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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, x- ..... ; R*' % >*> * vtjh* 1% 'J .i i v 1- < **' * . ' i i *"'S *2>t: a ; VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, JUNE 1, 1852. % NUMBER 44. M THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. ' ^ published semi-weekly and weekly by THOMAS J. WARREN. TERMS. The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed three months. The Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if paymentbe delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ""^""ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at tha/ollowing terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, geventy-flvo cents per square for the first, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. J^The number of insertions desired, and the edition to be published in must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will be published semi-weekly until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly THE END OF LIFE. BY MRS. R. S. NICHOLAS* "He lived all the number of his years, and they were three score and ten." l An old man sathv the window. For the spring was drawing near, And the corpse of the dead old winter Had gone to the tomb of the year! The sunlight soft and unclouded, Streamed in o'er the oaken floor, And fretted with gold the dark panels Quaintly carved in the ancient door. j The hands of the old man trembled, His beard was frosted and thin, And chill as the heart of December Was the heat that was toiling within: Like embers half quenched and dying, vOn a desolate hearth at night, Burnt the ashes of life in his bosom, As he sat in the spring's clear light. He looked on the young buds swelling, And a tear o'er his wrinkles strayed; He thought of the wife of his bosom, Who slep't in the valley's green shade; He thought how her steps had (altered, Midway on the journey o( life; And how on death's bosom she rested, When weary and worn with strife. The forms of his innocent children She nightly had folded in prayer. Anr) lai/) nti tho crtfV Ion nf elnmhop <»vr With tender and motherly care, Rose up in the old man's vision. He saw that one tired and slept. Like a lamb by. the side^^Uts mother, t f * One son had wandered from virtue; - The father in spirit had yearned * To^raifithim forgiveness and bles>ing, But the prodigal never returned; Another had wedded with mammon, And worshipped the prince of this world; And one neath the cross had enlisted, And fought where its banner unfurled. A daughter, the fairest and dearest, In loveliness walked by his side, Nor envied the lot of her sisters, Who dazzied in Beauty and pride. Her voice was his hearts sVeetest music. When from the blessed volume-she read, That brightens valley of shadow's, And smooths down the path to the dead. j. For all his affliction and sorrow, For all his misgivings and grief. r For the night of doubting and darkness, -*VHe found iu its pages relief; His life had been checkered with sadness, j\nd as it drew near to a close, He longed for that home of the weary, The land of immortal repose! * £ The old man sat by the window, As the sun dropped low in the 6ky ; His spirit, with silent rejoicing, Went up to the mansion on high, Another green hillock in summer, Received the baptism of dew, And down in the dust of the valley, LHe rests by the tender and true. From, toe Sunny South. The Haunted House: OR, THE TAR RIVER EMIGRANT. In the spring of 18., Edward S s, or as he was called, Ned, started from the place lie was raised at in the turnp.ntine repion of the old "North State, with a company of movers, who were making their way for trie western district l- -of Tennessee, or as it was called by the denizens p 1 of the pinywoods the Forked-Dear country. 1 Ned was a poor boy, the youngest of a large | i family, whose father Seth, sr., and Germrma had kr died when he was quite a child, and had been raised (or had rather grown up according to the I i laws of nature) in the house of an old graudmoI ther, who lived in a little ola smoky cabin about " twelve miles from Tarboro' town; he had never been to school, nor to the court house but once to see a general muster ; had heard of the Revolutionary "War, and of General Washington, j but had no distinct idea of what the first meant, or whether the General was yet President, or 'what was the meaning of President. He had heard a good deal about witches, jack-o-me-lanterns, ghosts, haunted houses, <fec. With this stock of wordly knowledge, at the age of 18, he started out with squire Massey, as one of his fa-milv dmvo r»na of M.tlo narta distinguish themselves from that interesting socf lion of old North Carolina To seek his fortune '"over the hills and for away." Not more than a week after the movers had set out, an incident occurred toNed, which lam now about to relate, and which came near proving fatal to the young man at the very threshold of manhood, and the relation of which, in k his own earnest and peculiar style, has in after dava cost manv a suspender and waistband but-' M|^^on to the fortunate few who have heard the stoDUBSBrv from hi* own mouth. And for the benefit BL of those who never knew Ned, or heard him tell the adventure, I will try and relate it in his own words: ^ "One night," says Ned, "we stopped on or about the South Carolina line, afore day the Squire waked me up: says he. "Ned! Ned!" I jumped up thinkin' somethin' was wrong, and just as I did so, thar was a powerful flash of lightcnin' which made me feel quar; I always was afraid of thunder and lighteuin', and the Squire, say he: "Ned!" " Ser," says I. "Ned," say he " the hosses is missin." " Missin !" ses I. " Yes," ses he, "and I want you to hunt 'em." Well, I hated mightly to start off, and it a lighteniu' and thunderin' so, and it in the dark; but I was ashamed to say I was afeard, so just afore day broke, L fixed up and started off in tother direction to hunt the hosses. Well, I went on a thinking where the bosses could be, and how it could be supposed I could find 'em in the dark; and a thinking too suppose I should come across a jack-o-me-lanlern, and be carried by it through grave-yards, briar-patches, logs and swamps, and I should be lost and starved to death in the woods by myself; when I looked up and day M as fairly broke ; I was mightly relieved at. this for I never was afraid of any thing in daylight, so I went on lookin' for the hosses, and called 'em.coap! coap! coap!.and whistJ|d for 'em, but could hear nor see nothin' of £rcf fVnnrr T lrnrvwn/1 T cowl onn nf tllP ^ Jk 41V AAAUU bUlllg JL AUVII VU) A WVVVi V«V Vk »«v biggest white houses I ever had seen, with' a powerful great clearin'.barns, and stables, nigger houses and pailins all around the house, all as white as snow. So I thought I'd go up and ax about the hosses; I went up to the big gate, it was at the road 'bout seventy yards from the house, but I did'nt see nobody at all. Well, I did'nt know what to do, I begin to feel all was not right, but could'ntgit away. Howsumever, so it was, I stood thar calling the hosses, coap! coap ! coap ! but I didn't