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‘‘Noble young creature!’ - thought I; “her artless and warm heart is superior to the bonds of custom ! - ’ I reached within a stone s throw of her. She suddenly halted and turned her face towards me. My heart swelled to burst ing, 1 reached the spot where she stood. She began to speak, and I took off my hat as if doing reverance to an angel. “ Arc you a pedler V’ “No. my dear girl, that is not my occu pation.” ” Well 1 don’t know,” continued she. not very bashfully, and eying me quite stem!} . ‘• “ I thought when I saw you in the meet ing house, that you looked like the pedler who passed offa pewter half dollar-three, ‘ weeks ago, and so I was determined to keep an eye upon you. dlrother John has got home now, and he says if he catches the fellow lie'll wring his neck for him; and I ain't sure but you're the good-for-nothing rascal after all!” Reader, diJ you ever take a shower lath ? For Iticliardb* Weekly Gazette. LETTER FROM CHARLESTON. Charleston, 30th June, 1819. The “glorious Fourth” is at hand, and we are all busy making preparations for the usual commemorations. Steamboat excursions, Fire-works, Orations, Proces sions and Pleasure Parties, form, of course, the topics of all conversation for the pre sent. The Rail Road Companies are issu ing tic kets at two dollars a head, going and returning, to enable every body, all along the lines of road, to pay the Metropolis a visit on that occasion. Our Military arrangements arc as usual, though several of our largest Uniform Com panies are to visit Savannah on that occa sion. A National Salute will be fired at sunrise, by a detachment from the Regi ment of Artillery; ami, after the Brigade Review, a feu de joie by the Infantry. Orations before the Societies. Harbor Ex cursions, Boat Races and Fire-works, will then divide the multitude in various direc tions throughout the remainder of the day. Jhc Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Moultrie was cclcbiated at Sullivan’s Isl and, on Thursday, 28th, by a Procession, | Oration and Public Dinner, at the Fort. A grand Temperance Jubilee is to take I place at Columbia, on the 4th. On the j same day, the State Temperance Society : holds its semi-annual Convention. Flis Honor. Judge O'Neall, the President of the I Society, and the great Apostle of the cause in this State, will conduct its deliberations. The cause is still onward in this State, and there will be a large gathering at the Capi toi. The rage for summer travel increases. Crowds of Steamers go out well freighted with living commodities. Our Rail Roads, and those of Georgia, are disposed to be accommodating; and vast crowds will be attracted, this season, to the Limestone and Sulphur Springs of South Carolina and Georgia, who never contemplated traveling further than the neighboring Islands for recreation. I have no doubt that “Row land's Springs,” “Indian Springs,” “White Sulphur Springs,” and “Stone Mountain,” of your State, will be very popular resorts. In our own State, we have the Spartan burg, Limestone, Chick’s and Bradford Springs, all within easy access of the low country, and possessing valuable medicin al virtues. Last week, there were seventeen deaths in the city, an unusually large number. Os these, however, six, or more than one third of the whole number, died of old age, three bet\ven 90 and 100, two between 80 anil 90, and one between 70 and 80 year* of age. This leaves a balance of 11, two .of which were cases of long-standing consumption, and three or four others dis eases Incident to infancy. No sign, what ever, of Cholera yet! All vessels arriving from Ports, where the Cholera is known to prevail, are re quired to beat Quarantine, until the Port Physician grants permission for them to approach the city. We have no fires nor murders, now, to break in upon the monotony of the dull season. The Courts have all dispatched their business, and people are getting more civilized. Thursday last, 28th, was observed by the Presbyterian Chunehes in the city as a uav of humiliation and prayer. On the same evening, the New Hall of the Sons of Temperance, at the corner of King and Wentworth streets, was publicly dedicated. The Address of Dedication was delivered before a respectable audience, by P. G. W. P. James Tupper, of the Grand Division of South Carolina. Periodical Literature slightly revives. The last number of the Southern Quarterly- Review, now under the editorial conduct of Wm. Gilmore Simms, LL. D., is a high encomium upon the talent and enterprise of this part of the world. Deßow’s Commer cial Review, (the July number,) will be out in a day or two, with fresh evidences