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

I "Sh spare my aged fatherF' sobbed Adj
throwing her arms around her fathers necl
| "Respect age, Roaz; and, as to the Ba
ron, his time on earth is short, for that blo'
was dealt by strong arm" rejoined Al
maud, while fendish smile rested on hi
dark visage. "Take the girl, my men, an
we will return" he added, pointing toward
Ada.
"Oh !! let me remain with my aged fa
ther" cried the fair girl, struggling to fre
herself from the rough grasp of the soldiers
Cease your cries, pretty one, for Rudo
Otto is now no more"
Murderer receive your reward" SCUM
ded on the rullian's ears like kneel; an
the next instant the heavy sword descended
cleaving his skull.
For moment the heavy body swayed tt
and fro, and fell heavily on the marble floor
the soul of Aruaud 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 Ion.
after, the fair Ada was united to Rudol
Otto, with the free consent of the Baron
who soon recovered from his wounds, ant
lived happily with the peasant boy, nov
Count Olto.
Faust, and the other conspirators, were
killed by the explosion, while the faithful
Bohren was knighted for his ardent zeal il
saving Wesen.-Waverly Magazine.
THE "G1rrs OF GoD."-We cut the fol
lowing paragraph from an able and interest.
ing article in the Albany Daily State Reg
lister, on passage in the minority report O.
Mr.. Crosby to the Senate Of New York:
But are these Intoxicating drinks "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 a lake, river
streamlet, or fountain, Of intoxicating
drinks. There is no such a thing in nature
Water, God has everywhere given, spread
it all over the world, sent it down from rhe
clouds, sent it bubblng up from the earth,
made itjourney in ceaseless activity in rils,
and streams, and great rivers, towards the
ocean. He has, wherever man can live,
given it to him at bis very door, but intoxica.
ting drinks he has provided no where on the
face of the whole earth. That " gift, wea-
ther good" or evil, is not the gift Of God,
but the invention that has Destroyed more
lives, dissolved more homes, occasioned more
sorrow and anguish, than war, pestilence
and famine combined. y, zs5ax.sfes;1.1
policy to deprive men OF the use OF Thy
legislative enactment, but to call intoxica.
ting drinks the "Good gift of God is an
abuse of terms, and a burning reproach
against the benevolence and holy attributes
of the Dety."
A TRAVELLER in England, observing a
peasant at work, and seeing he was taking it
remarkably easy, said
"My friend, you do not appear to sweat
any," i,
"Why, no master, six shillings week
amt sweating wages"
A WAC was one day speaking of two o.
his acquaintances who had gone west, where
new corners were usually attacked the frs
season, with the ague, and said he.
"Neither of these two men will be aftlIc
ted"
"Why not 2" inquired a bystander.
Because" was the reply, "one of then
is too lazy to shake, and the other won
shake unless he gets pay for it,"
The best arts of human qualities are thu
tenderness and delicacy Of feeling in ittl
matters, the desire to sooth and please others
the minute Of the social virtues. Some ridi
cue these feminine attributes, which ar
left out OF many mems nature; but | hav
known the brave, the intellectual, the elo
quent, possess these gentle qualities; til
bracgart, the weak, never! Benevolenc
and feeling ennoble the most triaing action
WoRbp's FAIR IN PARIs-The Pari
correspondent of the New York Tine
says:
IA deputation of commercial men an
manufacturers waited on the Emperor, recer
,y, to ask whether the great Exhibition
appointed for 1854, would take place, no
withstauding the war, Louis Napoleon repl
ed most decidedly in the affirmative. He ais
promised to have the Exhibition Paac
made half as large again as was original
intended, and intimated that the war coul
not, in any case, be of great duration"
THE VOLUNTEER CoUNsEL.-The S
Louis Morning Herald of the 9th inst. say
that Hon. John j. Crittenden, on visitir
the National Medical Convention in sessc
in that city, on the 5th inst, was actual
hissed out of it by that distinguished boo
of men. This is one of the most witherlr
rebukes Mr., C.. has received since the lri
of Ward-and one that he will rememb
!, TO his dying day.
The "Do-NoTH1NGs." "A society CALI
the DO. .Nothings" has been formed in Ne
Bedford. There are several hundred in tn
> city who approve its principles, but are t.
lazy to join.
ANOTHER Sn1pwREcK.-The steam
> Washington reached quarantine at Ne
York on Saturday night. Sne brings Z.
passengers and full cargo.
+ The Washington also brings the Passe
}, gers and crew, about five hundred sou
taken from the ship Winchester, bound ire
Liverpool to Boston. She was wrecked
the frightful gale of the 10th of April a
70 had been in crippled condition, kept trf
G sinking by constant labor at the pun
10 The Washington fell in with her on the
e instant, and Notwithstanding the prevalen
of heavy gale. succeeded in resculng