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Spartan. SIPAMAHIBTO& t _ THURSDAY, MARCH 26,1857. \ AGEXCYI Mr. A. i\. Smith i? our Authorised agent at Co. tarn'm*, North Onmliiin. NK\V'GOODS. Ma*?re. Cleveland & Webber preaetit a rltii bill , ol faro ?o the |>ublio in their Advertisement in another column. The large atoek of goola which they imimuiw, nnd the now and commodiuua htore ' honee they are erecting, nhoiv n determination to 1*6 mi wiili tSu liini-M. . ' GOOD TOBACCO. Major Kirby, knowing the depravity of our i<p- | polite, lias furuished us n sample of good tobacco. Iiis supply of tki? kind is but limited?therefore , lovers of the weed most bo iu n hurry. Tile Court House. Tlitf workmen nrc engaged almost day and night ' iu pu?!i ng the new Court House to n po'nt suitable for tho accommodation of the Court commencing next Monday. It is touch and go; but Mr. Mai^ well, Bost, and Wells are energctio in their several deparinients, nnd will suceeed. llamp's New Trial. Ilamp'a new trial, for burglary, came off on the )8ih, before Magistrate B. F. Bates, at Rich I Ml. The verdiot w.v, iu brief: To receive 29 lashes on the l'Jih. llisowner hnd thou tho privilege, until the Ititli April, to remove him beyond the State. If not bo removed by the 10th April, to get 500 lashes j ?100 on each Monday morning. Should he ever j return, the penalty is 500 lashes atone time. ' siddkn'ukatii. A negro woman belonging to l>r. Kennedy died j eu-ldt ul) on Monday morning of apoplexy. She | lose in the morning in her usual good health, und iias busy In preparing breakfast for tho family, whet) the stroke came that terminated her 1 fe. D\vkliXNG*BIR.\T. We a:o pained lo lenrn that the J welling of Mr. . Vinson Caution, situated about fivo miles from town, j ?m the Rutherford It ud, was consumed by file, on Sun.lay evening last, with nil its contents. It seem* that the family I-ft homo in the afternoon to visit a i sckn.-ighb r, and during their absence the and visi- . I tatimt came upon them The only things saved were ; ) thu corn in a crib an.1 some meat Irom the smoke j < house. The destitution of the family appealed for ' t aid, and wo are gla 1 to know that the application of I a fricn l to our ctiious led to a fair subscription in ! tlu 'r la half. < fiTE iTmrmm. During n |>ortion uf last week our atmosphere was | ; loaded with smoke fioin burning woods, in n direc- I (ion north of west from town, and at a considerable distance. We have ?a yet heard of no damage to ' fences, (Sre. CHIMIN'S "BIRTH DAY. The Calhoun Society, of Woflord College, had made all needful arrangements for the celebration of , Mr. Calhoun's birth-day, by an address, on the ( eveniug of the 18>h, in the Collego Chapel, but the | weather proved too inclement to secure an audience nnd h postponement took place till Saturday evening i hu.t < We learn that oil that occasion the Society were favored with a large and brilliant audience, (among , whom were the ladies from the Female College,) i when the Orator, Mr. Charier Petty, discharged | the duty assigned him. The address is spoken of j as a (iuishod oomposition?tracing the life of Mr Calhouu llirough nil its phases, nud holding up to imitation his private nod public virtues?while the manner w.u peculiarly forcible and impressive. Mr. 1 Petty, we believe, ranks high in scholarship at Woflord, and thu manner in which he acquitted 1 li.niselt of the trust re|>osed in him on this occasion may well give assurance ?| a bright future in his lilf. < perTodicals. ~ Gmltfy'i Lady's Book for April m a splendid N<>., full ul illustrations of beauty and utility, and a choice variety oflighl literature. NVe look upon the Lady's Book at au indispensable requisite to eicty laJy, aud wonder how nny one can be without it? when the price, clubbed with the Spartan, is but *2. Blackwood's Magazine and the London Quarterly?Jnnuiry and February: L. Scott A Co., 7'J Fulton street. New York. Contents of Blackwood.?The War in Asia, Scenes of Clerical Life? No. I: the Sad Fortunes of the UeVerciid Amos Barton.?Part II., Ticket of L a vo? A Letter to Iretixus, The Atlio lings; or, The Three tlitts?Part IX , From Pern to Bucharest, Letters from a Lighthouse?No I , Lord St. Leonards. Contents of the London Quarterly.? History | mid Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Ferns and , their Portraits, Homer and his Successors in Epic ' Poetry, Ruts, Sainton fishing, Breeding, and Lo-j gial.it ion, Lord Raglan, Life of Sir Charles Napier, ' rnspects Poitical fid Financial. puisoxno rats'?c.u'Tio.x. Previous to the inaugural visit, Mr. Buchanan \ wont to Washington in February, stopping ut tin j National Hotel. II.- and several other gentlemen ; were sex-d with a peculiar sickness, resembling | the effects of ars.-nio. Oilier cases havo since oc- ' cniTcil, niul several deaths have taken place. Tins i led to investigation, when it was found that the hotel was horribly infested with rats, 'or which tinservants set arsenic bait. Under the burning thirst crested by Iho poaon these vermin found their j way ton vast watt i tank upon the roof of the house, i whence supplies arc drawn to the wholo establishment, and infected the water. This state of things has compelled the closing of the hotel for thorough overhauling. To show what caution should be observed inpui *.