of the continued zeal and ability of its ac complished Editor, who is a native of this city, and a graduate of the College of Charleston. I observe that anew South ern Magazine has recently been started at your flourishing young town, which has become, of late years, quite a seat of re finement, education and good society. C. L. Wheler, Esq., formerly of the Madison Family Visitor, is Editor and Proprietor, and he intends publishing simultaneously jn Athens and Charleston. The City Council has published anew Directory for the City, which contains much useful local and other information. It is from the press of Mr. A J Burke, formerly of the firm of Walker & Burke, Agents of several Northern Manufactories in their line of business. We have our share of the hot weather, now so universally prevalent. While we are straining every nerve to rival tire Yan kees, in every thing else, we give in, with out a murmur, on this head. 100 and 135 degrees Farenheit, is too far ahead of us. ’ We can't “go” more than 90, even to save ihe reputation of the “sunny South. 1 ” 11. For Rickard*’ Weekly Gazette. LIFE-INSURANCE—-WHAT IS IT? It is a contract, in which there are three I parties interested—the Company insuring, the person whose life is insured, and a third party, who is to receive the benefit of the insurance. A husband may take out a policy for his wife, a father for his chil dren, and a debtor for his creditor. The person insured pays over to the Company a certain fixed premium, and promises to continue that payment every year, while his insurance lasts ; and, in return for this, the Company promise to pay to the Execu tors, Administrators, or Assigns of the in sured, within sixty’ days after his death, the amount that may be agreed upon. A young man, for example, at the age of 25, who has a wife dependent on his industry, pays ten or eleven dollars every year for ten years, if he shall live so long, and the Company agrees to pay over to his widow a thousand dollars, if he should die within the period for which he is insured. A man of 35, who wishes to make a comfor table provision for his family, pays annu ally $75 00, and the Company agree to pay $5,000 on his death. He may insure for one year, for ten years, or for life—the rates charged by the Company differing, in every case, according to the time the poli cy has to run, the age of the party, and the amount insured. If one insures his dwelling, the amount I is payable when the property is consumed jby fire. In Life Insurance, it is payable |on the death of the party insured. In both cases, an annual premium is paid to the J Company, and in both a policy is issued, containing a promise lo pay a certain amount of money. In the case of loss by I fire, the amount is payable to the owner of I the property destroyed; but, in Life Insu | ranee, the money is payable to the heirs of j the party insured, or to some other person, j to whom the policy may have been as- I signed. A person may insure his life, and i then make over his policy to any person I he may wish—to a trustee for his wife and | children—to a friend—to a creditor—or to | any person whatever. When property is insured, the Company J always limit the policy to the value of the I property. In no case will they go beyond this. However much is insured in one or in several Companies, no one can recover more than the actual loss. When life is insured, there is no limit to the amount that may be taken. A man may have a policy in one Company for $5,000, in another for SIO,OOO, and in a third for $20,000, and each Company will be bound lor the whole amount of their contract. There can be no inquiry into the amount of loss—the carelessness of the party insured—the in crease of risk from new and unforeseen exposure None of these circumstances, which often create trouble in Fire or Ma rine Insurance, can possibly become sub jects of investigation in Life Insurance. A Life Insurance Company may be re garded as a Savings Bank, in which the insured is annually depositing a small sum, to be repaid to his family, on his death. Should he die soon, he will receive his de posits, with extraordinary interest; should he live to the probable period, to which one of his age may expect to reach, he will receive hack all he has paid, with interest; and, if he should live to old age, his family would still receive a handsome sum, to re imburse him for his long-continued pay ments. In every case, the investment is a good one, and characterized by this impor tant feature—that the benefit to be derived is greater as the wants of the insured are greater. Prudence, humanity and natural affection, all invite and encourage such an investment. Let every one, whose circum stances are such that lie needs such a pro vision for his family, inquire into the na ture and character of these Companies, and he will hardly hesitate to avail himself of their advantages. A. For Richards’ Weekly Gazette. LINES Written for the Album of a Female Friend. Fart and far the tide is sweeping. On whose noiseless, Stygein wave, Millions float, with conscience sleeping, To a gloomy, godless grave. Who shall stay the flood careering O'er engulph’d and thoughtless throngs 1 Who shall shield the guilty, fearing Vengeance for unpardon’d wrongs ? No response! 