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SS" Advertising in all cases exclusive of sub scription to the paper. .JOB PRINTING of every kind in Plain and Fan cy colors. done with neatness and dispatch. Hand bills. Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, &c., of every va riety and style, printed at the shortest notice. The REPORTER OFFICE has just been re-fitted with Power Presses, and every thing in the Printing line can l,c executed in the most artistic manner and nt the j, .west rates. TERMS INVARIABLY*'ASH. WINTER WILL NOT BAST FOREVER. Winter will not lust forever : Spring will soon come forth again. And. with flowers of every color, Deck the hillside and the plain. Lambs will soon in fields be sporting, Birds re-echo from each tree ' • Winter's gone ! its days are ended! We are happy—we are free!" Hedge and tree will soon be budding. Soon with leaves be covered o'er : Winter cannot last forever ; Brighter days are yet in store. Sorrow will not last forever, Brighter times will come again, Joy our every grief succeeding. As the sunshine after lain. As the snow and ice of winter, Melt at the approach of Spring, So will all our cares and trials, Joy, and peace, and. comfort bring. When the heart is sad and drooping, Think, though you be vexed sore. Sorrows cannot last forever ; Brighter days are yet in store. OX GATHERING WILD ROSES. The flowers that in our pathway spring. These are rejected— The blessings every hour may bring These are neglected : But blossoms blooming up on high, Beyond our reach, against the sky, For these we pine, for these we sigh. i To seize some tempting distant spray, Waving above ns, far away, Wi crush what in our footpath lay. Those common things, we heed them not, To be despised is sure their lot. Trifles but made to be forgot! But oh'. those lovely far-off thinqs, To those, to those, my spirit clings!— Oh. had I but an angel's wings. To soar away beyond the earth, Beyond its woe, beyond its mirth, And triumph in a heavenly birth! 'Tis thus we yearn and strive in vain, < 'rushing our pleasuees into pain, Till they can never bloom again. . THE WINDOW ON THE PORCH. How came the window open on that stormy morning? It was the old,old story, tin- >tory of young hearts and old heads.— Two young people falling in love with each other ; a person in tiie shape of a father disapproving ; the lover poor, the lather rich : the girl divided between duty and af fection for her parent and passionate tend i in ss for her lover ; and Love triumphing in tiie long-run as he generally does. This was why the parlor window stood wide open tiiat stormy morning; for at' twelve the nignt before she had come down to him, wrapped in white furs and a crim son hood, and had sobbed, "Oh, Charles, I am very, very wicked, and unless Fa for gives me God never will !" which theologi- i cal statement Charles combated bravely, and proved beyond a doubt (to his own heart at least) that there was no harm in marrying whom one loved. Trembling and sobbing softly, though j there was no danger of being heard amidst the gusts of wind and the creaking of the hare dm branches, she let him lead her on tenderly over the soft snow until a dark oh- \ j'rt under the trees slowly developed itself i" their eyes as a sleigh and two horses, and aii old driver, who had been beating his arms against his breast to keep himself warm, helped the lady in, with a gruff sort | 1 sympathy. And away they glided, the j black horses before them, and the white snow about thcin, falling softly, softly over j them, and Janet's head lying upon Charlie's breast, and her little fur-clad form nestled close to his. 1 hey were foolish little peo ple. but not wicked, whom those black horses whirled over the white snow to Hy men's altar that hitter winter's night so long ago. When they found that balcony window open in the gray morning's dawn,and found also a penitential letter blotted with tears, and an empty bed, the pillows of which had not been rumpled, pursuit was useless; j for Janet Grey had promised to love, honor, j and obey Charles Oliver, and he had vowed ; io love and cherish her until death did them j part Forgive them—never !" So passionate j Id Robin Grey vuwed, with many an ex-j pletive not to be written here. Forgive j •', while showing J that pride in his State which would change i every settler into a " cavalier," has been j compelled to make the following most rue ful confession : " Gentl%men reduced to poverty by gaming and extravagauce, too proud to beg,too lazy to dig—broken trades men, with some stigma or fraud yet cling ing to their names—footmen, who had ex pended in the mother country the last shred of honest reputation that was ever held— rakes consumed with disease anil shattered in the service of impurity— libertines whose race of sin was not yet run—and unruly sparks packed off by their friends to es cape worse dest'nies at home—these were the men who came to aid in founding a na tion, and to transmit to posterity their own immaculate impress." (Howison, History of Virginia, Vol. 1, p. 169.) And this same historian confesses that social life in Vir ginia, beginning in such baseness, after more than a century, had developed "an aristocracy neither of talent, nor learning, nor moral worth, but of land and slave in terest." (Ibid, Vol. 2, p. 201.) So much for the testimony of history, even when written and printed in Virginia. I know not the number of desperate per sons.shipped to Virginia ; but there was enough to leave an indelible impression on the colony, and to give it a name in the lit erature of the time. It was this colony which suggested to Bacon the most preg nant words of one of his essays, which furnished to De