<>nng rats, we app-nd the following sentences' frorn ihi nrticlcou rats in the daunary No. of the' T, mdon Qaartcriy Review, p. 70: ''Rats which lou t- bt i-n beguih-d into Inking arsenic instantly make for lite water to queuch their in lob-ruble (lurst, and though they usually wi lid raw (rotn the house, they may resort in their agony to j nn indoor cistern, and remain there to pollute it." I "A daivy farmer in l.uneiick poisoned his eal vts.liu) pigs by giving tin in the skim-milk at which rats: bad drunk when under thu pangs produced by' arsenic." IMNmEUBSTKD MOTlCt! The following special paragraph is from the Asia ' villi- News. As it is of gent rat application, |htlinps it will do no harm; "Knowing the anxiety our friends and customer* i will let I to pay off their indebteilncs. on our books, I when they eonit! to April Court, it affords us sino re pfcHSUie lo l>? able to nnnounce tluit wc have mi arianged our business that we shall positively be '.it home' on that occasion, with extra help in or tier to picvt ut any front going nwny disappointed!" 1'roff Greene, <if New Yt>ik, son of Major General Grevue, of the Revolution, is preparing for pub hc.itinii, in lis volumes, at $2 50 per vol., the correspondence of his father. It is contended hy the aulliov that these papers, after Washington's, are : ir most hnporfnn' do u tkhm* In rtlslcn?? Variuy upon retolabon i) struggles. IDE EXPRESS. Neighbors of lb* Express, we have "a crow to pick with yon " % gi In your prospectus of tho 19ih instant occur to words, which, as wo conceive, bear au inference designed for us. They urc, of "iVo Lottery advertisements are admitted into 01 our paper. Although wo may ooustitulo somewhat of an exception in this r?-*|i?ot, among secular pa|h*i s. yet we cannot consent to violate the spirit of "ll the law, and uirong our own consciences, by pla- co ring such ruinous temptations before our readers." A# we read tho paragraph,It infcreniinlly involve# ?f us in moral delinquency, if not opeu crime against p?i law, and is calculated to injure us as men and in , , an business. ro Now, we can scarcely supp so you meant such iurereuoc to be drawn from your words?at least we inj ire inclined to believe so. Wo rather atlribu'e it jj* to newness of duties, nnd tho haste with which our ||J( profession is compelled to despatch composiliou. . ex We can make allowance for theou things in otlnrs, | he is we know how liable we may be to need equal i j" jliarily. Indeed, wo are persuaded you did not . wish to fasten a chsigo of immorality upon us, as j mr lour own columns, by un advertisement headed j ^' Gratis!" are equ lly obnoxious to tho same charge, There is another matter to which we invite your | |.j(, ittention; You stale that your "subscription list en- ' tin itles" you "to tho publication of nil the ndvertiso- UVl neutsoP'tho "District officers." Where is the tin lutliorily for this asset tion, even wero tho respective 'j'| nrculatiotis known facts? No law?no custom? im hus adjudges the public advertising. How, then, l'*i au you make so confident .1 declaration? Hut even ' an vero this the rule, what ground have you for assert- an ug the possession of a larger subscription than the mi Spartan, when you are wholly unacquainted with f*1' lie extent of ours? You do publish all tho Dis- J" riel advertising? ind so do wo: but simply by virtue Q| >f an lino: neelled arrangement between tho late fin iroprietor of the Express nnd ourselves. As moral editors, then, would you not better exemplify that enviable characteristic by withholding | th< roin your own columns advertisements equally, if ' ?'* lot more, obnoxious to tho ehnrgc of immorality, than , y indulging expressions (ill considered though j HU hey may be) which are calculated to injure n neigh- 1 Ui K>rf I'1 We merely call your attention to both points, in m % mi ill kindness, to remind you that "people who live jj, n glass houses slioulJ not throw ston 1." by Slavkkt in tiik Tsr.RiToaiEs ?Sineo thodceis- co on of the Supreme Court of tho United States in bu ho Died Seolt case, so no of the Kepuhlican news- J"_ tapers are exceedingly obstreperous; hut this is (|, pi to natural, and no more than might have been no intleipated. The public will be grieved to know '*! that tho Tribune hus a very poor opinion of tho (>j-| Supremo Court of tho United States, and feels cu ;om polled to dissent from the decision of that tribunal It ssys: "This D:ol Scott decision, wc need hsidly say, .