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Vol. III.-
Statesville, N. C, Friday, May 18, 1860.
.ortfflemeiit, itVtiJ W'tmUuh-
PUBLISHED WEEKLiV J -. . Kg I , , fa 4 ISl M ' OH VV3nL ;
May Flowers.
T ALBEKT LAWBTOW.
Children of the patlilesa wood,
Dwelling in deep solitudl, '' "
Born of earth and bleffd of lieaven,
Proofa of love that God jhath givferi ;
Pledges from Hts hoirhticous hand,
Ever fair und einlcs baiid.
When your gentle motlilcr, Spring,
IT I .1 1 t .
Then we saw he'realm axi3 slo
Jiearn ine nnrnv rotiin Rinnr
W.
l.ni me coverlet ol ihuoiv ,
Krora ypiir tiny forms, and rees
Your pure lips with tenderness
And we knew she lingejvd tlicre,
Vliispering words of ldve nnd prayer ;
For at last each lcejrint child
Looking upward eweet!? smiled,
With the beaijtv of theskic4
Mirrored in its dewy eyi's !
IVjw winds whispf-riiig tihrouch the trees ;
Dreamy munnuriiigs of bees :
. Notes of lirds.and Mnwjof rills;
Aftisic that the .nun (lisjils;
Your pweet cradle songs are these,
And unnumbered melodic. -'
O. yc':llildren ot' (lie wood.
Messengers of tolitude, j
You are dearer far to nic
Than the nurslingrt of pie lea!
For ye brlnjEr Jo-lietirt and brain
Childhood's. rosy dreams again.
Corrwjwin.'eiicf; of tlie ;,Kjr-w.'
CuAitLEsTuN Mav 22 1H ni.vtv.
Mr Th-ahr. Snr : Vou ino J promi?f to rite
to you and let you no hw the grate nasli un
it 1 Convenshun of the gite nashunal. Dim
micratic Party cm n on after we got fa rely to
taleih. W-ll, I re kon its bin the moft roar
in ConVensl tun that eve"r A.??nibled in en
ny times. f jeafe or war--and its bin a'sLt
tin and a eettin and if j won't lifltch. And
there's bin a grent ett'iut maid 'to nuke it
hatch and it just won't.' In the futt place
pnm few of us pot hear and wc got all the
ctH arrngned and hired- a mag Nitfuspent
hall at $200. a day, only cost in $2,000 for
tlie.lOdays we fot and fhat aiu't mutch, you
rio for Dimmiciat StaitBinon to ppend ?pe
riallv as we've got theOfltuses and kin afford
to nnlurge on the publiifk 'print in 'funH k !.
LA'"' after got all things in reddines for the
"fit tin of the mottin, thon the other delegits
1 cgin to cum in and it was truly intereMm
to fee tliem as they cum in. they .list cum in
Kale Roads, and iiie,"Oshuti wave" and in
tvllograflti, and in van:a und divers ways too
Tedius to menehun. Add alter we all got
thar. we felt niiglity proud as we talked an.!
ruminated that we wa? the pnte Na."hnal
party, ami the any nrdv to yave the Kuntiy
ami we-vas rtuisriattiliiuu ourdejves on the
prospers of the Kutitry. at:d now fays wc
therftge of iniri ikleH is past, and the feven
"ic ippik of Greece if long since Mn no more
the.'.'cucHed wbigs" has ceased to rule the
Knntry, and tlie log .cabins' and coonpkins
.and hard cider of 18 forty hev all rennr,ja3ed
' 'to the -fa iA.t aide. And the, rioii'y "Furren
th" and M degree no Nothins lias yielded
to the Dark lantern of : tlie Dimocrisy. and
710x9 says we.-we is ennabled to read the tru
ifsu Ijefore the Kuntry. ) So we begin to think
, how to mannagc. And when we met weap
pintcd a extcmpurrce ehmrman and a ciim
tuittce to export firmament officers for the
; met'ttn. and after while they 'cum in named
Mr Cuc-hin of - Mussaehusitts for President
and then we jist maid Mr. Cu.-hin president
. right away . by universal nocnlation. Ami
fiich a ehoutin and choerin as we had when
MrCushin made his Nogral address you never
hecrd. The noi-e wne o grate you couldn't
hear nuthin nor f-ee nuihin fur tumtinie it
M as so trenvenjus it Cum mighty nigh nockin
the grate big Itale Road trane that was jist
cumin in from Sumtcrclfc'tn off the track,
lu fact it was nuvt dilTikil to breathe-for
f-um time, but it fiidn't effect Mr Cnsbin one
bit. only lie looked a little prowd when he
a6scuded the rostrum, but all the .time we
vas a ehoutm and a chterin Mr Cushin jist
'Hood as strait and look el as dimmicratic a
the March ram in the' Almanick. Well af-
ter we got dun cheerin Mr. Cushin maid us
sum of the moat patrwttick and dimmicrat
tic speeches I ever hecrd, and showed he was
the very man for president, and we was the
nly party to save the' Knntry if we could
jist keep the offiscs and beet the Opposishun.
