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Written for the Yorkvtlle Enquirer.
TRIFLE.
BY HENRY TIMRoD.

I know not why, but ev'n to me
My songs seem sweet when read to thee.
Perhaps in this the pleasure lies E..
read my thoughts within thine eyes,
And so dare fancy that my art
May sink as deeply as thy heart.
Perhaps love to make my words
Sing round thee like so many birds,
Or, maybe, they are only sweet
As they seem offerings at thy feet.
Or haply, Lily, when I speak,
think, perchance, they touch thy cheek,
Or with yet more precious bliss ..
Die on thy red lips in kiss.
Each reason here-I cannot tell
Or all perhaps may solve the spell.
But if she watch when I am by,
Lily may deeper see than I.
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"PERLA."

We welcome right heartily our new lady con-
tributor, PERIA, from the State capital. Her
first letter will be found to be graceful intro
duction of herself to our readers. The ENaUT-
RER will be glad to visit Columbia next summer
and, to see the spicy PERLA in gay and beautiful
YnrkYille
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little ones room to expand, parents; let nature.
not your family pride or something worse, guide
them to profession and life will be q real,
earnest, manly struggle for success, usefulness.
and happiness. The child is father of the man. ,
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GOLD MINE.

The attention of "gold hunters" is cited to an
advertisement in another column on this SUBJ
ject.
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poSn oEu1cn nIscoNTINUED.

"Be,hel" post Office in this DISTRICT has been
discontinued. All mail matter intended for that
point, until further notice, will be sent to "ze-
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COLUMBIA CORRESPONDENTS.

/
,..-. CopuMBIA, Feb. 9th, 1860.
Dear Eaguirer: wish could tell you what
awsrm welcome always awaits your coming at
freside not q great distance from where I now
sit. l can't do il, Sirs, butif you recall the
first time you anticipated Christmas how snx-
iously you awaited the growing Of the cock on
that morning; you will have some faint concep-
tion of the pleasure with which we expect your
visits. And as you are calling back your child
hoods days, just remember how You crept out
OF bed in the cold, and reached the stocking
Kriss Kringle had filed. Didn't you enjoy that
little trip across the aoor :. And don't .oe enjoy
that slam Of the front gate which heralds the
coming both of Pa and the YoRKyrILE EsoU1-
aER?
Yesterday was Sunday gloomy, rainy SUM-
day. In the morning heard an excellent SER
mon on the text: Walk in love- It does seem
(now, don't frown, Mr.. ENQUIRER; I'm not going
to re-preac6 the sermon) that this would be an
easy duty. Love? Why, it's what the heart
lives upon You, who have friends around you,
smile at the thought. walk in love? You
couldn't walk without It. But this Is not the
1oye' the Apostle enjoins-'Love your enemies:
and this is one of the. hardest lessons Scripture
inculcates. '''' = -''. rr'
Madame Anna Bishop is to entertain rs this
evening. To night Columbia's beauty and chival.
y will crowd Kinsler's Hall 7; and how many do
you suppose, while listening to the music, will
think Of the singer? It must be q most trying
thing to scoman thus to appear before hundreds
of eyes. only wonder that there are not more
instances of stage fright on record. Anna Cora
Mowatt said she never experienced this but once
-"but," she wrote, ''it was drea iful.' 'ss-
Iwish, Dear ENouInER, you would visit Co.
lumbia next Summer. If you can't do this, do
get your contributing Editor to give your read
ders description Of Columbia and the woods
around, when the gardens are all abloom with
flowers have never visited your home and,
though have heard 1t is beautiful, do not
think it can rival my own in Its floral treasures.
As you pass through some Of our streets and
gardens you almost fancy that it only wants the
angels to make it Heaven. We have tall sorts
and conditions Of flowers, from the little daisy
that blooms at your feet, to the proud magnolia
whose pearly blossoms seem playing at thids
! and seek among the shining leaves. If earth
has aught of perfect beauty and purity, it re-
sides in the bosom of the flowers I wish Won
could have wandered, as did, last Summer,
through H's beautiful garden and greenhouse
wish you could have returned, as did, laden
with fragrant gems to gladden. the heart of O
friend with !; I wish you could have heard from
his lips, as I didn't, that you had made him hap
Il py. ..- H..
| Well, didn't intend to write you such q long
letter, but the deed is did, only hope have
not worn my welcome threadbare;' Tor, if roth-
ing interferes, you will soon again hear from
your friend PERLA.
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CHESTER CoRREspoNDEECE.