0! God of Zion, Thou alone oanst rescue rend: Let not Judah's rampant Lion From his mountain rush, and rend. O ! reveal the light of Heaven, To the humb e suppliant’s eye— Pour the bli*s of sins forgiven— Guide him to his home on high. There shall ransom'd hosts adore Thee, Far from guilt, and gloom, and grave; And hosannas peal before thee, To the “ God who died to save.” A. M. THE FLOATING STRAW. BY CHAS MACKAY. The wild waves are m.v nightly pillows. Beneath in? roll the Atlantic billows ; And as I rest on my couch of brine I w&t h the eternal planets shine Ever ride Oa a harmless tide. Fearing naught— enjoying all things Undisturbed by great or small things, Alas! for the lordly vessel That sails so gallantly ; iaiiaiDt® sisaw ©aiiitiu * The winch may dash it. The storfua may wash it, The lightnings rend its tall masts three ; < But neither the wind, nor the rain nor the a* a, ! Can injure me —can injure a;:! The lightuings cannot strike me down, j Whirlwinds wreck, or whirlpool** crown; , And the bli p to be lost ere the break of morn, May pass o’er iny head in saucy scorn; 1 And whe i the night unveils iti face, i 1 float unharmed, in my usual place, And the ship may show to the pitying stars No remnant but her broken spars. Among the shells In the ocean dells. The ships, the crews, and the captains lie, 13ut the floating straw looks up to the sky, 1 And the humble and contented man, Unknown to fortune escapes her ban, ; And rides secure when breakers leap, j And mighty ships go down to the deep. May pleasant breezes waft them home That plough with their keels the driving foam, Heaven be their hope, and Truth their law; There needs no prayer for the floating straw, m ol ll aetst* FOREIGN WORDS AND PHRASES. The use of foreign words always seems to imply one or two things: that the wri ter wishes to display his knowledge of the language from which lie borrows, or that he is ignorant of the corresponding words in the English language: in the former case, it is pedantry, in the latter, ignorance, and in both cases is a departure from true simplicity and elegance. A few examples will illustrate our meaning, and show the folly and the danger of the barbarous practice. An excellent periodical, in a critical no tice of Whittier's Poems says, “ The phy sique of the book is charming.” To the mere American this conveys the idea, that as a medicine the book is agreeable. The reviewer probably means that the mechan ical execution of the book is charming, but it may be doubted whether this is a correct use of the French word. Examples of this useless intrusion of foreign words abound most in novels, and the light literature of the day. A novel before us has such expressions as these : “They have just escaped from Paris, where they had been for some years among the detenus .” (detained.) “If it is religion that does all for her, it is a religion of which I can form no idea ; cela me passe.” Here the French is a mere paraphrase of the English words that are italicized, and how will the foreign words help the reader to anything new, —but the vanity of the writer! “ She had surrounded herself with vas es of flowers; to give her apartment un air de fete.” (a festive appearance.) In such books, a medley or mixture is a melange —a fray is nothing short of a me lee, and the select are not chosen but the e litc. Disputants do not differ entirely, but toto coclo, and they do not begin again but de novo, or as some gosling ‘ prefer to say, obovo. It’s all stuff. And yet these are called English sen tences ! We hesitate not to say that no teacher ought for a moment to countenance such works by reading them, and any one who would stoop to imitate them, is un faithful to his trust. If he already can write pure English he needs no such orna ments; and if he cannot write English cor rectly, nothing will more effectually pre vent his doing so than the use of foreign words or foreign idioms. But our newspapers have caught the disease, and some editors who know too little of English and nothing of any other language, allow