lie told ns we must tllirotf aside all miner
coneiderMshun8 and afl'eckshuns and try arid
make a nomination that would take both
Tvorth and Sou'.h
rusi we must tane a
Dimocrat who w
m exeeptahle to all, and if
we oouldent git sicli a ione. then we must take
a roithern i abolishun Dimocrat and who
could git the abolishdh vote and put him on
a Southern flatform and then we could elect
- him with a perfect wbooray. Well we 'soon
diskivered that wc could git' nobody without
a leprou spot, nobody who could git the
yotes oi tne ainerent sextons, so we compru
mised by btetm Mr Puslas a promminent
abolitionist, innd holdin him up, m suspense
as the politicians eav.ifor the Convenshun to
look at. WeJI, how the most diffikil part of
the Orann tragedy was to be affected and we
was now gi'ttin'on ticklish ground, and it re-
quired steddy nerves and dimicratio branes
to push aside the dark cloud that was jist
above our' heds, and from which we" mout
soon be ppUed with the hail stones of defeet.
And here I proposed to the Conrenshun that
wc had better persew a different plan to, the
Opposishun. and that j was, that instead of
buildin the flatform hrd gettin our candidit
on hit as the Opposishun do, we had better
hist Mr Duglas and theu build the. flatform
right vr.dcr him and then wc could make
. the flatform to rit Mr Duglas, Wkase I new
he wouldent stand on a Southern flatform no
how. Well the idee tuck first rat and Mr
Cushin went for it, and they all :went for it
, right away. bekase we all thought we could
Jiat put the .StWri-natti flatform up under
Mr Duglas acd he could stand on it lotli
North and South; for) in the South it tnent
nigger, and in the North it ment,.no nigger:
Aud besides 'Mr Buckannen had etooi on it
and bin elected, and Mr Pierce had etood on
a flatform made of. th same plank And they
bed. both bin elected, and we could also elect
Mr Duglas on the same flatform.' "So we
went to work to build the flatform that "Mr
Fayne had brbt all the way from ' jSis-ein-
naui, up umler Mr Duglas and all things-was
.workin jist rite and jist as we was about to
n jist rite and jist as. we was about to
e Sin-siii-nntti flaitrorm under Mr Dug-
,hnit?JI'ft!,0hF ,
neater cum m, and tliev 8:ud .it would
do to put Mr Duclas oV that-old rick-
- ias some
theTh
never do to. put Mr Duglas on that old rick- f
ety consarn, tekase the Opposishun would
punch holes in it: Well, that kullapsed thfe
mectm into a perfect uhcoray, and theDel-
cgns who had hauled J the flatform all the
" tV?Ja Sm-sin-natti jist snorted,- and epe
. .uuiu ucm nniijve.ii ii the . outh -
U and leav
Cmxcsponiiencc.
ern States for 4he Niggera to dance on, and
besules it was the beet that , could , be made
eimy kfoyr and Mr Duglaii'wOTW stand on thai
flatform, nod H was a nasbunal etruckter a nd
had to be pertecttd on the Land and on. the
"high seas' V a i(d every where. Well, jist
here the meetin was pregnant with rath and
tf n n a ww wtr I 1 M 1 1 ,1 ?1I. fc- 1 .
and we begin to think of sum way to draw J
on the tension of tlie Uonvenshun to. let Jem
pool ofTe and jist here agin it was diskivered
that Mr Scaleses district up in . North -CarH-ncr
was riot represented at all in'thb C!QnTn
fehun ? and if we could only git the lsense of
the Dimocrats in AaiDiBtrict,ife mount bring
;us to a onderstandin on the; flatformiiand
then Mr Avery, who was wun of the chair-L
men, and who is A-very astoot man, said he
had a letter from 'i Rill v Patterson" who had
been elected a Delegit from that dietrick and
was unable to attend, and it was then; mo
shuned that Mr Avery read the Letter so as
to see. what the Dimocrats in Mr Scalegcs dis
trict hought about the flatform and as "tlie
Letter had Mr Scaleses Frank on it Mr Ave
ry then read the Letter 'without a Kecmidin
of the moshun, which Letter wa? was ha tol
lers. - ' j - i
, New orleana juu 7
To the charlston CunVenshun. t
l?e.spectid eur :, Haven bin kumpelled
to 4go a mixter of public effaref; ovrch to a
vilent bio reseaved long Hense by some anon
ymous OpposLshuner, by which roomatiztuk
place in the eppygatrum and the hoptic nerve
was hyly diskolored, com in nigh to subjec
tin yores truly to a panetul post mortum op
perashnn and a vilent hurtopv with a Ma
iNettickdifcussion of the Braneand a rakkiu,
pane in the fihoulder whicli I bev bin trulr
bled with ever seiine my Riilhnly a salL
W.'patterfon eSq.
n B I bleve i( was old Walter Skott who
felt me had a,. hit him, he never wood a tuck
sich Licens in Totry no enr, eais Iwheres
yore prufe. W. P.
P. e. I rite frnm Nu orleens where I bav cum
f'nr &IerUA-i ade. " - ' w.. p.
