Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-05-25

WI spdlc NY "Scu idtHel sOupcu nu'
throwing her arms around her fathers necl
Respect age, Roaz; and, as to the Ba
ron, his time on earth is short, for that bic,
was dealt by a strong arm" rejoined Al
maud, while fendish smile rested on hi
dark visage. "Take the girl, my men, all
we will return" he added, pointing toward
Ada.
"Oh let me remain with my aged ia
ther" cried the fair girl, struggling to fre
herself from the rough grasp of the soldiers
" Cease your cries, pretty one, for Rudol
Otto is now no more !"
Murderer! receive your reward!' soun
ded on the ruIlian's ears like a kneel arl
the next instant the heavy sword descended
cleavng his skull.
For moment the heavy body swayed tc
and fro, and fell heavily on the marble floor
the soul Of Arnaud Of Au had fled to God
who gave it, and Rudolf Otto, had perform
ed his VOW.
All the Austrians, except those who per
ished in the council house, were taken pri
soners, and Weson was saved. Not lonl
after, the fair Ada was united to Rudol
Otto, with the free consent of the Baron
who soon recovered from his wounds, anC
lived happily with the peasant boy, now
Count Otto.
Faust, and the other conspirators, were
killed by the explosion, while the faithful
Bohren was knig GIFTED for his ardent zeal In
saving Wesen.-Waverly Magazine.
THE "Glrrs OF Con" I'VE cut tho fol.
lowing paragraph from an able aud interest
ing article in the Albany Daily State Reg,
lister, on passage in the minority report OF
Mr.. Crosby to tie Senate of New York:
But are Ihese Intoxicating drinks "t the
Gifts of God!" We deny it. We affirm
that in all the world-nay, in all the uni
verse of God, there is not lake, river,
streamlet, or fountain, Of intoxicating
drinks. There is no such Il thing in nature.
Water, God has everywhere given, spread
it all over the world, sent it down from the
clouds, sent it bubbling up from the earth,
made it journey in ceaselcss activity in riIls,
and streams, and great rivers, towards the
ocean. He has, wherever man can live,
given it to him at his very door, but intoxica-
ling drinks he has provided no where on the
face of the whole earth. That" gift," wca-
her "good" or evil, is not the gift Of God,
out the invention that has Destroyed more
ives, dissolved more homes, occasioned more
sorrow and anguish, than war, pestilence
md famine combined. -
,olcy to deprive men of the use OF by
legislative enactment, but to call intoxlca.
ing drinks the "Good gift Of COD is an
.buse of terms, and Il burning reproach
,rsins, tho bcnevolence and holy attributes
Of the Diety."
A TRAVELLER in England, observing a
peasant at work, and seeing he was takingit
easy, said
"My friend, you do not appear to sweat
any"
why, no master, six shillings a week
amt sweating wages"
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4 WAC was one day speaking of two ot
his acquaintauces who had gone west, where
new corners were usually attacked the first
season, with the agne, and said he
Neither of these two men will be aitlIc-
ted"
"Why not" inquired a bystander.
"Bceause," was tho reply, lone Of them
is too lazy to shake, and tho other won't
shake unless he gets pay for it,"
The best arts OF human qualities are the
tenderness and delicacy of feeling in little
matters, the desire to sooth and please others
the minute Of the social virtues. Some ridl.
culc these femiuino attributes, which arc
left out Of many mems nature; but have
known the brave, tue intellectual, the elo
quent, possess these gentle qualities; the
braggart, the weak, never! Benevolence
aud feeling ennoblv the most trifling actions
WoRLp's FAIR IN PARIs.-The Pari:
correspondent of the New York lime;
says:
IA deputation of commercial men ant
manufacturers waited on the Emperor, recen
,lv, to ask whether the great Exhibition
appointed for 1851, would take place, not
withstauding the war Louis Napoleon rePli
ed most decidedly in the affirmative. He als'
promised to have the Exhibition Palace
made half as large again as was origlnall.
intended, and intimatcd that the war coul
not, in any case, be Of great duration"
The VOLUNTEER CoUNsEL.-The ST
Louis Morning Herald Of the 9th inst. say
that Hon. John J. Crittenden, on visitin
the National Medical Convention in sessio
in that city, on the 9Th inst, was actual
Kissed out of it by that distinguished bod
of men. This is one of the most withern
rebukes Mr.. c. has received since the lri;
of Ward-and one that he will remembe
to his dying day.
TIE Do.Norn1yGs "A society calle
the "Do. Nothings" has been formed in Me-
Bedford. There are several hundred in thi
city who approve its principles, but are to
lazy to join.
Another Sn1rwREcK.-The steamt
Washington reached quarantine at Ne
York on Saturday night Snc brings "A
passengers and full cargo.
The Washington also brings the passe,,
gers and crew, about five hundred soul
taken from the ship Winchester, bound fro
Liverpool to Boston. She was wrecked
the frightiul gale Of the 10th oil April al
had been in crippled condition, kept iro
sinking by constant labor at the pump
The Washington fell in with her on the
Instant, and Notwithstanding the prevalent
of heavy gale, succeeded in resculng
the passengers aud crew.
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