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YORKvIILE S. O. THURSDAY MAY A. 1857.

been wont to profit by his alms-giving, would
not for worlds exchange the memory of his
life of mud and rags, hunger and cold, for
that of the man of purple and fine linen,
who had fattened on the good things of this
world, and commanded the confidence Of
dupes to the amount of hundreds Of thous-
ands.
New York is also emphatically city Of
iversities-the diversities of extreme pow
erty and extreme wealth. Here sits the beg
gar child with thin white lips and shiyering
limbs, and there goes man of no better
flesh and blood wrapped in comfort and lux
ury. The moan of distress is heard beside
the glittering carriage wheels.
The life of the poor of New York What
writer he would be who would burst upon
the wondering world with history of those
gloomy thresholds and desolate rooms Tell
the heroic histories, write the unwritten po-
etry, chronicle the unknown greatness, and
the wasted bravery, the love strongas death,
the sacrifices deep as the grave, the lonely
wrestlings with fierce temptations, just to
wake blaze to scare away the wolf hunger
that is howling at the door for some beloved's
sake How full it would be of peculiar
poetry! What picture to weep tears over!
New York is also city where great
cause produces small effect. During our
stay, fearful fire occurred in the vicinity of
our stopping place. The fierce element
ragged wildly for hours, sweeping onward in
its wild might, shooting afar its glowing COL
umns, wrapping its folds around stately
buildings, cracking and sparkling, or leap
ing upward in wild triumph, as the noise of
the falling pile proclaimed how impotent had
been every effort to stay the violence of the
destructive torrent. And yet though q
whole street burnt down, there were numbers
in the hotel who continued quietly snoozing
in their beds, or mentally denounced that
noisy engine between maps; and before the
following night, the whole affair seemed to
pass from the minds of all but the sufferers.
A dozen hearses 60 by their windows in one
day, and nobody seems sobered by it.
With regard to the gentler sex, both old
and young, seem occupied solely in striving,
bustliug, and elbowing each other, in order
to obtain front seats in the gaudy theatre of
fashion. Their life seems really battle Of
chairs, and mirrors of plate, and equipage.
People may talk of the wars of the two Ro-
ses, but we doubt whether they eccasioned
half the care or outlay produced by egrand
struggle between the fair rival battallions of
Fifth Avenue
For ourselves, we would rather be "coun-
try curate" in Washington, than the "sub-
lime Sultan" in New York. Pleasant was
it after the dust and drought of Broadway,
and the Arabia Petrea of a New York hotel,
to inhale the fragrance of the sweet briar and
honey suckle of the Capitol grounds, listen
to its birds, and set foot on its elastic turf
once more. NJ. J. W.
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Tothe A. R. Synod of the South.

Mr.. Moderator and Brethren The First
Presbytery of the A. r. Church submit to
you the following memorial. The Resolu-
tions adopted by Synod, at its last session,
in reference to Secret Societies constitute the
subject of it. Its purpose is, to bring these
Resolutions to your serious and prayerful
consideration only so far as we deem them
inconsistent with, and infracting the Constl-
tuition of the Church and fundamental
principle of Presbyterianism. To the law,
then, and to the testimony.
In Chap. 6: Sec 2: art 6, the Consti-
tuition of the Church enjoins: "But no reg
ulations intended to be universal and perma-
nent shall be established, without previously
transmitting them to the several Presbyte-
ries, that they may have time to consider
and report their judgment thereon"
This requirement of the Constitution is
readily comprehended, and needs no COM
ment. This requisition of our organic law
was not complied with in the adoption of the
Resolutions referred to. Therefore the Res
olutions, and regulations sought to be estab
lished thereby, are palpably unconstitutional,
and have no binding efficacy. The authori'
ty is conclusive, that the ark should not be
moved even by a David, nor touched by an
Uzza, except in the prescribed mode and by
the proper hands.
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NO19.

ed by strychnine, and was fast sinking un-
der its inauence-being unable to stand
when Mr.. Leavitt saw him, and being infor-
med of the cause, be suggested tnat q strong
decoction of coffee be given to the animal.
About half a pint was administered, and it
soon began to get better, and ultimately re-
covered entirely. We recommend this to
the attention of psychologists, who may e1-
pertinent upon animals for the purpose Of
discovering an antidote. Let some expert
ments be made with coffee. It has been
said that lard is an antidote for strychnine /;
but this has been denied by persons who
have tried it. Strychnine is sometimes made
into pills with lard for poisoning foxes and
wolves.
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amisttllmeous &taomg
From the Charleston Courier.
LIFE IN WASHINGTON.