Well, this Letter disclosed the fact that the
Oposishuii had struck Billy and he was ly
in full of lynches and couldn't come. And
then agin the Theater Delegits tuck advan
tage of the Letter and said the Opposishun
had struck Billy Patterson and the Opposi-f-h'un
wool piuioh holes, in the Sin-sin-natti
flat form jist as they sed and it jist wouldn't
do, and then the CunVenshun got to eft'erves
cin agin and it was wuss than ever -Well in
de.perit cases Doctors must do suinthi.n you
no, so it was perposed that we give the Sin-sin-natti
flatform a do?e of Kroton ile to work
the O ! hio ! Pain out of it and jhen - Mr
Duglas could stand on it. So Mr 'Butler -of
Massachusitts who is a excellent Fissisbnn,
he give the flstforin a dose ofKroUm ile to
work out the Payne? and wo wa'fed.'-and weir
ed.' for the ile to work, and the ile iist w mi Kin t
work. Well, the Theater feller sed
U wiii
northern ile tlint Mr Butlur
i:in it nil 1 it
woid In't do no how
Anil tli
n Mr AVerv'he
rin it a dose of Suthern ile and it --wouldn't
work nut her: And then tlie Gmvenshun
ji.-t biled with the nntet kumhustihle frensy.
and we was orfuily exorcised and., I 'tbcught
we was gone altogether." But jist here agin
if was purposed, that we take Mr Duglas
djown and the Cunvenshun must go to: seltin
agin and hatch a Candidit who would suit
the flatform. Well, we all jumped at the
idee, and then we made a Sat hern nest and
tuck the big northern ben, "Squatter Suv-
hrentv, what Mr Paw had orot all the way
from Ohio and put her on. the nest and put a
Duglas egg in the nest and then the Cunven
shun went to settin again and it sot and sot
and sot and Mr Duglas wouJn't hatch. And
then we tuck out Mr Duglas and put a egg
iu for Mr Clingman and the Cunvenshun sot
agin and Mr Clingman wouldn't hatch. And
then agin the Theater fellers sed it was be
cause Mr Clingman's egg had bin roUcd about
so much that it wouldn't hatch, and so we
tuck it out Of the nest and put in another egg
for Mr Clingman. and then the Cunvenshun
and Mr C'nshin and "Squatter Sovrenty" all
sot on Mr Clingman's egg that time, aud Mr
Clingman jist wouldn't- hatch and when we
cum to di.-kiver, Mr Clingmans egg liiid bin
rotten all the time and so yoU see it couldi't
hatch. So now we was farely at sea and
salein in a perfect berrykin. We had -lusted
a Candidit and had to take him down, and
built a flatform and had to take it down, so
finally we agreed to meet agin in Richmond,
in June next, to sodder the hones: of the
mighty wreck and bury the Party forever
with nashunalceremonies, Taper bein out
( Yores til Deth JACK
"The Giant Killer.
A New Prophet.
Young Joe Smith, son of the late
Mormon prophet, has concluded to
take the place of his father in the
Mormon Church. A conference was
held at Amboy, 111., a few weeks since
and a new organization was started.
Tbe preachers, on the occasion de
nounced the apostacy of the Church
in -Utah, and the heresies promulga
ted by Brigham Young and his sattel
lities. Poligamy was especially ad
verted to as the great evil, and as pre
senting evidence of the falling away
of the Saints. Joe offered himself to
the Conference, as the prophet of the.
new organization on the bth inst., and
ways accepted ; after which the Church
was given over into his hands. Twelve
apostles were appointed and ordained
to be members of the Council of the
Church. Whether the new organiza
tion of . the Latter Day Saints will take
measures to depose Brieham -Young
and hisTalse prophets and fallen saints,
time will determine.
. 1 Treatment of Burns and Scalds.
Apply to the affected part cloths
wet in cold water' as soon as possible,
change as often -as they eet warm un
til the burns set done smarting. .If
the skin is broken," apply" the follow
ing ointment : - v r - -
."Oiiwn Vint mint -Peal indv slice
role in therain of king JaemcH and Krum-land, the captain and mate had been
will and who lied a feller feel in with the on deck at noon! taking an observa-
rCV. : Z: T tion ot the ?un ; alter winch they both
three common glzed onions ; Jnto'a spi-j 'Well,. Mfr.Bjruce,'. said the captain,
dc'rY add av (eacup Vf fresh butter of Mf n'ct T'tcli ynu that youhadi been
lard; (butter is' the bst.yimriiePtwo dr.caiii$ V ... " 7''" -
or three hours, istrainoff, and Tl L, jit's til very Mfell to. say so, sir;
! ready.:! o r se. ,VJ. nm .--oini ;neu w.n
cuiVa burn in a:tfe.dyiIi.- A
Call, hi hUadelia. Farmer,. and
f r .-
gardener. .t-M - V"
ready for use. X hu .--Oi nt merit
' ' - Cure for Warts and Cores. ' ;
Th-A hhrr t.t i'Tcj1Tftw'i tree burned
to ashes, mixed with strong vinegar
Ujid a
applied to" the paHsWl remove
' ol lutf
I 1,1,1 111 111, 111! LI
Apparitions of the Dead and the Living:.