Foe several striking passages in one of his romances, and which provoked Massiuger to a dialogue in one of his dramas. Let me glance for one mo ment at these illustrations. It is in the essay on " Plantations," that Bacon thus brands the early settlement of Virginia : "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so,but j it spoileth the plantation, for they will ever | live like rogues." (Bacon's Essays, 33.) j Surely there is nothing here out of which to construct a " cavalier." In the narrative of Moll Flanders, the author of Robinson Crusoe, who gives to j all his sketches this lifelike character that j they seem to be sun-pictures, exhibits this ! same colony. Here is a glimpse : " The ; greater part of the inhabitants were of two I sorts, Ist, such as were brought over by j the masters of the ships to be sold as ser- i vants ; 2d, such as were transported, after ! having been found guilty of crimes punish- j able with death. When they come here we j make no difference ; the planters buy them, and they work together in the fields till their time is out. * * * Hence ' many a Newgate-bird becomes a great man. We have several justices of the peace, officers of the trained bands and magistrates of the town they live in, that have been burnt in the hand. * * Some of the best men in the country are burnt in the hand, ard are not ashamed to own it. , There's Major , he was an eminent pickpocket ; there's Justice B r, he was j a shoplifter. Both of them are burnt in j the hand, and I could name you several such as they are" (Fortunes and Misfor tune of the Famous Moll Flanders, p. 88.) t Nothing is said here of '"cavaliers." I have referred to Massinger. Here is a curious bit from one of the grave comedies of that poet dramatist : " Luke. It is but to Virginia. Lady Frugal. How! Virginia! High Heaven forbid! Remember, sir, I beseech yon - What creatures are shipped thither. Anne. Condemned wretches, Forfeited to the law ; For the abomination of their life, Spewed out of their own country." The City Madam, .-let P., sc, 1. j Thus from every quarter the testimony ' accumulates. And yet we are constantly told that Virginia was settled by " caval iers." EAULY SETTLERS OE SOCTH CAROLINA. The territory now occupied by South Carolina originally constituted a part of Virginia that it was carved into a separate colony. Although differing in some re-! spects, the population seem to have been kindred in character. Ramsay, the histori-! an of the State, in a work published at j Charlestown, in 1809, says that "the CII-I igrants were a medley of different nations I and principals," and that among them were j persons " who took refuge from the powers j of fortune and the rigor of creditors; young j men, reduced to misery by folly and excess;; and restless spirits, fond of roving." To j these were added Huguenots, driven from France by the revocation of the edict of I Nantes. (Ramsay's History of South Car- i olina, pp. 2, 3, 5.) But Graham tells us that "not a trace of! the existence of an order of clergymen is < to be found in the laws of Carolina during j the first twenty years of its history."— (History of United States, Vol, 2, p. 88.) j And another historian says that "the in habitants, far from living in friendship and harmony anong themselves, were seditious , and ungovernable." (Hewitt's History J of South Carolina. Vol. 1, p. 104.) Such a people were naturally insensible to i moral distinctions, so that, according to Hewitt, "pirates were treated with great j civility and friendship," and, " by bribery j and corruption, they often found favor with the provincial juries, and by this means es-l caped the hands of justice." All of which is declared bv the historian to be "eviden- j cesof the licentious spirit which prevailed in the colony." (Ibid, pp. 92, 115.) Gra-; ham uses still stronger language, when be i says, "the Governor, proprietors, deputies, and the principal inhabitants, degraded themselves to a level with the vilest of! mankind, by abetting the crimes of pirates and becoming receivers of their nefarious acquisitions." (History of United States. Vol. 3, p- 121) Such is the testimony with , regard to South Carolina. To call such a i people "cavaliers" is an abuse of terms. THE " CAVALIER" PRETENSION DISMISSED TO COX- J TKJIIT. 1 hope that 1 have not taken too much time in exposing a yainglorious pretension ' I which has helped to give the rebellion a ! I character of respectability it does not de serve. I dismiss it to general contempt, as one of the lies by which slavery, the great est lie of all, has been recommended to weak persons who could be deceived by names. But you will not fail to remark how nat urally slavery flourished among such a con genial people. Convicts and wretches who who had set at naught all rights of prop erty and all decency, were the very people to set up the revolting pretension of " pro perty in man." CONFLICT BETWEEN SLAVERY AND LIBERTY. I come back to the postulate with which I began, that the present war is simply a conflict between slavery and liberty. This i is a plain statement, which will defy con ! tradiction. To my tnind it is more satisfac ! Tory than that other statement, which is often made, that it is a conflict between ar \ istocracy and democracy. This in a certain ' sense is true ; but from its generality it is less effective than a more precise and re j stricted statement. It does not disclose the whole truth ; for it does not exhibit the unique and exceptional character of the ; pretension which we combat. For centu ries there has been a conflict between ari stocracy and democracy, or, in other words, the few on one side have been perpetually striving to rule and oppose the