahe cellar and suffier not one of the murder. rs and robbers shut up in it to escape." Her directions we obeyed, and not one of lhem escaped the punishment due his crime. THE FESTIVAL OF THE GODS. OR, WIT, BEAUTY, REASON, AN) RELIGION. There was a festival held years ago, mong the gods. It was then decided by hem that it would lie wise* to bestow a ize upon the servant who should prove inself to be of the most service to man ind-who ministered most to their wants, piritual and temporal. Therefore they re olved to sit in grave counsel, and to sum non those servants, one after another, into heir presence. The first who presented himself was amed Wit. He wore upon his head, and A! over his person, so many sparkling hings lie daziled the eyes of the beholders; lmiples lurked at fie corners of his mouth, nd his eves danced in mirthrsili-'- I am nd I t. .. , -iut we must hear the thers. Retire Wit. We aro highly de gtel with you, hut what maiden is this oing forward-a perfect embodiment of very grace ?" My name is Beauty," said the .lushing reature. " When Wit and I go together, - are everywhere welcomed, and fl ,tered v mortals-this shows the estimate they lace on us. But I, even when unattended iv Vit, am much courted and caressed. Ese buds are stolen for keepsakes from my air; my footsteps are follo1wed-niy words re listened for, my smiles are sought after. leave it to your jndgments to decide, vhether it is probable that I should lie thus llowed and caressed, if I were not of tiore service than any body else to mortals. hall not the prize lbe rightfully awarded udlt given to me? The gods, ha:lf (dazzled by her charms, otioned her to retire, but secretly dlecidedl hat her claims far outweighied those of V4it, good as they had before thought his o be. 'The door opened, and an aged servant, vith: a sober brow, and deep) thoughtful ~yes, presented himself. - Wit," he begani to say, " dazzles and lidhs mankind ; Beauty, instead of hbeing ersel f a servant, makes muirtal<, as she just now boasted, serve her. I wonder that she dlare presenit herself among the candi ates for your fatvor. 0, ye inunurtal gods! she is an eff'eminate creature, never satisfied miei's loaded wvith: bouquets, sighed after, followed and caressed. But I act as a guide o mortals, when they are environed by dilienties-when they are almost overcome ~y misfortunes. Without the sober dictates f Reason, how, I ask, would mortals act ? , gods ! I need not urge my claims. They must he readily per ceived and acknowledged by jou all!" Searcely had Reason finished this speech, when a beautiful creature came- in, so meek in aspect, so gentle in lbearing~, so graceful in motion, so pure in ranment, and so heavr enly in: countenance, that the gods Iookedl with breathless astonishment upon her. "I care but little for the prize,"' she said, " ut I stepped in to say, that when W~it has deluded, wvhenm beauty has faided, when the counsels of Reason have been disregarded, I come to the service of mankind. Sly name is Religion. I guide the mortal with unerring rectitnde through all the tangled mazes of mortal existence-I smooth his dying pillow, and open to the eye of Faith the portals of Heaven. Without moe, man kind is wvretched, degraded and lost." Tlhe gods, awed by the serenity of her mien, and wvell perceiving the truthfulness of her words, forgot thie sparkling flashes of Wit, the charms of Beauty, and the c'aims of Reason. The goddess of Wisdom dle sened fronm her throne, and placed the crownm upon the head of Religion. So she still treads the earth, crowvned by the gods and immortal as they.-Family Visitor. THE publisher of a paper in [owva gives as an excuse for want of: reading matter, that one of the editors got whipped at a horse race, and the other wast on a spree. DEAN SwvmFT sifyS he nefer kne'w a man risse to eminence who lay in bed of a morn ig; and Dr. Franklin says " he who rises late, may trot all day btut never overtakt is business." MEnTS To LUDSRAS. Do not jest with your wife upon a subject in which there is danger. of wounding her feelings. Remember that fhe treasures every word you utter, though.Ybu may never think of it again. Do not speak of some virtue in another i man's- wife, to remind your own of a fault. I Do not reproach your wife with personal I defect, for if she has semfsibility, you inflict a i wound difficult to heal. * 7 Do not treat your -wie with inattention i in compn anv. It touches ter pride-and she will not respect you morp, or lovo you bet ter for it. I t Do not upbraid your 4ire in the presence i of a third person. The sense of your disre. gard for her Ieelings wil prevent her from acknowledging her fault I Do not entertain your, wife with praising I the beauty and accom lishueit of other d women. i E Do not too often invitqv'our friends to ride s and leave your wife atycome. She might t suspect that you esteemnl others more com- v panionable than herself.1. If you would have a *leasant home and a cheerful wife, pass your evenings under a your own roof. Do not be stern and silent in your own h house, and