' Kobc'r f D ale 0 wen formerly" Ttiem-
bef'Df Congress find" American minis- i
ter" ;at Naples, Tia 3 lately written a ra-!
ther remarkable work, entitled ' oot-;
tails on the IJotmuary of Another
World, 'Mn Which he attempts to solve
the 'question vhether travelers to the
oter4"wtrld "ever visit . this: Under
the"bl-al of Appearances,' commonly
called apparitions, we find the Fpllovr-r
ing hitherto unpublished" ghost story
of .te regular orthodox flavor :
- '.. j .THE RESCUE. v,
'Mr. Robert. Bruce originally descended-from
sora'e branch of the Scot"
tish! family of that name, was born in
humble circumstances, about the close
of the last century, at Torbay,'in the
sbuth of England, and there bred up
to a seafaring life.
When about .thirty years of age, to
wit, in 1828, he was first mate of a
bark trading to . Liverpool and ' St.
Johns,- New Brunswick.
- On one of her voyages bound west-
Vward, .being then some five or six
weeks out, and having neared the eas
tern portion of the Banks of Newfound-
descended
work.
The cabin, a small one, was imme
diately at the stern of the vessel, and
the short stairway descending to it ran
athwart-ship3. Immediately opposite
to this stairway, jus-t beyond a small
Square landing, was; the mate's state
room ; and from that landing there
were two doors, close to each other,
the one opening after in the cabin, the
other, fronting the stairway, into the
state-room. The desk in the state
room Was in the forward part of it,
close to the door,!so that any one sit
ting at it and looking over his shoul
der eould see into" the cabin.
The mrte, absorbed in bis calcula
tion?', -which, did not 'result as he had
'fxnecfed, varvin-iir considerably from
terta-recKomnjr. lu
d not noticed
When he had
the captain's motions
completed-his calculations he called
out, without looking riund, 'I make
our latitude and -longitude so and so
Can that be right ! ' How is 'ours?"
Receiving no reply, he repeated his
question, glancing over his shoulder,
and perceiving, i?s he thought, the cap
tain busy writing on his slate. - Still
ho answer. Thereupon-lie rose, and
as he fronted'the cabin door the figure
he had mista-ken for the captain raised
his head and disclosed to the aston
Ubed mate the features of an entire
stranger.
; Bruce was no coward ; but as he
met that fixed gaze looking directly
at him in grave silence, and became
assured that it was no one whom he
had ever seen before, it was too much
for him ; and instead of stopping to
question the seeming intruder he rushed
upon deck in such evident alarm that
it instantly attracted the captain's at
tention. 4 Why, Mr. Bruce,' said the
latter, 'what in the world is the matter
with you V. '
your desk ?'
No 'one, that I know of.'
, But there is, sir; there's a stran
ger there.'
' A stranger ! Why man you must
be dreaming. You must have seen
the steward there, or the second mate.
Who else would venture down without
orders ?'
' But. sir, he was sitting in your
arm-chair, fronting the door, writing
brt your slate. Then he looked up full
in my face ; and if ever I saw a man
plainly and distinctly in this world, I
saw him
Him! Whom?'
' God knows, sir? I don't. I saw
a man, and a piaal had never seen in
my life before1.' -
' You must be going crazy. Mr.
Bruce. A stranger, and we nearly
sik. weeks out !' "" -
''TTcnow, sir ! but then I saw him.'
' 1 Go down and see who it is.'
" Bruce hesitated. M- never was a
believer in ghosts,' he said ; 'but if
the truth must be told, sir, 'I'd rather
not face it alone." '
'' Come, come, man. Go down at
once, and' don't malce a fool of your
self before the crew
' I hope you've always found me
willing to do what's reasonable Bruce
replied, changing color : but if it it's
all the same to you, sir, I'd rather we
SllOUtu oom go uowu lugeiuer. me
captain descended the stairs and the
mate followed' him.;". Nobody in the
cabin ! They examined the state-
rnnma " ?Cnt asonT th 'bo found !.
it'4bataf I didn t see - that man wntingi
i uu your slate may I never see my
to calculate their day's
home.and tamily agami; . ; plied the passenger; i but what shalll
4 Ah I (Writing n the slate J-Then j rite ; a v ' ? 3 cr ,'
itslioidd,be there still.lV, And-thscap-jL t A few-words are all I want.' Sup-
tain; took up wr -
- y Yr1 . 1 "? ' "c. "
som6thinure enough is tnatyour
in plain, legible characters, . stood the
words, " Steer to the nor 'west ?"
Have you been trifling Avlth me;
sir ?' added the captain, in.a stem
manner. ' '
' On my.-word as a;.3nan and as a"
sailor, sirr' renlied Bruce. T knowno
m0re of this matted-1 nan y'ori do. I
have told. vtu the truth.'
The captain set down at his desk.
the late before him", an deep thought
AtTtast, nuniing the.slateOver and
pushing i f ' toward Bruce, he said;
' Write down ' Steer to the nor'west."
The mate; complied, and the captain,
after narrowly-comparing the two hand
writings, said 'Mr. Bruce, go and tell
the second mate to come down here.' .
lie came down, and at the captain's
request, he also wrote tht-same words.
