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INFIDELITY IN LIFE.

sHow much is this a yard p said lady tc
an acquaintance Of mine, proprietor of q
large dry goods store.
That ina am, is worth'-and he then held
it up for inspection-rhat is selling fol
three dollars. 1t is beautiful piece, ma am,
the best for the price in the city
1T is more than I am willing to give,
said the lady; i will take it at two dol
lars
The merchant then went on, in the usual
style, asserting that it was less than cost,
but it being her she might have it,
'Aftcr the lady had gone, said I, why
did YOU sell that without profit
why did /? You don't think me SC
much Of a fool as that? never dispose Of
goods without profit
but you told the lady so,' said 1.
Poh | tell the same to twenty every day.
made fifty per cent, on that very cloth.
lie then went to attend to another GUS
toner, and thought to myself, Here is a
man rcckoned honorable as business man,
in good standing, as member Of church,
esteemed benevolent, liberal christian, alb.
solutcly lying, according to his own admis.
sion, at least twenty times day, merely to
make 4 good bargain and gain a few pence
Why is he called honorable? Because he
will not forfeit his word when over-rcachcd
by 'cutcr man = because he pays all his
debts when due, to keep up his credit p
Yes. These arc sufficient in the business
world. Why is he esteemed a christian
Merely because he owns pew, is commu
meant, and gives literally to benevolent So
cietics.
Judging from the acts Of such, and acts
arc the most correct Interpreters of a per
sons thoughts, what claims have they t.
such titles as christians and honorable men
It is not by those acts expecting to come be
fore the discriminating, critcising public
that men are to be known, but by those lit
tie every day transactions, where there art
supposed to be no obscrvanccs. When tn,
eye of community is not upon men, is thu
moment to Judge of their honesty. Ask
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From Owen Meredith's Poems.
CHANGES.

CHANGES.
Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed.
Time rules us all. And life, indeed, is not
The thing We planned it out ere hope was dead.
And then, we women cannot choose our lot.
Much must be borne which it is hard to bear:
Much given away which it were sweet to keep.
God help us oil who need, indeed, His care,
And yet, know, the Shepherd loves his sheep.
My little boy begins to babble now
Upon my knee his earliest infant prayer.
He has his fathers eager eyes, know,
And, they say too, his mothers sunny hair.
But when he sleeps and smiles upon my knee,
And can feel his light breath come and 60,
I think of one Heaven help and pity meD
Who loved me, and whom loved, long ago.
Who might have been . oh, what dare not
think!
We oil are changed. God judges for US best.
God help US do our duty, and not shrink,
And trust in Heaven humbly for the rest
But blame US women not, if some appear
Too cold at times and some too gay and light
Some griefs gnaw deep. Some woes are hard to
bear.
Who knows tie Past? and who can Judge us
right
Alb, were we judged by what we might have been,
And not by what we are, too apt to fall
My little child-he sleeps and smiles between
These thoughts and me. In Heaven we shall
know all
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LOST LOST!

vt. b. ALDRICII, ESQ.
Lost, lost, lost!
4 beautiful Soul is lost
A beautiful Soul went down, down;
Down, like q ship at sea -
Who knows if Soul be lost?
The moon went into cave
Whose stalactitcs were pointed with stars,
With scintillant cresccnts of stars
And a sweet south wind came over the rye
And broke on the lattice bars
Invisible fingers of Air
Just lifted the curtains fold,
Just rippled the calm of her golden hair
Liquescent and glttcrng gold.
And she stood like the thought Of 4 sculptor, carve
In marble, snowy and cold
But her pure, sweet look was rs foul lie
As ever woman told
Her Shrek went up through the night
TO spheres that rolled overhead:
She lay at my feet, and her face was white,
1t hauntcth me now, twas go very white,
As whispered it low, "Shc is dcad"'
A statue lay chill at my feet!
She lay with her eyes i'll eclipse;
4 darkness hung in the length Of her hair,
And shadowcd her pcrjurcd lips
/ stranglcd her voice, but, oh, God
1would I could strangle the moan
That follows me out in the silent streets
When walk with the midnight alone!
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YORKVILLE, S. O., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1856.

