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' " TWO DOLLARS PER AMRUM.] "?? pnxcfe-llx,.B^.t ^ ^ . Bf DAVIS & CREWS ? - Ii""nTT^^-^^Vlait.Awom,. I PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. *& - , - ABBEVlLLEi S. C.. THURSDAY MORNING^ MAY SB law "vof"? fin r ^ "" A.IV v|i Dt THE UHION OF THE HEW AND OLD WOULD. Theattention of. th? public U. now dii-Gcted to the enterprise of oonnecting the new andold world by a oubmarine telegraphic cable, and some account of whiit has been done and what is proposed to do, will be intere&ting to our. readers.. The Niagara *rjll bB'<tesist$d by.two English naval bleam. ehips and the United States steam-frigate Susquehanna; and it is calculated that the expedition will be accomplished in two , months, from the present time; and that immediately thereafter, instant communioa' r? lion will be established between the New ' . ^Torld and the Old. A Now York paper . contains an elaborate article .upon the sub;^j,Mect, from which we gather the following ^ .This great enterprise was originated j%ftndconceived in the United States, and was ; rjf i^mhrienced about four months ago by a V* '??>*mali company of American capitalists: ^ In tbe face of all the objections that were , urged against it, they persevered with a de" termination that was proof against all dis-coujfagement. It was supposed by some that V -the laying of-a cable across the bed of the r* . Atlantic was an utter impossibility, and that A^y attempt must end in <1-*- nfiture and ' " V disastrous pecuniary loss to th^se who should eni 3 in the attempt. But the New York, ; >, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Com- j pany '.7as camposed of men who were not! to be deterred by such fears, and being once i convinced of the practicability of the under- j talcing, they entered upon it with a will and j an earnestness that no obstacles could over mi * i i ii i uuuio. xiiey conieiiuea 111:11,11 it were pos- 1 sible to lay a submarine telegraph between England and Erance, with proper means aud facilities, the same could be clone between America and Europe; and these means and facilities they asserted were at their disposal. The task which they have undertaken is, it must be confessed, a stupendous one ; but so many things have conspired to favor those who have undertaken it, that there is little reason now to doubt of its ultimate success. The company cons siata of the following gentlemen, all of whom have been connected with it since its incorporation : President, Peter Cooper; Treasurer, Moses Taylor; Electrician, Samuel F. B. Morse; .Directors, Peter Cooper, Moses Taylor, Cyc rus W. Field, Marshall O. Roberts. & THara fronflflman jilimiJ. lliron vpnre nnrn o ' J o ? . obtained a charter from the colonial govern^li^ntof Newfoundland, granting tbein the - 02elusive privilege for fifty yenr? of msinitig n telegraph across that island and through -v-.'flny of the adjacent waters. They also obtainedan appropriation of twenty-five thou "** " * sand dollars for the construction of a bridle - > path over the southern portion of the eoun,< tty, which was considered indispensable for y V^-the regulatiott,apd repair of the telegraph. addition, to this, they were secured the interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for twenty years, and a present of - ttiy square miles of land, which the com?V. pany were allowed the liberLy of selecting ' * t any part of the island. These, with the other'^bstantial marks of the favor with which (he Newfoundland Government regarded the enterprise, were willingly bestowed upon the company, with the best xvishet'for tlieiri&ccess. A chaiter having by the government# ./ 7<?f Prince Edward Island and New Bruns"wick/'the telegraphic conncction?or rather the proposed route of the telegraphic coni . ., nection?between the United States and St. ^ 3obn, on the extreme jrestern point of New'^foundland, was established. In the latter i . IhuB far I lie company bad been siioc^n *13$jjiU11 fbecdtiQeeiion should be.com;; tieto^.betWeem Europe and America, tlio Qi^iSbr^wbicU they , had organ tzod'could :$o' 'havik been..Accomplished.? brptifgli the agcncy of Mr. Cyrus W. Field e whole - anaount of capital (?3r>0;000, * ?a^ ^ 6i\n 1 tooo*t>pe ratlin 4 $#*>''* wanwflUitufed, by which J S^ ???