s.-=.r. 49, gsr CHESTER, Feb. Z, 1860.s-
The citizens Of Chester District have received
through the STANDARD, o cali to meet and discuss
political matters in general, and especially, the
propriety Of sending delegates to the Charleston
Convention. The meeting took place yesterday.
Resolutions were passed to appoint q, delegation
to meet in Columbia with Delegates from the 9TH
er Districts, to appoint delegates to the said Con-
vention. The meeting, owing probably to the
state of the weather, was not largely attended.
We had three speeches, after the resolutions
were adopted. Mr.. McAI1IY was called upon,
and gave quite lengthy speech, very much after
the old cooperation style. It took the speed
Of q 40 on plank to keep up with him, as he
jumped from Rome and Greece, to Providence,
r. t. SC. I regard his doctrine as the same
old do-nothing song: mako platform, elect
Democratic President, and keep the party togeth-
sr by concessions; and move only when Virgin.
ia, Georgis, Alabama and Mississippi, and oil
the other Southern States are willing to go with
US. This is giving up the, question entirely. II
we nave cause 70 act let our Jul action Dc based up
on higher and more independent ground and, if
we intend to submit to every aggression, letus
quit talking aboutit t@F;,-! - -ai.G
The other speeches were made by DR.. 8. W.
DOUGLASS and T. W. MooRE. They are not in
favor of President making; and think that We can
gain nothing by meeting in Convention with
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GBe Ymktill& &nq1tiru

EDITED BY
SAM,I, w. MELTON. WIN. W. EAST
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR:
JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. Columbia, 8.
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fancy. We know that you will join with US in
hoping that we shall have more gems from tn,
same mine. We reserve word for Mr.. TrMnoD'.
book one of these days. In the meantime W.
advise everybody to get it, so as to glance ovel
its points with US, when we come to it. GLASS
has it for sale.
Poetry that Pays.
We have just read TENNYsoN's last poem-tSec
Dreams; an IdyU.' The newspapers say that
he received fifty dollars line for it. 1t has just
three hundred lines, 1--WE counted them) and
accordingly brought the handsome sum Of $15,-
OOo 1t pays to,be Poet Laureate these times.
The Laureate's lines are fallen unto him in pleas.
ant places. No idle dreams are those Idyli
Dreams of the sea, we see. Seriously, however,
we do not think the poem equal to Tennyson's
genius. We are yet so young as to deem that be
did better when he was quite young man, and
wrote Locksley Hall and others of that style.
Madame Anna Bishop.
We Co!umbians were delighted (some more,
some less) by this cantratics on Monday evening.
Her high-strung operates we-the contriburorial
we-did not enjoy much; but her oft in the
Silly Night aud Robin Redbreast'' were, to
our simple-song-loving ear and heart, quite fine.
Her Home, Sweet Home was marred by an
unhome-y air that Madame wears. Her Coming
thro' the Rye was-we dunno-rather young for
the matronly presence of Madame Ann. In the
duett, 'Guanto Amore' for, Donizetti's Elisir
TAmore, which she sang with Mr.. Rudolphsen,
the same objection struck us. Madame is state
ly-rather majestsuss, as we say in domestic
Russian-and as to person, she has, at least,
embonpoint. She has met the years of life right
bravely for she must be nearly forty. We in.
fer this age, for gentleman near us observed
that he heard her sing thirty EIGHT years ago
| We think she must be nearly forty. She doe.
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|
in the days Of ALFRED or ErHELBERT the pre-
pailing custom. To require unanimity in thu
verdicts of men who are sworn to decide accord.
ing to evidence, they say, is often the cause o.
perjury.
BLACKSTONE and Sir JOHN CoLER1DGE are the
champions of the other side of the question:
BLACKSTONE, in his commentaries, says that tri
al by jury is the palladium of civil liberty and
Sir JOHN, that we are more indebted to it than
any other institution in the country. The pres
ent law, requiring twelve to agree, is argued tc
be the result of large and wholesome experience
since the days of ALFRED and if perjury result
from the requirement of unanimity, it would
sometimes also attend the verdict Of g majority
But this is false Interpretation of the meaning
Of the word. For jury to blend together their
different impressions of the evidence in a case,
and mould therefrom verdict, is not perjury
but the highest fulfllment of the duty which they
owe to society.
Again, it is argued by the friends of change,
that the principle Of laval men are supposed
to be innocent till proved guilty'-does not ap.
ply in great mass Of civil cases, where it is moi
question of guilt or innocence simply, and
where the balancing Of the merits and dement's
of the litigants is the great business of the jury
In support of this argument, cases have beer
cited in which, in consequence of difference Of
opinion among jurors, abused compromises have
been made, to the great detriment of public jus.
tice. Tne London Times has suggested, plan
that would receive the assent Of the most eau.
tious, proposal made years ago, tina: after q
jury should have been locked up certain time,
the judge might take the verdict of ten Of them,
if in accordance with his own opinion
- The Democracy Of Kentucky have taken
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A satisfactory Answer.