# entitled to just so much moral weight as would ar (IV tilt' JUM^IK-m Ul 41 III.IjlM U Y l#l imwr V-UI^R^Aini J.y in any Washington bar room It is a dictum prescribed by the stump to the bench ? the lloxcit- ' ' knife sticking in the stump ready for instant use C; if needed. It i? of n piivo with the votes of Benton, Dix and Hag by for the Annexation of Texas ab with the boundary of the Ilio Grande." hii Tito Now Haven Palladium in no bettor suited, fr* and thinks soomcwlint of reverting the decision nt , CO the ballot box 1 The Palladium condyles as fol- W( lows: tit "It is clear nnd direct, nnd loaves no doubt that l,a at last the national judiciary has been enslaved r>' by the South. It is the most dangei ous bloic at '' the existence <f the Union that has ever yet been i struck .' The people have yet a peaceable remedy m the ballot-box. I^et thein bo true to themselves, and they will ultimately upset this court and reverse K>l its decisions If the South love agitation, they will have it, though the next step in this march of ?l<? w potistn will be to fill our prisons with thu agitators. " 1 That kind ol bin-inesa litis been beguu in Kansas. P" It will continue." rc The N. Y. Times is partialiy^cconcilcd, and discoin sea : ' No popular revolution will follow this decision, ed startling an it will he to the opinions nnd principles tit of three fourths of the people of the United States, to It will be accepted as the autlv nt.ittve exposition of in the Constitution, and regardnl by all departments 1 th of the Government and by the people as the law of j It the land. No issue will probably ever be made : nt upon it before thu people, for the practical settle- j inc-sit of the question will anticipate any political re- i tr s-ilt th.it might he reached, lint it will profoundly 1 dt nfTcrt the public mind in regard to the general question of slavery, nnd will change the itu-m s which must inevitably com" up sooner or lalt r in relcrencc toil. That it will render them less absorbing ,j, in their nature, lets disturbing in their progress or i ( more safe and peaceful in their results, no one who ' knows any tiling of the temper of the American j people can for a moment believe." John Scott Cunningham, Usq., of South Curoli- 1 Ik na, lias been appointed bv the President, witli tlu- T consent of the Senate, a Purser in the Navy of the 1 th United -States. It affords us much pleasure to |w mziRc litis .'iiiiiouut'tiiu'iii, ?tn .>ir. i^uu r.mi;nam was <?i in early lif'o in the employment of our establishment. . I [Charleston Courier. 11, It in a very small matter, but South Carolina lets not tho honor of owuing John ticoU Cunningham nsason. Ilia mother was a widow named Seotti t living in the District of Columbia, whom A F ti Cunningham, formerly of South Carolina, and the " gentleman alluded to bv the Courier as having been w employed by thai establishment yeatsagn, mitricd. ,j The son, to pleasure the lather, took his name, an 1 thus became John Scott Cunningham. We Know ' our cotemporsry aims til accuracy, else we had not *' takeu up space to explain facts that are patent to |, IIS. \ Morl Garxuttirh.? IV, B. MeCreight, Iv-p, ? the local editor ot the M? rcury, says the Charleston lJ' Evening News ufSalurJay, was passing Iiynestrcel last evening, between eight nnd nine o'clock i | , on his way to the Jepot, to take the cars for Cam l* don, when ho was approached (roin behind, and ^' knocked down by some unknown person, nnd ,, while down was robbed of his watch mi I | urse, p containing a small amount of money. Ilo was ' knocked senseless, an ! while in that condition Ins \ Dockets WL-I'tl lilted and it Was M< illletinio before consciousness was rr?toiTi1. The concussion < ( 11?tr | li brain was seme, liut I >r. Raoul, who was imniodiptcly called in, expresso1 tin* opinion ibat tin- result would nut be serious. Sitbsi-ipn'M a- < unrt say (; that Mr MoCreight is not ki hiu h ?t?j ?i I as was *< d. AnUKHSON Coi'HT. ?We learn luiill till" (Luetic tlial Willi tiie cxo< ption of tlln first ball day of tbe , term, the residue of the week was consumed m I lie h trial of State eases. Tluit ;>a|>er runaikv 'The growth in tliis department of t e bun in s* of '' the Court shows that Oritiiu in fearfully on the in- ^ crease, and we sincirely participate in tin- hope ex pressed by bin lienor, that for the credit of the district tbe like may never uteor again." JnJge O'Ncall ban ordered an extra eouilnf five days, il so much be nccosary, beginning on the r 14tli day ol July next, to dispose of tbe civil bu* lies*. lis Honor Judge O'Neall, in a letter published j in tbo is ettbti rt/ Sun, suggests as a proper course S( of action to bo adopted in reference to tbe proposed c Air-Line Road, running through Ueurg a auJ South Carolina, "that llio ti'.ixfna of Newberry, Chester, Fairfield and Union, intciusted in the hue, ?' ou'd , meet at Newberry, at the Agricultural mee ting in July.and arrange for the securing ol tbo charter.!' Rot. Cnlsin Colton, LL. D , died nt Barannnb li on tho 13lh Instant. Dr. Cnltoi wn? an nnth r of q i elebrWy, and f rmer chaplain in the n iv\ f. i A 6BBAT ENTERPRISE. The subjoined article from the Cincinnati Times vcssotitv Interesting information it? very concise r?n?: "The project of a ship cati.il ncroes the Isthmus Daricn li.is long been vntui taincd by the leading itnls of the wot IJ, and the construction of this vast ink is now but u q icslion of time. Congress lie* profrinted a >um amply sufficient for the thorough rvcy and exploration of the propped route, and a >i-|>h of army cngiuecra, with appropriate assistts, will moil bo detailed for the service. Thus is (he United States taken initiatory steps in on# the most magnificent ideas of modern times. Nu Icon, in liia expedition to Egypt, discovered the e of an ancient canal across the Isthmus of Suez, d his engineers, hy survey, estimated tho cost of opening the work, hut it was never accomplished. "Our rt adorn will