# bound tbsweives to lay it down "-Sir ^yf^^KMKo'thepwgewion if tbe^New ^ i?bi:k? New/ousdlabd jund London Tdegrapli ?i>^?^o?tb*'g^t,AU JBBfWAoWposed of sttr?n coppeV fc*T^ - .-' <* ** . (*; ' A ?- , v ' V*' - '... . J'.J-UM *&? .. il-sC ?. wires wound together* The oftblo Will bb" two thousand five hundred mile# in length, the surplus .over the actual distance -to be traversed being considered noceasary.Mn case j of emergency, to make up for the inequali^: lie# in the bod of the oceau and the yank?tions that may he" caused by the. winds and current#. The' protecting wires are. made into strands, each composed of seven of the best" charcoal iron wires. The aggregate length of the smaller wires required in the manufacture of one mile of the cable is one hundred and twenty-six miles, and the whole cable will require three hundred and fifteen thousand miles ot this wire. The flexibility of this cable is go great that it can be nvide as manageable as a small rope, and it is capable of being tied around the arm without injury. Its weight is but 1800 pounds to the mile, and its strength such that it will bear in water over six miles of its own length if suspended vertically. Some doubts being entertained as to its sinking to the bottom, it is enough to know that it is heavier than those shells which have been taken up from the bed of ocean by Commander Berryman, while engaged in sounding along the line of the telegraph plateau. It has been asserted too, that the strands of slender iron wire by which it is protected, will suffer corrosion ui in.-cunipuoiin>H in si suuri nine auer meir submersion, but in doing so, the material of which they consist will enter into chemical union with the soft mud in which tho cables are imbedded, and will thus form a concrete mass of calcareous or salicious substance, affording the very best possible protection. As the time for the laying of tho cable will be at that period when tho days are longest, there will bo comparatively little night to cause interruption to the work.? The whole operation will not take more than eight days in its completion. On approaching the Sand at each end, a much thicker cable will be used, and of sufficient strength to render it less liable to accident from the foulings of anchors or the effects of currents. As a proof of the durability of such a cable we would here state that we saw a specimen of that which connects Dover and Calais, and after a submersion of six years, was as perfect as when first put down. Accidents from the groundling of icebergs at the Newfoundland terminus will be rendered impossible by the laying and landing of the cable in a harbor perfectly land-locked, into which no iceberg can enter, and where tho water varies in depth from two hundred to two hundred and fifty fathoms.?iV. O. Delia. I'rom the Richmond South. 18 AN AMENDMENT OF TELE CONSTITUTION ?<oaxxnxiAlj 1U TH fi auu xil T We do not conceive it necessary, in disclosing the present exigencies of the country, always to protest our devotion to the Union. Upon this point wo prefer to be judged rather by actions than by words.? For the maintenance of the union of the States, we have already acquiesced in sacrifices and concessions which demonstrate an affection quite as strong as we care to be credited with?for any existing institutions. To perpetuate that union in its h'tfrmony -ancl its beauty, we are prepared to make, perhaps, oth?r concessions, provided some effectual guarantee can be afforded, that those concessions are to be final. We have little faith in Congressional compromises or paper guarantees; and, with our approbation, tbe-iSouth. will never acquiesce in any more. Tn bpftb of present adverse indications, we cling to the faith that the Union may bo preserved ; but if so, it can only bo done by,a bold and manly consideration of itbe subject.!' * I1 The times demancb tbii "niucli?and yre are content, ip^ endeavoring soto meet the responsibility- vrbicb-.iffeati upon us, as' son tinels u pon the watob louver,of ibego^th. jjt is idle lo-close bur eyejrtQ'dfnT^r9*^'hTcU nro lowering darkly.u?on,tJ?e b4rysi>it. ./No sane^ojan cjan jcrtlmlj^ :y1tfw?lhe presdnC' as'peetr of.