Our Southern bone has gained astonish-
ingly in our estimation by our peep at New
York! How weary, stale, fiat, and unprof-
liable, and how beautiful, how refreshing,
as we were borne homeward by the wings Of
steam, through woods and valleys that seem.
ed to revive Us as by bath Of verdure, af-
ter the stony desert Of the great metropolis.
During our brief visit there we were struck
with the money-loving and money-grasping
spirit which seems to pervade all classes of
the community. The end and aim of life
seems to become rich !-rich !-rich! Pelf
is "the one thing needful," "a strong box
"the ark of the covenant" and the multi
plication table, "the table of the Law
We have, we think, proper estimate of the
worth of money, but we loathe the hard un.
sympathizing nature that would make it a
solitary monomaniac object of worship,-that
would rest merely upon what he has for
ground of supremacy. In our eyes such men,
are less than meu-they are mummies, crea-
ted by the galvanizing process of injecting
their very arteries with metallic fluid. We
would as soon expect to pluck living fra
grant flower from under the scorching lava
etfused by volcano, as detect tender feel
ing in such a heart.
It does not seem strange to US that that
great city should be the field of fearfully
loose and depraved morality-that social de-
velopments there should reveal a state of
things at which pure mind shrinks back
appalled-when we consider that there the
doors of respectability and honor open on
silver hinges-that there every man is meas
ured by what he is worth in the world of
money domestic happiness, reputation,
honor, the prospects of the young, and the
peace of the old-all the finer feelings of
human nature subserve to this worship. The
affections are forestalled like places at an
opera by the first one that comes with ready
money in his hands.
Oh if we could unroof those princely
"up.toaon" dwellings-how many would we
find to be only stately sepulchres, in which
all genuine feeling and simple enjoyment
lies dead, and a chill of mutual distrust
breathes through the sumptuous apartments.
This worship of the molten calf is apparent
everywhere. The children as soon as they
are out of long clothes fancy themselves on
the road to become Rothschilds. We be-
lieys there are men on Wall street who
would cause their children to pass through
fire to Moloch, to secure the stability Of their
house of business, and we verify believe that
were you to drop New York speculator out
of caravan in the desert, his first notion
would be to establish water company at the
nearest well. And yet many of these men
ruin, not only themselves, bu& involve thous-
ands with them, and die loaded with all the
disgrace of commercial swindlers. Then it
is that the man who has keptup false SEEM
ing of opulencc is recognized as knave-
the man Of exquisite assembling unmasked,
that all may point the fngerat his detection!
The very beggar at the crossing, who has
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GoD IN HIsToRY.-It is because God is
visible in history that its Office is the noblest
except that of the poet. The poet is at once
the interpreter and the favorite of heaven.
He catches the first beam of flight that flows
from its uncreated source-he repeats the
message of the Infinite, without always be.
ing able to analyze it, or why he was selec-
ted for its utterance. But history yields in
dignity to him alone, for it not only watches
all the great encounters of life, but recalls
what had vanished, and partaking of bliss
like that of creating, restores it to animated
being. The mineralogist takes special de-
light in contemplating the process of crysta-
lization, as though he had caught nature at
her work as a geometrican; giving herself
up to be gazed at without concealment, such
as she appears in the very movement Of ac-
tion. But history, as she reclines in the
lap of eternity, sees the mind of humanity
itself engaged in formative efforts, construc-
ting sciences, promulgating laws, organizing
commonwealth, and displaying its energies
in the visible movement of its intelligences
Of all pursuits that require analysis, there.
fore, it stands first It is equal to philoso.
ply; for as certainly as the actual bodies
forth the ideal, so certainly does history con.
tain philosophy. 1t is grander than the nat
ural sciencesj for its study is man, the last
work of creation, and the most perfect in its
relation with the Infinite.
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CAPTURE OF A SLAYER.

