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great effect, and myself been highly delight.
ed and moved, I have asked myself when he
had ceased: "What the devil has he said ?'
l could never answer the inquiry. His per-
son was full size and his manner and voice
free and manly. His utterance neither very
fast nor very slow. His speeches very short,
from quarter to half an hour. His pro-
nunciation was vulgar and vicious, hut it
was forgotten while he was speaking
He was man of very little knowledge Of
any sort eread nothing, and had no books.
Returning one November from Albemarle
court, he borrowed of me Humes Essay in
two volumes, saying he should have leisure
in the Winter for reading. In the spring
he returned them; and declared he had not
been able to 60 further than twenty pages in
the first volume. He wrote almost nothing
he could not write. The resolutions of IS
which have been ascribed to him, have by
many supposed to have been written by Mr..
johnson, who acted as his second on that oc-
casion; but if they were written by himself
they are not such as to prove any power Of
composition. Neither in politics nor in his
profession was he man of business he
was man for debate only. His biographer
says that he read Plutareh every year. I
doubt whether he ever read volume of it
in his life. His temper was excellent, and
he generally observed decorum in debate
On one or two occasions I have seen him
angry, and his anger was terrible: those
who witnessed it were not disposed to rouse
it again. In his opinions he was yielding
and practicable and not disposed to differ
from his friends. In private conversation
he was agreeable and facetious and while in
genteel society, appeared to understand all
the decencies and proprieties of it; but, in
his heart, he preferred low society, and sought
it as often as possible. He would hunt in
the pine woods of Fluvanna; with overseers,
and people of that description, living in a
camp for fortnight at time without a
change of raiment. I have often been as
tonishedat his command of proper language;
how he attained knowledge of it never
could find out as he reao so little and con-
versed little with educated men. After all,
it must be allowed that he was our leader in
the measures of the Revolution in Virginia.
In that respect more was due him that any
other person. If we had not had him, we
should probably have got out pretty we'll,
as you did, by number of men of nearly
equal talents, but he left US all far behind.
His biographer sent the sheets of his work
to ME as they we're printed and at the eud
asked my opinion. told him it would be a
question hereafter, whether his work should
be placed on the shelf of history or pane
gvric.
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JEFFERSON AND HENRY.

The following sketch of Patrick Henry
by his cotemporary, Mr. Jefferson, will be
found interesting. 1t is taken from the ad
vance sheets of a work soon to be issued by
Boston publisher, containing the private
correspondence of Daniel Webster. In 1924
Mr.. Webster visited Jefferson at his home
at Monticello, and afterwards wrote out the
following opinion of Henry, expressed by
Mr.. Jefferson at the time.
Patrick Henry was originally barkeeper.
He was married very young, and going into
some business, on his own account, was a
bankrupt before the year was out When I
was about the age of fifteen, l left the school
here, to go to the college at Williamsburg.
I stopped few days at friends in the
county of Louisiana. There first saw and
become acquainted with Patrick Henry
Having spent the Christmas holidays there,
proceeded to Williamsburg. Some ques-
tions arose about my admission, as my pre-
paratory studies had not been pursued at the
school connected with that institution. This
delayed my admission about fortnight, at
which time Henry appeared at Williams
burg, and applied for a license to practice
law, having commenced the study of it at,
or subsequent to the time of my meeting
him at Louisiana. There were four examin-
ers-Wythe, Pendleton, Peyton Randolph
and John Randolph. Wythe and Pendle-
ton at once rejected his application. The
two Randolphs, by his importantly, were
prevailed upon to sign the license; and hav-
ing obtained their signatures, he applied a.
gain to .Pendleton, after much entreaty and
many promises of study succeeded in OBJ
tanning his. The first case which brought
him into notice, was contested election, in
which he appeared as counsel before COM
mittee of Burgesses. His second was the
Parsons cause, already we'll known. These
and similar efforts soon obtained for him SO
MUCH reputation, thathe was elected mem.