An attournoy in the country recently re-
cclved an account from abroad for collection
and III reply he made the following state
ment, OF the financial condition of the section
of Minnesota in which he resides. which was
doubtless perfectly satisfactory to the credi-
tors
Now, am perfectly astonished at vop
t3' sending claim out here for collection in
theSe tiR!eS. You might as well cast your
net ihto the Lake o. Fire and Birthstone
expecting to catch sGnfish. or into the eel
ebrated Stygian Poo to,catcf speckeled trout
as to try to collect money here. Money -,
| have a faint re 2oilec ion of.seeinc II wn.n
! was small boy. believe it was given me
by my uncle tObuy candy with. CThe can
dy do not rcmember) But it has been
so long since | have seen any, that almost
forget whether gold is made of corn or mus
tard, or silver ofwhite onions or fish-scales
Why, sir, we live without money. You're
behind the times. 1t is relic of barbarism
OF ages past. We live by eating, sir--we
do. Hoot, man, the millennium is coming
the year of jubilee has come, and all debts ara
paid here Gas much as they will be, )unless
you take prtJuce" The word money! ia
not in our yo-oab-u u-lary, in the latest Web
ster (revived for this meridian) it is marked
obsolete, formerly coin representing value
and used as medium of commerce. A few
small pieces can be seen in our Historical So.
clety's collection, where they are exhibited
as curiosities, along with the skeleton of
the ,,Mastodon,' Noah's old boots, and Adams
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The Pennsylvania Coal Trade.

The Pennsylvania Coal Trade for 1859 is
put down, in the Eastern section of the State,
at 1929 tons, and in the Western four
millions more, which gave value of thirty
five million dollars. This great business,
that employs many men and so much capital,
has called for the digging of canals and the
building railroads, gives freights to so
many vessels and profits TO so many mer
chants and traders, and on which we de-
pend for heathing purposes, gas, and motive
power for machinery, is all ofrecent growth
1t is not long since coal was considered of
mineral origin and not vegetable, and it is
still less than forty years since its mining
commenced in the United States. 1t would
puzzle the world to know how we should get
along without coal now but persons are vet
young who saw the world get along without
it and thrive grandly.
Anthracite has been an article of domes-
tic traffic but thirty-nine years. In 1920,
some 365 tons came down the i.ehirh canal
and gradually 1t has increased to almost
eight millions last year. 1t is PRINCIPALLY
from three regions-the Lehigh fields that
last year yielded ,G2S,2t tons the Schuyl-
kill mines that were first opened in 1923.
and have this season sent more than three
millions to market and tie Wyoming dis
trict that first opened in 1929, and now has
furnished more than two and a half million
tons.
The total Anthracite coal from 1920 Ia
1859 was 81, 721, ,920 tons; and when We
remember that the sources are absolutely in
exhaustible, and that more and more will
be called for each year, we can see what an
immense amount of wealth Pennsylvania pos
seSs
A singular provision Of nature is this coal
formation. How eonsiderste the Providence
that cares for us, that when that world was
oycrgrown with mosses and ferns, and large
trees--the growth Of the low lands and the
swampS and the lands we're yielding to the
ocears, these should have been swept toseth
er and scaled up with layers of saudIand clay
and stones, beneath which chemical change.
ro on till these vegetables in this latter peri.
ol OF the world should be discovered in vas
sheets ofcoal TO enrich their possessor
And how wise was it too, for the peopl,
who most needed them, to inhabit the land,
were they We're bedded. Asia and Africa
have little coal--nor do they need much: Eu
rope has more, say $1,000 square miles
Es gland has relatively more still, some !, ,0o(
square miles, and it is to her fountain o
wealth better than gold while the United
States have coal fields of two hundred thou
sand square miles a source ofpower, wealth
and greatness, ofwhich'wcare just be ginning
to have an adequate idea.
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ChaSte Language.