hear 'em nicker. Well the first thing I knowed, I seed a nigger come out to the side of the pailins, and there he was a peepin' at me, and a peepin' at ine. M Won't you come in ser," says he. Being always bred to manners, I thanked him and told him yes. w I started very yearly this morning, I started afore day, out huntiu' my hosses," says I. i i i.... »i u.C ucvci acu uuc wuru, um imuii'i {^ijuuvu like. By th^thtoe sun was up, and wc had got to the bof^flft^lly it was a fine 'un! glass^vin' ttoGfThrick cli mimes"! piazers T porticoes ! Inch as you see in Nashville town : think-ses-I, I am in luck ; not having the least idea of what it really. war, and what war to come. By this time I could see the heads of several niggers, black, and some mallatters, grinning at me thro' the glass windows; but I had no suspicion; a big old yaller feller opened the door and bowed mighty polite. " Walk in the parlor and take a seat sir," ses he. I thanked him and told his yes. "/ had started very yearly this mornin\ I had started afore day out to hunt my hosses." But as to the place whar he tuk me to, which he called the parlor! The walls were as white as could be all around the windows hung curtains, red and white, with brass bands to hold 'em back; and there war a fire blazin' away, with two great brass fire dogs, an a brass thing round the fire too keep it in I reckon. And there were a cloth flirts* an lirt flrvAH nud » m/>« nmr LU1U££ \JLI tUt3 U«7UI| dUU U,C5f5 UVI rtl,Jr and puttier nor any saxon show you ever seed ! an tables war pure 'hogany. Well, jest as I ware a gwine to set down, a little 'oman came to the door and in the sweetest voice you ever hearn ses she: " Wount you walk iu an take some breakfast sir." I felt sort-r hungry, an I thanked her and told her yes; ses I. "I started very yearly this morniiC I started afore day to hunt my losses. Sol followed her inter the next room an my eyes ! thar was only two white 'uns, a man what looked about 25 or 30 years old all dressed in brod cloth, standin' up with his hands on the back of a cheer, up to a table, an a might ly young 'oman the putterest you ever seed, dressed all in white, an the gentleman, as I took it for ses he. " Take a cheer ser," just as perlite, "an take breakfast, I expect you are tired (or somethin' so.) l pulled on my hat an went to lay it down, but one of the niggers, who had a white cloth in his hand, with a apron on tuck it from me, an I never seed it any more. So I thanked the gentle man (as I thought,) an told him I would as Iliad started very yearly this mornin, I started afore day out a huntin1 my 1tosses." At that minute the gentleman sneezed, and the lady she stooped down sorter an the niggers begun to snigger the quarest you ever hearn. Seeing the lady still kept her head down, I thought somethin' was under the table, so I looked down an saw somethin' white in her lap and thought it was my handkerchief, in course nothin' war the matter, I just poked it in.and poked it into my pocket about this time the lady looked up, and zounds! her face was as red as blood, and she looked like she had been crying. All this time I ware trying to git in my linnin and kep lookin' 'bout me eatin so 110 one mite see what I was at; the next thing I knowd, the whole table /a «viaii/) ifMnnrrJo mfi } Tf ctr 11 r»lr mn of U('f/U/L tl/ //Wl'V VWIVM.I WO r»«rv « *v .7VIUV(% 1UU lib once it was a haunted home, an I went to push back my cheer to git out out of tko way of the table, when the whole platter cum right over me! With that thar war a powerful noise an screaniiu' sorter like people a laffin'.an sorter like people a crying,.but I saw nothiu'.I shot my eyes rite tito for,'bout a minit, I then thought that ware no place for me; so I ris and got out .sum how.an jest as I left the steps the big yaller niggcfr catched me by sumthin' white a hangin' from my briches.I hollered murder! an pulled, ses I."I started very yearly this mornitC I started afore day to hunt my bosses. 44 Give me the table cloth f ses he an jerked. I fell inter the yard.but I ris from thar, an never looked back till I reached the camp!. Whar I told the story, but none of 'era would 'bleve but what I had gone to sleep an sum bo! dy had stole my hat, an that I told it for a ev cuse. But boys I tell you how, it was all tw positive truth." The Silver Currency Again. The Northern Journals, or their correspondents, are still engaged in earnest discussion on the merits and defects of Mr. Hunter's coinage bill. We have never known a subject so susceptible of precise and simple treatment so entangled by contradictory and confused reasoning. Now the advocates for taking from our silver coins a certain quantity of the silver they contain, and not adding to the quantity of gold in our gold coins, contend that this is the only mode of restoring the true relative value of the metals ; they also contend thao to put more gold into our gold coins would be unjust to the debtor who has made engagements to pay a given sum in either gold or silver. The only injustice is unu iib js pioenieu. liuiu paying a siipuiaieu. amount in one of the metals which has suffered, or which may undergo depreciation. But the inconsistency is not perceived that to take from the silver coins is unjust to the creditor, as it forces him to receive, the option being with the debtor to pay either in gold or silver. In this stage of the question the Banks have taken the alarm, Mr. Hunter's bill being at present hung up between the two Houses, and there being apprehensions that it will pass the House of Representatives. Those connected with the management of those institutions insist that if the bill pass it will drive the remainder of our silver currency abroad, for all that fund of silver coins now retained by the banks, at some sacrifice, they will be compelled to part with, to avoid a much greater sacrifice. They may be willing to lose 2 or 3 per cent, on their stock of silver coin ; but not 7 per cent, as they would,Jf Mr. Hunter's bill passes, for this is the loss which will be incurred by that bill to all those banks which retain a stock of silver coins. This will be the difference between the new and the old silver coinage. , Now when all this discontent and apprehen- ded evil may be avoided by the simple expedi- ent of making silver the sql£_£tamLu-d^y^^gaI louder, we a surprised at the pcrtTiu^HHRR 1 those who adhere to gold as that standr^^^H Ifnn/d ai« otwl oa/1 lr In o si ttmf lit a v^uuci) »IIU oevrv uu auju^b tuc ue of the two metals, a matter incapable^HH justment. It is replied to this mode of ing the evil that a loss would fall on Government. On whom can that loss fall more fittingly ? Who should pay the penalty of the blunders of Government but the Government itself? It is computed that if Government receives its dues in gold and ceases to pay in gold, it will lose §5,000,000, supposing gold has fallen 5 per cent, §100,000 millions being the amount supposed to be in circulation. If there is ouly one legal tender established, and that tender silver, this first loss would be the only loss. If both metals continue to be legal tenders, the