themselves to use foreign expressions, and oftentimes commit egre gious blunders, without the salutary pain of knowing it. Perhaps no foreign word is so frequently spelled wrong as naivete, a word of three syllables, meaning artless ness, ingeniousness. The common error is to spell it naivette. Then the pretty word posy has been superceded almost entirely by the French word bouquet, or as nine tenths of our editors spell it, bo-quet. As this spelling misleads the speaker, we re commend the pedants to spell the word bou-quet, before it is too late. The most common items of news are in terlarded with such barbarisms. Thus the President is never going to Washing ton, but he is <t route for that city. No remark can be made by the way, or in pas sing, but it must be en passant. A rising of the people is no longer a mob or a re bellion, but an emeute. Our ancestors did without ennui for many centuries, but their sons pretend that no English word expresses the full idea, and even Worces ter has been compelled to give the word a place in his great dictionary. The diffi culty of pronouncing the word more than balances any shade of meaning that it possesses over listlessness, tediousness, irk somness, &c., which the best dictionaries have always given as completely synon ymous with ennui. Some years ago a venerable Boston edi tor discovered that nous verrons was a more expressive phrase than we shall see ; and now every village editor, after giving his view of national affairs, gathers himself up in his arm-chair and utters the doubtful prophecy, “ nous verrons.” Now all this is exceedingly silly, if not positively injurious to both writers and readers. Our intercourse with thousands of teachers has satisfied us that, if they are more defective in one thing than in another, it is in ability to write pure, easy, expres sive English, and this they can never ac quire while they allow themselves to read ! inferior authors, or to expect that the use of a few foreign expressions will atone for want of sense, or neglect of style.— Common School Journal. MACBETH. How performed by John Kemble — Mrs. Sid dons as Lady Macbeth—Fanny Kemble Mutter's readings. Whilst Fanny Kemble Butler was giv ing her leadings of Sbakspeare in Boston, the following communication appeared in the Advertiser of that city. We copy it i for its literary merits, and for the reminis ences it brings up: Johnson says somewhere, I looked for ; the saying, but my eyes did not reach it. He says, that lie who for the first time reads Macbeth, should do it at a heat—he should read it through—he should not quit it till it is done. Let him not stop for questions. It is a life, many lives.— Its persons will die to you unless you are willing to breathe with them, or rather see and hear them breathe and speak. It is action—motion. It cannot stop any more than can the living city stop in its full and multitudinous life and movement. In it things are to be done, and the machinary never for a moment stops. The lady may go “to bed, to bed, to bed;” but you see she does not stay in it. She is up abroad, , candle in hand; and come; forward the “great quell,” with her great eyes wide j open, “ but their sense is shut.” And as for poor Macbeth, he “ sleeps no more.” ; I Was not Johnson right when he told us , how to read Macbeth ! Was he not right when lie said of it, that in its action, its in tense life, it exceeded all other human work, and in this has its great power ! I have spoken of the first reading of this , play, and of the self-abandonment which its true reading demands. When we have done this, then give to it night and day. j and heart and mind. Gather up into one j whole its terrible contrasts. See how Macbeth can change the “ milk of human kindness” into cold murder, and kill his generous king, his guest his kinsman, — one whose life was such that for it angels would plead “trumpet tongued.” And look upon her who for an oath of direct guilt could kill her nursing babe. A man and a woman, too, who reads Macbeth. : must sound the “ depths and shoals” of; his own nature, if either would read it a right. He may find there the key—yes, note and all the terrible diapason— . which would keep in harmony and in rule, | so awful a tragedy. AN ORIGINAL TRICK. The Paris correspondent of the N. O. Picayune, relates the following good sto ry:—“A new method of raising the wind was resorted to a few days since, by a couple of precious scamps, which should have succeed if ingenuity of this kind were entitled to any reward. The sharpest Yan kee would not be ashamed of the trick hit upon by these Parisian gamins. About 10 o’clock in the morning, and a tolerably chilly