remarkable fir your sociability A elsewhere. Remember that your wife has as much 11 need of recreation as yiurself, and devote b a portion, at least, of y ur leisure hours, to o such society and amusetients as she may si join. By so doing, y61 will secure her p smiles and increase hers ifheetion. Do not, ti by being too exact in recuniary matters, I make your wife feel het dependeuce upon p your bounty. It tendsgo lesson her digni. ei ty of character, and d s not increase her r esteem for you. If she a sensih'e woman, n she should be acquaint with your business B aud know your income that she may regu late her household e. nses accordingly. e Be it remembered tha pecuniary afl'.irs s cause more difficulties ' lanilies than any E other one cause. You rwife has an eqal w right with yourself to al you possess in the s( world-therefore she onld he made ac- bi qiinted as nearly a possible with that which is of great impo lice to both. Do i1 ot withhold this kn jledge in order to C :oser your own ex vagance. Women et ive a keen percep~tio be sure she will iscover your selfishne -although no word ot s spoken, from that .nrnent her respect is in essened, her confidenc liminished her pride II vOunt' spic -our nto w% was one of the best deacons in twe wui j%4. ie would'nt, in a sober moment, utter arn iath, or anything like one, for his weight in ti'ler. At the close of a rainy day, he was nilking in his barnyard ; on on( side of which ii. vas a dirty slough, and on the other an old b< ran, that in consideration of his usually qi- d< ct disposition, was allowed to run with the tli -ows. The deacon was piously himming i ' Old Hundred," and had just finished the s< ine ending with " exalted high," when the te ram, obeying a sudden impulse to he aqg- 6u ressive, gave him a blow from beiind that s, ent him up a short distance only to fall di rectly into the slough, where the dirty water s< was deep enough to give him a thorough: C inimrsing. As lie crawled out, and before a e rose fromi htis hads~and kniees, he looked C ver his shoulder at the ramn, arid vociferated, f< You d-d old cuss ! hut on looking around, j: and seeing one of his neighbors at the bars q ooking at him, he added in the same breath, n if I may be allowed the expression." n BENJ. FxxxTIN's LvTER TO A YoUNG Wo.IJA.-The Boston P'ost gives five copies of unpublished letters from Dr. Franklin, which have recently been found in that city. The following oiie seems to 1 'ive been ad dressed to a lady with wvhom he was on in timate terms previous to his marriage, ands who was still single at that timie: " Philaddlphia, October 16, 1735,-Dear Katy : Your fanvor of the 8th June caime to - hand, but on the 23Jd September, just three o months afrter it wias wvritten. I had twoh weeks before written you a long chat, anda sent it to the care of your brother Ward. I hear you are now in Boston, gay and lovely as usual. Let me give you somte fatherlya advice. Kill rno more pigeons than you can eat'; lie a good girl, and don't forget yourt catechismi; go constantly to meeting or tot church till you get a good husband; and tlin stay at home aiid nurse the children, and live likce a Christian. Spend your spare ours in sober whist, prayers or learning to cipher. "'Xou must-practise addition to your hius-< & rnd's estate by iindustry and frugality- I subsraction of all unnecessary expeniseS. Multipliation-he wifll seqn make you mas ter of. As to division, I say with brother Paul, " Let there be nio dicision among ye, but as your good sister Hubbard (my love to< her) is well acquainted with the rulde of twro, I hiope you wiill biecomne as expert in the rule of three, and wvhen I have again the pleasurei of seeinig you, I nmay find ,.-); like my grape vine, surrounded with dLrters of plump, juicy, blushinig, pretty little rogues, just like their mamma. A dieu, the bell rings, and I must go anmong the grave ones and tidk pol itics. -B F." "SAY, Cresar Augustus, why anm your legs like an organ grinder I" "Doii't know, Mr. Sugarloaf-why am dey ?", "' Cos dey carries a monkey all about de streets." A brick grazed the head of Mr. Sugarloaf, just as he disappeared round the coriter. Go 1T WIIILE IOU'RE YoUxo-Amanda Yonig wa's arrested for excessive turbulence in Brooklyn lately.' 1er only excuse was that she ens~ so'on to change her namre, and, apprehensive that her husband mightpnt a carh on, her inclinations, she avaihed herself of the last opporiunity to " go it" while You NO MORE ]iPLOSIONS. The triumph or Ericsson's Caloric Engine is not merely an economical gain, but a vic tory in favor of human lire. To the manu facturer and steamboat owner, the saving of ninety per cent. in fuel, which this new in vention offers, is an item of considerable im portance; but how insignificant, after all, in comparison with the entire security against explosions which Ericsson's engine affords. A great drawback on the use of steam in navigation has been unquestionably its dan. gerous character. Though every precaution may be taken by the engineer, there will oc casionally arise contingencies