- 8ecti orfal contrbyfefa^,;-art d '"dditid^ iiimfto^^ilb tl?ei4^?. tkat datiger to/tbe permnnenee'of tfie'tjnlob'Wjsi&t imminent jA, retr^speq^Stiike pajt ten jears/'sufficea VK-osaure lnnK tbat publio sfinlknent in the ijgflh rfpd't^e$ou(h h rapidly .ripen irlg for aiT^nti?B^e?6r^ge of;pq<i^ical connection., Ik there bo cot da vised somer means to calm o<m6idjeted^ai?p>ehdnBiona*of Hie fioiitlvbut a very few tyeai4 nm necessary to brnifeevery State Sotitb ofUasdn on's line to the cgji elusion rtlin^selP protection and^lf res^ct -temw/e tfie fortjjatiou of olher political lies.f^ffe fnajfc enterCajn wh^o^iniOos we please, u?on-the .profurieJy or iujproptmty of suclvcf%plirelj|i8,?bnt, they (fAonpt ittfer'the stubow -Ia8t. Is it wise then, is it ftienly;*lo avoid, the discus1 sio'rv? or consideration, of the subject, Until discussion .and consideration, Will be fruitless 1 We think not?and'therefore we have siiffges^ed in a previous issue the pro-. ' uriftt* JniHAn^inh ?) ? J / T- 'D V/VM?KUUWUII^ VTQ are not tejBficious of any particular plan or .propdltfrion. u & Thd^nfrendnw&t we supgmeS, apon farther refl^jtlSn comrr)erjd? itself more, and more favorably to oar judgment ; " o| *>re are vefy willing to consider other propoaj. ttoi*s, aoJ ^ill fflry cheerfully, ieHnquiBb ( our own peculiar views to obtain tbeaoqaipscpnce pf the 8oatb-in sonje effecfbaV torotectionagainst farmer aggression/ Jj|r< srgbt are' the more tofmifo with eicK advancing year, coniid/sred that in ... <wk' ? ? 3P; : Constitutional amendment; \jas tlio only hope of perpetuating the Union. ,If1tfthnt conclusion the Southern -mind can bo .brought, wo lmve every confidence in the accomplish merit of tho purpose which is nearest to our heart?the preservation of the rights of the Slates and the perpetuajtion of the Federal Uuion.^, We know* thai some.of our friends oppose any propositions to amend the Constitution^' under the apprehension that moro harm than good will result from the precedent. They "thjnk it unwise to begiu tho work of amendment ; but if we do not b'egin it for our protection now while we liave sufficient strength perhaps to accomplish that object, have we any guarantee that an aggressive majority will not begin it in a very few years for the purpose of legalizing their assaults? The balance of power in tho Senate is lost, or will be lost in a very few years. A glance at the map of the United States Territories is only necessary to satisfy us that in a few flcoting years the nonT8laveholding Statos will be invested with full power to amend the Constitution as they will. Can wo doubt, after the experience of the last year in the rapid concentration of sectional strength upon such a mere man of straw as John C. Fremont, that as soon as the pow er is attain eel it will be exorcised i What then, is to protect us from such amendments to the Constitution as will invest the Federal Government with power to emancipate our slaves, and that power once attained, can we doubt that the fate of Jamaica and Hayti, is reserved for our children ? If, now, we can so amend the Constitution as to provide that no such power Rhall ever be conferred upon the General Government, except by the name unanimity which is already required to deprive any State, that danger mitrht be obviated. Tf t.lm firm*!?. tution be not now amended, to curtail the growing power of the Central Government, as sure as the sun will rise upon the morrow, so surely will it be amended, if the Union continue so long, to increase that power. If the Stales of the South now fear to ask amendments for their protection, how long will they be better able to resist amendI mnntc fnr iltAii* enl?ia/i?i/M? 2 I.ivitu IWI I.IIVII QiiirjCVllUII J Xjyt IIUl 1-11*2 muttered thunders of Northern indignation at the Dred Scott decision, already give earnest of the coining? Is it not wise, is it not eminently prudent, for us to insist now upon a revision of the articles of the Union,, while wo are capable of withstanding assault?when with every day comes increasing comparative weakness; and, with that increasing weakness, comes in a geometrical ratio the disposition to assail and subdue? Tho Constitution was tho offspring of a similar wisdom upon the part of our forefathers. Tho old Articles of Confederation, which were the first articles of Union between the several States, were found insufficient to accomplish tho object for which they were adopted; and tho severance of the Union they established was foreseen as^very imminent by th^. wise men of that day.? They did not recoil from'the disfcUssipu and consideration of the danger, but -anticipating tho catastrophe, Virginia invited the co-'bpporation of her sister States in reconsidering and rediscussing the basis of Union, and from that reconaideration and redisdus-' sing arose'the preseni. Constitution. .