tradesman why he persists in such course,
and he will readily answer
I'VE must do so if we would live
Has mankind so degenerated that man
of integrity must starve? Are all knaves,
that we must deal in falsehoods or die .? No,
God forbid! It is a libel on the human
race to say we connot prosper and be honest.
Let me ask those who answer, I'VE must be
dishonest how many have ever thoroughly
tried the opposite course?
Now, conscience and integrity have sue
combed right, art, and success. Each ex-
erts himself to the extent of his sagacity, if
not to get the better of bargain, at least
not to get cheated. We need host of min
listers, yes, home missionaries, to preach
against this growing faithlessness, this in
fidelity, not theoretical, but practical infdel-
ity-this beggary of faith to each other
IEarery Magazine.
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NO. Il.

to the Indian agent, or some trader in the
nation, for paper and pen. His ink was
easily made from some of the bark Of the
forest trees, whose coloring properties he
had previously known; and after seeing
the construction of the pen, he soon learn
ed to make one; but at first he made it
without the slit; this inconvenience was,
however, quickly removed by his sagacity.
His next difficulty was to make his invention
known to his countrymen /: for by this time
he had become so abstracted from his tribe
and their usual pursuits, that he was viewed
with an eye of suspicion. His former COM
panions passed his wigwam without enter
ing it, and me e;oned his name as one who
was practicing improper spells for notorie-
ty or mischievous purposes; and he seems
to think that he should have been hardly
dealt with, if his docile and unambitious
disposition had not been so generally ae-
knowledged by his tribe. s--.. .s.
At length he summoned some of the most
distinguished of his nation, in order to make
his communication to them; and after CIV
ing them the best explanation of his princi-
pie that he could, stripping it of all super
natural influence, he proceeded to demon
strate to them, in good earnest, that he had
made discovery. His daughter, who was
now his only pupil, was ordered to go out
of hearing, while he requested his friends
to name word or sentence, which he put
down, and then she was called in and read
it to them; then the father retired, and
the daughter wrote. The Indians were
wonder-struck, but not entirely satisfied
see-quah-yah then proposed that the tribe
should select several youths from among
their cleverest young men, that he might
communicate the mystery to them. This
was at length agreed to, although there
was some lurking suspicion of necromancy
in the whole business. John Nav, with
several others, was selected for this purpose.
The tribes watched them for several months
with anxiety; and when they offered them
selves for examination, the feelings of all
were wrought up to the highest pitch. The
youths were separated from their master
and from each other, and watched with the
greatest care. The uninitiated, directed
what the master and the pupil should write to
each other, and these tests were varied in
such manner, as not only to destroy their
infdelity, but most firmly to fix their faith.
The Indians, on this, ordered great feast,
and made See-quah-yah conspicuous at it.
How nearly is man alike in every age!-
Pythagoras did the same on the discovery
of an important principle in geometry
See-quah-yah became at once schoolmaster,
professor, philosopher, and chief. His
countrymen were proud Of his talents, and
held him in reverence as one favored by the
Great Spirit. The government ofthe Unit
ed States had font of types cast for his
alphabet; and newspaper, printed partly
in the Cherokee language, and partly in the
English, was soon established at New Echo
ia, characterized by decency and good sense,
and many of the Cherokees were able ere
long to read both languages.
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THE CRADLE AWAY UP IN THE
GARRETT