loss, of course, would be continually renewed to individuals. the class of creditors. If our gold coins are received for Government dues, at their nominal value, and not re-issued, the proper corrective would at once come into action. There would be an increased domestic demand for silver, for coinage. This would elevate its vahte in the United States, counteractive of the foreign demand and higher foreign value.' Connected with this should be the calling in of all the debased Spanish coins now in circulation, so as to produce uniformity of denomination and value iu the whole mass of our silver coinage; making no change in our silver coins in any regard. As an adjunct to the scheme of an exclusive standard and legal tender in silver, gold could be assayed in the U. S. Mint in bars or ingots, of a determinate weight and purity. They would assist to keep our silver coins in circulation, for they would be employed in international commerce to adjust balances, provided we did not displace our silver coins by depreciated paper currency. If we issued no notes below live dollars, we would retain the whole of our silver coius. If no notes are emitted below the value of one dollar, we shall still retain our subsidiary silver currency. Gold would then find its true commercial value as a commodity. Its fluctuations would affect the class neither of the debtaiv r\nr r»rn<litafj Pomitfowaao «*aii1 I )\n ir»n/^o vio uvi V/ivuii'Vin. ivgiuittaiitud «vuu isv iikkkixj in gold for the adjustment of a commercial balance more especially as to the country to which we become most frequently and largely indebted, we arc bound to make good our engagements in gold. We hope, then, that Congress will get rid of that anomaly and embarrassment of a double standard and a double legal tender, and invest that metal with these functions that preserves its value most uniformly. Silver is rapidly becoming the universal standard and legal tender. This must be the consequence of a general conviction that it is fittest for these offices. Charleston Evening Neies. The Press..The men of the Press, are among the hardest working and noblest sons of toil. While others are enjoying a festive occasion, the toiler of the Press is transcribing the record from their lips, with pen and pencil, while in yonder building busy hands are striking it off in sheets that will lie upon our breakfast tables to morrow morning, and be flying far and wide, on wings of lightning and steam, to tj)0 world's end. The press is a mighty airent in the work of progress, nnd faithful to its trust.truth, freedom, humanity.above any other element of the ' world's progress..Dana. % «('. a. The Character of Paul. by j. t. headly. Paul, in his natural character, before his conversion, resembles Bonaparte more than any other man.I mean both in his intellectual developments and energy of will. He had the same inflexibility of purpose, the same utter indifference to human suffering when he had once determined on his course; the same tireless, unconquerable resolution; the same fearlessness both of man's nowerand oninions. and that calm self reliance and mysterious control over others. But the point of greatest resemblance is in the union of a strong, correct judgment, with rapidi- ty of thought and sudden impulse. They thought quicker, yet better than other men. The power, too, they possessed, was all practical power. There are many men of strong minds, whose force, nevertheless, wastes in reflection, or in theories for others to act upon. Thought may work out into language, but not into action.. They will plan belter than they can perform. But these men not only thought better, but they could work better than all other men. The same perfect self-control and perfect subjection of hirf emotions.even terror itself.to the mandates of his will, are exhibited in his con- duct when smitten to the earth, and blinded by the light and voice from Heaven. John, when arrested by the same voice on the Isle of Patmos, i>_11 P 1 1 JJ .1 ien on nis race as a aeaa man, auu uaieu uvu stir or speak till encouraged by the language, "Fear not." But Paul, (or ffaul) though a per- J secutor, and violent man, showed no symptoms of alarm or terror. The voice, the blow, the light, the glory, and the darkness that followed, j were sufficient to upset the strongest mind; but t he, master of himself and his emotions, instead of giving way to exclamations of terror, simply said : " Lord, what wilt thou have me do ?" j With his reason and judgment as steady and strong as ever, ho knew at once something was { wanted of him, and ever ready to act, he asked what it was. From this time on, his track can be distin- j guished by the commotion about it, and the light alrove it. Straight back to Jerusalem, from < whence he had so recently come with letters to ^ legalize his persecutions, he went to the east to legalize his lot with those ho had followed with ( violence and slaughter. His strong heart never beat one quicker pulsation through fear, when c the lofty turrets of the proud city dashed on his .; vision. Neither did he steal away to the dark alleys and streets, where the disciples were con- ^ cealed, and tellj-htfn secretly lus tana in tae oon of God. He^ strode into the synagogues, and c tefor^he*j£onished priests preached Christ and fury ^KH^HHM|HH^ging footwhere unknown ancWHII^JBB^Iings would bo less tried, he started for his native city, his father's house, the homo of his boyhood, for his kindred and friends. 'To entreaties, tears, scorn and violence, he was alike impervious. Tho Anlioch and Cyprus, along the coast of Syria and Rome, over the known world, he went like a blazing comet, waking up the nations of the earth. From the top of Mar's Hill, with the gorgeous city at his feet, and the Acropolis and Parthenon behind him.on the deck of his shattered vessel in the intervals of the crash of billows, in the gloomy walls of a prison, on the borders of the eternal kingdom, lie speaks in the same calm and determined tone. Deterred by no danger, awed by no pr&encc, and shrinking from no responsibility, he moves before us like some grand embodiment of power. The nations heave around him, and kings turn pale in his presence. Bands of conspirators swear neither to cat or drink till they have slain him, rulers aud priests combine against him; and people stone him; yet, over the din of the conflict and storm of violence, his voice of elo quence rises clear and distict as trumpet call, as he still preaches Christ and him crucified. The whip is laid on his back till the blood starts with every blow, and then his mangled body is thrown into a dungeon; but at midnight, you hoar that same calm, strong voice which has shaken the world, poured forth in a hymn of praise to God, and lo! an earthquake rocks the prison to its foundations; the manacles fall from the hands of the captives, the bolts withdraw themselves, and the massive doors swing DaCKon tneir mnges. One caunot point to a single spot in his ca- reer, where he faltered a moment, and gave way to discouragement or fear. Through all his per- ilous life, he exhibited the same interpedity of