* J*rom.thejPcnnsylvanian. _ . , / . OUB DIPLOMATIC- 8Y8TEH. It is a maxim of cohimon sdose'&nd of common lifo to apply,.the pruning ,knife to decaying and dead .limbs, and to engraft upon, qld and useless trunks a jnore available ahd valuable stock." This, is^p regressive; p^d.-the. farmer; manifesto tfi?, devotion To. ^the^nV$ipJe*by sending to distant parts of WQfld for.tlio life-olement pf Iris soils jwithptjtjwliicli his estate .is worthless." So tlie inventor, tl)o machinist,, the BnginfljB#Ttbe house-wife, atrd the herdsman. fiverj^Jhopre the*? ^ro to bo. Seen "evidences i'oftWtelifing principle of. sodletv. mofia' tli an'In .politics. And* why is this ?" Is the civil -code and practice already perfect ?-rr Did dvaj the patriots of the revolutionary, period; and our Constitutional epoch, 'like the Saviour'of the World, complete their 6ystem ? 'They did a.great work; but they were men, And tlTey left a great work to be done. Amongrft those tilings}-* which,-from '' tho very ffccessity of the case,* were least known to our great ancestors, was our dipJomatic>&Btfem. We bad had more or less Vof evS'ry o^ercejy}erwence.<*piplomacy was born on tKisTOOTitmenl with the birth of our nationality^ * Establishing a gorernment " based upon the maxim of essential non-intervention, wittt liioked commerce, manufactures, anti-shipping, and the simplest poi;,i i - ? ?--* ihicu! (urinuiHK, we unu nine power to look Soto the figure, and absolutely none at all k to ptByjde "for the 6xi8ting?etate of our relatioiS^with the oivilized world. :<' We wer^tboo^i^d as a nationality/localise that was oneefHhe gfcjat political neahssitiea of Eiuopo at the tiirie, But we were regarded 4* a mare bubble, which the slightest pressure would explode ; And hence, though receiving our diplomatic representAr ?-? ~ ... ~ That system (if we may bo call it OtU of respect to tvhat it ouglit 16 be, or perliaps out of respcct to tlio diptbmntic systems of other nations) is wholly discreditable to our Government, and to our people. In nothing olso have wo shown such a rosolut?. for/yismi such an absolute obcdienco to an'cient habits and practice*. Is it because it is impossible to effcct reformations in the face of aspirants for place?for place without peculiar merits or qualifications? Our diplomacy is not a system under which our great Stale maintains intercourse with other nations; it is a mere means of compensation?a reserve force or agency by which individuals aro to be rewarded, families gratified, and pride, republican pride? a little flattered and caressed. We speak thus without the leant disrespect to individuals. Wo complain of a system only because it is ft disgrace to the nation?to the ne<ml?. k- j-~x?7 v . We' nro by no means clear that the attempt will over be successful-of carrying on the government by a system of more compensation, as Burke says, a bit of white stone here and a bit of black stone there ?a picco of tesselated work. I3y this as it may, such a principle or plan of action can never ho acceptable when applied to our interconrse with other nations. "With all defence, then, is it not possible for Mr. Buchanan's new government to open a new sot of books, in reference to our foreign accounts? Is it not possible to organize our diplomatic system on tbo score of qualifications arid merit? If we could feel authorized ttf descend to a fair review of the -past, we think it would be in our __ L ?j.?1'i r - t- " jjunui nu vy tju.iiiraai our immense s^ioricomings and-awkward failures, with what we might have done, what we are qualified to do, and what the-people ask us to do, as to impress upon the Administration tlie importance of devising somo radical change in our system of representation abroad. 