1t was an old fashioned little cradle. The
proud daughtcr-in would scorn to have
it in the nursery. Her children sleep in
dainty cribs and the relic of olden times is
pushed into darkened corner, away up in
the garrct. 1t is quiet autumnal day !;
such days arc full of memories and the old
grandmother is thinking. She arises, at
length, and tottcrs up, and up, the lofty
flights of stairs; she passes through the
elegant room; she gains the garrett and
sinks down beside that unsightly cradle !;
and blows her trembling head over it, as if
watching the slumbers of babe. That little
garret, with one long beam of sunlight strea-
ming from the high window and the spider
webs woven over the raftcrs and one cricket
singing lonesomcly from some silent corner,
is good place to dream. Memory is un-
folding picture after picture, for the grand
mother to look upon.
She sees cabin home. It is in the flush
of summer time there are green boughs in
the fire place, and around the clock, and
over the mantle board There are short,
white, muslin curtains, drawn partially
across the windows. There are two beds,
with a bureau between, standing in the cas-
tern part of the room; and 4 little stand,
with Bible and hymn book upon its white
fringed cover, beneath the little looking
glass. There is her cupboard, with its bright
ly polished pewter; and the pine table scour-
cd by her own hands. And she is sitting
by the window, her foot gently touching that
same dear little cradle ; and her eyes, lifted
from her sewing, now and then, TO sec ifhcr
hearts pride is coming. How dcliciously
her heart is stirred to the music OF sweet
thoughts. 1t is her frst-born, her darling
Johnny, sleeping in the cradle. Never yet
have his dcwy, rosebud lips murmured
"mothcr;" but his dimplcd arms clasp her
neck his velvet check ncstles against her
breast, his clear blue eyes look lovingly into
her own. She is the young mother again,
as memory paints that sweet baby face. She
hears the bees humming in that little bed
of pinks, below the window. She sees the
shadow leaves of the Virginia crecpcrs, play
ing upon the grass, in the sunlight, as the
breeze stirs the long claspingarms that elm:
about the rough logs.
She hears the rivulct ripple as it winds
through mossy spots, and leaves the roots
of the old sycamore, whose shadows fall up
on her roof. She hears the birds singing,
away off in the woods She secs, oil best
of all, her husband coming home from his
daily labor. His step is on the sill, his
merry voice speaks her name, and then lit
tie Johnny is claspcd to his heart.
Another picture She is little older
now. 1t is winter; there arc drifts of snow
on the leaves rs far as the eye can look, one
unbrokcn mass of snow. She hears the
winds moan through the sycamore. The
flowers arc dead; the rivulct frozen; the
birds silent But there is a bright fire up,
on the hearth, and the cabin home is warm
with crimson light Johnny is playing with
father; ana baby girl, the Little, Lizzie
is in the cradle fragile, delicate, beautiful
she has dark eyes, like mothers ONLY they
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THE MEN OF THE WEST.

From long article in " Harper's Maga-
zine," we take the following extracts illus
trative of the characteristics of the men of
the West. The article is by T. B. Thorpe,
and is entitled "Remembrances of the Mis-
sissippi."
Two classes of people originally crowded
into the virgin fields of the West. Mariet-
ia, the first permanent settlement on the
Ohio, was-characteristically of those times
made up entirely of renowned men of the
Revolution: officers and soldiers, who, at
the close of seven years privation and suf-
fering, found themselves turned loose upon
the world, their private fortunes ruined,
themselves estranged from their early and
perhaps desolate homes, and to them all prof
liable occupation gone. Such men pro-
jected cities, opened farms, and laid wide
and strong the foundation of future en-
pire.
There was another class to whom the ex-
citement of the "war path" was a necessity,
as it was difficult for these rude yet brave
men to control themselves so as to perform
their allotment of the rough and con6ning
labors of a frontier life. A place, however,
was unexpectedly prepared for them, which
required all their energy Of character to fill,
and which blended most happily the labors
of civilization with those of the scout and
hunter.
The surplus of the rich lands of the West
found an active demand, not only at the
head-waters of the Ohio, but also among the
rich settlements of Florida and Louisiana.
A race of gigantic men was required to guide
in safety, against swift running current,
the rude craft laden with rich stores through
perilous voyage of fifteen hundred miles,
avoiding whirlpools, "snags," and 'sawyers,
and exposed to hostile conflict with the saw
age foe The demand was supplied by the
wild spirits We have alluded to, and thus orr
ginated the keel-boatmen of the Mississippi
-men more remarkable than any other that
ever lived, and whose exaggerations, physi-
cal and mental, have given rise to the most
genuine originality we can claim for Ameri-
oan character
The keel-boat was long and narrow, sharp
at the bow and stern, and of Light draft
From fifteen to twenty "hands" were requir-
ed to propel it along. The crew, divided
equally on each side, took their places upon
the "walking-boards," extending along the
whole length of the craft, and, setting one
end of their pole in the bottom of the river,
the other was brought to the shoulder, and
with the body bent forward, they paMed
the boat against the formidable current.
1t is not strange that the keel-boatmen
always exercising in the open air, without ar
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IMPROPER SPEECH AMONG CHILL
DREN. -..