morning it was, the passers along the Quay au Marche aux Fleurs noticed a young man, with a very melancholy and suicidal look, standing near one of the bridges alone. Suddenly he cast his eyes upward, as if to take a last view of the skies, muttered apparently as if in prayer for a moment, and then plunged headlong into the river. While all stood paralyzed at this rash attempt, a young man came up, and with great simplicity inquired what was the matter. The individual who was floundering in the turbid current of the Setn, and who had just risen to the sur face, was pointed out to him, when at once stripping off his blouse, and ejacula ting that he would save the unfortunate man or perish in the attempt, he plunged in after him. The bystanders watched, with breathless anxiety, as the heroic youth dove, come up to the surface, and again went under in his endeavors to save I the wretch who had attempted his own de struction ; and finally, when nearly all hope was lost, the crowd were rejoiced on seeing the suicide brought to 6hore with life still in him. Close by was a house or station where halt drowned persons are re stored, and where those who rescue them receive the municipal reward of twenty five francs. Thither the rescued and the rescuer were borne by the crowd, the lat ter overwhelmed with the admiration and praise which his gallantry called forth on all sides; but fortunately just as the de mand was about to be given him, and while a subscription for an additional sum was being raised, a policeman stepped up who knew them both. They were broth ers, were two of the best swimmers in Pa ris, and make it their business to go about saving each other's lives for a living.” AN EXPENSIVE NAME. Mr. Prince, a respectable citizen of Bos ton, was recently journeying on the conti nent of Europe. Before visiting Germany, he provided himself with a passport, in which his name and residence was duly in scribed, James Prince of Boston, and set out in plain unpretending style, in compa ny with another American gentleman. At the first town where the travellers s'opped, they were received in a stately form by a guard of honor and a grand salute, for which they were presented with a bill of an hundred florins. At a second and a third town they were received in the same costly magnificence. The two Americans finding that at the rate things were going on, their cash would be exhausted before they had arrived at the centre of the first circle, inquired of the host if private gen tleman like themselves could not pass through the German towns without so much ostentation and expense. The host informed them that they could, if they pleased, travel incog, “but then,” said he, bowing obsequiously to Mr. Prince, “it will be necessary for his highness to take his title out of the passport.” That at once explained the whole matter, and Mr. Prince, having caused the proper coirection to be made, went through the remainder of his tour without being annoyed with further regal honors.” AUGURIES. Frequent mention is made in ancient his tory of oracles, auguries and divinations. Among the Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian and Roman nations, no war was made, or colony settled, nothing of importance, ei ther public or private, was undertaken, without consulting the gods either by ora cles or auguries. They made the most important affairs of state depend upon a bird's happening to sing on the right or left hand ; upon the greediness of chickens in pecking their grain ; the inspection of the entrails of a beast, the livers being entire and in good condition, which, according to them, some times entirely disappeared, without leaving any trace of its ever having existed ! Plutarch in his works tells us he abstain ed for a long time from eating eggs from a dream which he had. He does not make us acquainted with the dream that we may judge of its authority. The wisest of the Pagans knew well the power of these divinations, and among themselves would speak of them with con tempt. The grave censor Cato was of opinion that one soothsayer could not look at another without laughing. Upon one occasion Hannibal advised Prusias to give battle. But upon exami ning the entrails of a beast, Prusias declared it inexpedient. With the utmost amaze ment at hissimplicity, Hannibal exclaimed, “What have you more confidence in the liver of a beast than in so old and experi anced a captain as 1 am.” Marcellus, who had been five times con sul, and was an augur, said that he had dis covered a method of not being put to a stand by the sinister flight of birds, which was to keep himself closely shut up in his litter. —Boston Rambler. A PILE OF SERPENTS. In the Savannahs of Izacubo, in Guinna, South America, I saw the most wonder ful, the most terrific spectacle that can be seen ; and although it be not uncommon to the inhabitants, no travellor has ever men tioned it. We were ten men on horseback, two of whom took the lead, in order to sound the passages : whilst I preferred to skirt the great forest. One of the blacks who formed the vanguard, returned full gallop, and called to me, 1 Here sir, come and see serpents in a pile.’ He pointed out to me something elevated in the middle of the Savannah or swamp, which appear ed like a bundle of arms. One of my com pany then said, ‘This is certainly one of the aoeemblegeo of eerpents, which heap themselves on each other, after a violent tempest; I have heard of these, but have never seen any; let us proceed cautiously, and not goto near.’ When we were with in twenty paces of it, the terror of our horses prevented our near approach, to which, however, none of us were inclin ed. On a sudden, the pyramid mass became agitated ; horrible hissings issued from it, thousands of serpents rolled spirally on each other, shot forth out of the circle their hideous heads, presenting their envenomed darts and fiery eyes to us. 1 own I was one of the first to draw back; hut when I saw this formidable phalanx remained at its post, and appeared to be more disposed to defend itself than to attack us, I rode round it in order to view its order of battle, which faced the enemy on every side. I then sought to find what could be the de sign of this numerous assemblage; arid I concluded that this species of serpents dreaded some colossean enemy, which might be the great serpent, or the caynean, and that they unite themselves, after hav ing seen this powerful enemy, in order to attack or resist him en mass. THE WAY TOJjET MARRIED. It is easy to get married, but not to get married happily. The very means adopt ed by too many young ladies, are destruc tive of solid happiness. Fordyce has is sued some remarkable instructions on this point. He says, “When a young woman behaves to her parents in a manner par ticularly tender and respectful, from prin ciple as well as nature, there is nothing good and gentle that may not be expected from her in whatever condition she is placed. Were I to advise any friend as tohischoice of a wife, my first counsel would be, “look out for one distinguished by her attention and sweetness to her parents.” The fund of worth and affection indicated by such a behavior, joined to the habits of duty and consideration thereby contracted, being transferred to the married state, will not fail to render her a mild and obliging companion.” The largest Flowerandthe largest Bird.— ln 1818, Dr. Arnold discovered in the island of Sumatra a flower which he named the Ruffisia Arnoldi; and which an author has called with much justice “the magnificent Titan of the vegetable kingdom. The human mind, indeed, had never con ceived such a flower; its circumference when expanded is nine feet: its nectarium is calculated to hold nine pints; the pistils are as large as Cow’s horns, and the-eotire weight of the blossom computed to be 15 pounds. Temple, in his recent travels in Peru, states that he shot a Condor, and from notes taken on the spot, gives the following dimensions of its size : When the wings are spread, they measure 40 feet in extent from point to point; the fea thers twenty feet in length, and the quill part 8 inches in circumference- This al- most realizes the fabled rock of Sinbad in the Arabian Night ; but its dimensions, as here given rest on good and very recent authority. A Good Wife.—O, it is beautiful, says Mary Howitt, to live blameless under the poisoned glance of the world; poisoned, whether it be praise or blame ; beautiful not to be polluted by its observation, but more beautiful to be intimately known to one—to nossea one gentle and honest friend, and that one a wife. Beautiful to be able to read her soul as in a mirror, and to be aware, therefore, of every blot of one'sown soul, and be able to purify it against the day of the great trial. ±dzi l jYm&. ffey* On a sailor’s grave-stone, in the Brooklyn navy yard, are the following words to be seen :—“Nobly he did his du ty below, and now he has gone aloft.” Fowler, the phrenologist, has been feeling the “bumps” of Rev. H. W. Beech er, and predicts a most brilliant destiny for him. He says that in ten years he will stand out as the strong ir.an of the age, and be for a long while the master spirit of his day and generation. S&F I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that from which, per haps, within a few days I should dissent myself. A