4 Wo Have an instinctive horror of the common way of parcelling out Diploma tisls and Consuls, to the States, according to their respective populations. - It looks like dividing up the offices at once, and thus closing the accounts of nn administration. No\v, it must "be apparent that, in roferenco to the discharge of duties appertaining to the West?tli'e interior?Western men are most-likely to he best qualified for public service. It is so of the \vliole Indian and Land Departments, and, in our judgment, H is so. too, generally, of Territorial and^ojlier officers. It is equally manifest, in reference to the foreign' service, that the old States are more likely to be able to furnish men of higher qualifications than tlio West. ~ What-we would-ast/ls, only 1I..1 -il U-11 1 -V-? n. mat mure oimn uo n certain iuness ot tilings ?a certain propriety -of action?such as shall receive the endorsement of somebody besides "'mero applicants - and their warm political friends. And it is right tliat it should be so; and the wonder is, that a .man car. bo found to confer offices in violation of this principle, not that men are found to accept thero. *' *> Wo-would liko to see a little progress, - f t * on ? men, inr diplomatic ounces.. it is no reason because. Jhese are federal'offices that they shbul'd: bo counted out like pcfluies to a 'family of'boys on a'muster day; as. well .might the boys be mustered into tho ranks And compelled 'to do ^icavy soldiery duty. There ts boc fitness in such a way of doing business, no propriety, no justice, and it often happens that it 19 disgraceful to us and to"the nation. Willi a feeling that bur countrymen are jborr. to iippoense Amplitude of qualifications and povt$n ffr usefulness, we deny, nevertheless, that every hatter cau shoe a horse, Or every-ilawyer*fcull a tooth. We ask only that qualifications shalK weigh down mere local claim,?that qualifications?and we think that amongst these, in these times, A-..I 1 1-. i ? ? ? ' - - biiuuiu uo irue -uemocracy?suouiu Do held at kpast as the highest requisite of a representation abroad. >? *; 4 Topics. for Gfeneral Conversation.? Whatever can interest only in a particular place is. frivolous; whatever can interest only those who have pursued a particlar course of study is pedantic. Those topics of conversation capabfe of interesting all tolerably informed men are dignified and ele'gant. TMj^ aro those on which men of an piHceswpa,;. profusions may converge with encff^jtfifer. Human nature and chftrncte* in geifefral; events which affect the public, and, consequently, p&itics; polite literature, which delights every moderately refined man; as much of sciences, arts, and professions, as when expressed in ^popular language the world in general cau understand *^eso Jflre the subjects of interesting conversation, A Western .editor veftls liis rage as folr Iowa.; ii RESULTS OUTSTRIPPING ANTICIPATIONS. Mr. Calbouti, in the Memphis Convention of 1845, said : "You are now talking about connecting the Mississippi with the Atlantic by Railroad. In twenty years j*ou will be talking about connecting the Mississippi with the Pacific." And wo well recollect with what a staro of incredulity hundreds of the intelligent men then present, statesmen, judges, editors, etc., looked up to the great Carolinian and expressed in their countenances, almost as plainly as if they had embodied the sentiment in so many words, " that is another of Mr. Calhoun's w :.i r .i - ?- < -i xignuva. JIIV lUCil Ul U1C union OI IIIC Mississippi with llic Atlantic by means of iron bands was considered by many grave and enlightened members of that body as little better than a Utopian dream, to be realized perhaps by a future generation, or perhaps never. "But to talk about building a Railroad to the Pacific, they considered as one of those ridiculous airy nothings suitable to be indulged in by poets and the inmates of mad-houses in a state of partial convalescence. Well, what of the results thus far ? This convention was held in the fall of 1845. A period of a little more than ten years only has, therefore, elapsed, and the grand cpitha imiiium turn celebrates the completion of the first part of the work mentioned has been chanted. The cars now run regularly from the shores of the