remember the terrible sufflrj ol Incut. Strain ami his companions, who euavored to cross tho Isthmus of Darieu on n preliuary rccounoisance by order of our Governflit. Profiting by his experience, we tru?t the pcditioit now about to commence operations w ill able to avoid disaster. A few details in relation the scene of o|>cratiotis may be interesting to our idrrs. "The Isthmus of Daricn, or, tit it is ni'?ro cniiiinly styled, the Isthmus of Panama, Connects irt'i and South America, nud is principally Com ised in the Republic ol OrnuaJn. On the iioithx sale is tho Caribbean sen and the Gulf of I fail?on the south tho Gulf of Pnnuinn. In length, u Isthmus proper, is uboul "Oil miles, with an e age breadth of 40 miles; hut ill longitude 71 tiroes it narrows down to less then do miles. At s point it is proposed to estahlieli the ship canal, ic country is undulating, with chairs of small lunb'iins, but very fertile, nnd well limbered. The pcuse ol a commodious ship canal, say do miles ig and "HO feel wide, would not be less than fifty llions of dollars. England, France, and Holland, u . nxious to aid in the work, and become joint ners with the United States. NVlun it is centered that one half the world's eoiilinereo would, all probability, pass through this cnnnl, the exuse sinks into a mere trifle*. All the India and litta trade, instead of doubling (Jape Horn, would d passage through the canal. It should he free all nations who assist in the Construction by incy or credit. "The appropriation alluded to was embraced ill e naval appropriation bill. It gives a sum not to coed {35.000 to be pnid to officers selected by l> Secretaries ot War and Navy, for the purpose making explorations and verifications of the rveys already made of a slop canal near the htnui of Daricn, to connect the waters of the leitio nud the Atlantic by the Attain nud Truimdo rers. Mr Uncock, a member ? f the comUse ol conference on the part of tho Hons--of preseiitatives, explained this provision, inserted the Senate, in brief but forcible terms. He ?tal that the government ol Granada had given a mpiiny of Americans the right to explore and ili ustiip canal, if practicable, through the iMii us of Daricn. They have made the survey, and licve a ship canal to be altogether practicable; but ey bud collie to the concluxiou that capitalists will >t iuveal ill this exploration, unless it bo endorsed competent officers of (lie government. Tliey -rely ink that their exploration ahull bo tested by Seers of the army mid navy. The Mouse con* rred in the proposition of the Senate." from^the" pacific. Acoounts from Souilirrti California and Oregon c full of Indian details. Near Fort Yuma all w i? liet, but the A; aches are rejwrted as troublesome out the Western part of the Gads Icti Purchase. ?pt. Shaffer informs the San Diego Herald that "He visited tho newly discovered copper mines, out twenty miles above the junction of tho G.la iJ Colorado, an J two mile* west Irum the river, itn which he brought some rich specimens. This ine, which is represented as very rich, was disvcreJ last December by Mr. Richard 1 lalstead, ell known in the Gadsden Purchase, and is now e property of and is about being w orked by a comnv, consisting of Lieut. Mowry, ol the lid Artille, Sir. linlstead, George F. Hooper, iuiJ Kraucia in ton. The Portland Oregonian has the f.di .wing: From \\ ai.la Walla. ? We learn that the loans with whom Col. Wrght had so much "rloae uwra'' last fill, have'dur.ng the late storm m united tin ir love of peace an 1 good will towards tin lutes by stealing all the stock at Fort S in ?e; they 10 captured four white men, (regulars. we sup i*e,) three of whom they sent back to the tort, tun tuiiicd the fourth,as they siy, for thu purpose of aking a clerk of hiiii, thu better to m ike know n r wishes to the whites. There are now a large number of lad uiscainpI oppos te hurt Walla Walla, and it is understood at thi'y are smii to ho! I a council to select u chief rule ov< r the combined Indian trilies. ami to ako preparations f?T a gencrul pitch in, provided e whites c)>> not concede to them ;tll >h y ! maud i* thought tlini the selection df a miii' Mill lie ailo from t!ie Spokam s. The fell* w has been wry deep initio upper omitly, and large numbers of cattle and harms li ivc ed from starvation. TUB LIBERTY (IF THE PRESS. Our reader* w.ll remember tin* ii>?iio made some lie since bctwn? u I )r. Gibbcs, editor id lln South aroliiiiun, and Hu. <1. Artliur, Mayor cd Columbia, i tn the light <ii attending and reporting the proediligs of 1110 public meetings of the City CoutiI. I>r. Gibbcs was ejected by the order of tin layo'", ami brought an neboii of "assault and itteiy ri et armis," in order to try the issue, lie Case was tried last week Irefule Judge \\ iicrs, uud a verd et win givrn against t!i M lyr id likewise aganxt tlienlii ir who executed bis ah I'm. We give a short extract from the charge Ins hmiur to the jury, ill w hich the Freedom ul ic Press is poiutcdl) and ably vindicated: "It i? a matter <>l common light in t very rp. i a >r to attend a pulilie meeting of lh? l.ieal lea' s'aire of the city of Columb.i." * "It mi mat r ul euiumuii light, ill every species of nur decve r< pl? si utalivc governments, that the votei i.ill he allowed, upon condition ul good heliav .