quarrelsome officer lately tra versing one of the Boulevards at Paris, ob served a person turn towards him and laugh. Indignant, he asked, “Why do you laugh, sir, as I pass ?” To which the other quick ly rejoined, “Why do you pass, sir, when I laugh t” Stay To-morrow those that are now- gay may be sad—those now walking the ave nue of pleasure may be the subjects of sor row —those on the mountain summit may be in the valley—that rosy cheek may have the lilly’s hue—the strong may falter —death may have come. /bay* Home can never be transferred, nev er repeated in the experience of an individ ual. The place consecrated by’ parental love by the innocence and sports of child hood, is the only home of the human heart. It should be a fixed principle nev er to suffer the soil to deteriorate ; for, as it costs as much to cultivate a soil produ cing only half a crop as a full one, it is perfectly clear that it is the interest of the cultivator to keep his land always in good heart.— Beatty. fttiT’ Increase your compost heaps.— Economise, carefully, every substance which, by any process or possibility can be converted into ailment for plants. Let nothing be lost. Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feel ings,—as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that be ing considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.— Longfellow's “ Kava nagh.” lEßihaafliDse-. Sunday Readings....for July Ith THE DAY OF ETERNITY. “ The day is at band ” —Rom ..\iii. 12. The revolutions of time shall soon be ’ lost in the ages of eternity ; the dark veil ‘ which now shrouds futurity shall soon be j drawn aside ; Jordan's streams shall soon ’ be crossed, and the believer shall be sur ! rounded by purity and never-ending peace ; j “ the night is far spent, the day is at hand.” \ Consider The brilliancy and grandeur of the day. If this world to the Christian is night, hea ven shall be to him a day. Let us notice : several things respecting it. It is a day of rest and peace. Peace | marks eveiy object there. If there is an o cean there, it is never disturbed by the ruf fle of a wave. If there is a firmament there, it is never darkened by the appear -1 ance of a cloud, and knows not the de struction of a storm. If there are harps there, all are tuned to Jehovah’s praise, and there is not a jarring sound to spoil the harmony. If there is a sun there, it never goes down. There every inhabitant is animated by the same spirit, a subject of the 6ame emotions, consecrated to the same object, employed in the same con templations, and swelling the same song. It is a day of enjoyment and triumph.- What is heaven ? It is the realization of i this hope: “As for me, I will behold thy I face in righteousness.” There is the full, free, and uninterrupted enjoyment of com munion with God, and fellowship with an gels and the spirits of the redeemed. It is an eternal day. Its brilliancy shall never be diminished, its employments shall never close. There is an assembly which no devastation can dissolve, and enjoy ments which ever-rolling ages shall only enhance. Consider the approach of this day. It is “at hand”—the tale of life will soon be told. Death will soon visit us, and the grave wil’ t on receive us. Already, Christian, we may imagine the beams of the morning stretching forth, and the shadows of the night declining. Even now we are on the borders of the unseen world, standing on the threshold of eterni ty, and some of us may be near the brink of that river into which we must soon launch. How many tremble like the last leaves of autumn, only waiting for the gentle breeze to blow them away, and cause them to disappear! The righteous are ready whenever the summons comes; but the ungodly stand as upon a shelf, un dermined by every wave borne in upon it by the tide of time; and if the last shock be given, before they are reconciled to God. they will be engulphed in ruin. EDITOR’S DEPARTMENT. WM. C. RICHARDS, EDITOR. Slants, (Scorflia: 9C Saturday Morning,....July 7, 1819, TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. The annual meeting of the friends of Tem perance in Georgia, is an occasion of more’ than common interest, and claims, at our hands, more than a passing notice. As it was our happiness to participate in the great festival at. Marietta, it will now be’ our pleasing duty to lay before the numer ous readers of the Gazette such an account of it as our memory and hasty notes will al low! The Convention was probably the largest and most enthusiastic that ever assembled in the State of Georgia, for the promotion of a cause so noble and dignified as that of Temperance. By Wednesday morning, when tile