On the 18th inst, the British brlg-of:war,
Arab, spied suspicious looking schooner off
Falmouth, Jamaica The Post says:
She was closely pursued, and the captain,
finding that there was no possibility ofes.
Gaping from the "Arab," deserted her, tax:
ing with him in shallop his crew, money,
chronometer and other useful articles. The
commander of the Arab dispatched his gun
boat with Is men, under the command of
his first lieutenant, with under the COM
mand of his first lieutenant, with orders for
the capture of the shallop. The chase con-
tinued for nearly three hours-and shot
having destroyed the rudder of the shallop,
the captain, who was owner of the SLAYER,
surrendered. Two of his principal slaves,
and an interpreter, were taken from the shall
lop, and the crew were left in it, to make
the best of their way to Cuba The first
lieutenant then boarded the schooner, and
found her filed with young Africans, males
and females, to the number of 373, no less
than 126 having fallen victims to the hor-
rors Of the middle passage during a voyage
of twenty-nine days. The poor captives were
in wretched condition-all of them we're
naked-and the greater part seemed to have
been half-starved. They were packed close
ly together, and covered with dirt and YER
min. On the arrival of the schooner, in St.
AIMS Bay, several gentlemen went on board
and their sympathies were excited at the
misery they witnessed. Messrs. Bravo &
Brother suggested measures which were
adopted, and with their usual liberality, Or
dered steer to be killed, and soup prepar-
ed for the sufferers; other gentlemen furn-
ished ground provisions, bread, &c., and
while the food was being prepared, the whole
of the human cargo was brought upon deck,
washed, and had blankets given to them un-
til clothing could be procured. Thirty of
them were in dying state. The slave
schooner has two decks, and between them
the captives were packed in such manner
that they had scarcely room to move. Dur
ing each day ofthe voyage they sat in pain
full posture, eighteen inches only being al
lowed for each to turn in, deck.room of
thirty feet in length 300 human beings were
slowed away, and brought up, in platoons,
once every day, to get small portion of
fresh air. The schooner draws but six feet
of water, is of great breadth, and fiat bot
toned, and was thus built to enable her, in
case of pursuit, to run into port where
there was not much depth of water. The
Interpreter states that when slave trading
captains cannot escape cruisers, they make
their way to particular point of land on the
Cuban coast-run the vessels ashore-and
leave the slaves to perish. The place allud-
ed to is surrounded with rocks-none but
fat-bottomed boats can get in-and the
whole Of that portion of the coast is blanch-
ed with human bones.
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KoscIUsKo.-The following anecdote is
related of this celebrated Polish patriot
He wished to send some bottles of good
wine to clergyman of Solothurn; and as
he hesitated to send them by his servant,
lest he should smuggle part; be gave the
commission to young man Of the name of
Zeltner, and desired him to take the horse
which he himself usually rode. On his re.
turn, young Zeltner said he would never
ride his horse again, unless he gave him his
purse at the same time. Kosciusko asking
what he meant, he answered, Gas soon as .
poor man on the road takes off his hat, and
asks for charity, the horse immediately
stands still, and won't stir till something is
given to the petitioner; and as I had no
money about me, I was obliged to give some.
thing in order to satisfy tho horse"
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A MODEL DuN.-An editor out west thus
talks to bis non-paying subscribers and pat
rons. If this appeal does not bring in the
"pewter," We think he need not dun the
second time:
"Friends, Patrons, Subscribers and Ad-
vertisers Hear US for our debts, and get
ready that you may pay; trust us We are in
need-and have regard for our need for you
have long been trusted-acknowledge your
Indebtedness, and dive into your pockets,
that you may promptly fork over. If there