Der of the Legislature. He was as we'll
suited to the times as any man ever was, and
it is not easy to say what we should have
done without Patrick Henry. He was far
before all in maintaining the spirit of the
Revolution. His influence was most exten.
sive with the members from the upper coun.
ties, and his boldness and their votes over.
awed and controlled the more cool or the
more timid aristocratic gentlemen of the
lower part of the State. His eloquence was
peculiar, if indeed it should be called elo
quence.; for it was impressive and sublime
beyond what can be imagined. Although
it was difficult to know what he had said, yet
while he was speaking, it always seemed di
rectly to the point. When he had spoken il
opposition to my opinion, had produced .
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THE pEDLER's PRIZE.

A cold winters night found stage-load
of US gathered about the warm fire of tav-
ern bar-room of a New England village
Shortly after we arrived, pedler drove up
and ordered that his horse should be stabbed
for the night. After we had eaten supper
we repaired to the bar-room, and as soon as
the ice was broken the conversation flowed
freely. Several anecdotes had been related,
and finally the pedler was asked to give us a
story, as men of his profession were generally
full of adventures and anecdotes. He was a
short, thickset man, somewhere about forty
years of age, and gave evidence of great
physical strength. He gave his name as
Lemuel Viney, and his home was in Dover,
New Hampshire
well, gentlemen he commenced, knock
ing the ashes from his pipe and putting it in
his pocket, "suppose I tell you about the
last thing of any consequence that happen
ed to me. You see [ am now right from
the Far West, and on my way home for win
ter quarters. 1t was about two months ago,
one pleasant evening, that | pulled up at
the door of a small village tavern in Han
cock county, Indiana. l said it was pleas,
anti meant it was warm, but it was cloudy
and very likely to bt dark. went in and
called for supper, and had my horse taken
care of, and after 1 had eaten l sat down in
the bar-room. 1t began to rain about eight
o'clock, and for a while it poured down good,
and it was awful dark out DOORS
"Now, I wanted to be in Jackson early
the next morning, for I expected load Of
goods there for me, which intended to dis,
pose of on my way home. The moon would
rise about midnight, and knew if it did
not rain I could get along very comfortably
through the mud after that. So asked the
landlord if he could not see that my horse
was fed about midnight, as wished to be
off before two: He expressed some surprise
at this, asked me why not stop for breakfast
I told him had sold my last load about al
out, and that new lot Of goods was waiting
for me at Jackson, and / wanted to be there
before the express agent left in the morning
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Selett Aeaoing.
From the Western Democrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. c.,

Besides the honor of being the seat of the
Convention in ITS, that issued the first
Declaration of Independence, Charlotte, in
Mecklenburg, North Carolina, has claims
upon posterity both singularand meritorious.
The centre of fertile and populous country,
she was doomed to see the blood of her sons
shed, and the Declaration of Independence
of all foreign dominion maintained at the
point of the British bayonet.
CORVALLIS called Charlotte the "hornet's S
nest," and unwilling to pay for supplies with
so much English blood, after the fatal battle
at Kings Mountain became known to- him,
his lordship determined to leave this veza-
tious post To prevent annoyance, he chose
to depart suddenly, and in the night. Mr..
McCalfery man of wealth and standing, a
Scotchmap, and resident in Charlotte, was
chosen as their guide to lead them by the
upper and nearest route to South Carolina
After so bewildering thenrmy in the swamps
that much of their baggage was lost, he con-
trived to escape, and leave the army to find
their way by the returning light of day.
Colonel Thomas Polk, so favorably men.
toned in the history of the Declaration,
owned property in and around Charlotte
His mill was between two and three miles
south of the village, and is now called Bis,
sells. His body lies inferred in the grave.
yard of the village. Over his grave and that
of his wife Susannah, his son, William Polk,
late of Raleigh, erected a marble slab, a
memorial of his resting place.