There is no greater source of evil connec-
ted with this rising generation than the in
judicious manner in which children are
brought up. Parents are strangely inconsis-
tent in the management of the little ones
God has given. The following remarks on
the culture of children are worthy of being
read by all parents:
"The proper culture of children looks to
the elevation of intellectual and moral char
acter,-and subsidiary to THU, good con-
science, high self-respect, are appliances not
to be overlooked. If once the moral sense
of child becomes corrupted, or his feelings
of self-respect destroyed, there is no protec-
ton against at least secret indulgence in
crime, which like the pent up fires, may at
last break forth in the most destructive con.
fagration, and if he sees not a proper exam
pie of purity, veracity, and veneration Of the
Supreme God, in his natural guide, it can
hardly be imagined that be will respect these
virtues in himself. To say nothing of that
constitutional feature in youthful minds to
initiate the words and acts of those around
them, especially parents, nothing sooner
makes sensibility to right and wrong, than
the use of indelicate and impure speeches in
their presence, as nothing sooner discourages
every attempt in them to do right than i'll:
natured and opprobrious censures-charac-
terising them as 'mean,' vulgar fools
sliars,' williams and the like. If they are
clearly and manifestly guilty Of such impro-
prieties, some such mode Of punishment as
shall prevent a repetition of the deed in fu-
ture should be Immediately adopted if they
are not, it is decidedly unjust and wrong to
charge it upon them. 1t should be sedulous-
ly remembered, that words are both sugges-
tive and modifying, that crimes never before
conceived are often suggested by word;
and that the mind mounted and fashioned by
ideas received, easily adopts any course to
which its ideas look. This is especially true
where, by a false representation of character,
every motive is taken away to do right. A
child represented bad and wicked, or char
ged with specific crimes, as prevarication,
profanity, cruelty, reveling, &C., early comes
to feel that he has nothing to loose or gain
by his conduct in such cases that if he re-
trains from such acts, he is none the better;
or if he does them he is none the worse =
and with little hesitancy, therefore, he sur
renders himself to any impulse that may
prompt his future conduct. These are facts
in the philosophy of mind, and they .forcibly
illustrate the strictness which should be OBJ
served in promising, threatening, censuring,
judging or condemning the acts of children.
Christian Era.
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Wonan's Love.

"Oh-uhb AosSs
When man is waxing frail,
And his hand is thin and weak,
And his lips are parched and pale,
And wan and white his cheek;
Oh, then doth woman prove
Her constancy and love!
She sitteth by his chair,
And holds his feeble hand;
She watcheth ever there,
His wants to understand;
His yet unspoken will
She hasteneth to fulfill.
She leads him, when the moon
Is bright Ger dale and hill,
And all things, save the tune
Of the honey-bees are still,
Into the gardens bowers,
To sit midst herbs and flowers.
And when he goes not there,
To feed on breath and bloom,
She brings the posy rare
Into his darkened room;
And meath his weary head
The pillow smooth doth spread.
Until the hour when death
His lamp of life doth dim;
She never wearieth,
She never leaveth him,
Still near him, night and day,
She meets his eye Away.
And when his trials o'er,
And the turf is on his breast,
Deep in her bosom's core
Lies sorrows unexpressed;
Her tears, her sighs are weak,
Her settled grief to speak.
And though there may arise
Balm for her spirits pain
And though her quiet eyes
May sometimes smile again
Still, still she must regret;
She never can forget.
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A CONTRAST.

We have rarely read, says late English
writer, anything more simple and touching
han the following contrasted poems. We
annot ascertain the name of the writer
they are cut from an old newspaper, in which
hey were published anonymously:
Mans Love.
When woman's eye grows dull,
And her cheek paleth,
When fades the beautiful,
The mans love fadeth:
He sits not beside her chair,
Clasps not her fingers,
Twists not the camp hair
That Ger her brow fingers.
He comes but momentin,
Though her eye lightens,
Though her cheek, pale and thin,
Feverishly brightens;
He stays but moment near,
When that flush fadeth,
Though true affections tear
Her soft eyelid shadeth.
He goes from her chamber straight
Into life's jostle-
He meets at the very gate
Business and hustle;
He thinks not of her within,
Silently signing
He forgets in that noisy din
That she is dying!
And when her heart is still,
What though he mourneth,
Soon from his sorrow chill
Wearied he turneth;
Soon DER her buried head
Memory's light sitteth,
And the true-hearted dead
Thus man forgetteth!
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H4rThere is this difference between happi.
ness and wisdom: He that thinks himself
the happiest man really is so; but he that
thinks himself the wisest man is generally the
reverse.
Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-04-02
CONGRESS-.


