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A SPLENDID POEM.

The following exquisite Poem on "Light,' u
has heretofore been published in our paper, but
it we'll deserves another copying. Ithas been
pronounced by one of the most eminent Euro
pean critics to be the finest production of the
same length in our language.
From the quickened wombo of the primal gloom,
The sun rolled black and bare,
Till wovc him q vest for his EthiOp breast,
OF the threads Of my golden hair;
And when the broad tent Of the armament
Arose on its airy spars,
penciled the hue Of its matchless blue,
And spangied it round with stars.
painted the flowers of the Eden bowers,
And their leaves Of living green,
And mine were the dyes in the snlcss eyes
Of Edcn's virgin queen;
And when the icnds art on the trustful heart
Had fastened its mortal spell,
In the silycry sphere of the frst-born tear
10 the trembling earth fell.
When the waves that burst Ger world accursed,
Their work of wrath had sped,
And the Arks lone few, tried and true,
Came forth among the dead;
With the wondrous CLEANS of my bridal beams,
bade their terrors cease,
As wrote on the roll of the storms dark scroll,
Gods covenant of peace
Like pail at rest on senseless breast
Nights sfuneral shadow slept
Where shepherd swatns OH the Bethlehem plains,
Their lonely vigilS kept;
When flashed on their sight the hcralds bright
Of heavens redeening plan,
As they chanted the morn of Saviour born
Joy, joy, to the outcast man.
Equal favorI show to the lofty and low,
On the just and the unjust descend
Fen the blind, whose vain spheres roll in darkness
and tears,
Feel my smile the blest smile of friend.
Nay, the flower of the waste by my love is embraced
As the roses in the garden of kings;
At the chrysals bier Of the worm 1 appear,
And 10! the gay butterfy's wings.
The dcsolatc Morn, like q mourncr forlorn,
Conceals all the pride of her charms
Till bid the bright hours chase the night from h0l
flowers
And lead the young day to her arms;
And when tho gay rover seeks Eve for his lover,
And sinks to her balmy rcposc,
wraptthe soft rest by the zcphyr-fanned west,
In curtains of amber and rose.
From my sentinel steep, by the nigt-blooded deep,
gaze with unsumbering eye,
When the cynosure star of the mariner
Is blotted from out the sky;
And guided by me through the mercless sea,
Though sped by the hurricanes wings;
His composites, dark, lone, weltcring bark,
To the heaven home safelyhc brings.
l waken the flowers in their dew-spangled bowers,
The birds in their chambers of green,
And mountain and plain glow with beauty again,
As they baSk in their matinal sheen.
O. if such the glad worth of my presence to earth,
Though ftful and ileeting the while.
What gloresmust rest on the home of the blest,
Ever bright with the Deity's smile
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17

ter driving out the Cimmerians, they (these
Scythian Tartars) were themselves expelled;
but they have come back and got the start of
the original owners, who now, aftex near two
thousand years, have just returnedto look af-
ter the old homestead.
There is another little association with the
Crimea that to us Americans, is interesting
One John Smith, the John Smith the adven-
turous captain of Virginia. was also warrior
against the Turks or Tartars. He cut off sew
eral turbans with heads inside them, but was
unluckily captured, and sold as a slave. He
was carried up the Straits to Kertsch and into
the sea of Azof. Somewhere in the Crimea
or thereabouts his captivity ceased He killed
his master, seized his horse and clothes and
rode for dear life and the nearest Russian post
at that time nearly synonymous ideas. He was
kindly received, and passed along from one
Muscovite station to another, back to friends
and to civilization. With every step new in
stalment of gratitude became due from him,
which he duly discharged through his heirs
and assigns !; for he founded Virginia Vir-
ginia, one day, with her sister colonies, became
the United States of America. England was
at war with France and her own reyolted colo
nies. The house of Bourbon and the house
of Guelph had no leisure to look eastward. In
| fact, there was not an " Eastern Question" at
all.
Catharine Of Russia stepped in with her
arms, and the Crimea was hers. France came
to the rescue only too late. English country
gentlemen were too full of the Middlesex elec-
ton and the American war, the " no. Popery''
riots and the national debt, to think much OF
the Czarina. Their indian empire was just
beginning, and no Napoleon had taught them
the value Of the paschalik of Egypt to the
overland route to the East The fall of the
Crimea was but the annexation of barren
Khanet, revoltcd State of Turkey. The
Austrian Empire could have taken more inter.
est in the annexation of Texas than England
then did in the Crimean transfer to Russia
The seeds of future calamity are sown in 81
lence "The tempest is foretold by little
cloud no bigger than mans hand" which
comes out of the sea but to-day the Crimea
is the centre of the worlds gaze, and what is
now passing on its soil may be changing the
whole visible current of affairs.
Neao Bedford Mercury
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17