character and lofty spirit. With his eyes,fixed on regions beyond the ken of ordinary mortals, and kindling on glories it was not permitted him to reveal, he pressed forward to an incorruptible crown, a fadeless kingdpm. And then his death.how indescribably sublime! Napoleon, , dying in the midst of a midnight storm, with the last words that fell from his lips a battle cry, and his passing spirit watehuig in the delirium, the torn heads of his mighty columns, as they disappeared in the smoke of ponflict, is a sight that awes and startle. I nut DCI1014 ram niso, a war-worn vewrau, uat- tered with many a scar, tl\o\igh in a spiritual ( warfare, looking not on earth, but to Heaven.. Hear his o*dm, serene voice ringing over the storms and commotions of life: 1 am now ready to be offered, and the tinqe of niv departure is at hand. I have fought a good nght. I have finished my course, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness." No sfipnts of foemen, nor smoke ofoarnacre of battle surrounding his spirit struggling to be free: but troops of shining angels, the smile of God, and the songs of the redeemed, these guarded fyim, and welcomed him home. Folly..To think that you can make pork out of pig iron, or that you can become a. snoemaker by just drinking sherry oobblers. i Famine in Germany..The condition of the peasantry in many parts of Germany, says a correspondent of the London Times, has, chiefly through the failure of the potato crop last year at length become one of such fearful and indescribable distress, that 1 feel Sure a few particulars respecting it will prove a subject of pairful interest to many of your readers. Poor Southern and Central Germany, still suffering from the baneful effects of tbe late political convulsions, is now, in' addition, visited by dearth, disease, and famine. Truly heartrending accounts continue to arrive from many parts well known to and much frequented by English tourists for the beauty of their scenery; so from Wurtemburg, Bavaria, the Grand Duchy of Baden, Nassau, and more esjiecially from the Vogelsbeig and the Odenwald, rough mountainous districts.the one situated in the northeastern part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the other to the north, and forming part of the "Bergstrasse," a road extending from Darmstadt to Heidelberg, within thirtyeight hours reach from London, and traversed generally by excursionist on their way to Switzerland. In these localities whole villages are being deseited for want of food. Their unfortunate inhabitants, who, in times of comparative prositv, eke out but scanty and miserable existenoe, have been wanting their staple food.potatoes.. In other parts trade is standing still; of eighteen thousands looms, in a single province of Bavaria, almost exclusively inhabited by weavere,not half ire at toll work. ine people are aepnved alike Df the productions of nature and the fruits of industry, and, to consumate -wretchedness and despair and an extreme dearth of provisions, whole lerds of cattle and sheep are killed l>y a rapidly ipreading disease. Fashions in Paris..The correspondent of the Boston Atlas has the following in his letter: " Let me chronicle several suicides on the al- * ar of fashion. Ladies in Paris have the greatest horror of being fat; death has fewer horrore ,han corpulency. There is no doubt the corpuence of the Duchess de Parsalin was the cause gjffa >f her murder, and I really believe that if. the ?ahque law did not prevent a lady from ascen- I ling the throne, the first empress would obtain lie destruction of alhehildren who appeared'in:linel to corpulency. During the past week, here has been buried at Pere la Chaise the Mar[uise de ***, who died in consequence of hang mined her digestion by the excessive use of vingar; the Princess de ***, from the same cause, laving exhausted herself by refusiug to take laffiniant. nnnriaViTriPTit. flrir) Mm a tha wifa f an agen de change, "killed by vinegar." The pother of vinegar is the first cousin of death.. ^ Tlie"nref anff^fife'd iasrpeistn»:tnabk'|iSly three large tumblers of vinegar, and they died-rhomble punishment.that. "Between vinegar and cards, the fashionable world here is in a sorrowful way. The Power op Mosio..The following singular anecdote concerning the effects produced Dy the musical powers of the Hutchinson faidily, we find in the Erie Gazette. The editor suites that the occurrence took place at Plattebufgh, as he learns by a private letter from that, $ty. The sweet melodists, it appears, happening to spend Sabbath week in Plattsburgh, attended the church of the Rev. Dr. , an eminent Presbyterian divine, and, as id their enstom, participated in the choir exercises. Just before the rt w aI/mia/I fit a«* Vv iwvaKAI«%m AtlJ oerwceo civrouu, uiiuj, i.»jr iwjuwv ocvjwi up cuiu. sang a hymn of their selection,' which they did with such thrilling pathos that the worthy pastore, no longer able to retain himself, waved his hands arfd cried out, "Yes! Glory, Hallelujah!" and fainted away. The Bran and the Maiden..A summer bird that has lingered late in the autumn,' leaving its timid foot print in the first fell of snow ever reminds us of that delicate fair one, in hghi thin slippers, on a cold icy pavement. The turd, however can escape to a warmer clime and in the spring it can rc-appear but the lady is on that journey from which there is no retina The music of the bird may again gladden its native tree but her voice will not again cheer theheaHh of her home. The badges of sorrow and the slowly returning hearse will soon tell what that slipper has done. It has taken from up in the « bloom of life onp that we loved, but«would not listen to the voice of admonition. Her bright days are. now passed, the light of her countenance has fled: and the nicrht of the crave cur- tains the deep couch, of her repose. Bat a voice speaks tenderly from that grave to. those whom she has left behind; it whispers the admonition which she disregarded^ Shall that whisper; not be heard. It i? a sister's voice that pleadB. Phila. North, American. » The Washington correspondent of' the Commertcat regales its readers with the following, which we think will be news all arpupd:; "The President is uneasy in his position as a candidate. He has said lately that he would now gladly if he had the liberty to do it, retire iltogether from his position; but, he says, he is not his master, and in this matter belongs to the public, and that the friends of Mr. Webster and of Gen. Soott both insist upon his remaining as a candidate." Right in one thing becomes preliminary to- wards right in everything; the transition is not distanfTroni~tfrc fittings which tells us that we should dc no harm to ao. man, tj^th^t we should do good to all mcnv A young man without mpney is Kite a steamboat without fuel. He can't go ahead. Among the ladies he is like the moon oa a oloudy night.. (Io cant tAine, .* H '.^4 Z, "it: Pardon is a glorious kind of revenge. I think myself sufficiently revenged of my enemy if I pardon him. Cicero did more commend Caesar for pardonieg Metullus, than for the great victory obtained over his enemies.