Our good old English tongue is susceptible
ofgreat variations. 1t will utter in sweet sem
tences, smo thand soft as flowing honey.
the hottest feelings of tenderness and affec
ton, or it will CRATE harsh dscord or thunder
maledictions. 1t will 10 what ever it is as
ked to do. 1t is pliable ipstrument ready
to serve many purposes. From some lips Il
isbeautiful and musical, charming the ear
and delighting the soul. From others it Is
rough, coarse, discordant. 1t expresses
what is in the speaker or writer. Good Ian
guage is ever beautiful thing. Who does
not love to hear It'll 1t indicates gentle-
man, lady, and scholar. 1t is evidence
of refinement, taste, good manners, culture,
judgment, good breeding. 1t has a happy
influence, is ever the proper feelings. II IS
said that at one period Athenians were so
cultivated thata public speaker would be
Missed by the common people for coarse
expression or an ungrammatical SENTENCE
This, perhaps is fastidious refinement: but
pure and proper Language is ever delight
full and ought always to be used. For home
use, for friendship, for business, for social
life, how admirable is chaste language. A
grammar, dictionary, proper attention to
the cultivation OF ones every day speech,
will soon give one correct and agreeable nab
its ofconyersation. ..
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correspondent of the New York Vnrer-
ly gives the following as one of the many in.
cidents that befall 'boarding-round' school
master @t
/ had been teaching in Mason county in
this, the Suckeri State, and this term was
boarding round.i One evening, after school
one my little scholars stepped up to me
and said:
"Mr. Jones, father said you would come
home with me- - =
VERY well, YSsaid I, and forthwith set out
for my patrons house, which was distant
some two miles Now, be it known. James
Mcliarry, for ouch was his name. had two
daughtcrs-the pride and envy of the whole
community. | had heard so much about
them that was naturally anxious to see
them. 1t seemed, however, that I was to
be disappointed. When | arrived learned
that the 'gas had gone to a party the other
side of the creek; so went to bed, execra-
ting the luck which had deprived me of see-
ing them that night.
The night had well advanced. when T
heard one of the girls come home, and pass-
ing into the adjoining room. she warmed
herself before some Goals which were alive
on the hearth. 1t seems the old gentleman
and lady slept in the same room, but was
not aware of it them Having warmed her
SELF she turned to leave the room, when the
old man spoke "Girls." said he, " the
schonlmaster IS in your bed"
''Very WELL" said Sarah, and passing
| through the room Slept in, went up stairs.
Ahoqt an hour had elapsed, when / heard
judy, the other one, come. She stood at
the door long time, talking with cher fel-
ler,'N then entered softly. Disruhing her
feet, she entered the room where I Law, in
stocking feet, carefully undressed herself.
and coming to the side of the bed. prepared
to get in. Now, lit happened that | Law in
the middle of the bed, and. turning back the
clothes, she gave me shake, and said, in a
suppressedNwhisper sE
Lay over, Sarah.''
| rolled over, and whipped the corner OF
the pillow in hsareuth to keep from laugh
ing. Tn she bounced, but the bed would
squeak. The I'D man heard'it, and called
out: -'.-
Sir was responded in faint voice from
the bed beside me-
1.-The schoolmaster's in that bed 10
With a loud veil and an "Oh Heavens y
she landed on the floor, and fed with the ra.
pldity of deer, up stairs. She never heard
The last of If can foil yo,
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A Boy BABY.-The editor of the Canton
Repository expatiates on the happiness con-
terred by boy baby: "It is with feelings
too deep for utterance and sense Of obliga-
ton Overwhelming, and of worldly conse-
quence never before experienced, and with
heartfelt ecStacy never before dreamed of.
that the junior editor of this paper announces
to his friends and the rest of mankind, that a
son was born unto him on the morning of
Friday last. To our readers, male and fe-
male, who are married and childless, we saw,
get boy. To our unmarried friends, who
are of ripper age get married and then-get
boy. To those who have spent long,
weary years in search of an unfailing source
of Joy, we say, that we never knew what it
meant until we saw our darling boy. If we
were not so corpulent we would cut such fan
tastic figurs before the couch of helpes inno-
cence as would make the angels laugh. A
general reprieve is granted to all political
offenders, and an earnest appeal to those in
pecuniary arrears. to liquidate at the earliest
possible moment, as the young gentleman
must be fed and clothed
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A CHINESE NEwsPAPER.-The Boston
Traceller says: "We have received a copy
of the Pekin Gazette. the organ of the Gov
ernment issued daily, and the only paper
in the Chinese language now published in
that country of four hundred and fourteen
millions of people. 1t is printed on rice pa
per of dingy drab color, with yellow pa
per cover. Each page contains twenty six
lines, of seven characters each. In all there
are seven pages of four inches each in width
and ten in breadth. Its entire contents
would not fill a half column of the Traveller.
1t is remarkable fact that this paper was re-
ceived via Japan and California
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Adopted-