reached forth, with earnest struggle, for the
guerdon in the distance. But that heart of
his is still now for he "died yesterday" obi
ed yesterday" A young girl, pure as the
orange flowers that clasped her forehead, was
stricken down as she stood at the altar; and
from the dim aisles Of the temple she was
borne to the "garden of the slumbcrers" A
tall, brown man, girt with the halo of victory,
and, at the days close, under his own vine
fg-tree, fell in the dust, even as the anthem
trembled upon his lips and he, too, was laid
"where the rude forefathers of the hamlet
sleep" An aged patriarch, bowed with age
and care, even as he looked out upon the dis
tant hills for the coming of the angel host,
sank into a dreamless slumber; and on his
door-post, next day, was written, "Died yes
tcrday." "Died yesterday" Daily, men,
women, and children are passing away; and
hourly, in some graveyard, the soil is flung
upon the dead. AS often as the morn we find,
some flower that blushed swcctly the sunset,
has weathered up forever; so, daily, when we
rise from the bivouac 10 stand against our posts,
we miss some brother soldier, whose checry
cry in the sieges and struggles of the past has
been as fire from heaven upon our hearts,
Each day some pearl drops from the jewellcd
thread of friendship--some Tyre, to which we
have been wont to listen, has been hushcd
forever. But wise is he who mourns not the
pearl and music lost; for life with him shall
pass away as an eastern shadow from the hills,
and death be triumph and a gain.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17
STAY WHERE you ARE.

In the West we have met with persons pos !.
sessed of a mania for clearing land. as long
as their farms afford unlimited opportunities
for chopping down huge trees burning up huge
logs, they work away with the ardor Of fpassion;
but the moment they have made their farms !;
tillable and their houses inhabitabie they take !
no futher interest on them whatever, and are
eager to sell out and plunge deeper into the
woods, to ply again the axe and the brand
Thus the country is cleared rapidly but the |.
blood Of the people is fevered, and the passion
for change continues, after the good done bylt
has been accomplished. rs
The necessity for rapid, clearing Of land has
ceased. We have cleared faster than We have
appropriated: The Eastern and Middle States
present an expanse, almost unbroken Of halt
cultivated land, dotted with unattractive homes
A large number--:probably majontyof
those who occupy these homes are az least.
willing, if they are NOT desiroua 70 sch sheit.
farms and try their fortunes in aneWetfeglon
They know thatthe burden Of lifs IS heavy To-
be borne where they are |; they hope It will be-:
lighter somewhere else. They forget that the
life of the honest man is easy. They omit
from their calculations all the unseen and
spiritual advantages Of a. permanent residence
They overlook the fact that thereal nutriments
ofa tree or man fowin from the minute tens:
dills of the root, scarcely visible to the eye,
which removal rudely tears away They
neglected to make their homes charming, by
planting the ornamental shurb, tho shading;
tree, the beautiful flowers They have not en-.
listed in their crops Of co-operators tho next 70.
omnipotent aid of science nor bound themsel-i
YES to the fields they till BY the intefest of w.
ried intelligent experiment They do not
know that new lands, though they give 9. g
large increase, yet draw large tribute from the:
men who go to live upon them. The foresk
and the prairie do not yield without inapsrting
some Of their wilderness to their conquerSis:s
1t is a game of give and take betHeen cisiiised
man and wild nature. The mostof men uYss
twenty-five years Of age-who. have q coed
footing upon their native soil We believe tais,
advice is good. Stay where YOU are and de-
termine to stay as long as life hatsi Perse-
vering toll, guided bysa thinking head and
ennobled bya worthy purpose, wilfTeduce the
mortgage by degrees, and by degrees besutify
the old home and fertilize the sterile FIELD, md
drain the too fertile marsh, and convert sfones
into stone fences, and make the farm: the pride
Of the township and the delight Of it's psners
Stay where you are, and tryit! There are
those who should remove--the young, the
strong, the incapitaled, the onetoo. many IN 2
family. But if possible such should remove
but once, seeking not q stopping place, but e
permanent home, in which, and around whishs
all that is best in their natures may gatf er and
centre.-Lije Illustrated. =. =. 5. ~ !, 8.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17