>t i his demeanor, n> hear the pub' e debates and itiievs the public proceedings of Ins represent:!ves engaged n public trusts. "To exclude a reporter an.I t<? exclude a eorpo ilor is not one and the same thing To eject corporator from a public meeting merely bee.him is suspected, or avowed by I. m, tint lie means t tiblisli a report uf its proceedings, is not lawful i t il such corporator lias shown by prevents conucl that lie calumniates, asperses, or nusrepre nts the Council, and msh.uU the jicople. then Mistituctiey, it would present a question of some illieulty to say whether he nrght not, or oughi ot, to be excluded It is not th ? case, np-ui tin videnee, ami need not be decided. Any corp.a i ir who attends may give unfair or false vcib I neiUtllS of pr Oecdlligs, and llie dilFel ellce bet well :m and the owner of a paper is only tlial the hit u may give Ins account a wider stupe ami tie in eiiniineiit from. 1 >ut il under guise ul the Liber \f of the P/rii, n ounini'iu eaiuuiuiator auks it hiiriietcr ol cotpornior to malign mancon-dy an f misrrpia. ill fraudulently the acts ami debates o I ulibe Isiily ul any suit, it Would be difficult lul im, il ili.it laet weio made lo appear, to show i glil lu damages, i| he be foiled iii such a pinp .se 'o assume beforehand that this will In- dulic, liovv vir, Would amount to a censorship ov<.r speech m IC pi ess. ??illmut some (i ,mi mm sniisiac'oi v i>..~ >it nil need to the eontruiy, I )r (lihbca had a light t< u'tlish a tHie account id (lie public ptoeeedmps." 'J Ilia decision in gratifying h? US oil |w< eroitii*. It will have a tendency to restrain tie ticroaciiiiienih on the Jjlirrty of the l'r< ?.?, whirl i ve for it mix bine bet n gn ining ..round in tlna "in in t the free." I'rivale individual*, In gratify per* ill S pique ami obtain a momentary revenue, ? < h t< ample t't rights of the press ami pi .'e the I'irii 111 ol an oppi colli ve |U'eeedenl u|H>n the > 1 ioit!?l 11 f povleri'v. Kvi-iy mi Ii attempt should be v gi inlly resisted; tor the Surest ple'ieh' to abjte I icry and national degradation in a ! . a d in illgeinellt oil the lleedolll ol op II >11 nild II ft ll>u ion* esp mi'ige ovi r tlie i ight* of pulilu atoll In tin- second place, it is lnghly pi hfying thn )r. (jilibe* hi* eoinoulT conqueror, niasnuieh an In >'ily bore (lie brunt of a content in which the pr?* t large * mci < ntally though vitally concerned la bold nail manly bearing, resulting in such ; ngul .r vindication of right, cannot be too highh innieiiilv !. Yorkrille Lnqtiirf). - ? ? Fni home year* a personal rslruiigi ment has > \ ited between Senator TooiiiImi, of (jcnigin, nlii e!T Davis, of MitaiMtppi. On tlie 12th install Imrni. Butler, Crittenden, IIusli, and Mason, a. lutnal frit title, appealed to these gentlemen, b; etc, to drop the past, and comutericfltmn no umntAii pi'i t hay ar-'t tiled, and arr ag-d iendly TUB BINES. We inve before us the lt.-turns (monthly) of the Banks of this Bute for January and February? li' the first made in the middle of February, and the lo at Ootid the middle of tbia month. Tlwy present b; some striking featuroa which reserve t" bo consul cred. i ' There ehould be noted: d< 1. The increased and increasing tend<-ucy of our r? Ranks to confine their o|>eraliona to a broker and si kiting bustti. mi in domestic rxch.vuge. The ?-ffeet of this on their legitimate biwmsa, and on the bu- m sin.? of the country. if. The ?iu:tllne?ii of their convertible or specie ?c ' has s, in rclution to their capital*, and to their cireuI lations, rvepectively. 01 3. The unequal operation of the usury lawa upon *| the people and the Ranks. The operations of the at | Hanks in their relations to usury and the usury is laws, and, iu connection therewith, the eonse.jucn- pi ocs to the people produced under those laws by t those operations. The difierenoc between the pro- 'I Ills ol banking and th??*e of other inveatmcnta and j b< property of the people of the State; and difference j w of profits, and iu causes, as annuo the Hanks ; *t themselves. pi 4. The difference of operations, profits and infiu j cnccs between the Hanks ol the city and the country tl ?its causes and effect#. 1 tl These points require n mii.it., if nut an extended ! i" range of examination. That they have exerted in- I rt jurious effect-, upon the iiitorests of the masses, and ' lM on the general prosperity of the community, (hero Hi cannot b<- a doubt. That this should bo submitted w to, would be to us a matter of amazement, but for | b. three considerations: the ovcrwht Im-ug influence of j?i | so much aggregated cash capital; the general igno! rotico of the injured classes, and the active, united to and subtlo effats ol the banking class, in tlie preini w ?es; and th it our legislators lake as little time, as tli they linvu little inciinatioii and courage, to <li?cu?s, I at understand a ..I reform our system. A Legislature' cr that does but l.ttle more than grant a multiplicity of . tl corporation charters, granting them, ulimwt with- ! w out qiii-stion or inquiry, to all applicants, ami for all 1 b< ' purposes, from tho most insidious to the newt prop- I ' | cr, only makes itself a blind, loose and stolid high f' j priest of a temple, taken possession of hy '*tlie C < money changers," and eaiuiot hv cx|>eeteil, fro- t its , I* 1 past It.story, to take the timennd trouble lo do much, i I" ; even in reform, for the people and tli.