| Adopted.
Mr.. Bennett, by leave resolution, tha,
ommittee on Judiciary enquire into author.
ity to order the printing of school Laws, by
1.-THE Board of Education.
Adopted.
Mr.. Williamson, of Louisa. Resolution
that the Secretary of State report as to the
title State to the State House. and wheth-
er the lease had been recorded in Polk coun-
ty.
Adopted.
Mr.. Paulk, by leave, introduced bill fix
ing pay of Jurors.
Referred.
Also, concurrent resolution that the Legis-
lature is not percluded from the right to
change the rates of pay for printing after
the election of State printer, so as to bind
the officer.
Adopted.
Mr.. Hall, by leave, resolution that commit
tee on Des Moines River Improvement re-
port as to the condition Of the dams in the
Des Moines River, and the obligation of mill
owners to keep the same in repair.
Adopted.
Mr.. Jones, by leave, resolution that COM
mittee on printing report why the Messages
have not been laid on the tables of members.
Adjourned to 10 A. M. Monday.
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NINETY SIX MEN TAKEN CluPTIyE BY TWEEN
| TY MEs.-What viii the rank and file of the
Democrats of the North west say when they
| read by today's telegraph, that their Repre-
sentatiyes in the House have gone over, body
and soul to the Southern Know Nothings p
The Democracy, whose lopdest boast is, that
they never will affiliate WI party that os.
iracises voters Qf4preign bhth, have, as 4
body, abandoned tbeir own man in the con-
test for Speaker, and gone over to the sup
port of an out-and-out Kndw Nothing a
slavery extension Know-Nothing at that,
and las if to make the s,nrefder absolute,
one Who never drew Dernoab batic breath in
lasted, and until the Know-Nothing party at
the South arose onfts ruins.
| The great Mahoniet of Denlseracv, num-
bering ninety-two hen, was forced to go to
the Know Nothing Mountain ofonly twenty
men. Was there ever such a surrender OF
the Democratic army, since Brown and his
sixteen followers took the whole State of Vir-
ginia Let us have an Investigation into
this raid, and see who armed and equipped
| this band oftwentytS Whig Know
Nothings, that they could Surround this ar,
my of ninety-two Democrats, and take them
prisoners. Who opened the citadel of Dem.
ocracy, and let in this bands
| And among the numbers of those who
surrendered, was Cox of Ohio, the great ex.
FOUNDER of the Democraticfaith ofthe North.
west, who proclaimed withastentorian voice
no longer than JAM Is, that the Democracy
of the Northwest would never support q
Know Nothing who proclaimed with tn,
same breath, that it wassa vile SANDER upor
the Northwestern Democracy to say that i
was under Southern dietation; this sam,
Cox was one of the Democratic regular army
ofninety-two, who laid down their weapon,
of warfare at the feet of twenty Wing, Sla
very extension, Southern Know Nothing iii
libusterers.-C Cleseland Herald.
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Old maids are if possible more laughed at
than old bachelors, though know not with
what reason. 1t is generally supposed that
old bachelors are such from choice, while old
maids are so from necessity. Public opinion
is here again at fault, at least in some cases
where women remain single from their own.
But those who are looked upon as the real
old maid are class of females who by no
means of their own free choice array them
selves in virgin white; but like certain des-
olate countries of the middle age, they con-
tinue free because no one ever thought them
worthy of conquest. They have outlivesl
their time, and, like certain unskiful arehers
bent their bow till il broke.