Atlantic to the bluffs of the Mississippi. Their waters are united. The vriguc and misty future has become the tangible and soid realities of the present, and glides, though we cannot say noiselessly, into the past. And the still future? what of it ? The rites of Hymen celebrating the union of the great River with the fair young giantess of the Pacific?shall their cpithalamiuin be chanted, and when ? There be prophets of evil, and they cry out. a dream, a dream ! AVe tell them nay ; or, if it be a dream, it is one that will be realized, as the other has been, when wo awake. Events crowd on. Mr. Calhoun said that in twenty years they would be talking about building a railroad to the Pacific, and the}' thought him almost crazy for making such a prediction. One half of that period has elapsed, and the road has not only been talked about, but the rails have ao.liuillv lmiui laid down upon it at several points, ami all the important jslops taken to construct it to the. liio Grand, far on towards the Pacific. Results outstrip anticipations, even of tho most sagacious, of thoso who penetrate farthest into the future. "What it took ten years to perform when Louisiana was admitted into the Union, is now accomplished in one. The journey that consumed a month twenty years ago is now made in a week. And still the ratio of comparative rapidity is onward, still onward. It took ten years to complete the railroad from Charleston to Memphis. But a fraction of this time is now necessary to map out, lay down the track, and equip a road of greater length. It took half of this time fn full" nlimit flin Anf/imv!oA "WWMW VMV VHVVI|fl IOV* J 1IVIC ?iis IIU faith, and there must be faith before they can be living works, for works do but follow faith. Besides, learning one language gives the student increased facilities for learning another. So the experience gained in building one tailroad comes in powerfully to shorten the time necessary to the construction of another. The mishaps of doing and undertaking, of a want of calculation, of necessary precedence and sequence of measure are all avoided by the light wljicb the practical knowledge gained by experience, and it alone, sheds upon the actual. There be those who talk of tho realization of our Southern Pacific railroad by the next generation. Slow coaches we say. They snuff not the breezes, all instinct with a changed condition of things, all alive with the ceaseless din of energies at work with Titanic power, with something approaching desperation, as though tho destinies of tho world depended ppon the completion of a given amount of facts accomplished in a given time* jujumjijjrjae gruws uy wnat It feeds upon, like the paseions of lovo or hatred. Let the prophets of inaction or blindness open their eyes and see, aqd get out of the way. The engine bell keeps time to the lullaby of the placid waters of the Pacific. Let them go over to Algiers, and placing their ears upon the ground, listen I The sound will be indistinct at first, but with the aid of a little of the faith of the times it will gradually become more perceptible, andj before tbey have time fully to realize it, the engine, with its train of cars, laden with the rich silks and diamonds of India and the gold of California, will conje dashing along tbrough solitudes?now /solitary po longer a king another epoch, another grand ?tjie "march, march, march" of the Qgh visionary, if you please. 80 people our own veteran, General Edmund Pendleton ?w?w?o*ho firet urged tbo^constructioT} Memphis and Charleston Bail road, and the .^nsttfMion of a, system From (he Pennsylvania Inquirer. SOUNDS FROM HOKE. A. REVERIE OK THE PAST, HY AN OLD MAN. j { The firo burns brightly on llic wide hearth before me. Tlie red flames rush whistling and sing up tlie great black ' chimney, lliat swallows them carelessly and gapes for more. I liavo seen youth as bright and sparkling as those flames, rush like them into the black gulf of ruin, and like them, loo, leave behind them naught but ashes, but the ashes, alas! of blasted j hopes, and fond hearts, stricken by despair. | I am an old man ; I have run my race al I lotted by Ileaven to all of earth. My head j is liowcd down towards the dust, which will j soon claim me as its own. 1 should be j alone, alone in the great iron world, had I noi 0110 goou, i.