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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL,x-

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; VOLUME3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, JUNE 1, 1852. % NUMBER 44.

M THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.'

^published semi-weekly and weekly by

THOMAS J. WARREN.

TERMS.The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Three

Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or FourDollars ifpayment is delayed three months.The Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollars

if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if paymentbedelayed three months, and Three Dollars if notpaid till the expiration of the year.""^""ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at tha/ollowingterms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in thesemi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-fivecents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly,geventy-flvo cents per square for the first, and thirty-sevenand a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Singleinsertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly andquarterly advertisements charged the same as for a singleinsertion.J^The number of insertions desired, and the editionto be published in must be noted on the margin of

all advertisements, or they will be published semi-weeklyuntil ordered discontinued and charged accordingly

THE END OF LIFE.BY MRS. R. S. NICHOLAS*

"He lived all the number of his years, and theywere three score and ten."

l An old man sathv the window.For the spring was drawing near,

And the corpse of the dead old winterHad gone to the tomb of the year!

The sunlight soft and unclouded,Streamed in o'er the oaken floor,

And fretted with gold the dark panelsQuaintly carved in the ancient door. j

The hands of the old man trembled,His beard was frosted and thin,

And chill as the heart of DecemberWas the heat that was toiling within:

Like embers half quenched and dying,vOn a desolate hearth at night,

Burnt the ashes of life in his bosom,As he sat in the spring's clear light.

He looked on the young buds swelling,And a tear o'er his wrinkles strayed;

He thought of the wife of his bosom,Who slep't in the valley's green shade;

He thought how her steps had (altered,Midway on the journey o( life;

And how on death's bosom she rested,When weary and worn with strife.

The forms of his innocent childrenShe nightly had folded in prayer.

Anr) lai/) nti tho crtfV Ion nf elnmhop

<»vr With tender and motherly care,Rose up in the old man's vision.He saw that one tired and slept.

Like a lamb by. the side^^Uts mother,

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One son had wandered from virtue;- The father in spirit had yearned

* To^raifithim forgiveness and bles>ing,But the prodigal never returned;

Another had wedded with mammon,And worshipped the prince of this world;

And one neath the cross had enlisted,And fought where its banner unfurled.

A daughter, the fairest and dearest,In loveliness walked by his side,

Nor envied the lot of her sisters,Who dazzied in Beauty and pride.

Her voice was his hearts sVeetest music.When from the blessed volume-she read,

That brightens valley of shadow's,And smooths down the path to the dead.

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For all his affliction and sorrow,For all his misgivings and grief.

r For the night of doubting and darkness,-*VHe found iu its pages relief;

His life had been checkered with sadness,j\nd as it drew near to a close,

He longed for that home of the weary,The land of immortal repose! *

£ The old man sat by the window,As the sun dropped low in the 6ky ;

His spirit, with silent rejoicing,Went up to the mansion on high,

Another green hillock in summer,Received the baptism of dew,

And down in the dust of the valley,LHe rests by the tender and true.

From, toe Sunny South.The Haunted House:

OR,THE TAR RIVER EMIGRANT.

In the spring of 18., Edward S s, or ashe was called, Ned, started from the place liewas raised at in the turnp.ntine repion of the old"North State, with a company of movers, whowere making their way for trie western district

l- -of Tennessee, or as it was called by the denizensp 1 of the pinywoods the Forked-Dear country.1 Ned was a poor boy, the youngest of a large| i family, whose father Seth, sr., and Germrma hadkr died when he was quite a child, and had been

raised (or had rather grown up according to theI i laws of nature) in the house of an old graudmoIther, who lived in a little ola smoky cabin about"

twelve miles from Tarboro' town; he had never

been to school, nor to the court house but once

to see a general muster ; had heard of the Revolutionary"War, and of General Washington,j but had no distinct idea of what the first meant,

or whether the General was yet President, or

'what was the meaning of President. He hadheard a good deal about witches, jack-o-me-lanterns,ghosts, haunted houses, <fec. With thisstock of wordly knowledge, at the age of 18, hestarted out with squire Massey, as one of his fa-milvdmvo r»na of M.tlo narta

distinguish themselves from that interesting socflion of old North Carolina To seek his fortune'"over the hills and for away."

Not more than a week after the movers hadset out, an incident occurred toNed, which lamnow about to relate, and which came near provingfatal to the young man at the very thresholdof manhood, and the relation of which, in

k his own earnest and peculiar style, has in afterdava cost manv a suspender and waistband but-'

M|^^on to the fortunate few who have heard the stoDUBSBrvfrom hi* own mouth. And for the benefitBL

of those who never knew Ned, or heard him tellthe adventure, I will try and relate it in his ownwords: ^"One night," says Ned, "we stopped on or

about the South Carolina line, afore day theSquire waked me up: says he."Ned! Ned!"I jumped up thinkin' somethin' was wrong,

and just as I did so, thar was a powerful flash oflightcnin' which made me feel quar; I alwayswas afraid of thunder and lighteuin', and theSquire, say he:"Ned!"" Ser," says I."Ned," say he " the hosses is missin."" Missin !" ses I." Yes," ses he, "and I want you to hunt 'em."Well, I hated mightly to start off, and it a

lighteniu' and thunderin' so, and it in the dark;but I was ashamed to say I was afeard, so justafore day broke, L fixed up and started off intother direction to hunt the hosses. Well, Iwent on a thinking where the bosses could be,and how it could be supposed I could find 'emin the dark; and a thinking too suppose I shouldcome across a jack-o-me-lanlern, and be carriedby it through grave-yards, briar-patches, logsand swamps, and I should be lost and starved todeath in the woods by myself; when I looked upand day M as fairly broke ; I was mightly relievedat. this for I never was afraid of any thingin daylight, so I went on lookin' for the hosses,and called 'em.coap! coap! coap!.and whistJ|dfor 'em, but could hear nor see nothin' of

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biggest white houses I ever had seen, with' a

powerful great clearin'.barns, and stables, niggerhouses and pailins all around the house, allas white as snow. So I thought I'd go up andax about the hosses; I went up to the big gate,it was at the road 'bout seventy yards from thehouse, but I did'nt see nobody at all. Well, Idid'nt know what to do, I begin to feel all wasnot right, but could'ntgit away. Howsumever,so it was, I stood thar calling the hosses, coap!coap ! coap ! but I didn't hear 'em nicker. Wellthe first thing I knowed, I seed a nigger comeout to the side of the pailins, and there he wasa peepin' at me, and a peepin' at ine.