The Senate engaged the greater part of Monday in
consideri, the deficiency bill.
In the House, the Speaker announced the special Kansas
investigating committee, follows Messrs. Campbell, of
Ohio Howard, of Michigan, and Oliver of Missouri. They
to proceed to the Territory examine Witnesses &c and
report to the House.
resolution adopted providing for furnishing the
members of this Congress with such books ofa public char
acter furnished The members of the last Congress.
In the Senate, Tuesday, long discussion had
amendment appropratng s35oOOO for paper of
printing and maps. The resolution was adopted.
Mr. Mason gave notice of his intention introduce bill
amending the r.modellng the Diplomatic Consular
system. On motion of Mr.. Brodhead, the Committee
Military Affairs instructed to enquire into cXpedency
of establishing National Foundres in accord
with the recommendation of the Secretary of War; in
his annual report of December 1853 TIE Senate then
sumed the consideration Of the Deficiency BILL and after
wards adjourned
In the House, Mr. Campbell at his request,
cused from serving the Kansas committee and Mr. Sher
appointed in his place. Sherman is black Re-
publican Know Nothing; Howard is black Republican
and Mr.. Oliver is Democrat.
Mr. Phelps introduced bill authorizing the President
the Southern boundary line of Kansas be defined
and marked The bill referred TO the committee
Territories.
lively discussion took place the naturalization ques-
tion pending the bill defining the qualification of the
of Washington Without coming any decision the House
adjourned.
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A STORY FINIsnED-Some years ago Cincinnati
paper received and printed the first chapter of what
promised to be thrilling romance with the expec-
tatiod of being provided with the concluding por-
tons as might be needed. The chapter was very
ingeniousy written, and concluded by leaving the
principal character suspended by the pantaoons
from the limb Of tree over perpendicular preci
pice. 1t attracted the attention Of the press, and
inquiries aboutto be made concerning the con-
tnuation of the story and the fate of the hero Day
after day the vctimizcd publishers looked for the
naming chapters, but in vain, they never came to
hand. Finding that they had been sold, and wish
ing to put stop to the jokes their contemporaries
cracking at their expence, they briefly conclu-
dcd the story thus:
Chapter 11.-Concusion. After hanging to the
treachCrous tree for four weeks his pantaoons gave
way and Charles Melville rolled headong over the
yawnng precipice He fell distance of five miles,
and came down with the small of his back across a.
a stake, which so Jared him that he was compelled
to travel in Italy for his health where he is at pres
ent residing. He is engaged in the butchering
business and is the father of large family of chill
dren,
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- The Wilmington Commercial of Tuesday says: ave
sorry hear that there good deal of thoughcss
exhibited in the Roman Catholic Church Sunday
last, and that the membership exceedingly annoyed
and disturbed not only by the conduct of children but by
those of ripper These things ought not to be at
time, and more especially when the worshippers
gagged in the enjoyment of interesting Festival Of the
Church." Not long since remember to have seen it
stated in the Commercial that the Catholic priest stationed
at Wilmington had been ooted and insulted by thought
less boys, and that while engaged in performing the last
Offices for the dead Now this is depored by all gentlemen
in the K N party but it is nevertheless the natural result
of the bitter and proscrpve crusade waged against Cath
ocs And the press under the control Of Protestant Ed
tors notice and rebuke such conduct without being
charged demagogues and backguards with leaning 20 the
Church of Rome Mr.. Fillmore has beon courteously re-
ceved and handsomely entertained by the Pope of Rome
and why not those of ripper than boys in this
country initiate the example thus set them What would
have been sad if Mr. Fillmore had been treated even with
"thoughtessness" " by the Pope?