Convention was organized for business, every nook and corner of the village was thronged with visitors—and “ still they come,” was the cry on every lip. The suc cessive arrivals of Rail-road trains, from the North and the South, brought large ac cessions to the great cold-water host, that was marshalling for battle, in the cause of humanity; and the query arose in many minds—“ Where shall we find bread to feed all this multitude }” In this connection, it may not be amiss to remark that the most cordial co-operation of all the citizens of a town, so small as Marietta, might yet rea sonably fail to furnish so many thousands of gucsis with comfortable lodgings, as was doubtless the case in hundreds of instances. At the Hotels, every possible and impossi ble accommodation for sleeping was put into requisition, and happy was he who, at the eleventh hour, succeeded in obtaining a place on the parlor-carpet, with his coat up on the back of a chair for his pillow ! If this record should meet the eye of one who, to his own amusement, perhaps, but cer tainly to the almost insufferable annoyance of a score of victims, who were trying to sleep, continued to talk, and occasionally to sing snatches like the following : “ There was an old nigger, and his name was Un cle Ned!” for three mortal hours, we hope he will rest assured that nothing but the excessive good nature of the sufferers prevented him from a summary process of ejectment; and, had they only known each other's mind as well that night as they did the next morning, we fancy he would have been subjected to a bath of night-air, fresh from the summit of the Kcnnesaw ! Here, too, let us express our obligation for protracted aid in beguiling night’s te dious hours, while tossing upon a blanket, stretched upon the floor, to a band of village screnaders, whom wc must call the Chero kee Cowbellogians, in distinction from their prototypes, the illustrious “Swiss Bell Ringers.” With a most commendable zeal and perseverance did they continue “ Parading round, and round, and round” the public square, ringing their musical bells, (!) and occasionally firing a salute of pistols ! It is greatly to be regretted that those who had the benefit of their music were not apprized of the source of it, that their acknowledgments might be publicly made. But we are digressing at the outset, and wc will return. The esteemed and distin guished President of the Convention, Hon. Joseph 11. Lumpkin, arrived just in time to open its session, which he did, after a fervent prayer by the Chaplain, in a brief but eloquent address of congratulation to the delegates. His words kindled a gener ous enthusiasm in every heart, and called forth the loud acclaim of the throng. As the regular proceedings of the Convention will be reported in the accredited organ of the body, The Temperance Banner, we shall pass them by with only a general no tice. The delegations were very large and in discriminate—a fact which encumbered, and impeded the action of the Convention tc such an extent, that out of the necessity of the case arose a measure for regulating the representative system of the Convention. With a very remarkable degree of unanimi ty, a resolution was passed restricting the representation, and prescribing the number of delegates to which all constituent bodies shall be hereafter entitled. Most cordially do we approve this action of the Convention, nor do we think that there is the slightest ground for the apprehension of a few, that it will diminish the attendance of the mass es at the Annual Jubilee, especially a3 they are expressly invited, by a resolution of the Convention, to “ come one, come all.” It will certainly insure to the great cause a deliberative assemblage of chosen men, who will devise those measures, and adopt those plans, best adapted to advance the mighty Reform. The Convention resolved to purchase and distribute throughout Georgia, gratuitous ly, if necessary, a thousand copies of that excellent little work, “ The Temperance Manual.” It affords us pleasure to add that the “resolution” became at once an “act, and the work was procured and placed in the hands of colporteurs for immediate dis tribution.. It will, inevitably, accomplisl l much good. On Thursday, the Convention met at an early hour, but adjourned almost immedi ately, to join in the public ceremonies ap pointed for that day. At nine o’clock, the village square was thronged by dense crowd* of people, who were speedily thrown into* procession, and commenced a march towards “the stand,” that had been.erected in th e adjacent woods. Vie took our position at the summit of t^ hill overlooking the town, and contiguous tc