The YEAR 1856.-The year just commenc
ed is the latter part Of the eightieth and be-
ginning of the eighty first year of the Indepen
dence of the United States; the 6569th year
of the Julian period; the latter part of the
56l6th and beginning of the 56l7th year since
the creation of the world according to the Jews
the 26O9th year since the foundation of Rome
according to Varro the 2632d year of the OF.
ympiads; the latter part of the l272d and be-
ginning of the 1273d year of the twelve luna
tions since the Hegira or fight of Mahomet,
which took place on the 10th Of July, A. D.
622.
The Alphonsine tables make this year the
7OS9th from the creation; the Greek church
the R362d, and some eastern churches date it
sixteen years latter than the Greek church
The Chinese adopt the Sexagenary cycle, of
which sixty cycles have now elapsed, their era
commencing 200 B. c., so they now deem
themselves in the year 1855. The Talmud
makes this year 1900; the septuagent 1867;
and the Samaritan Pentateuch 6565.
hmlu oil Iue dpstruse auu pdiuiul caicula-
tions which have been made relative to the
chronological progress of the world, the Chris
tians era is undoubtedly the most correct and
authentic. According to that the world was
created $3.50 years ago, the deluge swept the
earth 3511 years ago, and 234s years before
Christ and we are now living in the year 1856
dating from the Christian era.-Al6any ar
Gus.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17

A RECIPE IN SEAsoN-To Cure Hams
When you are smoking your hams occasional
ly throw upon the fire handful of China ber-
ries, and it will be found preventive against
shippers. So says gentleman who has seen it
sufficiently tested in South Alabama.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17

A MAN SAVED BY HIS W1FE's CORPSE.
Mr.. Walters passenger on the steamer An;
thony Wayne, was taking from Chicago back
to Philadelphia the remains of a fond and low
ing wife, to be buried among her relations and
friends. During the trip the ill.fated boat ex-
ploded her boilers, killing nearly every one on
board. Mr.. W. was lifted several hundred
feet into the air, and fell into the water almost
lifeless. The night was dark and dreary, and
in his struggles to keep himself aaoat he accit|
dentally struck against box to which hel
clung all nightlong with desperation. When
daylight appeared he discovered that the box
which had saved his life contained the corpse
of his wife. ~
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a6- "Boss, I want twenty-five cents" Z -.
"Twenty-fve cents How soon do; you
want it, Jack ?" ....- Ia
"Next Tuesday" ..s,3
GAS soon as that |! You can't have it. I
have told you often that when you are. in want
of so large an amount of money you must
give me at least four weeks notice p 81
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17

UsuRY LAws.-C. Davis Melton, mem-
Der of the Legislature from Chester District,
in letter to tbe Chester Standard, gives the
following views in opposition 70 the repeal of: E
the usury lavsj = -, -
Il am opposed on considerations Of public
policy to any removal of restrictions upon the
growing evil of trading in money. The en-
couragement of this trait c,must tend TO divert.
our people from the legitimate pursuits of life
a tendency which is already too great, and
which indeed needs no encouragement. OBJ
ject to throwing before our people any induce
ment to convert into money those investments
which add to the wealth and prosperity Of the
country. I object to any measure whose ten
dency is to convert our people into fnanciers,
money-changera and usurers, to the discours
agement of those interests ON which rests the
permanent well-being Of the country" 81
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17

BSy' The Russians have resorted to the bast
outrage of poisoning the wells in the Crimea
so that water cannot be obtained for the horse:
of the enemy.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-17
ODD TITLES OF BOOKS.