M Won't you come in ser," says he.Being always bred to manners, I thanked him

and told him yes.w I started very yearly this morning, I started

afore day, out huntiu' my hosses," says I.i i i.... »i

u.C ucvci acu uuc wuru, um imuii'i {^ijuuvulike.By th^thtoe sun was up, and wc had got to

the bof^flft^lly it was a fine 'un! glass^vin' ttoGfThrickclimimes"! piazers T porticoes ! Inchas you see in Nashville town : think-ses-I, I amin luck ; not having the least idea of what itreally. war, and what war to come. By thistime I could see the heads of several niggers,black, and some mallatters, grinning at me thro'the glass windows; but I had no suspicion; a

big old yaller feller opened the door and bowedmighty polite.

" Walk in the parlor and take a seat sir," seshe.

I thanked him and told his yes. "/ had startedvery yearly this mornin\ I had startedafore day out to hunt my hosses." But as tothe place whar he tuk me to, which he called theparlor! The walls were as white as could beall around the windows hung curtains, red andwhite, with brass bands to hold 'em back; andthere war a fire blazin' away, with two greatbrass fire dogs, an a brass thing round the firetoo keep it in I reckon. And there were a clothflirts* an lirt flrvAH nud » m/>« nmr

LU1U££ \JLI tUt3 U«7UI| dUU U,C5f5 UVI rtl,Jrand puttier nor any saxon show you ever seed !an tables war pure 'hogany.

Well, jest as I ware a gwine to set down, a

little 'oman came to the door and in the sweetestvoice you ever hearn ses she:" Wount you walk iu an take some breakfast

sir."I felt sort-r hungry, an I thanked her and

told her yes; ses I."I started very yearly this morniiC I started

afore day to hunt my losses.Sol followed her inter the next room an my

eyes ! thar was only two white 'uns, a man whatlooked about 25 or 30 years old all dressed inbrod cloth, standin' up with his hands on theback of a cheer, up to a table, an a mightlyyoung 'oman the putterest you ever seed, dressedall in white, an the gentleman, as I took itfor ses he.

" Take a cheer ser," just as perlite, "an takebreakfast, I expect you are tired (or somethin'so.)

l pulled on my hat an went to lay it down,but one of the niggers, who had a white cloth inhis hand, with a apron on tuck it from me, an Inever seed it any more. So I thanked the gentleman (as I thought,) an told him I would as

Iliad started very yearly this mornin, I startedafore day out a huntin1 my 1tosses." At thatminute the gentleman sneezed, and the ladyshe stooped down sorter an the niggers begun tosnigger the quarest you ever hearn. Seeing thelady still kept her head down, I thought somethin'was under the table, so I looked down an

saw somethin' white in her lap and thought itwas my handkerchief, in course nothin' war thematter, I just poked it in.and poked it into mypocket about this time the lady looked up, andzounds! her face was as red as blood, and shelooked like she had been crying. All this timeI ware trying to git in my linnin and kep lookin''bout me eatin so 110 one mite see what Iwas at; the next thing I knowd, the whole table

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once it was a haunted home, an I went to pushback my cheer to git out out of tko way of thetable, when the whole platter cum right over

me! With that thar war a powerful noise an

screaniiu' sorter like people a laffin'.an sorterlike people a crying,.but I saw nothiu'.I shotmy eyes rite tito for,'bout a minit, I then thoughtthat ware no place for me; so I ris and got out

.sum how.an jest as I left the steps the bigyaller niggcfr catched me by sumthin' white a

hangin' from my briches.I hollered murder! an

pulled, ses I."I started very yearly this mornitCI started afore day to hunt my bosses.

44 Give me the table clothf ses he an jerked.I fell inter the yard.but I ris from thar, an

never looked back till I reached the camp!.Whar I told the story, but none of 'era would'bleve but what I had gone to sleep an sum bo!dy had stole my hat, an that I told it for a evcuse. But boys I tell you how, it was all twpositive truth."

The Silver Currency Again.The Northern Journals, or their correspondents,are still engaged in earnest discussion on

the merits and defects of Mr. Hunter's coinagebill. We have never known a subject so susceptibleof precise and simple treatment so entangledby contradictory and confused reasoning.Now the advocates for taking from our silvercoins a certain quantity of the silver they contain,and not adding to the quantity of gold inour gold coins, contend that this is the onlymode of restoring the true relative value of themetals ; they also contend thao to put more goldinto our gold coins would be unjust to the debtorwho has made engagements to pay a given sumin either gold or silver. The only injustice isunu iib js pioenieu. liuiu paying a siipuiaieu.amount in one of the metals which has suffered,or which may undergo depreciation. But theinconsistency is not perceived that to take fromthe silver coins is unjust to the creditor, as itforces him to receive, the option being with thedebtor to pay either in gold or silver.

In this stage of the question the Banks havetaken the alarm, Mr. Hunter's bill being at presenthung up between the two Houses, and therebeing apprehensions that it will pass the Houseof Representatives. Those connected with themanagement of those institutions insist that ifthe bill pass it will drive the remainder of oursilver currency abroad, for all that fund of silvercoins now retained by the banks, at some sacrifice,they will be compelled to part with, to avoida much greater sacrifice. They may be willingto lose 2 or 3 per cent, on their stock of silvercoin ; but not 7 per cent, as they would,Jf Mr.Hunter's bill passes, for this is the loss whichwill be incurred by that bill to all those bankswhich retain a stock of silver coins. This willbe the difference between the new and the oldsilver coinage. ,

Now when all this discontent and apprehen-ded evil may be avoided by the simple expedi-ent of making silver the sql£_£tamLu-d^y^^gaIlouder, we a surprised at the pcrtTiu^HHRR1 those who adhere to gold as that standr^^^HIfnn/d ai« otwl oa/1 lr In o si ttmf lita

v^uuci) »IIU oevrv uu auju^b tuc

ue of the two metals, a matter incapable^HHjustment. It is replied to this mode ofing the evil that a loss would fall on Government.On whom can that loss fall more fittingly ?Who should pay the penalty of the blunders ofGovernment but the Government itself? It iscomputed that if Government receives its duesin gold and ceases to pay in gold, it will lose§5,000,000, supposing gold has fallen 5 per cent,§100,000 millions being the amount supposed tobe in circulation. If there is ouly one legal tenderestablished, and that tender silver, this firstloss would be the only loss. If both metals continueto be legal tenders, the loss, of course,would be continually renewed to individuals.the class of creditors.