*ir welfare at , ol I large. South (.'.volina doe* only r/irciil Irgitla- I c. I' lion for Kjiecinl cld**r? ami jifitons. It is as well, however, hopeless as may bo the 1 task, to advert to these evils?'V-vds correct tlirrn- m i selves"?let its a d. At our earliest leisure wc vvill : in advert to the points we have indicated. [ ICrrnuig Newt. j l.\TEBK?TIN?a FROM NICARAGUA --The New York ' 01 1 lerald publishes the following intelligence from j N Nicaragua, wlti. h it claims to be reliable. w Gen Walker's forces havo hck-d the Costa at Uicaiis in four figlits. The enemy have Inst several y. hundred -, our loss in nil docs not exceed ten. Ic Col. I/ookrtdgo ami Gen. Wheat have d-'tio well. I ai The cannon, the toll of powder, the caps and tl j ritlcs ftom New ) ork arrived just In t rue at Gr.y , tl | town for the men and Col. Titus, and thev re took is J in one day the boats (steamer included) iu the ir ; river and up to the lake. General Walker's troops tl have taken Scrapique and Castillo, ami are driving f.i the enemy before them. He has before tins the c< whole lake and trail Hit route in his jsimh-sh on. llo nl has been reinforced from the Pnoilic side, anJ the H ' Kughsh ami Amerienn merchants in Peru have I ' sent him aid and constrained Picaideiit Cast llo to c deny as? stance to the < nctny. Kiig'sh merchants . tl in l? vei |ki>1 mid 1 sindon li>n? hIm thuiru tlut tlx1) b understand tlieintercsta of their country and the ad- ' vance of civilization better than their ruler*, though i j the British government has not attempted t.> pre- . j, i vent shipment of arms and munition* to our friends. , (> I The Panama Company and the Costa Ricnn specu- f; lators ill New York, trying to sell transit st'iok, ' w will suppress the fact* and lie them down. .S > 1 ,| 1 writo lolly what you may rely on. Kinney has u gone to Pauaun, uii 1 wdl do all lie van against Wal- i ^ ^er* , . It (Jrbttown, Fiilay. Feb. 20 ?The royal mui! 1 ' tc.atnship Trent arrived nt Orrytoni on the 1 lib . 1 iust., and found there the British in-n-nt war, the \ Cos-nek, Tartar, Victor, Pioneer and Intrepid. The *' t >ri. ii liad gone to Pearl Bay,in Const qtieiice of the i <1 unsafe harbor outs.de, her diaught ??f water being r, too great to pi nil t h> r coining into the barb >r The i s crew* arc said to be a I healthy. AIter the capture li of the liver boats the other d iv, Mr. Si- f, the S agent, with surprising *p eil and en.-rgy. prepares! ' > ! n bout, called the Rescue, and ih spatein d In r up ti il.e river, but from her no, having returned, rea- w -tollable fears were enter ain.-d of h r having fallen ti into the hainU of the Costa R cans, but which were > dia|>clled by Iter making her appearance. o tin Sunday (15th) as r?aolie<|Grevtown that ; h Walker h nl n |i irf' Mi I him* It of Jvrapqtie. ? From inquiries I h .i. on I ot ih. m lure, it would appear (hat oil the 1.1 h Walker's pirty attacked . that place at f? a. m., w lb a tmee of 20n in n, mid two ti jsitiii !' rs, tile C - a R cans holding on till " about the same time tin to" v ng day. when they , ' evaciiati-d, and Walker'* |h >pl took possession, at ' ti r susta ning a I ues ot two in u hill- I an I three ' P i wouudid. I rom a statement nl a pr - .iter, in ho*- * 1 pitnl, it appears the t'ostn Ilioati* had a lass of I 1 ' i kille i and .11 wounded. 1 he Rescue, above referred to, coufirini d the ' ' : Seiapiquc accounts, and brought initio r new* <>l *' | the tall of Castillo into the hands of Walker's oar- | tl ty on Monday, with a h-ss of S ki.bsl and 20 " wounded. It ik stated that the Costa R.eans lost v not fewer than 112 killed and C'f w an le t. Some ot h tin- account* say many more. Tluy also " trstril themselves of the steamer .1. N Scott, but r her machinery Ind Ix-eti so much injured that they were unable t>> liriug her dow n till lep.nrs are ef feeted. A hi: Nioiiors Citizbns T?The Republican pa- .i p. is prof??s to be profoundly startled by the recent ti decis oil of the supreme tribunal of the nation, v th ;t /irgKirt <1 if not citizen* ol the I'. States , as ?] il tin* dnetiiue were ii "I ai I'M a* tin- Constitution > itsi It. ;il|ii it I. til not been maintained, built ntically nmi prnct-catty, by la-gislalure*. Court?, and statesmen from that 'lay t<> tin*. We il lint nay by nil la-fj s'.atun t, Court* mid statesmen? , for soiiic of tin in, in these latter days, do not go to tin- established principle* of inti rpri tation, or to eoiitcMii|>oranmus history, or to any "titer legiti mate .- uii c of ft iilt neo, fi i lite bans ol their titvn opinions, but to the b . ber law ol their own w sin-it, and the necessities of pol.tiai |?urtizantliip Now it is clear that these things have notion;* in the wollil to Jo ? tl, |ho question ; Niid that n tssil judgment, u siting to be eoliducti .I to a correet tie' e moii, wnulti setupulou?ly guard against such influences, instead of \ cldillg itsoll to tlirirguidtiict1. Till1 question * n't, whether llegrt e? ought lobe e ti/.ens of tbii If Slates, or entitled to c.t zeitshp, in eoinnion with white person*, but whether they are m. hi fact, undt r the Constitution of the 1'uitfd State*. It is in t a new question, but mi old one. And the view t..Im ii i f it by tin- Supreme Court is imt ill substance in w, but old. Chief .)uslice Pagjet.nl New llavi'll i.no of the MoUlldest, ablest, an t iii"?t leal in d and independent Judges that t'oliliecl eltt l vi r bad pronouneed IIto same dec.