many. But now, for the first time in the world's annals a people professing civilization has com menced war to uphold the intolerable pre tension to compel labor without wages,and that most disgusting incident, the whipping of women and the selling of children. Call these aristocrats or oligarchs if you will ; but do dot forget that their aristoc-" racy or oligarchy is the least respectable of auj ever attempted, and is so entirely mod ern that it is antedated by the Durham bull Hubbuck, the short horn progenitor of the oligarchy of cattle, and by the stallion Godolphin, the Arabian progenitor of the | oligarchy of horses, both of which may be traced to the middle of the last century I And do not forget that, if you would find a prototype in brutality, you must turn your ; back upon civilised history, and repair to ! those distant islands which witnessed an oligarehj r of cannibals, or go to barbarous Africa, which has been kept in barbarism by an oligarchy of men-stealers. LIBERTY THROTTGHDCT THE WORLD. Thus it stands. The conflict is directly between slavery and liberty. But because slavery aims at the life of the republic, tin conflict involves our national existence; and because our national death would be tin despair of liberty everywhere, it involves this great cause throughout the world. And yet I would not for one moment lose sight ! of the special enemy; for our energies can be properly directed only when we are able to confront them. " Give me to see," said the old Greek ; and this must be our expla nation now. COURTING. Courting iz a luxury it iz saliad, it is ise | water, it iz the pla spell ov the soul. The | man who* lias never courted has lived in vain ; he has been a blind man aiming landskapes and water he has been j a deff man in the land ov hand organs, and by the side ov murmuring canuals. Court ing iz like 2 little springs ov soft water that i steal out from under # rock at the fut ova mountain, aud run down the hill, side by ' side, singing and dansing and spattering each other, cdying, frothing and kaskading, now hiding under the bank, now full ov ; shadder, till bimebv tha jine and then tha Igo slow. lam in favor of long courting ; it gives the parties a chance to find out I each uther's trump kards, it is real good ex ercise, and iz just as innersent as two mer ino lambs. Courting iz like strawberries and cream —wants to be did slow tu git the flavor. 1 have saw folks git acquainted, fall in lnv, git married, settle down, git tew wurk, in 3 date. This iz just the wa sum folks larn a trade—akounts fur the grate number ov almiter mean mechaniks we hav and the poor jobs that turnout. Perhaps it iz best i sbud give sum good ad vise tew young men who ar about 2 court with final view 2 matrimony, as it was. In the lurst place, young man, yu want tew git jure system awl rite and then find a young woman who iz willing 2 be cour ted on the square. The next thing is to find out how old she iz, which you can dew bi asking her and she will sa that she iz 19 years old, and this you will find won't be far from out <>\ the wa. The next best thing iz to begin moder ate ; say onse every nite in the week for the fust six months, increasing the dose as the patient seems to require it. It is a fust rate wa 2 court the girl's mother a leetlc on the start, for there ix one thing a woman never dispizes, and that iz, a leetle good courting, if it iz done strickly on the square. After the furst year yu will begin 2 be well acquainted and will begin 2 like the bizziness. There is one thing I alwas advize, and that is not to swop fotografls oftener than onse in too days, 'less yu forgit haw the gal looks. Okashionly yu want 2 look sorry and draw in yurc wind as thopu hav pain ; lliis will set the gal to teasing yu 2 find out what ails yu. As a gineral thiug 1 wouldn't brag on nther gals much when i was courtin'. It mite look as tho yu knu 2 much. If yu will court 3 years in this wa, awl the time or. the square, if yu don't sa it iz a leetle "the slickest time in yuro life, you can get measured for a hat at mi expense, and pa for it Don't court for muuy nor buty, nor rela shuus ; these things are jist about as the kerosene ile refinin bizziness, liable to get out ofrcpair and bust at eny minute. Courr a gal for fun, for the lnv you bear her, for the vartue and bizziness there iz in her : court her for a wife and for a mother; court her as yu would court a farm for tho strenth ov the sile and the perfeooshun ov the title; court her as tho she want a fule anil yu a author ; court her in the kitchen, in the parlor, over the wash tub, and at the plan ner ; court this wa, young man, and if yu don't git a real good wife, the fault won't lie in the courting. Young man. yu can rely upon Josh Bill ings, and if yu kunt niak these ruls wurk, just send for him, and lie will show yu how the thing iz did—it shant cost yu a sent. Josh Billings. THE IRON PYRITES,—A man applied to Dr. Jackson, the celebrated chemist of Boston, with a box of specimens. "Can you tell me what this is, sir;"" "Certainly 1 can, sir. That is iron pyrites." "What sir ?" in a voice of thunder, "Iron pyrites." "Iron pyrites! And what's that ?" "That's what it is," said the chemist, putting a lot on the shovel over the hot coals, where it disap peared. "Dross." "And what is iron pyrites worth?" "Nothing!" "Nothing. Why there's a woman in our town owns a whole hill of that— and /'re ntarrifd /er."' WE consider the old man's reply to his son a to the meaning of the word humbug nearer correct than Webster's. " Humbug, my son, is when your mother says she loves me, and dont sew the buttons on my shirt." THE young lady who was struck with an idea, has since recovered. NUMBER 35.