If our gold coins are received for Governmentdues, at their nominal value, and not re-issued,the proper corrective would at once come intoaction. There would be an increased domesticdemand for silver, for coinage. This would elevateits vahte in the United States, counteractiveof the foreign demand and higher foreign value.'Connected with this should be the calling in ofall the debased Spanish coins now in circulation,so as to produce uniformity of denomination andvalue iu the whole mass of our silver coinage;making no change in our silver coins in any regard.As an adjunct to the scheme of an exclusivestandard and legal tender in silver, goldcould be assayed in the U. S. Mint in bars or ingots,of a determinate weight and purity. Theywould assist to keep our silver coins in circulation,for they would be employed in internationalcommerce to adjust balances, provided we didnot displace our silver coins by depreciated papercurrency. If we issued no notes below livedollars, we would retain the whole of our silvercoius. If no notes are emitted below the valueof one dollar, we shall still retain our subsidiarysilver currency. Gold would then find its truecommercial value as a commodity. Its fluctuationswould affect the class neither of the debtaivr\nr r»rn<litafj Pomitfowaao «*aii1 I )\n ir»n/^ovio uvi V/ivuii'Vin. ivgiuittaiitud «vuu isv iikkkixj

in gold for the adjustment of a commercial balancemore especially as to the country to whichwe become most frequently and largely indebted,we arc bound to make good our engagements ingold.We hope, then, that Congress will get rid of

that anomaly and embarrassment of a doublestandard and a double legal tender, and investthat metal with these functions that preservesits value most uniformly. Silver is rapidly becomingthe universal standard and legal tender.This must be the consequence of a general convictionthat it is fittest for these offices.

Charleston Evening Neies.

The Press..The men of the Press, are amongthe hardest working and noblest sons of toil.While others are enjoying a festive occasion, thetoiler of the Press is transcribing the record fromtheir lips, with pen and pencil, while in yonderbuilding busy hands are striking it off in sheetsthat will lie upon our breakfast tables to morrowmorning, and be flying far and wide, on

wings of lightning and steam, to tj)0 world'send. The press is a mighty airent in the workof progress, nnd faithful to its trust.truth, freedom,humanity.above any other element of the

' world's progress..Dana.

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The Character of Paul.

by j. t. headly.

Paul, in his natural character, before his conversion,resembles Bonaparte more than anyother man.I mean both in his intellectual developmentsand energy of will. He had thesame inflexibility of purpose, the same utter indifferenceto human suffering when he had oncedetermined on his course; the same tireless, unconquerableresolution; the same fearlessnessboth of man's nowerand oninions. and that calmself reliance and mysterious control over others.But the point of greatest resemblance is in theunion of a strong, correct judgment, with rapidi-ty of thought and sudden impulse. They thoughtquicker, yet better than other men. The power,too, they possessed, was all practical power.There are many men of strong minds, whoseforce, nevertheless, wastes in reflection, or in theoriesfor others to act upon. Thought maywork out into language, but not into action..They will plan belter than they can perform.But these men not only thought better, but theycould work better than all other men.

The same perfect self-control and perfect subjectionof hirf emotions.even terror itself.tothe mandates of his will, are exhibited in his con-duct when smitten to the earth, and blinded bythe light and voice from Heaven. John, whenarrested by the same voice on the Isle of Patmos,i>_11 P 1 1 J J .1ien on nis race as a aeaa man, auu uaieu uvu

stir or speak till encouraged by the language,"Fear not." But Paul, (or ffaul) though a per- Jsecutor, and violent man, showed no symptomsof alarm or terror. The voice, the blow, thelight, the glory, and the darkness that followed, jwere sufficient to upset the strongest mind; but t

he, master of himself and his emotions, insteadof giving way to exclamations of terror, simplysaid : " Lord, what wilt thou have me do ?" jWith his reason and judgment as steady andstrong as ever, ho knew at once something was {wanted of him, and ever ready to act, he askedwhat it was.From this time on, his track can be distin- j

guished by the commotion about it, and thelight alrove it. Straight back to Jerusalem, from <

whence he had so recently come with letters to ^legalize his persecutions, he went to the east to

legalize his lot with those ho had followed with(

violence and slaughter. His strong heart never

beat one quicker pulsation through fear, whenc

the lofty turrets of the proud city dashed on his .;vision. Neither did he steal away to the darkalleys and streets, where the disciples were con- ^cealed, and tellj-htfn secretly lus tana in tae oonof God. He^ strode into the synagogues, and

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tefor^he*j£onished priests preached Christ and

fury^KH^HHM|HH^gingfootwhereunknown ancWHII^JBB^Iings would bo lesstried, he started for his native city, his father's house,the homo of his boyhood, for his kindredand friends. 'To entreaties, tears, scorn and violence,he was alike impervious. Tho Anliochand Cyprus, along the coast of Syria and Rome,over the known world, he went like a blazingcomet, waking up the nations of the earth. Fromthe top of Mar's Hill, with the gorgeous city athis feet, and the Acropolis and Parthenon behindhim.on the deck of his shattered vesselin the intervals of the crash of billows, in thegloomy walls of a prison, on the borders of theeternal kingdom, lie speaks in the same calmand determined tone. Deterred by no danger,awed by no pr&encc, and shrinking from no responsibility,he moves before us like some grandembodiment of power.

The nations heave around him, and kings turn

pale in his presence. Bands of conspiratorsswear neither to cat or drink till they have slainhim, rulers aud priests combine against him;and people stone him; yet, over the din of theconflict and storm of violence, his voice of eloquence rises clear and distict as trumpet call, as

he still preaches Christ and him crucified. Thewhip is laid on his back till the blood starts withevery blow, and then his mangled body is throwninto a dungeon; but at midnight, you hoar thatsame calm, strong voice which has shaken theworld, poured forth in a hymn of praise to God,and lo! an earthquake rocks the prison to itsfoundations; the manacles fall from the handsof the captives, the bolts withdraw themselves,and the massive doors swing DaCKon tneir mnges.One caunot point to a single spot in his ca-

reer, where he faltered a moment, and gave wayto discouragement or fear. Through all his per-ilous life, he exhibited the same interpedity ofcharacter and lofty spirit. With his eyes,fixedon regions beyond the ken of ordinary mortals,and kindling on glories it was not permittedhim to reveal, he pressed forward to an incorruptiblecrown, a fadeless kingdpm. And then hisdeath.how indescribably sublime! Napoleon, ,

dying in the midst of a midnight storm, withthe last words that fell from his lips a battle cry,and his passing spirit watehuig in the delirium,the torn heads of his mighty columns, as theydisappeared in the smoke of ponflict, is a sightthat awes and startle. I

nut DCI1014 ram niso, a war-worn vewrau, uat-

tered with many a scar, tl\o\igh in a spiritual (

warfare, looking not on earth, but to Heaven..Hear his o*dm, serene voice ringing over thestorms and commotions of life: 1 am now readyto be offered, and the tinqe of niv departure isat hand. I have fought a good nght. I havefinished my course, there is laid up for me a crown

of righteousness." No sfipnts of foemen, nor

smoke ofoarnacre of battle surrounding his spiritstruggling to be free: but troops of shining angels,the smile of God, and the songs of the redeemed,these guarded fyim, and welcomed himhome.