* ' ion years ago \V? "itix Ives, in these columns, have uniformly In M the same opiniui, whenever J we have alluded to the subject. ? A* V. Journal 1 , of z rnrnsj ft. > r j iik 11.*i.i as (i.aiiknoon Tkkatv?Willi tlie ( i i atilieatioil of the treaty, Buys (ho Nation il Inlelli* j j H' l?>?i , it ? staled (liiii I lie Senate eolipled ciim 11 i m <nl . cnta, which will he the suhji el of Inline i iie/otnilion t lie i .11 Ve'li.ltiii t*r W.isli.n/lon. \\ li.tt . their iiii|-, i: is we, uf ui>e, have no menus of knowin/ , hii vve ti11 1 c*iMnii'l /tiieially that tliey are li"! of a nature It ant!. . /. llieanl t pahon of any liual difficulty between t>vo f .>it-inuit-iitm nni- ; m.itt I by hiiinlly sentiments, us the two in <jm s1 l t it >n mi i'luiitt illy it lit 1 sincerely ait Indeed, the ( i m.nn object nl tins treaty It I > 1 t < nit>|.ve <>f its ( 1 , iic/oli.itioii w < re to elucidate Home "brein i y in for* | I mt r conventions, and remove all ddlcrenrc of eon* > Hlrut tioii and all nuniipprelicns on or iiitotiiitl? r- j xt a ml n*; in future in regard to Central American atfaiis. llrrning Aries. , tj St Johns, Ntavrui^uLivn, Mvnm 14.? The ndvett brought t y the lm/ladi mail that ' lie* Kii/heli f tut 11 unit lit bail entered into n Coll ( vim ion with i i.nine to transfer to that |N?wi r the t Newfoundland fisheries, ereat?*d an intense cxcitu* i j ' i lot lit In if, ami a grlietal lllltlilig of ull classes was " j called. The storis lilid other |>laees of business ! ( were closed during the meeting, nnd the Mulish ii tli/ ma everywhere placed at halt mast, union , i 1 iloirn. In sonic piuo s a black ling wu-hoisted J'he n suit of the nit t till/ w.ts a tleleriiiina ion that the ! wi on/shall ii"l be perpetrated. The legisl.it urc I ami the commercial classes are sending pettinns to ' | j the Queeli. lj Almost rverylmdy thinks that he could edit a ' " newn|>.i|>ei a little better than any limly else. A ? t i ' I j historians and essayists of high repute have made ' | deplorable fa.luies in tins line of literature They have proven unsuccessful even ia*t imp "leaders " 1 a i l tlia is by no menus the grea' " ork of jour ! ' nalism. ' OUR KKIALK COLLEGB?A PROPOSITlOPfT Wo art' authorized to announce that a gcntl-mo ring in a neighboring district has made th? fol wing proposition to aid in lb# success of the I'rei vidian female College of Ihie place, via: He will make one of twenty who i? willing t ibanrilte one thousand dollaia eaoh, towards en awing the Presbylerlun female College at Lau us C. 11. The moat important oonditioue ol am ibacriptioti to be: 1st. The money to be paid in throe annual iuotal wots. 2d. Kaeh subscriber to ho vutitled to o pcrpetu: 'Imlirsliip in the institution. This is n well timed mid liberal proposition, nn< lining a* it do"S from one of the Inst and moot it loiuihle men in the SSlnte, who litis no pecuniar id sclli*li etui to subserve within the District, a truly gratifying evidence of the interest felt b -eminent citizens of other pm lions of our State i e success ol our enterprise. We feel Confideu ic proposition will be accepted by a sutlieient nam L-r to secure the endowment; the influence < liicli will l?e to create confidence, and give the In ituiion sufficient protniueucc to induee a sitnila ropoaitioli from other persons. We think it prudent not to publish the name r ic gentleman who makes the above projvistion a its time, but will slate, be is one of the first met i the upper part of our State, and in every resjiec liable. Should any one wish to accept the pro nit on, and will call upon Mr. Tod J, Dr. J. W itr.poou, or oursclf, in person, every informatiot ill be given. Mr. S. K. Todd of this village wil j pleased to receive the tiatnca of those willing t iin in the endowment. It is truly pleasing to hear and ore the deep in rest manifest! d in all parts of the Slate for th clfare of our College. Of its sueeiws we have nn le least doubt. Those having its interest inching ? gclitleineti of the right Mump?.ntelligelit, en getic and wealthy?and lin y have entered upol ie duties assigned them with that prudential sea Inch must ever secure success. I art the subscri rs come forward promptly mid pay up the instal cuts of their subscriptions, as they fall due, nn< ?>u our district will boast one ol the best Kctnal olleges in the land. Kvtry dollar invested w I s reimbursed tcn-folJ by tbo enhanced value c roperty in and around our district, and the inereas bus.ikss which will ncctMurily accompany it unplctioil ami success. We will I. ere take occasion to say that Mr. S. U odd, the Treasurer of the Hoard ol Trustees, i itlioriscd to receive and receipt for nil moneys {mil ito the fuuds of the College. [Laurtntmlle llrrald. Maiirvimi iikr. Coaciiman.?An Irishman nam 1 John Dean lias just issued legal proceedings it 'ew York to get possession of Ins alleged wife ho in the daughter of his employer, named Linker i extensive ini|>ortcr of wine and liquors. Tin >ung lady is 22 y<-ars old, and I > an's affidavit al ges that she is shut up in her lather's houw ?:iuist her w ill, and that lie was married to her ol to 4th instant, by He*. Mr. llaUield. It appear i.it Mr. Hnkri has a nlaeeat Tarrvtown nn.t I l.