of peril; and, in fact, experience proves that notwithstand ing even stringent laws, the annual loss of life by steam is frightful. Now it is a de fective boiler that explodes, in a great city, as in the Hague street disaster in New York, killing, wounding and disfiguring for lire by the score. Now it is a steamboat on some of the western waters carrying death to half a hundred passengers through criminal neg lect. Now it is a crack racer, like the Rein deer on the Hudson, the accident being the result of a flaw in the machinery, which no person had suspected. Every few weeks the journalist is called upon, in truth, to record some disaster resulting from the use or steam. From calamities of this'description, how ever, the Ericsson engine is free. The worst that can happen to if coming to a full stop. In no event can an explosion occur. We have but little doubt that, on this account alone, the Caloric engine will supersede the steam engine almost entirely in fifty years. Indeed, if the safety of the Caloric engine Dontinues uncontroverted, Legislaturesought to forbid the erection of steam engines in ities, or their employment in other cases, where, in case of explosion, great loss of life might ensue. We presume, however, that there will be but little necessity for leg slative interference, because the cheapness )f running the caloric engine is so great :omparatively, that this fact alone must lead o its general introduction. Fortunately for >nee, the interest of owners will be on the iame side with the public security. The >ocket will pull in the same way with phi anthropy. If the Ericsson engine had nothing in its avor but the safety it insures, its inventor vould deserve to be ranked high among-the vorld's benefactors. Passengers prefer con reyances in which they run no risk, to one n wh' ' "'' - - ' . ,- nril: and the ng the use of vaL u.. salds or burns. A gentleman at Dayton saw it, and the other day, as he writes the [Emnpire, tested it to his satisfaction.: He avs: " While at the supper table, a little child, which was seated in its mother's lap, sud ienly grasped hold of a cup full of hot tea, everely scalding its left hand and arm. I immediately brought a pan of flour and pluiged the arm into it, covering entirely dhe parts scalded with the flour: The effect was truly remarkable-the pain was gone instantly. I then bandaged the arm loosely, applying plenty >f flour next to the skin,and on the golowing morning there was not the least sign that the arm had been scalded neither did the child suffer the least pain after the application of the flour." Reader, do you hear this little fact in mind if a similar occasion offers. GAREENHGUsF.5 IN WINTEne-Very few persons appear to knowv the value of the sponge in the greenhouse-I mean for the purpose of washing the leaves of all those plants whose leaves are broad enough to admit of it. I took the hint some five years ago from a neighbor, the most successful pant grower I have ever had the good for. tune to know. His plants were always so espeeCitly3 fresh and healthy, that I was for a long time puzzled to understand his secret. But early one morning I caught him wvith a pail of clear water, slightly warm, by his side, sponging the leaves of all his choice plants. I said to mnysd)f, "I have it." I (lid more, [ went home and practised it. My plants soon showed, by their new aspect, that I was not wrong in believing it to be the real secret of my neighbor's success. [Horticulturist. RaEIPE FOR NIAING INK.-For the benefit of your readers, who may hereafter need a supl1y of good Ink, I forward you the following R'eceipe for making it, 12 ozs. Extract of Logwood, I oz. Blichromate of Poatash. 5. gallons of water. Dissolve the ingredients separately in the water, and then mix. in a very short time it will be fit for nse. In using a steel pen with this ink., the pen should be cleaned by moistening with salita, and then wiping it w~ell. This cleaning the pen is essential, as steel .pens are generally coated with a greasy substance, which pres vents the ready flowv of the ink. AN Irish advertisement reads5 as follows: " Lost, on Saturday last but the loser does not know wihere, .an empty sack wnth a cheese in it. On the sack the letters P. G. are marked hut so comply wor~n out as not to be legible." Ax author of a love story, in describing his heroine, injs i-a" Innocence dwells in the rich clusters of her dark hair." A wag suggests that a fine tooth comb wotddbring it out. A FELLoWwhYo had fofged the $?gnatSirS of a wvealthy gentleman, and was arrested therefor, ttrged in extenuation that his fin gers *ere so' dold that he ivas unabale to maint hrs nwn name. ABOLITION SYMPATHY. In the January number of DeBow's Re. view, we find the following case, which will iave interest North and South: "Mr. Simonds, of New Orleans, Execu or under the will of Mr. Creswell, arrived .n New York, with thirty-eigbt slaves for he purpose of emancipating them. His Aan of sending them into the country was nterfered with by the abolitionists, who per mtaded the negroes that