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M ORE NEW BOGAs.-The DAYS of Brnce q
I'VE story from Scottish history by Grace Aguilar-2
vols. cloth 81 so. paper ST 90.
Papers from the Quarterly Review, published bv ID
Appleton & Co.
They will be found to be independent essays treating
IN graphic, entertaining style, with wit anecdote de,
scrptiye power and no little phoophy, topics of gene
raj and permanent interest -
Family Text Book for the Country, or The Farmer
at home being encyclopaedia of the important topics
In modern agriculture and in natural history and domestic
economy, adapted to rural life, by Rev J L Blake d D.
A Home for All, a new, cheap, convenient and sumo
rior mode of building, by O S Fowler
The Pests of the Farm being account of the various
depred ting animals birds and insects which annoy the
American farmer with directions for their destruction r.
80, A. NORRIS,
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NEW YORK MARK ETs. June

NEW YORK MARKETS, June g.
CoTToN-Saes of $500 bales-lnarket dull and nrice
declining
FLoUR-Saes of $4,000 bbls. to day; Southern "a 37I
a 81 50.
CoRN-Sales of 10000 bushels Mt 61aG2 cents NO,
bushe
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aEOUsEl AND RANEb EOR SAFE al

HOUsE AND R4ANEb EOfs SAFE ar
H WALKERTON, IN KING AND QUEEN
COUNTY, VA-We offer for sale small Farm at w al
kerton, the Mattaponi river containing about sxtv
seven of Land well situated with spring of good
water and an excellent two story framed Dwelling it'll
three tire places and sufficiently conmodious for the gen
teel accommodation of small family The dwelling
and necessary out houses have just been built and the
dwelling well painted This property is favourably sit
uatedln densey settled and wealthy neghborhood and
IN good situation for lawyer bargain will be sold in
this property and long credit given fdesable ON most
of the purchase money Applyto
TOLER & COOK,
ie 10-tf General Aoanfs
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LIZ FOR NE w XOEsEa-Fi11 YesseE-Vir.
ginia line of Hsiciasmond and New York
Packets.-The superior fassailing new packet schr.
ORlANNA. Captain D. Dodge. having the greater
portion of her cargo engaged and going board will
sail with all possible dispatch For balance of freight of
300 packages tobacco, or passage having superior
commodations. apply on board at Edmond & Daven.
ports wharf, to
lie 10 DAVID CTTRRIE
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= The Wheeling Argus, as quoted BY the
Enquirer, states that the Democratic nominee for
the Presidency twas an officer in the war OF
1872" Now Gen. Pierce, according to all ac-
counts, was born in 1905, so that he could have
been only seuen gears old in 1912. If he served
officer in the war of the latter year he fur
nished most remarkable specimen, truly, of
military precocity
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WANTED TO HERE. trlsty man servant 10
w wait in my store, for which liberal hire will be
given A. MORRIS,
lie OF Main st.
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a. ECOND-EEAND PEANOS--Un hand and Tor
~ sale cheap several first rate second hand Piano
Fortes one nearly
NEW PIANOS-FURTHER SUPPLY-By the
Haxal, daily expected, will be opened further supply
of Mr. Worcester's superior Piano Fortes of new and
beautiful tyles. A. MORRIS,
lie 10 ATE Drinker IL Morris
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RICH MOND, VA,
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 10.

Gen. Pierce and the Scott Catechism.
The New Y ork Commercial Advertiser makes
the following remarks Oh the Democratic nomina-
tion for the Presidency:
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MR.. WEBSTER.

At the request of a friend, we transfer to our
columns the able and eloquent speech of Mr..
Wood, of New Y ork in advocacy of Mr.. Web
ster's claims to the Presidency. Whilst the
present distinguished incumbent of the Execu-
tive chair is unquestionably the first choice of the
Wings of this State, yet we feel no hesitation in
saying that should the nomination fall upon Mr.
Webster, they will yield him their cordial and
hearty support. The great statesman of Massa-
chusetts has by his recent course on the sec
tonal questions of the day, acquired strong hold
on the confidence of the Southern Wing party,
and by no portion of the Wings of the Union
would he be sustained with greater zeal and una
nimity than by those of Virginia.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-08-18
EXECUTION OF MATTHIAS sKUPINsN.