So did .heisteward; So in accession,
did every man of the crew who could
write at all. But not one of the va
rious hands resembled in any degree
the mysterious writing.
When the crew retired the captain
sat in deep "thought.'' ' Could any one
I have been stowed awav t At last he
said : ' The ship must be searched,
j and if I don't find the fellow, he must
be a good hand at hide-and-seek. - Or
der up all hands.
Every nook and corner of the ves
sel, from stem to stem, was thorough
ly searched, and that with all ."the
eagerness of excited curiosity -for the
report had gone out that a stranger
had shown himself on board but not
a living soul beyond the officers and
crew was found. ,
Returning to the cabin after their
fruitless search, Mr. Bruce,' said the
captain, what do you make of all
this?" . . : . '; ' ?
'Can't tell,sir. ! I saw the man
write vou see the writing. There
must be something, in it-.' '
'.Well, it would seem so.,-, We have
the -wind free, and I have a great,
mind to keep her away, and see what
will come of it.' ,' r
' I surely would sir, if I were in your
place. It's only a few hours lost at
the worst.' . . 1
' Well, we'll see. . Oive the course
nor'-wost, aiid have
a look-out aloft
you Can depend on.' ;
ILs orders were obeyed. About
three o'clock the lookout reported an
iceburg nearly ahead, and shortly , af
ter, what he thought was a vessel of
some kind close to it. '
. As they approached, the captain's
glass disclosed the fact that it was a
dismantled ship, apparently frozen to
the ice, and with a good many human
behig-3. on it. Shoftly after they hove
to and sent out the boats to tin. rt-liefJ
of the sufferers.
It proved to be a vessel from Que
bec, bound 'to. Liverpool, with passen
gers on board. She had got entang
led in the ice, and finally froze fast,
and had passed several weeks in a most
critical situation. She was stove, her
decks swept in fact, a mere wreck ;
all her provisions and almost all her
water gone. Her crew and passen
gers hud lost all hope of being saved ;
and their gratitude for the unexpected
rescue was proportionally great.
As one of tlie 'men who had been
brought aw a in the third boat which
had reached the wreck, was ascending
the ship's side, the mate, catching a
glimpse at his face, started back in
consternation. It was the very face
he had seen three or four hours before,
looking up at him from the captain's
desk.
' At first he tried to persuade him
self it might be fancy, but the more he
examined the man the more sure he
became that he was right. Not only
the face, but the person and dress ex
actly corresponded.
As soon as the exhausted crew and
famished passengers were cared for,
and the bark on her course again, the
mate called the captain, aside.
' It seems that was not a ghost I
saw to day, sir the man's alive.'
' What do you mean? Who's alive?'
' Why, sir, onn. of the passengers
we have just saved is the man I saw
writincr on" your slate at noon. I would
swear to it in a court of justice.'
' Upon my word, Mr. Bruce,' re
plied the captain, '.this gets more and
m6re singular. Let us go and '-fee
this man.'
They found him, in conversation
with the captain of the captured ship.
They both came forward and expres
sed, in the warmesVterms, their grati
tude for deliverance from a horrible
fate slow-coming death by starva
tion and exposure.
The captain replied that he had done
what he was certain they would have
done for -him under the same circum
stances, and,asked them both: to step
down into the tcabin. Then, jturnirig
to the passenger he said, I hope sir,
you will not -think I am trifling with
you; but I would be much obliged if
you would write a few words on this
slated .-Vy;. -i-
Iie handed him the slate, with .that
side up on which the mysterious wn-
tntr -a4Tiot.
I wiH do anything you; ask re-
pose ton write Steer- to--. the "hor
west ' '
'-- .
Tie passenger!' eddently "pttzilerl
Co mIe ouf the hibtiyp for stioK a re-'
.. . 'i -:!.'-;. jyuLai rti
with ; a"
'smile
captain tookVhe slate and examine
it closely r lhen", $tepplnr aside Bo as
to conceal fti'e slate' from the passen-
ger? ne inrnea it over, ana gave it to.
kira "again, with the other side up. ,
! You say that Is vouThand writing?'-
saia ne; - ,
. I heed jiot say so , rejoined the
other, looking at it, '"for'on'saw' me
write it. ' -A ' (, ;
" vAnd this ? said the captain, tunn
ing the slate over. ' " ' ; ..
The man looked first at cnefitingv
then at the other, -quite Confounded.
At last, ' What is the meaning of
this V said he. 'I only wrote qne of
these. Whowrote the other V "
C J
ixhat's more than I can tell vou. sir.
mate heresavs ,ydu Vrqte it, sit-
ting at, nis( aesic,- at noon to-aay.