In 1886 pamphlet was published in Lon.
don entitled GA most Delectable Sweet PERU.
med Nosegay for Gods Saints to Smell at."-
About the year 1649 there was work publish.
ed entitled ga Pair of Bellows to blow of
the Dust cast upon John Fry" and another
called s'The Shutters of Divine Love-
CromwelPs time was particularly famous fol
title pages. The author of work on charity
entities his book "Hooks and Eyes for Believ.
ers' Breeches." Another, who professed a
wish to exalt poor human nature, calls his la.
bors "High-hecsd Shoes for Dwarfs in Holi.
ness and another, "Crumbs of Comfort fol
the Chickens of the Covenant" A Quaker
whose outward man the powers that were,
thought proper to imprison, published "a sigh
of Sorrow for the Sinners of Zion, breathed
out of Hole in the Wall of an Earthly Yes.
sci known among men by the name Of Samuel
Fish" About the same time there was also
published "The "Spiritual mustard pot, te
make the Soul Sneeze with Devotion )" Saliva.
tion's Vantage Ground, or Looping Sand
for Heavy Believers" Another, GA Shot
aimed at the DEVILS Headquarters through the
Tube of the Cannon of the Covenant" This
is an author who speaks plain language, which
the most illiterate reprobate cannot fail to un.
derstand. Another, ga reaping hook well
tempered for the Stubborn years of the Com.
ing Crop; or Biscuits baked in the Oven Of
Charity, carefully conserved for the Chickens
of the Church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and
the Sweet Swallows of Salvation" To ano-
ther we have the following copious description
of its contents: "Seven Sobs of Sorrowful
Soul for Sin, or the Seven Penitential Psalms
of the Princely Prophet David; whereunto
are also added William Humius' Handful of
Honeysuckles, and Divers Cody and Pithy
Ditties now newly augmented"
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s6 There are graves no time can close.
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a6 There is no companion like money.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26

G'lleye that there is the third future state; that is.
tho state Of purgatory, (Lauglter) Now, with
mat state | have no acquaintance, except such as
| have learned from the course Of p%urgation that
mas been going on il this aIouse. (Renewed
laughter. know certain gentlemen have leen
N u state OF pnrgatory here, andI know one gen.
uen,ah VINO Is past praying for. Great laughter
Mr.. kennett. | beg to say one word in reply to
my friend from New Jersey, who seems so well
posteo upi in his catechism and in. regard to those
future states, the North side and the South side of
me iine and purgatory. lie has been kind enough
to bind some of us hand and foot, ana in advance
70 pl'ch us into the dark place. ] would like to
know Of him, in regard to his catechism, whether,
when he informed us on Saturday last, that he had
got beyond "efectual calling" he was able to see
laughtcr.)
Mr.. Pennington, (rising amid great laughter
l owe the gentleman one. (Laughter)
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26
THE MESSAGE AT THE SOUTH.

President Pierces Message is damned with
faint praise" by Northern Democrats, and roundly
cursed by oil others from that section of the Union
except the Pierce Office holders. Under these cir
cumstances it is doubtless agreeable to the author
of the document to know tina. it meets the appro-
button of that class of men for whom it was es-
pecially intended. The ultra and unco%mpromising
shareholders.
The Charleston Standard is loud in its praises
and backs up with energy the Presidential recon-
mendation for the suppression of all efforts to pro-
tect personal freedom at the North. Such protec-
ton is eminently dangerous to personal slavery at
the South. The South Carolinan gives vent to his
satisfaction as follows:
The message Of the President is all that could
be expected by the South, as regards the institu-
ton Of slavery. From his position, in the highest
Office in tho whole country, the entire Union must
be included in his cUnsideration-and it is sufi.
cient, and all the South has ever asked-that what
is given her by the constitution she shall be allow
ed in quiet to enjoy. Mr.. Pierce has shown the
inclination to accord this justice. He has presen-
ted .he comparison between the Northern and
Southern States in their department towards each
other, aud has made the display of fanatacism with
all its repulsive features.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26
From the Providence journal.
ZEAL OF SOUTHERN POLITICIANS FOR
THE UNION.