Matthias Skupinski was hung in the yard
of the county prison this morning at II
minutes past ii o'clock, for the murder OF
the Jewish pcdlar boy Lehman. He pro.
tested his innocence to the last and made no
confession. The Sheriff had limited the
tickets Of admission to the Jail yard to those
only whom the law and duty required to be
present. The anxiety to hear whether the
prisoner made any confession on the scaffold,
however, caused very large attendance
outside.
MATTHIAS SKUr1NsK1-HIs DYING Con-
FEss1oN.-Philadelphia, Aug. 6th.--The fol.
lowing address was delivered by an interpre.
ter, in behalf of Matthias Skupinsk, imme-
diatel prior to his execution:
"The criminal who stands before you de-.
aires me to state, before he undergoes the
extreme penalty of the law, that he begs
pardon of all whom he may have injured or
wronged by his crimes From his heart he
forgivcs all mankind for the injuries they
have done him. He is willing to submit to
the severe sentence to which offended justice
dooms him. He bears no resentment or ILL
feeling to those who were instrumental in his
arrest and bringing him before the tribunal
that passed sentence upon him. Already he
has made his peace with God, and like the
pcnitent Prophet, he has wept over his crimes
in the bitterness Of his soul-and, before he
is launched into cternity-before he appears
before his God and your God-his Judge
and your Judge, he wishes openly to be re.
concilcd to his fellow.mortals. He begs me
to request your prayers for him, that when
his soul leaves this prison of clay, the AL
mighty God may be merciful unto him, and
admit him to the company Of the blessed.
Matthias Skupinski's last words were-"I
am innocent. did not deserve this death at
least for the crime for which | was tried.
Guilty or not guilty, am prepared to die"
He added something more in a low tone
%bieh could pst bs qRdezstepaaa by the inter
red by the Priests.
Blaise, his brother, was deeply affected on
being told Of the execution, and requested
to see the body. He was led where it lay,
when he eagerly embraced it, shedding many
tears. He now appears anxious about his
own fate, which rests with Gov. Bigler.
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LIVE TO LOVE.

e. live to love-" said laughing girl,
And sue playfully tossed each faxcn curl,
And she climbed OH her loving fathers knee,
And snatched kiss in her girlisl glee.
"I live to love-" said maiden fair,
AS she twincd a wreath for her sisters hair
They were bound by the cords of love together,
And death alone could these sisters sever.
I" | live 10 love-" said a gay Young bride,
Her loved one standing by her side,
Her life told again what her lips had spoken,
And never was the link Of affection broken.
az live TO love-" said mother kind
81 would live guide to the infant mind,'
Her preccpts and example given,
Guided her children home to Heaven.
AZ shall live to love-" said fading form,
And her eye grew bright and her check grew warm
AS she thought in the blissful world on high,
She would live to 1--we and never die.
And ever thus in the lower world,
Should the banner of love be wide unfurIed,
And whenwc meet in the world above, ,.-
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EDGEFIELD, SC, AUGUST 18, 1852.

killed them" said old Bill, in voice hoarse
with emotion, as he lifted his head from his
clasped hands, and looked upon the lady,
every feature wearing such a look Of ago.
nizing remorse, and helpless despair, that
she shuddered to behold it. Wide, wide
open, stood the door then, and the lady has.
tened to pass in. A small fair hand was
laid gently upon old Bills arm, and sweet
voice murmured,
Even for all this, there is redemption,
and you we'll know in what manner. In
the name of the mother that loved you, in
the name of your dying wife, ard of the
child that sleeps beside her, | ask you, will
you sign the plcdge!"
"I WILL" said old Bill, and lie brought
down his hand with such force on the pine
table, that its rheumatic limbs with Difficult.
ty maintained their equilibrium, and then
eagerly seized the pen and pledge the lady
placed before him, and when he returned
them to her, the name of William Strong
lay in broad legible characters upon the
p per.
There was an expression, ludicrous from
its intensity of curiosity, on the bar keep.
e.'s pIysi"gnomy as the lady quietly
through the shop" after her long interview
witt! old Bill, and the expression was in no
degree lcsscncd, when, few moments after,
old Bill followed her without stopping, as
usual, to take "sccond glass; and he
ncrer passed orcr the threshold again.
Reader Of mine, if YOU are Of those
whose true earnest souls bear ever about
them one great desire to benefit their fellow
men, if your heart is ycarning over some
erring brother man, whom YOU would gladly
raise from the depths Of degradation and
misery, and point to the ighway Of peace
and virtue, remember that somewhere in his
heart must be door, which when rightly
applied to, will open unto you. See to it
that We find it.
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5eleet 4 poetry,
IL0VE TO LIVE.