The Polk family came early to Mecklen,
burg, and in the time of the Revolution were
numerous, and some of them very wealthy
They resided, part of them, in the bounds
of Sugar Greek congregation, and part of
them in Providence. Among them was
Ezekiel Polk, the grandfather of James K.
Polk, President of the United States. The
descendants have all emigrated from the
country, mostly to Tennessee, or States fur
ther South.
Garden, in his anecdotes of the American
Revolution, says: "Nor were the ladies in
Mecklenburg in any dcgreeinferior in enthu,
siasm to the male population. find in the
South Carolina and American General Ga.
zette from the I'd to the 9th of February,
the following paragraph:
The young ladies Of the best families
of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina,
have entered into voluntary association that
they will not receive the addresses of any
young gentlemen at that place, except the
brave volunteers who served in the expidi,
ton to South Carolina, and assisted in sub.
DUNG the Scovalite insurgents. The ladies
being of opinion that such persons as stay
lettering at home, when the important calls
Of the country demand their services abroad,
must certainly be destitute of that nobleness
of sentiment, that brave, manly spirit, which
would qualify them to be the defenders and
guardians of the fair SEX
"The ladies of the adjoining county ot
Rowan have desired the plan of similar
association to be drawn up and prepared fol
signatures. ."-iSkctches of North Carolina
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JOHN BUNYAN.

Bunyan had been bred tinker, and had
served as private soldier in the Parliamen.
tary army. Early in his. private life, he
had been fearfully tortured by remorse for
his youthful sins, the worst Of which seems,
however, to have been such as the world
thinks venial. His keen sensibility and his
powerful imagination, made his internal con-
ficts singular, terrible. He fancied he was
under sentence of reprobation that he had
committed blasphemy against tho Holy
Ghost-that he had sold Christ-that he
was actually possessed by q demon. Some.
times loud voices from heaven cried out to
warn him. Sometimes friends whispered
impious suggestion in his ear. He saw Wis.
ions of distant mountain tops, on which the
sun shone brightly, but from which be vas
separated by waste Of snow. BE felt the
devil behind him pulling his clothes He
thought that the brand of Cain had been. set
upon him. He feared he was about to break
asunder like Judas. His mental agony-dis-
ordered his health. One day he shook like
man in the palsy. On another day he felt
q fire within his breast. tits difficult to un-
derstand how he survived suffering so in
tense and so long continued.
At length the crowds broke. From the
depths of despair the penitent passed to .
state of serene felicity. An irresistible i'm.
pulse now urged him to impart to others the
blessings of which he was himself possessed.
He joined the Baptists, and became himself
preacher and writer. His education had
been that of mechanic. He knew no Ian
guage but the English, as it was spoken by
the common people. He had studied no great
model of composition, with the exception
an important exception undoubtedly y-ofour
translation of the Bible. His spelling was
bad. He frequently transgressed the rules
of grammar. Yet the native force of gen.
ius, and his experimental knowledge of al
the religious passions from despair to exsta-
cy, amply supplied in him the want of learn
ing. His rude oratory reused and melted
hearers who listened without interest to the
labored discourses of great logicians and He.
braists. His works are widely circulated a.
mong the humber classes. One of them,
the Pilgrims Progress, was in his own life
time translated into several foreign langua-
ges. It was, however, scarcely known to
the learned and polite, and had been, during
near century, the delight Of pious cotsagers
and artizans, before it was commended by
any man of high literary eminenee.
At length critics sondescended to inquire
where the secret Of 80 wide and durable
popularity lay. They were compelled to own
that the ignorant multitude had judged more
correctly than the learned, and that the. des.
! pissed little book was really masterpiece.
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agogue and temple, now talking to his dis.
ciples as he sits on Olivet or by the sea Of
Galilee, and now dropping word as he walks
by the way. And there is not manifested
the slightest apprehension that what he says
will be lost. He writes it not on stone or
parchment. Nay, he writes it not at ALL
He seeks only to give it a lodgment in the
hearts of the few disciples that followed him
to make them comprehend it, and feel its
power, and love it; and is willing to leave it
there to produce its fruits, and to be written
by the hand of.afFection, if it should be writ
ten at all. And on those Hearts he did i'm
press himself; and they, for the love they
bore him, wrote the mcagre sketch we have
of his life and teachings.