The captain of the s wreck 7and ,the
passenger looked at' each other, ex
changing glances of intelligence and
surprise; and ithe former, asked the
latter, Did you dream that you wrote
on the- slate v
No sir, not that J remember
' You speak of dreaming said the
captain of the bark, ' What was this
gentleman about at noon to-day ?' '
'.Captain-rejoined the., other, the
Iwhole thing is most mysterious and
extraordinary, and I had intended to
speak to you about it as soon as we got
a little quiet. The gentleman (point
ing to the passenger) being much ex
hausted, fell into a heavy sleep, or
what seemed suchT.some time before
noon. Afrr an hour or more he
awoke and said to me, ' Captain, we
shall be relieved this very day
When I asked him what reason he
had for saying so, he replied that he
had dreamed that he was on board a
bark, and that she was coming to our
rescue. He described her appearance
and rig ; and to our utter astonish
ment, when your vessel hove in sight
she corresponded exactly to his . des
cription of ; her. We had not much
faith in what he said ; yet still we
hoped there might be something in it,
for drowning men, -you know, will
catch at straws As it turned but, I
cannotdoubt that it was all arranged
m some incomprehensible way, by an
overruling , Providence, so that we
might be saved. To him be all thanks
for his goodness to us.'
' There is hotia doubt,' rejoined the
other captain, 'tliat the writing on the
slate, let it have come there as it may,
saved alrtheir lives. I was' steering
at the time considerably south of west,
and 1 altered my course to nor -west,
and I had a lookout aloft to see what
would come of ijt. But you 1 say he
adjjed turning, tp the passenger, 'that
you'dicT no't areau? of writing en a
y
slate?' ; ;
' No, sir. I have no recollection
whatever of doing so. I got the im
pression that tljie bark I saw in my
dream was coming to rescue, us ; but
how that impression came l cannot
tell, lhere is another Very strange!
thing about it, he added. Lvery
thing here on board seems quite fa
miliar ; yet I ani very sure I was never
in your vessel before. It is ali a puz
zle to me. What did your mate see?'
Thereupon Mr. Bruce related to
them all the circumstances above de
tailed. The conclusion they finally
arrived at was that it was a special in
terposition g Providence to save them
from what seemed a hopeless fate.
The above narrative was communi
cated to me by Captain J. 3. Clarke,
of the schooner; Julia Hallock, who
had it directly from Mr. Bruce him
self. Ihey sailed together for seven
teen months m 18db and 61 ; so that
Capt. Clarke had the story from the
mate about eight years after the oc-
currence. lie nas since lost signt 01
him and does not know whether he is
yet alive. All he has heard of him
since they were ishipmates is, that he
continued to trade to New Brunswick,
that he became the master of th brig
Comet, and that she was lost
I asked Capt. Clarke if he knew
Bruce well, and what ort of a man
he was ?
' As truthful and straightforward a
man, he. replied, as ever 1 met in all
my life. -We were as intimate as bro
thers; and two men can't be together
shut up for seventeen months in the
same ship, without getting to know
whether they can trust one another's
word or not. He always spoke of the
circumstances in terms of reverence,
as of an "incident that seemed to bring
him nearer to "God and to another
world. ' Td stake my life upon it that
he told me no lie.'
la Julv, 185X- The Julia ITailock vrta thon lying t
the frx.t of Eotcer' Slip, jNew York. Kbn trades between
Kew York and St. Jao. in the Inland of Oaba. - Tbe Cap
tain allowrd me to nee bfe name, and . to refer to him m
erideoce of the troth of what i kw art Unyroi - ""
Ohio Constitutional Union Convention.
The ; Constitutional Union State
convention of Ohio met at Columbus
on ednesdayv and-appointed dele
gates, to the Baltimore convention.
The' convention ' resolved 'to present
l two names for the" Presidency to the
ballot the Hon. John Bell of Tennes
tee j was nominated, and Judge McLean
on the fourth, ballot. The latter gen
tleman received a majonty'of one over (
jir. urutenaen.j Air. xaiea receiyea
six Votes, put of thirty-nine cast on the
first ballot, but was dropped' ojT the
fourth ballot, whenTonly nineteen' yofes
-
From an rmcredited article ttml
Nice Girls.'
thrs-caption;in the Philadelphia "Bi&iPWr lWo p.actnonl
letin, we condense!' few DarUffranhs i spoil' VoW aVufuI;purp6se3
thaWiU find alieaTtter response trb&
more of our barmAlrilr frfpnrlatbin
inv a "dashin belle" would imaVim-.
1.' - ; - ! . ,
nere lS-notning halt so sweet in
life," half so beautiful, gr delighf;
or loveaDieas a"nice girl i'bsqtja.
pretty, or a aasmngh or:
but a nice girl ; one of
lively." good-temnered. Vood-hfarvl
sweet-faced, amiablf; neatnatty,
mestic creatures met withm;tb snhep
of "home," diffusing around' the ,
mestic hearth the? influence of hlr
goodness, like the essence 'of swe&ti1
nowers.
A nice girl is
no
beauty, drawling on ift sofa, and
cussing ine last novel or opera ; jharj
the giraffe-like creature sweeping n',
jestically' through a drawing-ro6u4-The
nice girl may not even dance;,; 4r
play well, and knots' nothing at&pt
"usinglier eyes' orj coqueting witha
fan. She never languishes ; she's tno
active. She is not jgiren' to4- "sensa
tion" she is too busvi "At the operi,
she is not in front showing- her - bae
shoulders, but sits rjuiet and unobtru
sive at the back iof the' box rnb$t
likely. In fact, it is not so often in
such scenes that we discover her.