az love to i've" said prattling boy,
AS he gaily played with his new-bousht toy,
And merry laugh went rejoicing forth,
From bosom filled with JOYOUS mirth.
81 love TO lire," said stripping bold
81 will seek for famc-I will toll for gold,
And he formed in his leisure many plan
To be carried out when he grew man.
81 love to i've" said lover true,
"Oh, gentle maid, would live for YOU;
have laborcd hard in search of fame
have found it but an empty name"
81 love to live" said happy sire,
AS his children ncared the wintry fire,
For his heart was clccred to see their joy,
And lie also wished himself boy.
~ love to live" said an aged man,
Whose hour of life was well nigh ran
Think you such words from him were wild
The old man WAS again child.
And ever thus in this fallen world,
is the banner Of hope 10 the breeze unfurl'd;
And only with hope Of life on high,
Can 4 mortal ever love to die?
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tasting a slice critically. "Well | give you
my word that a fourishing town up Pudel-
ington way, now stands over the field where
they were grown" "Why l shall next ex-
pect a fresh olive, grown by Horace, to
draw on his sabine wine," chimei in a Poet
and the day may come, when one
might order up his grandfather, like fine
old bottle Of the vintage of $780," "God
Forbid" shuddered the inheritor of an en-
tailed estate.
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VOL. XVII...-NO. 81.
gistrate; one half to go to the prosecutor,
and the other half to the person aggrieved.
A Statutes at Large, 652.
PROGRESS OFEVENTs,

The Missouri election has probably re-
suited in sending Mr.. Benton to the House
of Representatives, by what may be consid-
cred Freesoil vote. We learn from the
papers that delegation will attend the Pitts
burg Freesoil Convention from the county Of
Madison, in Kentucky, another from the
city OF Baltimore. The object of the Free
soil party is the abolition of slavery, and
thus agitation has entered three of the border
States.
The election of Mr.. Benton to the House
will make him formidable candidate for the
nomination of the Pittsburgh Convention for
President. And if he is the candidate the
effect will be powerfully felt in the ranks Of
the Democratic party in every Northern
State, as we'll as in Missouri and one or two
other Southern States. 1t may bring the
election into the House.
But, however that may be, nothing is more
probable than that agitation on the slavery
question is to continue. The Freesoil party
is too powerful, the Freesoil doctrine is too
prevalent, and recent victory has given it
too much confidence to assume condition
of quietude.
Events of great importance may super
rene, either in our foreign or domestic AFFAIR.",
but we know of none into which the anti
slavery will not interfere. And we believe
it is now the opinion of members of Con-
gress and of well informed persons general
10, that there never has been time when
anti-slavery was more powerful, active and
formidable. This is as obvious within the
ranks Of the two parties as without. Press.
es and politicians in both, who have hereto
fore been anti.slavery, do not hesitate to
avow their determination to maintain the
war, and defy the authority of party and
party platforms that prescribe different
course. 1t may be expected that whichever
party in the North is defeated, it will forth
with form an alliance with the Freesoil par.
ty, and when this is done another mighty
stride will be taken towards that settlement
between the South and the North, whose
coming is marked with all the circumstances
that usually attend the march of destiny
Southern Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-08-18