the purpose was igain to sell them into slavery. The largest >roportion of then, therefore, refused to go. laving interrogated Mr. Siionds in regard o their condition afterwards, we received, n reply, a note, from which a brief extract vill lie interesting: Most, if not all of those who refused to ave the city of New York have done very imdly. Some are in the most abject and legraded coudition. Several of them have egged me to take them back with me ying I might keep them as slaves or sell hem-that they were happy before and vretched now. There was, among these emancipated laves, a very interesting quadroon girl, bout 12 years old, in whom I had taken pecial interest. Agreeably to her wish, I ad procured her a most desirable situation. L highly respectable merchant of New Or. !ans had agreed to take her to Vermont to is mother, who had no young children, to e by her brought up and educated as one f the family. Accordingly the gentleman tarted with her from New Orleans in com. anionship with his own daughter, of about le same age. I was to meet him in New ork, and furnish the girl with her emanci ation papers. But on the gentleman's ar. ving at Bufhldo, and just before the stea. er landed, the emancipated girl was kid. aipped ,by abolitionists, transferred to a ritish steamer and conveyed to Canada. " The gentleman havinti her in chargo, nploved an attorney-at-law, and Spent veral days in tihe endeavor to recover her. e went over to Canada, and useertained here she was, but was not permitted to e her. lie was even in imminejt danger of ing mobbed. In the New York Tribune of July 19th, published a letter, dated St. Catherine's, anada, boasting of the abduction and res e from a slaveholder. "On my arrival at New York with the her slaves, a friend showed me the letter the " Tribnne," and informed me that lie id addressed the writer. statina the facts, any PALMERSToN MoDE OF PRESERVING CU .-In a corresponiece recently pu lished tween Lord Palmerston and Lord [low. n, Minister in Spain, the former instructs e minister to recommend to the Govern ent of Spain in Cuba to follow the example t themn by New Grenada, in declaring the tal abolition of slavery, so that it shall not ,11 into the hands of the United States. lie ys to lowden : " I have to instruct your lordship to ob rve to M. de Miraflores, that the slaves of uba form a large portion, and by no means a unimportant one, of the population of ubai, and that any steps taken to provide r their emancipation, would, therefore, as r as the black population is concerned, he uie in unison with the recommendation ide by Her Majesty's Government, that measures should be adopted for contenting e peopmle of Cuba, with a view to secure ie connection between that island and the painish crownm ; and it must be evideLnt that, 'the negro population of Cuba were ren ered free, that filet would create a powerful lement of resistance to any scheme for an exing Cuba to the United States, where lavery still exists." IWfoRTANT FROM RiussI.--The Bostmi raveller~ is indebted to a mercantile house that city for the following extract from a tter, just receivedl from St. Petersburg, andl ated 21st of December: "'1There is a report that the Plague has ntered Rumssia,~ and is prevaler't at Astrachan .d aniother place. Th'le Emperor has or ered a military cordlon of sixty or seventy honsand men to prevent its advancing fur. her into the initerior of the counitry. Some larm is felt at St. Petersburg,. though in ormer times, as in the reign of Catharine, it toped at Moscowv." Uxetin SAM's FAsRX.-Tlhe United States ws now, to be put ini market, one billioni, hree hundred and eighty-seven millionis, five indred and thiirty-lour thousand acres of and, which at $1 20 cents per acre, is worth T1his, then, is the prize of the Public Lands, >ne billion, seveni hundred and thirty-four iillions, four hundred and seventeen thou. mnd, two hundred and fifty dollars ! And is not this a prize indeed ? What nation ever had the like ? Every- cuestion of the day, of course sinks into insignificence by the verhelming one of what shall be done with suchs a vast public domain. I TOtLD You So ?-Wife ! wvife ! Our cow's dead-choked to death with a turnip. "I told you so. I alwvays said she'd choke herself with them~ turnips." " But it was a pumpkin-" " Wah, it's all the same. I knowed all along how it would be. Nobody but a nin ny like you would feed a cow on pumpkins that wasn't chopt." " The pumpkinss was chopt. And twant the purnypkins neither, that choked her. It was the tray-and the end of it is sticking out of her mouth noiy." Tim Richmond Star tells of a little boy who insi'sts that the reason his fathier calls his mother "Ironey,-" ip blecause shre las so ,uch con;b in her head. APPAIES IN FLEDA. The following interesting communication - was on Thursday laid before Congress by the President of the United States: WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. 