Home is her place. r '
Who rises betimes, and superintends
the morning meal ? - Who makes inei
toast, and the tea, ami buttons "tr
boyV shirts, and waters ;the flower),
and feed the chiekens, and brighter
up the parlor and the sitting-room!?
Is it the languisher, or the giraffe
the elegante? Not a bit of it ; it -.
the nice girl. " vf''
Her unaided toilet is made in tlie
shortest possible time, yet how chajr-r-
rngiy it is uone, anuiiow elegant itr
dress and plain colla ! Vhat. hearfy
kisses she distributesi among the fknx-
ly ! ho presenting of ; cheek,Or bH
ike tjie "fine -girl, but , art audime
suiavK, wxiicu .says j piainiy uioim
ii ,.r:i
you ever so much. it 1 ever covci
ed anything, it is one of the nice girts
- - ----- - ' i . . r " . r
kisses.. . - j - ' ..',.,. "; e ,
Breakfast over, dldwn iuto the kitch
en to see about dinner.; and all ' day
long she is up and down, always, 4-
mg, and always cheerful , and , hght
hearted. She never Ceases to be -ac
tive and useful until the day . is-gtfiv,
when she will polka with the boYs,
and sing old songs, and play old tutisj
to ner tatber tor hours together. . A
perfect treasure is the' "nice girLVpr
When illness comes, it i she, that vat
tends with unwearying patience ,fe
sick chamber. There is no risk, rfo
fatiguc,--lat she will not undergo io
sacrifice that she wiirndTmake. .ge
is all love, all devotion. I have of&n
thought that it would be happiness to
be ill, to be watched by such loving
eyes and tended by such fair hahds$
One of the most strongly marked
characteristics of aj "nice girl", is ti
diness and simplicity ) of dress. $e
is invariably associated in my' m?d
with a high frock, ja plain collar, and
the neatest, of neck .ribbons, honttd
with the most modjest little brooch' in
the world. I neVer knew a "niee
girl" who displayed a . profusioiii pf-
rings or bracelets or who wore Icfw
dresses, or a splendid bonnet. 1 ;
I say again, there is nothing in $l)e
world half so beautiful, half so inti
8ically good, as a "nice girl." S.his
the sweetest flower in the path of Kfp.
There are others far more stately,ifnr
more gorgeous ; but these we mey
admire as we go by. ; It is where le
daisy grows that we lie down to mi
Poverty not to Great a Curse, n
If there is anything in " the world
that a young man should " be vimofc
thankful for than another, it -is $c
poverty which necessitates his.'statt
ing in life under very great disadvaa
tages. Poverty is one of the best te&s
oi numan quality in existence A tri
umph" Over it is like graduating wrSh
honor from West Point It arjcli
strates stuff and stamina. It is a c-
tificate of worthy labor creditably per
formed. A young man who cannot
stand this test is not worth "anything
He can never rise above a drudge. -4r
a pauper. A young man who cannot
feel his will harden as the yoke of'ficv
erty presses upon him, and hrs -pfflik
rise with every difficulty poverty
throws in his vray, may as welf re!ire
into some corner and hide ' him3eii-5
Poverty saves a thousand times mote
than it ruins ; for it only ruina those
who are not particularly worth fev
ing, while it saves multitudes of those
whom wealth would have ruin'edHlf
any young man who reads this ijMo
unfortunate as tobe-richvl give him
my pity. I pity y.ou, my rich rouag
friend, because yodare in dangerl
Yon lack one great stimulus-tq effrjb
and etcellenbei which your poo?5?'ia
panion possesses. YoU'wilLtbe vey
apt, if you have a soft spot in yc;tir
head, to think yourself above him, d
that sort of thing makes you tnetin,
and Injures you. With full .pockljts
and a full 8tomach;-ahd fine tinenftd
broadcloth on your back, your heirt
and soul plethoricj jn the raceofC ljfff
you will find yourself surpassed by $11
the poor toys around you' before you
snow it;- i m
God and take courage JTc he rntend
xot my jooy,4t you are poor,
,Tf gTeyott chance.X9.4makesome
7"
-some-
would
o
l'oTi JJaem aiaVeou beeh
ent hort an tWtext book Jr.Remem-
that HucatTcn Tike :&orae -other
thlBff3,tdoa:3iV co'ssist ins nhfe' timki-
tUrqjf ithings.a, roaj Hssesses, iW-hat
Hi jour inindby auvviaeaus
everf.rfcejved,rithat Aiiscinline
i whatso-
nrtftt which
Kives t0 itJicQn.pover.and facility
Uf 80 .t?en"you are more of r ptan and
l,luusanu nines Detier eaucatea man
xn elei?ant 'ml i s:lie5 U!,.J v:ss.ior vou. yjjv
those Ttftpl. yojiU-now yotir' business? Do t6u
knbw'raert and htJw trrdeal with'fliem?