HENRY CLAWS ADVICE TO YouNG MEN.
Two years ago, during MIR. Clay's ad-
dress to students of the New York State
and National Law School, in Balston Spa,
one object of which is to train young men
in the art of extemporaneous speaking, he
said, when commenting on the advantages
of the institution, 81 owe my success in
life to one siuglo fact, viz: that at the age
of II | commenced, and continued for years,
the process of daily reading and speaking
upon the contents of some historical or
scientific book. These ofchand efforts
were made sometimes in corn-6elds, at
others in the forest, and not unlrequently in
some distant barn, with the horse and the
OK for nv auditors. 1t is to this early prac'
tice of the great art of all arts that am in.
debted for the primary and leading impulses
that stimulated ME forward, and have shaped
and moulded my entire subsequent destiny
Improve, then, young gentlemen, the supe'
rior advantages you here enjoy. Let not
dav pass without exercising your powers oi
speech. There is no power like that oi
oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting
their fears Cicero by captivating their af'
fections and swayed their passions. The
influence of the one perished with its au
thor; that of the other continues to this
day."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-08-18

MARROW ESCAPE OF THE QuEEN-A
correspondent Of the Court Journal states
that few days since, while her Majesty and
walking within the now dismantled walls of
the buildings in Hyde-park, which was but
a few months since the glory and pride of
this kingdom, beam Of wood, of enormous
size and weight, fell close to the Queen-so
close as to have given rise to feelings Of the
most painful excitement amongst the distin-
guished pcrsonages by whom she was sur.
rounded.
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HAB1rs TO BE AVOIDED IN TIE Pre-.
sENcE OF OTnERs.-Scratching your head
or picking your teeth.
Cooking your chair back. 1t spoils the
carpet and endangers the furniture.
Raising your feet on u table or chair.
Trotting your heels or knees. This is a
nursery trick and jars any society.
Hawking and splitting. Ouly cats and
tobacco chewers spit, and they do not be-
long to good society.
Blowing your nose with your fingers, Or
loud like a trumpet.
Putting your hands into your pockets or
your thumbs into your armholes.
Nursing your foot on your knee.
Carrying pins on your collar or cuff:
Whirling your watch chain or twitching
at the guard.
Walking with your head and body. You
should walk with your legs and feet.
Chewing your food with your mouth
open.
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THE WHEAT HARvEsr.-The wheat har-
vest in the Southern and Middle States is
DOW over, and from nearly all quarters &C.
counts concur in representing an abundant
yield. In the sections Of the country where
the crop has been garnered, says the New
York Express, the grain is reported as being
of an excellent quality, and as more wheat
was sown in the United States last year than
ever before known, the conclusion is inevita.
bic that the crop is the largest one ever har-
vested These facts naturally induce the
belief that in the absence Of any extraordi.
nary foreign demand, the prices of Wheat
and Flour will rule very low for the next
wear
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IMPORTANT SLAVE DECISION IN TEXAS.

A case has recently been decided in the
District Court for the county of Bexar, in
Texas, which if confirmed in the Supreme
Court, will operate, it is said, to declare seve-
raj thousands of blacks free, who have been
held heretofore as slaves. A slave woman
was carried from the United States to Aus
tins Colony, in Texas, in 1926. Slavery
was not recognized by the laws of Mexico
at the time. The constitution Of Coahuila
and Texas was proclaimed early in 1927,
and the woman the subject of suit, daughter
of the original slave, was born on the Bra
EOS about the middle of 1927. When the
constitution of 1886 was adopted by the
republic Of Texas, slavery was established,
and the mother slave was of the class emu.
merated in that constitution rs slaves. The
daughter, having been born in the country,
was not included by the provisions of the
constitution.
In suit, involving the question of the
freedom of the girl, it has been decided that
the condition of blacks in the country du.
ring the existence of the Mexican law was
that of freedom, and that the act of sover-
cign power in remanding them to the origi-
nal condition of slaves, which they held when
imported from the United States, did not
affect their offspring born in that country,
before the adoption of the constitution OF
the Republic, who are consequently free.
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PoL1r1cAL.-The Jackson Mississippian
of the Both ult, says;
"We understand that Col. Alexander X.
McClung, who was placed by the Wing
Convention which assembled in Jackson in
May last, on the electoral ticket for the State
at large, has declined serving, because he is
unwilling to support Con. Scott for the Pre-.
sidency"
The Vicksburg Sentinel Of the 3lst, says
that Judge Boyd has also refused to serve on.
the Wing electoral ticket
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-08-18
LOOK UPWARDS.