Folly..To think that you can make porkout of pig iron, or that you can become a. snoemakerby just drinking sherry oobblers.

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Famine in Germany..The condition of thepeasantry in many parts of Germany, says a

correspondent of the London Times, has, chieflythrough the failure of the potato crop last yearat length become one of such fearful and indescribabledistress, that 1 feel Sure a few particularsrespecting it will prove a subject of pairful interestto many of your readers. Poor Southernand Central Germany, still suffering from thebaneful effects of tbe late political convulsions,is now, in' addition, visited by dearth, disease,and famine. Truly heartrending accounts continueto arrive from many parts well known toand much frequented by English tourists for thebeauty of their scenery; so from Wurtemburg,Bavaria, the Grand Duchy of Baden, Nassau,and more esjiecially from the Vogelsbeig and theOdenwald, rough mountainous districts.the onesituated in the northeastern part of the GrandDuchy of Hesse, the other to the north, and formingpart of the "Bergstrasse," a road extendingfrom Darmstadt to Heidelberg, within thirtyeighthours reach from London, and traversedgenerally by excursionist on their way to Switzerland.In these localities whole villages are beingdeseited for want of food. Their unfortunateinhabitants, who, in times of comparative prositv,eke out but scanty and miserable existenoe,have been wanting their staple food.potatoes..In other parts trade is standing still; of eighteenthousands looms, in a single province of Bavaria,almost exclusively inhabited by weavere,not halfire at toll work. ine people are aepnved alikeDf the productions of nature and the fruits of industry,and, to consumate -wretchedness and despairand an extreme dearth of provisions, wholelerds of cattle and sheep are killed l>y a rapidlyipreading disease.

Fashions in Paris..The correspondent oftheBoston Atlas has the following in his letter:" Let me chronicle several suicides on the al- *

ar of fashion. Ladies in Paris have the greatesthorror of being fat; death has fewer horrore,han corpulency. There is no doubt the corpuenceof the Duchess de Parsalin was the cause gjffa>f her murder, and I really believe that if. the?ahque law did not prevent a lady from ascen- Iling the throne, the first empress would obtainlie destruction of alhehildren who appeared'in:linelto corpulency. During the past week,here has been buried at Pere la Chaise the Mar[uisede ***, who died in consequence of hangmined her digestion by the excessive use ofvingar;the Princess de ***, from the same cause,laving exhausted herself by refusiug to takelaffiniant. nnnriaViTriPTit. flrir) Mma tha wifaf an agen de change, "killed by vinegar." Thepother of vinegar is the first cousin of death..^Tlie"nref anff^fife'd iasrpeistn»:tnabk'|iSly threelarge tumblers of vinegar, and they died-rhomblepunishment.that.

"Between vinegar and cards, the fashionableworld here is in a sorrowful way.

The Power op Mosio..The following singularanecdote concerning the effects produced Dythe musical powers of the Hutchinson faidily,we find in the Erie Gazette. The editor suitesthat the occurrence took place at Plattebufgh,as he learns by a private letter from that, $ty.The sweet melodists, it appears, happening tospend Sabbath week in Plattsburgh, attendedthe church of the Rev. Dr. , an eminentPresbyterian divine, and, as id their enstom, participatedin the choir exercises. Just before thert w aI/mia/I fit a«* Vv r» iwvaKAI«%m AtlJoerwceo civrouu, uiiuj, i.»jr iwjuwv ocvjwi up cuiu.

sang a hymn of their selection,' which they didwith such thrilling pathos that the worthy pastore,no longer able to retain himself, waved hishands arfd cried out, "Yes! Glory, Hallelujah!"and fainted away.

The Bran and the Maiden..A summerbird that has lingered late in the autumn,' leavingits timid foot print in the first fell of snowever reminds us of that delicate fair one, in hghithin slippers, on a cold icy pavement. The turd,however can escape to a warmer clime and in thespring it can rc-appear but the lady is on thatjourney from which there is no retina Themusic of the bird may again gladden its nativetree but her voice will not again cheer theheaHhof her home. The badges of sorrow and theslowly returning hearse will soon tell what thatslipper has done. It has taken from up in the «

bloom of life onp that we loved, but«would notlisten to the voice of admonition. Her brightdays are. now passed, the light of her countenancehas fled: and the nicrht of the crave cur-tains the deep couch, of her repose. Bat a voicespeaks tenderly from that grave to. those whomshe has left behind; it whispers the admonitionwhich she disregarded^ Shall that whisper; notbe heard. It i? a sister's voice that pleadB.

Phila. North, American.»

The Washington correspondent of' the Commertcatregales its readers with the following,which we think will be news all arpupd:;"The President is uneasy in his position as a

candidate. He has said lately that he wouldnow gladly if he had the liberty to do it, retireiltogether from his position; but, he says, he isnot his master, and in this matter belongs to thepublic, and that the friends of Mr. Webster andof Gen. Soott both insist upon his remaining as a

candidate."

Right in one thing becomes preliminary to-wards right in everything; the transition is notdistanfTroni~tfrc fittings which tells us that weshould dc no harm to ao. man, tj^th^t weshoulddo good to all mcnvA young man without mpney is Kite a steamboatwithout fuel. He can't go ahead. Among

the ladies he is like the moon oa a oloudy night..(Io cant tAine,

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Pardon is a glorious kindof revenge. I thinkmyself sufficiently revenged of my enemy if I

pardon him. Cicero did more commend Caesarfor pardonieg Metullus, than for the great victoryobtained over his enemies.