be any among you--one single patron-that
don't owe US something, then to him we say,
step aside-consider yourself a gentleman.
If the rest wish to know why we dun them,
this is our answer Not that we care about
cash ourselves, but our creditors do. Would
you rather that'we go to Jail, and you 60
free, than you pay your'deb and all keep
moving! AS we have agreed we have work
ed for you as We have contracted, we have
furnished our paper to you, but as you don't
pay, We dun you!
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aud regulation"
l. Resolved, That We are opposed to all
Secret affiliated Societies.
2. Resolced, That we earnestly and at
fectionately warn and advise all the men,
bers of the Associate Reformed Church OF
the South, against all connection with such
associations.
8. Resolved, That any member Of the
Church, who shall hereafter connect himself
with such society in the face of this friend
ly advice, shall be viewed, as acting in an
unfriendly, and unbecoming manner towards
the Synod and the Church. We likewise
recommend: that, those members of the
Church, who, are already, in such societies,
abandon the same.
4. Resolued, That the above resolutions
are not to be construed as requiring Sessions
to exclude such individuals from the church.
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Messrs Editors A friend, knowing that
I was not subscriber to the Due West 4ete-
scope, kindly sent me the paper containing
the official report of the proceedings OF the
First Presbytery of the Associate Reformed
Church at its late session at Smyrna In this
District. I experience some modification OF
feeling in being constrained, from sense Of
selfrespect and regard to truth, to say,
that the account, given in these eccleslastl-
cal records Of the subject-matter of the me-
mortal submitted by myself, is a gross, flag
rant, and palpable perversion.
"Col. w. G. Beatty submitted memori-
al" says this official report, "of some length,
(desiening it to reach the Synod through
the Presbytery,) complaining of the uncon-
stitutionality of the act of last Synod IN re-
pealinq tre resolutions on Secret Societies,
adopted oy the Synod in 1855. The Pres
bytery however declined to memorabilia the
Synod on that subject"
The above paragraph is all which is CIV
en- in the minutes of Presbytery in reference
to the memorial. AS Micah said of his peo-
pie, ESQ they wrap it up
The memorial, proposed by me for adop-
tion by Presbytery, does not complain OF the
unconstitutionalty of any act of Synod m
repeating any set of resolutions on Secret
Societies. The memorial complained of the
unconstitutiouality of the act of last Synod,
1856 IN adopting certain resolutions on
Secret Societies. The distinction between
the acts is great. The language of the min
utes misrepresents every sentiment of my
mind, and feeling of my heart. A Report
of a committee of Synod, in 1855, affirmed
ofthese very resolutions, of the passage of
which the memorial complained, that it
tsnnust be Obvious to every intelligent man
that they ,oere glaringly inconsistent.' At
ter the adoption by Synod in 1850 of these
resolutions-repealing them by large ma
iority in 1S55-and re-adoptiug them in
1856, the records of the First Presbytery
now representme as "glaringlyinconsistent," "
as SYNOD has been, and as these resolutions
are IN variety OF respects.
To enable your readers to judge for them
selves, will you please publish the memorial.
I send you also for publication the resolu-
>tions: which some may have curiosity to
read. 1t may be necessary to say Of the
word, affiliated, used in the first resolution,
that it does not mean, "oath-bound," as
some would seem to imply. 1t means Gre
ceived into a society as member" Thus
the,Christian Church itself is an ''athlated
society,"" and the literary societies of Ersklne
College, of which the Faculty of the College
and many Ministers of the A. r. Church are
members, are, in the language of the first re-
solution, osecret affiliated Societies"
Respectfully,
W. G. BEATTY.
Yorkville, May7.
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Original 4o&trg,
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
SPRING..