, i.r s 'theftllq whuTf
Lthe iauguisiU f HtiliCa Srani full of stuff thathe Van
a sofa, and dif- . y"' 'tlrera5.tkal'usl5eis-or
Itle -stuff, the aetjdlsition of hlTj has
beenint ito sense a .disciplinary ' pro
cess so far as lie is cirhcerncd r There
are vef ev iherj jtf th
than thirty years-of ageIs nd 1 nnmar-
ried, who can -afford tp te rtclu One
uit me greaiesi oenenis to De reaper
frorn greaf financialipaieriM; the .
saying of a large crop of young men.
'-f ; ti i 15-3 -i rJL J.-:;-..
Tenntsseeiari v Eentuckians."
?Lotjisville, Ky.,- Dec 17,rt,59.
This city has. long held a disVm
guished conimerciai r,ankf and -1 has
been built up- to its present-' stately
proportions- bjr.i ts large .and" u"fcess-
iui . commerce. - "Minateu- geograpm
cally ii a consmafidirif? position invtho
jsouth shore of'thoOhio, it dias'ilong
Deen xne rirai.orit.vuicuinair 'on vono
hand and hi BtZ Louis thcthef
' X)lder-than the form.erf.at cmri'peri
od it promised to-become tlie'greatest
metropolis 'of the two hutCincinnat
ti had the-"superi6rity of -h6lding the
key to the, Lakes and ttf-eountryto be
developedofiunparalleled'agricnilttlral
opulence ; Wliile German v; took Ja"fan
cy to make it her American Frankfort
j tonic .wave of her'emigmtibniA LotisT
ville is andehted only to the legitimate
jresults of her trade arid agriculture for
her prosperity ; and thqugh6itrassed
in magnitude by her - two rivals above
named, is "a city of no mekn dignity,"
and stands upon as sonnd it mercan
tile basis as any city In tlrc?v Union.
Steadily and safely- she bias 'achieved
1. . -L . ' . . . I, . . . J... .
ner greatness, anu ner reputation is att
stablfl as bei succphu is mritpdK '
Her citizens are chioflv from tho
older Slave States, Virginia being no
bly represented in. her best society.
I apT constantly reminded offBaDi-
mof-e and Richmond aa I (raveijse the
streets, not from ;-any,i aptual resem
blance in scenery, but jfroin similari
ty' of aspect and mariners The peo-
i - ri:
yts sic tjvutnzi iju iieciuig iiHCijpcijf
so, albeit the. free" 6oil t Indiana
oounas ine nortuern norizon oi . tne
opposite sfiore. But as extremes usu-
ally meet the Kentuckians are, likely
to hold more firmly their- hereditary ,
instiiuuons m sucn a proximity as
the portion of the camp ' nearest rthe
foeis ever the' most strictly watched
and warded, and the sentinels thebest
annd the most sleep! es?. f 4
' The wheels of - business roar 'here
from early morning with - that ; gtand
anthem of commercc'so dear :.fo"; the
merchant s:ar. wjVmercantne activi
ty pervades, all the thoroughfares,
fwhile the quay is lined "with the great
steamers tnat piy to uew urieans on
one sideband Pittsbnrg on the other.
It presents a scene of constantly vary
ing interest to the eye of the specta
tor. While we were looking,a levia
than, belching out "clouds Of 'bjack
smoke from her tall chimnies; toother
departure, laden to ihe guards with
produce, cattle, ploughs, tjarriages,
and all articles of merchandise of
northern roanufacture destined for the
markets of the South; whilelgroups
of passengers crowded the," decks !
I like the Kentuckians r meet here
very much.' Kentucky vpui" ""must
know, is "Virginia's Western daugh
ter," and all the bet elements ;of :tho
old Virginia character are re-produced
in this "Virginia of the West,
.1 he' Kentuckran h "loung Virgin
ia," with ' all Hhb modern improve
ments."" ife shows this in his appear
ance, hismar!yjridc,"' fits fine! .looks,
and his ardent Iove' of OM Dominion.
Onecart only understand the ITentuck
ian by fecbirccrtifig his origin .'i"Thaa
regarded, tf;e diffijfqcco ' between tim
and tia ,scntl:cfn neighbor the Tcnnea
seean U at "once "perceryed; . Tcnues
pecans and KenTukiaias are often class
ed together Tn'cpminon parlancevvhen
no tw'O people are more Sivtrse; Ten
nesse Is the western daughter oiforth
Carolina! I 'Now. nil" travelers kpow
tEat 66 Statefrl thiCoufederacyif-
ffer so widely jn 'the'cli af act ef'liabi ts,
looks5 and f associations of "the people
a3 virgiriia and rorthuar6hna. ine
'citizens: of the one, Wan ordinary ob
server, would neVer "be mlatake for
thbsaof the oth'ef f The Tenriesseean
is thr North Carolinian ; westernized !
The Tenncsscean attachment for the
"Old North 'Stiff ,7 "if ssible, Mex-
f ceetls imtt of . the full-blooded Ken-
tuckian for the ;OTUomimon The
North 'Carp)fidniTiaVof a largo Gaelic
element, .and' thV State ;partakea of
the" shrewd,1 plain', practical intelli
gence oTits'auCient' Scotch settlers,
and tbr feature brlaracterizes ieir
th Ten-