here; and we are drawn contrarywise, and vibrate between the two. A little longer, and almost all have crossed over; the balance settles down on the spiritual side, and the home-centre is removed to the upper sphere. At length you see nothing but an aged pilgrim, standing alone on the river's bank, and looking earnestly toward the country on the other side."

After the adjournment of the religious Union Meeting, that had been kept up a week at the Euhaw Church (and had not only been successful in determining many to think and act seriously about eternal realities, but had also rejuvenated in the minds of old professors, the great felicity and dignity of sympathizing with Jesus Christ in all their walks through life), we find Mr. and Mrs. Wyndham once more free from company, and quietly enjoying each other's communings around the family fireside, surrounded by their nine happy, healthy, obedient children (for in those days they were taught self-denial, and veneration for the wisdom of superiors in age and station, and strict loyalty to the Bible and parental authority.)*

Presently two black waiters, neatly dressed in a livery of fine grey woollen cloth, turned up with black

"Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a State; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependants on Heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn: by this we become good magistrates; for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole State may be said to resemble one family."-GOLD

velvet, announced breakfast; for family prayer had been already offered for God's protection and guidance during that day.

The wife had, as usual, risen early in the morning, with her children, to pluck from the courtyard a mammoth bouquet, to be placed in a rich vase in the centre of the table; for her husband never ate a meal, with pleasure, where flowers did not form the refining accompaniment. Fruit - baskets, also, on either side of the table, contained the yellow, brown, and blue fig, the sugar pear, and pomegranate, and luscious oranges, growing to full perfection, and turning a rich yellow, on the trees in her own garden (not plucked half-green in the West Indies and merchandised here, where the color is produced from the "sere and yellow leaf" of decay, as is always the case in the Northern market where this splendid fruit is brought so unripe as to give no idea of its natural taste where it grows to perfection), a large covered dish of small hominy (for this bolted corn grits is the standard breakfast of South Carolina), piling plates of rice waffles, and johnny cakes, and sweet potato* fritters, and corn flannel cakes, and fried young drum fish, and whiting, and mullet, completed this family breakfast.

* Barrow, in his History of Southern Africa, remarks, "that the Hottentots, whose stomachs are not very nice, dislike the taste of the potato, and refuse to eat it."... "It is curious enough," says he, "that this poisonous root has been rejected at first by most nations."... "Strong prejudices existed against it when first it was introduced into England, where the privation of it now would be one of the greatest calamities that could befall the country.”

Arriving at the table, the children having respectfully waited until papa and mamma were seated, little James said (a short *) grace—namely, "Make us truly thankful, O God, for our daily bread; and devote us to thy service as long as we live, for the merits of Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen!" Mrs. Wyndham poured rich cream, fresh from the dairy, into her husband's strong coffee, and a plenty of wholesome milk into the hot water for her children (the cows feeding in the rice-fields yielding the purest milk; and butter yellow

* John Wesley, the great Methodist Reformer, says, "Long prayers and slow singing is a sure sign of declension in religion."

"How COFFEE CAME TO BE USED.—It is somewhat singular to trace the manner in which arose the use of the common beverage, coffee, without which few persons, in any half or wholly civilized country in the world, would seem hardly able to exist. At the time Columbus discovered America it had never been known or used. It only grew in Arabia and upper Ethiopia. The discovery of its use as a beverage is ascribed to the superior of a monastery in Arabia, who, desirous of preventing the monks from sleeping at their nocturnal services, made them drink the infusion of coffee, upon the report of some shepherds, who observed that their flocks were more lively after browsing on the fruit of that plant. Its reputation spread throughout the adjacent countries, and in about 200 years it reached Paris. A single plant brought there in 1714, became the parent stock of all the French coffee plantations in the West Indies. The extent of the consumption can now hardly be realized. The United States alone annually consume it at the cost of its landing of from fifteen to sixteeen millions of dollars. You may know the Arabia or Mocha, the best coffee, by its small bean of a dark yellow color. The Java and East Indian, the next in quality, are larger and of a paler yellow. The West Indian, and Rio, have a bluish or greenish-grey tint."

as gold, churned every morning), for she never ate anything herself until all of them were abundantly helped. Then conversation, or rather talking, commenced. James announced that the grey mare had just had a beautiful little colt, and would not dearest papa give it to him for his own self? Halcombe begged to let him take a ride to Mr. Gluvoer's plantation to see some nice little boys from New York (whose parents were on a visit to that gentleman, who usually spent his summers North.) Edward said he wanted to go out in the canoe with Nigger Sambo, who was to spend the morning catching fish; and William declared he was not at all afraid of a gun, and would not papa let him go out birding with the black man Robert, and bring home for supper, partridges and doves, and wild ducks and marsh-hens, and fat rice-birds; while Theodore implored that he might be allowed (as he could run a horse through the swamps, and could shoot at a mark) to accompany papa in his fox hunting and deer hunting excursions, where he was sure the hue and cry of the numberless dogs, would start all manner of game? Rebecca begged mamma to order a half-dozen little negro girls to help her work in the flower-garden; Portia said old Mom Bella (the hen huzzy) wanted a larger house for the five hundred young turkeys just hatched, to whom she had given a corn of black pepper to keep them from dying (which they do, by scores.) She had boiled several bushels of tiny sweet potatoes, to mix with the cracked corn for the chickens and Guinea fowls; and little Toney was catching minnow fish for the Muscovy and English ducks, and overgrown geese (who are the most sensible of conjugal lovers,

choosing one wife and never deserting her during the whole mating season.)

Britannia begged mamma to buy her a great plenty of books, with pictures in them; but, in the meantime, she could send over and borrow some for her from old Mrs. Judge Heyward, who had a whole room full,"for, mamma," says she, "I don't love to play with. dolls, and I don't like to work in the garden, or count the chickens, turkeys, and goslings." Selina entreated to let her jump on horseback, and ride through the woods in search of chinquapins, whortleberries, pecans, hickory-nuts, and walnuts, and then return to set her traps for the red bird,* blue jay, mocking-bird, and

* "The Red bird (or Red Ibis,) is remarkable for its bright red color; the tips of the wing-quills are black. The young ones, at first covered with a blackish down, become cinerous, and, when ready to fly, whitish; in two years the red makes its appearance, and continues to increase in lustre with age. This species does not migrate, and lives in flocks in marshy spots in the vicinity of estuaries.

"In South Carolina there are also vast numbers of winged fowls, many of which are good for human use and subsistence. Besides eagles, falcons, cormorants, gulls, buzzards, hawks, herons, cranes, marsh-hens, jays, woodpeckers, there are wild turkeys, pigeons, blackbirds, woodcocks, little partridges, plovers, curlews, and turtle-doves, in great numbers; and also incredible numbers of wild geese, ducks, teal, snipes, and rice-birds.

"There has been found here, near rivers, a bird of amazing size, some think it the pelican. Under its beak, which is very long, it is furnished with a bag, which it contracts at pleasure, to answer the necessities or conveniences of life.

"We have three descriptions of eagles. The grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight. He chiefly preys on fawns and other quadrupeds. The bald eagle is likewise