Reu. IT, ID. Williamson.
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FRANCIS. LORD NAPIER.

The distinguished gentleman, now the &C.
credited Minister Plenipotentiary of Great
Britain to our Government at Washington,
is yet comparatively young man. He was
born in 1919, and will be only thirty.eight
years of age in September pext, but he has
had much experience in diplomatic life, hav.
ing been from early years in that department.
A few words as to the history of his family
may not be uuinteresting. The name Of
the original family was Lenox, and was
changed in this wise, as related in an old
history:
"One of the ancient Earls of Lenox in
Scotland, had three sons. The eldest sue.
ceeded him in the Earldom of Lenox; the
second, was named Donald, and the third,
Gilchrist. a. . --
"The then King Of Scots, was engaged
in wars, and among those who were com.
manded to serve him was the Earl of Lenox,
who, keeping his eldest son at home, sent his
second son (Donald) to serve for him.
"This battle went hard for the SCOTS, who
were faced to lose ground-and at last to
run away; which being perceived by Donald,
he pulled his fathers standard from the
bearer thereof, and valiantly encountered
the foe. Being we'll followed, he repulsed
the enemy and changed the fortune Of the
day, where by great victory was got. Af-
ter the battle the King said unto them
8 Iou hare all done raliantly, but there is
one among you avho hath ma pier"-and
calling Donald TO his presence, in regard To
his worthy service, gave himin augmentation
Of honor, to change his name from Lcnox to
Napier, and gave him the lands of Gosford," Z"
&c. .-..., 81
The next distinguished man of tAisline
was Sir John Napier. He was the invento,
of logaritbms, and was also the author of "a
Treatise on the Revelation of Saint John
Hume, the historian, speaks of him as one
to whom "the title of great man is more
justly due than to any other whom his coun.
try ever produced" These works will re,
main lasting monuments of his sublime judg
meut, knowledge and penetration"
The eldest son of this man was Archibald
afterward created first Lord Napier; and the
present Francis, Lord Napier, (now with u.s.
in his direct descendant in an unbroken line
8. The other branches of the family number
many distinguished personages, whose names
and deeds, as soldiers, sailors, and writers,
are found in history They all come from,
this original stock" Donald Ienox1
changed on the battle field (for distinguish
ed valor) to Napier, down through log
arithms, and hard study, and hard fighting,
to the present day, and history as yet records
no act that brings stain upon the name
and blood of Napier. The present Minister
is universally regarded as gentleman Of
close observation and industry, whose urbani'
ty and kind feeling are only equalled by his
modesty and courteous Difference. We have
every reason to hope that be will realize in
his reception and sojourn with us, all the
success and qualification he and his Govern.
lnent anticipate, and that the same spirit in
which he was selected to represent his coun,
try here, will be found in the Government
and people to whom he is accredited.-Jour
Com.
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THE DRED SCOT CASE.

The late decision, or, rather, the series Of
decisions of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States in the Dred Scott case, is of more
vital Importance in reference to the settle.
ment of the slavery question than any or all
the other acts and proceedings upon this
subject-legislative and judicial, State or
fsderal-since the organization of the gen.
eral government.
This supreme and final tribunal in the in
depreciation of the constitution and the laws,
has decreed that negroes or men of the At
rican race, whether bond or free are not citi-
zens of the United States by the federal
constitution; that the ordinance of 1857 was
superseded by the constitution; that the
Missouri compromise of 1920 was an un-
constitutional act; that Shareholders have the
right to carry their slaves into the Territories;
that the legal condition of slave in slave
State is not affected by his temporary sojourn
in free State; and that Congress has no
power over the question of slavery in Ter
ritory, and cannot delegate any power over
the subject to the Territorial Legislature.