1t is good thing now and then for man
to look above his cotton bags and his casks
of sugar, and his canvassed hams, and get
among the stars. What wonders lie there
make one feel small. See in what brief
space. in the following, some Of these won
dcrful things are compressed:
"The diameter ofSthe earth's orbit is, as
it were, the pocket rule of the astronomer,
with Which he measures distances which the
mind can no more grasp than infnity. This
star.measurer is one hundred and ninety
millions of miles insIength. This the as
tronomcr lays down.on the floor of heaven,
and drawing lines from its extremity to the
neares. fixed star, or centuri, he finds the
angle thus subtendedsby this base line to be
not quite one second By the simple rule Of
three he then arrives at the fact that the
nearest fixed star is q, 900, O,O0O,00OOO0!
From another simple calculation it fol-
lows, that in the space around our solar sys.
tens devoid of stars; there is room enough
in one dimension, orin one straight line, Tor
$4,000 solar systemi in two dimensions. Or
in one plane, there is5room cnoug Oh for l30,
100000 of solar systems; and in actual side
real space of three dimensions, there is room
for 100000, 100000 Of solar systems the
size Of our own. s.
Nay, good farmer, do not look so unbc.
licviugly. YourboYleed not graduate from
the district school toprovc all this. One and
a half million millions of solar systems, as
large as ours, might be set in the space which
divides between itand its nearest neishbor.
And if we might assume the aggregate popu-
lation of our solar system to be 10000, ,00O,-
O0O there would besfoom enough for thirty
thousand millions ofhuman beings to live,
love and labor in theworlds that might be
planted in the samesstarless void.
Nay, good man ofsthe tow frock, hold on
moment louger.S@Our sun is but dull
hazy speck of lightiif the great milky way;
and DR.. Hcrschel says he discovered fifty
thousand just sucl Suns in that highway of
worlds, in space cesapparently yard in
breadth and sixinslength. Think of that
moment and then. .thafno two of them are,
in all probability, nearer each other than
twenty billions ofgmiles; and then that ae
starless space between their solar systems
might contain l,50op00, 1000, 900 similar sys.
tens. Multiply thesespaces and these sys.
TENS by a hundrednillions, and you will
hav" umbered thssworlds that Il powerful
gla will open to ySarriew from one point
: IT,;
millions, and +you will have three
billion trillions Of human beings, who might
dwell in peace and unity in that point Of
space which Hcrschel's glass would disclose
tn vonr vision.
And you ask dcspairingly what is man !
We will tell you what he is in one aspect:
the Creator Of all these worlds is his God"
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SHOCKING OccURRENcE.-The Caddo
La.) Gazette says that several shocking
murders have recently been committed in
the vicinity of Natchitoches. A white wo-
man, whose name was not given, was found
murdered in her own house, and on the
next day, in the same house, or on the same
place, two negroes were murdered, and on
the following day, or a few days afterwards,
a white man was found not far from the
same house with his tongue cut out. He
cannot write, and at last accounts he had
not been able to afford any clue to the per-
petrator of the savage act. The whole
matter is enveloped in the most profound
mystery.
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How TO Lay OFF SQUARE AcRB.-Mea-
sure two hundred and nine feet on each side,
and you will have the quantity within an
inch.
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FAMILY DEvorIoN.-It is beautiful
thing to behold family at their dcvotions.
Who would not he moved at the tear that
trembles in the mothers eye, as she looks to
Heaven, and pours forth her fervent supI'li:
cations for tho welfare of her children
Who can look with Indifference upon the
aged father surrounded by his family, with
his uncovered locks, kneeling in tho pre-
sence of Almighty God. and praying for
their happiness aud prospcrity' In whose
bosom is not awakened the finest feelings,
on beholding tender child, in the beauty of
its innocence, folding its little hand in pray.
or, and mploring the invisible, yet eternal
Father to bless its parents, its brothers and
sisters, and playmates?