-niiiiui menu, who, I tliank God humbly, is still spared me. Oli! it were worse than dca$.h, worse, worse a thousand times to lose that friend. Men call it ! " memory." I call it a good angel, for it brings back to me those whom I loved and lost. As T sit before the wild flames, that throw a trembling, stooping shadow upon the wall, this spirit one is singing in my cars strains, sweet though sad, the melodies of by-gone days. Oh, dearly do I lovo to hear that song, to listen to those "Sounds lrom Home." What sound from the home of my boy-hood is floating round me now? Have you ever heard a villago church bell fill the quiet air with its sweet, plaintive sound, on one of those fair summer evenings, when all around there is such a still and holy calm, that it seems as if heaven itself were slumbering on earth ! Such to me this sound has always been. I know it I well; it is my mother's voice. I had a mother once and I loved her, too?who docs not ? I remember, when a little child, I tried to pray, I first would think of her, to fill my heart with lovo for God. She was my stepping-stone from earth to heaven ! Oh! what is there like a mother's love ? or where the love so pure as that we bear to her ? . When wn aro fVncli God, tlien it is strongest; for as we grow older, and llic cold and sneering devil, called the " world," breathes on us its rank, withering breath, then does our.Iove for her who gave us birth, wander amid so many fierce human passions, that their black shadows dim its brightness, but btill it burns within our hearts, and we confess it, too, when death is in our homes and we arc mother less. But memory, restless spirit, sings now to me another strain. I hear another sound from home. This time it is a simple strain, sung by one who was dearer to me than all the world besides. Long years ago there crossed my path in life a girlish form, some called it pretty?perhaps it was; I never thought of that. It was very fair, with a delicate frame, and a voice in which was a strain as musical as the notes of a harp wliinli T nnm lm/1 -1 - ........ * w..w unu ?n?N < <-iiiiu, inu cuurus of which wero moved by the wind as it passed over them. By slow degrees this girlish form grew powerful in its mastery over me. I who had a mock for love, now found in it a master. I struggled against this new-born power, for I was young, and those whom I loved, and who loved me, would have me turn to other things. It is an old story that I am telling. I called her wife, and then thore burst on me the auger of a parent, and for a time I left my father's house, and wandered far from it. But she, the one whose voice I still hear, was at my side, and in her love I was happy.? 8ho died!?See there, where the moonbeams rest on a plain, marble stone, as if they love to watch over the grave of one as pure as themselves. She lies thore, and I am not at her side ! For a-while, my bosom, on which her head was wont to rest, was as cold as (he earth iq wlijch she now slumbors. But Time is a friend indeed, for lie?yes, lie comforted me. Pshaw ! what is this dream we call love, after all ? a toy to while away an hour, a theme for boys and girls to prattle about. I dreamed like other fools once, but now I havo learned to stare reality in the face, and bear unflinchingly its cold gaze. But I must talk of her. She died, and died when we were poor, and I cursed myself that I had taken hor from her home, and had no home to give her. It was selfish, was it not? But selfishness holds the key of^jdl men's hearts; yes, I was selfish to lo?e "hor as I /1!/1 QK/> UiU> UUU UIVU| UIOU Ct'l/IOOOIIIg IllUt fF tJU| well, if what wise anW^ood men say be true, I shall see her again ; that this may l>e is my constant prayer to heaven. Another sound from home?an infant's cry. TJhi tiny voice of my first-born i.? ringing in !tjy. ears. Ala* | that sound from home lM?b?on stilled. Heaven look what Go4 frtd gfvei) roe, ere e^rtli had time to wither !t with it* accursed, breath. There is mofe than om sleeping beneath that oold/ wJiiU sto^-^| yhe. babe ?lying in itt tgDtttert arm?, itui' the moon beams o^jr my. lost treasures. Tam alone irftiie world, alone with HOW TO HULK A TABTAB WTOL* We may first pfemis<Ptliat you lfltj?t be icrfectly cool, and not in tho slightest <le?