SPRING.
The snow has melted from the plain
And lovely Spring appears again;
The husbcndman resumes his toll
And gaily turns the deep rich soil.
The trees are dressed in living green
And bursting buds may now be seen;
The birds skip lightly from each bough
And swiftly skim the mountain brow.
The flowers are springing oil around
Their fragrance casting DER the ground
And softly mingling with the breeze
That gently floats among the trees.
The bee is humming round the flowers
Now seeking food for winters hours
And skillfully she fills her cells
With food so sweet that in them dwells.
The butterfly in colours gay
Now spreads her wings and scars away
Ali things are joyous, oil are free,
Sweet spring now holds her Jubilee.
.~.. CARRIE.
Yorkvillc, May 1st, 1857.
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MEN WITH TAILS.

All the scientific research bestowed on
Africa fails to confirm the reported existence
of caudated race of negroes in the inter-.
or of Africa. Mr.. T. J. Bowen, who spent
several years in the interior of Central Afri-
CO, as missionary of the Southern Baptist
Board, makes the following reference to the
subject in his recently published narrative.
In speaking of Nasamu, the executionsr of
the King Of Llorin, Can interior city of at
least 10000 inhabitants,) and others with
whom he conversed, he says:
The Moors and Arabs who had been every.
where, had told them wonderful stories Of
still other countries and tribes far off in the
east. Somewhere on the other side Of Yak,
obu is q tribe of people called Alakere, none
of whom are more than three feet in height.
The chiefs are little taller than the COM
mon people. The Alakere are very ingeni.
Gus people, especially in working iron, and
they are SO industrious that their towns are
surrounded by iron walls. Beyond these
are tribe called Alabiru, who have short
inae1ible tails. As the stiffness Of their
tails prevents the Alabiru from sitting fat
on the ground, every man carries sharp.
pointed stick with which he drills hole in
the earth to receive his tail while sitting
They are industrious manufacturers Of iron
bars, which they sell to surrounding tribes.
All the fneswords in Sudan are made of
this iron. The next tribe in order are the
Alabiwoe, who haEess small goatlike horn
projecting from the middle of their forehead.
For all that, they are nice kind of black
people and quite intelligent. A woman Of
this tribe is now in slavery at Offa, near
Llorrin. She always wears handkerchief
around her head, because she is ashamed Of
her horn. There are other people in this
"Doko" region who have four eyes, and 9th
ers who live entirely in spbterranean galle-
ries. These wonders were attested by ma
tives and Arabs. ... -
Rather tough. But Mr.. Bowen does not
seem to regard this testimony as conclusive. =.
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ANTIDoTE FOR STRYoHN1NE.-Mr. G.
Leavitt, of Rockville, Connecticut, in rela-
ton to the use of coffee in neutralizing the
deadly effects of strychnine, says: A friend
Of his had a valuable dog, which was poison.
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"To su5psrt a man in his cause, the Lord appro-
peth not" Lam. 8: 81.
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ssThsrs are no such things done as thou sayest'
Nehem 6: 8.
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tativcly governed by the same system Of rule
aud regulation" :"
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For the Yorkville Enquirer.
RECTED.

pREsBYTER1AL RECORDS COR
Smyrna times., 1857-01-07
Fall Cloaks and Mantillas.
r WHOLESALE ANp RErAIL.

WHOLESALE AND KhIAIL'
GEO BULPIN & Co., Importers and Manu-
eac,u,a,s or CLOAKS and MANTILLAS, No. l74
CHESTNUT street. "a lew doors above Seventh south
sidel Philadelphia, lin connection with Geo. Bnian'
36l Broadway. " The largest manufacturer ol these
goods in the United States beg leave 10 call the at
tenti of wholesale and Retail buyers 10 their large
aud varied stock uf Cloaks, Tamas, &c, &c. ior The
Eali Trade. t-tt. 4a-
Their eslieet0n comprises a complete assortment oil
all the latest Partsi IN Novelties Velvet, can
tlque Cloth PIaln Silk &c, &c; while The facilities
afforded by their connection with the largest Manu-
faetnrs House (of these goOds) in New York, enable
them 10 guarantee LeiIer value than ls0DalnaDe ese
where in this market GEO BULPIN L. co.
ausa7-3m ia Chesnut III, above Gih
Smyrna times., 1857-01-07
JOHN WIN. GUIREY g. CO.,
BANKERS,

Removed to No. ga South 4th st., Philadelphia.
Foreign and Domestic Exchange Gold and Silver
Cun and all uncurrent Rahk Notes, purchased al the
best rates. ....
Exchange on all available points in the United States
for sale COLLECTIONS made with prompness. and SET
tied at current rates Of Exchange, Without charge, ex-
cepI when al par
Upon Time and Call Deposits such interest will be
allowed as the state Of the money market warrants.
Foreign and American Com furnished for shipping
and custom hoose purposes,
Exchnnge available any where in the British King
dom eight sixty days, in Sums Of IL, and upwards
Smyrna times., 1857-01-07
Sales Of Stocks by Auction.
JOHN WIN. GUIREY,
Aurt;oneer of ,Ntocks on[v,

AuctiOneer Of Stocks only,
will held at the PhIIadslp phIa Exchange, gular sales
Of Stocks Sends and Securities generally. To this
business NEW Philade phial he will give unrcmIt
ting attention and sOcIs orders tor sale or purchase
Parties desrirg ad ances, always draw al sight
10 the amount of IS per OF market value orders
for the psstive unrestricted sale accompanying the
stock
. Commission Including every chargel, OF per
of per cent upon such advance, with current inter
est, will be charged
NIB A list OF Stocks. &c, in the U. S. with --latest
quotations be At the Office, Nos 40 and II
South Third Street. tIan2-iy