Everybody remembers an anecdote, long current
of a worthy citizen of Providence, who was dis.
tinguished rather for the strength of his theoreti-
cal orthodoxy than for its practical development in
his walk and conversation, and who held The office
OF committee man in one of our Baptist churches.
lie had been much troubled at the doubtful senti-
ments preached by several clergymen from ,broad,
who had disturbed the even current of doctrine,
not exactly by new tenets, but by some new appli-
cations of old and well settled ones.
One day a member of the church came to him,
and asked his consent to open the Westinghouse
for a preacher from abroad, who wished to hold
forth in the evening, at early candle light. The
consent of the other members of the committee
had been obtained, and his only was wanting.
81 don't know" said he; II don't know about
letting everybody that comes along into our meet.
ing-house. Who is this man ?"
"A very worthy man, and an excellent preach
err"
Il don't care about that; out is he orthodox? Is
he orthodox Z"
Perfectly orthodox, one Of tho regular, old
fashioned, Roger Williams Baptists."
We'll, if You are sure of that, he may preach;
but | have made up my mind. as a Christian man,
that ] will not have any more of this ID false
doctrine preached in our pulpit"
The Watchful regard which some of our South
ern brethren keep over the Union reminds us of
the pious hero of this anecdote. Men who have
been in the daily habit of denouncing the Union,
men who are sufficiently disunionists to be elected
in South Carolina-and that is about as strong a
case as can be put-are, all at once, exercised with
a wonderful regard for the Union, when anybody
except themselves, or those in the interest of their
own peculiar line of disun;on, speaks of it in the
tone which they themselves habitually employ
These are the men who can see great danger to the
Union because the hundred supporters of Mr..
Banks will not give up to a minority, but who can
praise the few mal-contents, whose refusal to join
with either party, or 10 withdraw and let the two
chief parties fight it out, is the real cause of the
delay and Reorganization, These men have been
plotting and working for the dissolution of the
Union, have proclaimed in newspapers, and in
speeches, and in political conventions, that if the
Union stood in the way Of slavery, it ought to be
broken up; and now they pounce upon Mr.. Banks's
''let the Union slide" which meant about as much
as his speeches usually dO,apd hold it up as though
it was a new treason; and express their unquali-
fed horror that a man should say what they have
been saying all the time.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26
Prom the Liberator.
SPEECH OF MIR. GIDDINGS.

Mr.. Giddings made a straightforward, effective
and manly speech in the U. S. House of Represen-
tatives, Dec. 18th, on the Organization of the
House, in the course of which he
the substitution of principles for party names; re-
buked all sectional feelings in Congress; revealed
the true character and design of the ~factious mi
nority of Democratic representatives. who are for
organizing theHouse on no other than a slave basis;
spoke of the popular condemnation which had
been SO signally melted out to those who voted for
the Nebraska Bill-the Democratic members of
that body having been reduced, in twelve
months, from one hundred and fifty 10 seventy
four, from a triumphant and dominant MAJOR
ity to feeble and inefficient minority; affirmed the
GOd-giyen right of every man to liberty; defended
the organ Of the House on the basis of freedom;
drove his Southern interrogaters to the wall, and
confounded their speech; asserted the right Of the
slaves to defend themselves to the last extremity
against their masters; denounced slavebolding as
the yiIest despo:ism, tho most perfect Tyranny that
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26
CONGRESSIONAL WAGGERY.

In the House of Representatives last week when
the candidates were being put through their cati.
cism Mr.. Kennel from Missouri SAID:
The questions were-"I should like to know OF
each candidate for the Speakership, including my
friend from New Jersey, whether he believes in
a future state or not? And then, provided he
answers that question afirmatiyely, / desire to
know whether he believes it will be a free or a slave
state?"
Mr.. Pennington replied. am somewhat versed
in the Westminster Catechism, and have learned
from it that there is a future state. | believe II.
But understand that there are two states in that
future state-one the beaiife1 state, the other the
state of the damned. One is a free state: the nther
is a slave state. (Laughterl One of these states
is on one side OF a certain line, and the other on
the other side of that line-n0i exactly a con,pra-
mise line, | believe. renewed laughter.) But |
have always understood that that which lies Oh
one side of the line-the side on which Is the
the hottest; and | therefore conclude
that that must must be the Southern side Of the
fGrea, Laughter But there are tbosc Who