The importance and comprehensive bear
ings of these decisions cannot be over-esti-
mated-they cover all the disturbing party
and sectional issues upon the slavery contro-
versy, and strike at the root Of the mischief
in every case.
First, the supreme judicial tribunal of the
Union decides that, according to the consti-
tuition, negroes are not citizens, whether free
men or slaves. In other words, ours is the
white mans constitution, and the negro, as
citizen, is absolutely ignored. The cense-
quence is, that all the existing constitutions
and laws of the free States elevating negroes
to the rights and privileges of citizenship,
are null and void; for, in this authoritative
ly declared meaning Of the constitution, to
be citizen of State is to be citizen OF
the l Lnited States, inasmuch as the constitu.
ton expressly ordains Cart 4, Sec. ~ that
" the citizen of each State shall be entitled
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A PARsoN IN. DIFFIcULTY.-A young
parson lost his way in forest, and it being
vehemently cold and rainey, he happened up.
on poor cottage, and desired lodging or
hay loft to stay in, and some fire to warm
him. The man told him that he and his
wife had but one bed, and if he pleased to
lay with them he should be welcome. The
parson thanked him and kindly accepted it
In the morning the man rose to go to mar
ket, and meeting some of his neighbors he
fell a laughing. Fhey asked him what made
him so merry about the mouth. "Why,'
says he, ~ can't but think how shamed the
parson will be when he awakes to find him
selfin bed with my wife. ."-Pntsburg Pa,
Post.
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Original 4oetrg,
For the Yorkville Enquirer.

ODE TO SPRING.
Sweetly signing
Loves replying
To the heart-sick woods and rills,
Modest maiden,
Blushing alden
Come in song upon the hills.
Winters showing,
And his blowing,
Nip the souls empurpled flowers
And, distilling
Grief, his chilling
Ice-breath kills the rosy hours.
Come, then, wooing,
To the cooling
Of the pine-enamored dove,
Sweet re-cooing
To the wooing
OF her early-mated love.
Charmed at yonder
Bird of wonder,
Catch the spirit Of his song;
And, appealing
To their feeling,
Wake from death the fower-throng.
Pouring daylight
O'er the gray height
OF yon spicy mountain, bring
Tropic blessings,
Soils caressings,
On thine odor-laden wing.
Many an olden,
Many golden,
hove-thought in the poets heart,
Thou hast planted,
AS he painted,
Pierced with Cupid's aery dart.
Days of "Aiden,"
Lovely maiden.
To the fancy-raptured young,
AS they wander,
Wildly yonder,
Rocks, and rills, and meads among
Days of gladness
For the sadness
OF the care-worn, bringest thou;
Asking only
OF the lonely
But grief-dispelling brow.
Hours sweet-gleaming
Are the beaming
Aureola of thy head,
Bending Ger thee,
AsT o'er thee,
Bent the sainted of the dead.
Sunbeams, laden,
Passionate maiden
With. thy smiles o'er earth are hurpd;
While thy finger
Soft doth linger
On the harp-strings of the world.
Bring thy bushes
To the rushes
In the marshes by the sea
And thy whispers
To the lispers
Of the wild.woods melody.
Wake the mountains,
And the fountains,
Where the tiny hanter's.cnp
Scoops sweet waters
For the daughters
Of our sunny "Southron" up.
Yorkville maidens,-
Ours and ''Aiden's,"-
Teach that lore alone is joy;
And their bonnets
Line with sonnets-
Sonnets to the Tore sick boy
Bring IN olden,
Bring golden,
Bring poets, joy to all;
And the nations,
With thy passions,
Lift from everlasting thrall.
Teach Buchanan
How to rein man
With the bit that checks the FREE;
Wed our "Aiden''
To the maiden
Constitutional Liberty.
WILLIE.
3RsKINE COLLEGE, March 4th, 1857.