* V^ T-* ;reo brutish, or you will signally fall in your object. >* ' * ' When your young wife is in the tantrums, Jo not protend to take the slightest nqtipQ ^ of the fit but begin to whistle or sing (the ' 'ijy former is the best) some slow pathetic air; ; and if she speak to you, not at you, answer : < her at once endearingly. This alono wil\ in most eases succeed after two or three trials ; but should this not do,.then tako to your hat and go gently out, but ro)f\d, dfl . ? not come in to the next meal. pine pr lea out, nnd then return ; should your wifei bo- . , * * gin again, try whistle the 2nd, a'nd if this won't do, go out again to the next meal.-1- ^ * Now mind you do not go to any friendV ' 'V;, house, for many obvious reasons; one o' *1them is, to avoid arousing any jealous feel . ings?in fact we could give you forty reason' ? why you should go to an eating liouse fo?p the meals. Should you still be unguccess- ? ful, at the proper time go to bed silentfy^ ?...i : ?i?i ?_ \ iiiiu IMIIVUIilWIV JlieiCIIU IU UL" lisice|)i 1\J> breakfast the next morning, reason calmly and gently with your wife; that is* if sho gets up, if not, let her lie as long t\g she likc^ and do not take the slightest notice of it ] eat your breakfast alone, under the sure conviction that you have already nearly - /.:r mastered her. Should she, however, gei - up, do as we have 8j\id ; and if she.6til! re*V^mains obdurate try whistle-the 3rd, nnd sa il. ^ .1 t "90 .11? ?t > -' * uii, :i? mo uny ucioro. xi suu ail iO uoi. purpose, you must now proceed to rnorevigorous means; viz: ,. ? sure, however, to go to sOtiie ' unqucsUona-i bly respectable platfe hb near your owh liouBo "Csjj as possible. Return home the next mcrrninfr * to breakfast; and if questioned as to where you have been, ans\yer her very quietlyt and ? above all tilings speak the truth. A thou- f sand to oae that you will now come to op explanation ; but should sl/e still be unbepdi* >. i"Zt try whistle the 4th. and. if naociwiii'V - - ... sleep out again at the same liQU3<VArid in* fact persist in tlii- .ourse as long ab neces? ': J sary. The most ? odurate minx that wo have "*? yet heard of was fairly vanquished by her ? :.y husband in four days, and vet sha ter- " t ? rible, and he was mild even to a fault. \v We will now copcludej Mr. Husband, * with a few words of advice to yourself, .^ou cannot possibly subdue your ^ifb if you . lose either your temper or your gentleness ; . but with them and firmness there is no ch'aqc? -~X of failing. Ilaving dono this, all wlll lh^^ *; ,, ucpenn upon yoqrscU, for you njfyy ; * * her as you liko; yet surely you eannot cx- ^ V-. pect your wife to be good if yoli-nre "badf-Most women, to their honor be it gpokcify *' .'* ' and acknowledged, aro naturally prone tQ be amiable, gentle, an^ loving; caraeleon-like, v they faithfully reflect tliexolpr iw U'fliinea ? upon them. You rai^t ever expeot you? wife to study your bnppihesa if you'neglect " lipr<: nnrl in order In ?vi-/imA?A !? , ? ?W fiuiHvpi 'V, JVM do too much,,you cnnnot.be too unselfish, '' We will not allude to Rnf vfcious^J^tis '%* for with them there mver.-<an &e happifittf j v but if yo? are a sn>oJ{er?fpr inatanco.and your young wife does not like smoking, (and >r - very few young wives do like it,) wjtyjeay^' ' it off, and the sooner tbe better, far-Ulaa dirty and low habit. sjjg jmbk.: , Lastly, never be guilty ofanj' a6tion.t%|y&^ )r .Vwill lower you in your own jesteem, QF grade you in the eyos of yqur-tfcife, ' - v' statistics of^pcdje. Everything is reduced tf* qtntlattsid^^Tttier r .. curious of useful, at t^a pte8gr\tdny, and ' one Brierre de Boismotit |h(i)light! jt^ortl} *) while to write a loot nn< riio. > *38 _ __ __ .... HT' . France. Beginning with thetfear 1? < ' found from the decennial x to 1843, the amount of nnntor|n^de3 iiit' ^ creased from 2078 to 3020, 'in .- ^ nU France; in Paris the pr^^itflfJ$j: *' ' prease wag much more Jrap^^.Io -P^if J '.'38 the number of suicides idjl^4 atttpf?ir^^ "*^fT ,*^35 to 352?in 1843 cnscs, and maluog.njlQ^ftnce^^^fl^i^^, j %'* *Slj increase of crime ob&^ed^it^^^^lastv- V ^^^9 must admit tlia^ihere k ^ ^ ?rvrai*o _ "Irtr ^ y.