1853. To the Senate and House of Represcntatives of the United States: I have the honor herewith to transmit a report from the Secretary uf the Interior, from which it appears that the effortsof that department to induce the Indians remaining in Florida to migrate to the country assigned to their tribe west of the Mississippi have been entirely unsuccessful. The only al. ternative that now remains is either to com pel them by force to comply with the treaty made with the tribe in May, 1832, by which they agreed to migrate within three years from that date, or to allow the arrangements made with them in 1842, referred to in the Secretary's report, by which they were to remain in the temporary occupancy of' a por tion of the peninsula until the Government should see fit to remove them, to continue. It caufhot be denied that the withholding or so large a portion of her territory from settlement, is a serious injury to the State of Florida, and although ever since the ar rangement above referred to the Indians have manifested a desire to remain at peace with the whites, the presence of a people who may at any time. and upon any real or fancied provocatiosn, be driven to acts of hostility, is a source of constant anxiety and alarm to the inhabitants on that border. There can be no doubt, also, that the wel fare of the Indians would be promoted. by their removal from a territory where frequent collisions between them and hleir more pow erful neighbors are daily becoming more in evitable. On the other hand, there Is every teason to believe that any manifestations of a design to remove them by force, or to take possesi sion of the territory allotted to them, would be immediately retaliated by acts of cruelty on the defenceless inhabitants. The number of Indians nov temaintngin the State is,' it is true, very inconsiderable, (not exceeding, It Is beffeted; flee hodred;). but, owing to the great extent of the Country ccupied by them, and its adaptation to their eculiar mode of otfare, a force very dis. proportioned to their nibers would be 'mec ?ssary to capture or expel thefrtt; d etees to rotect the white settlements from their in mursions. The military force now stationed in that State wyould be -nadequate to these A CoNTraisT. -The people df the Soutn are often charged with being se;tional, while their Northern neighbors It is alleged, are more national and enlarged in their views. When Mr. Calhdfrn died; not a si'w gle eulogy was pronoanced upon hint north of Mason and Dixon's line, nor did any Northern ety clothe its public buildings in mourning or perform any funeral solermnities in honor to his memory; The death of Mr. Webster on the other hand, has bee H ieceiya ed throughout our Southern towds ard cities with every demonstration of pulid grief, and in almost every one from Bahiire to New Orleans, funeral orations hae hen or will be pronoun~ced upon his charncter and public services. .. . . Yet, in genius and patrIofism, fhef~ afe by common consent classed together, and the public labors of both may be said to havo embrIaced a lifetime, if Mr. Calhd'dn was peculiarly devoted to the South, Mr: Websfer was not so to the North; yet, while the loss of the latter is justly mourrred sas a ttational bereavement, publid lamentations~ for the former were confmed tu his o*i section ; and, out of Congress not a sIngle 4bice wvas raiscd to pronounce his eulogf. Yet the South is sectional, and her* Union-loving orators must lecture her people with Wash.: ington's Farewell Address, while the North' s too rnational to need the study of such old fashIoned ddedments. Would ortir feaders know why? It Is liedanse itt these latteW days of compromise and submissioO to bo Southern is to be sectional, wvhich to bo Northern is to be national. [Spirit of the South. A TE:LnGIAPH To.TIIE P.ACirzc.AA mnO morial wvas presented to Cdngrds; d 6m Wed nesdiay, asking for a grant of 1,5b0,000 acres of land, trt be loated along thl ine of a tel egrapih, whidh the ineniorialists propose to build bietw~eedt St. Louis and San Francisco, bf the way of Salt Lake City. .The mnemos rialists propose to give the .Government, it return for the grant, the right, forever, to transmil, free- of charge, over the line; all official despatches an d oinancatioris, *iflt a preferewtee over all others. 'tIf impor- - tda)e df the measure, they say," is too great to be measured by. the value, of a fewv acres of wvorthless land." 'hid scheme is a mag nificenit one; and so Is the gift which they ask of Gdi'erunient: 'the expensiveness of~ the ideas of the mieiiidralists may be estimaf ed by the fact, that thycall a million and a half a " fb'Nothes acres. [Philadelphia Ledger. bin; INcas, the wvealthy banker at 'she ington; having recently given a dinet p~r ty; at whlich were present the .Russi'an a1nd French Ministers, the latter, Mr. Sartiges, eomplained that there was-.#fo radj~asigned him, and charged Mr. Riggs offgaae of European etiquette, *ho replied that he knewv nothing of foreign customs, but deem ed that he had a fiht ini his own hote se do as he thought best .How TO Ctr si AbArmXCE.-If fe is poor*, l'end hun some money ; if he is rich, it him to lend ynu some, . Both means are