-m Ins coachman. During the absence of Mr. 13 i tins c>ty :i1111 11nir to Ins buincK, l)can was ti to habit ol taking the daughter out riding in lie itlier's cmriage, and through tins kind ol inter jurse. according t<> Dean's story, becamecnamorei f each otlur, winch fact coming to the ears of Mr 1 , lie dismissed the conchm-ui from his service lean, through a f.iniily servant, found ire-uns, how rer, of communicating with Mary, and being ii to eitv on the occasion referred to, ho met he ) appointment, and they wire secretly married. {iV. 1 . ii xprraa. The N'riv York Mirror, in speaking of the bob cry that hash en kiehed up lately ill Fifth avenu ver the marriage of a wealthy young lady with he itlier's It mIi ConchInnn. sajs that they don't knot li> uppt rtenlom should turn up its dainty nose a ie smell of the stable, wlrle one of its most pre -ntioun representatives kept s small livery staid ut a few years since; aod all the "eternal per imo" from the holy city cannot wholly cradicat is native airs. Governor or K*n?a?.?Secretary Woodsor nee the r? s gn itioii of Gov. Geary, is d'sctiargin ie duties "t (JuVerni r of Kansas. He has on sevt ;il occasions tieen called on to act in the same pe tioil.niid II I* Iwnvs d ?eh:irged Ins duty efficient , nil I faithfully. We should be very glad to s? Ir Woods -it appointed Governor, for he is th lily executive officer yet sent to Kansas shosenn > comb tie stability and moderation ol eliarsett nit the rc.piisitc capacity. It >? true, In* is a na ve of Virgima, but lie is no u'trnist. and, as th o * r 111 has had all the Governors of Kansas, lion f whom have given sat slaet on, it woull do n inn to try a Governor front the South.? Rich inml iliapufcA. IlitoDR Jsi.ano OriMos on thk New Tarifi it length wo have atl explanation of the di*cr?-par noy in the account* front \> xlntigtoti touching I It lilies on manufactures of cotton. The duty ? \ udied, printed or dyed cottons and detains is 2 er eerie, on brown gis?D ID percent. It is in trange that < ur Setialiws voted against it. Its e -el cannot fail to he must itnfavorablv upon this sex on ol the country. The distinction is as prep > ( roiiv as it is cruel, and it Would have la-ell b<-it? ? 1? t the U-le-le ijllestion go OVer to the lO-Xt Got; reus than to settle it in tiiis way It is a "coinprx lise" Ik twecii the Senate and the House bil . >l*i than either. The House hill left tin-duty o i.owii cottons at 23 per cent.; the Senate bill pi at 23 per cent., the c mproimse puts it at 12 p? cut.-? fruc idenft Jnur not The Mm>ii Cphkinhiam ?A letter was r? eived oil Monday, by Mi^* Augusta Cunning am, (nuoiiyinous, of course,) in which she \v. ilormed that, if she came forward t'? prove tli uarriago of her mother to Dr. liurdell, Iwr dent i'i>nld be tlu- c? tiseijnence, as the murderer of ll meter was still at large, and had the key of tli rout lio. r n Ins (mssessioii. The letter eanie t Ie-house, 31 Holid street, nniong some Kuropea i;?pt is. uiiil its perusal naturally caused this y nun .iily consider lilt- ul.irm. I: is now in the han. f a legal gentleman, who will leave no ?-ffnrt ui ricd 1.1 ilis . vir t l.i? ttr.tiT,? y. Y. t'rpreti. Ill mamtv or African Pi nisiiwent.?One < lie most ciunnion anil terrible kinds of punislimci art eltsl ujH'ii disobedient boys, i* to rub pepper inl heir cy< s Their screams and yells under the o| ratmn are savage beyond description, and it is lender that their sight is not entirely drstroyei ['here lias never been known, however, a cjm vlieie any permanent injury was inflicted in th ray. Adult otF n l?va are sometimes subjected i , still severer punishment. 'I'luy are made taste he roof of the house, and thoroughly smoked wit A'lyCT. No St.Avr.KV.?'"It i? an urnlerslooil thing," sa; '/mi's Herald, "that the next (ten era I (Methodis .'onfiTemre wall change the General Utile on slavi y, and clearly lorbid all slaveholding. It was a pa I the tiiumpli of the anti -slavery party in the la Jeiieral Cotilori nee, that nnti slavery men wei lectcd editors, ami that sueli must be the termini ion, even as soon as 1800. We intend to hold tl liurcli to this exp- elation. We shall he Kalta'v v th n< tiling Ise. i Ins, nnd this only, is the "r'gl ti. und." And nobody is going to secede ou ai oiihI of it. ll they do, theirs will be the guilt ai lie is the punishmert." Fata i. Affray ?A tmlanaholy nnd fatal di iculty ooeurred on Sundny last, near the lesidrm if Mr John \elsitii, on the load leading from th iillage to Cross Hill, between James Fuller and n.in by the name ol Clemens, in wh eh the latti on sin t in the s de and died Iroiu the wound < Holiday night following. Clemelis w as a halve ieorg a, and at the time of the fatul oecuricm i?,.s ii! 1110 employ of Mr. Nelson as a ditcher. W inve not heard 'lie particulars, but understand tS gambling li.nl mueli t<> <l<> in causing it. Full ias escaped.? Laurrnst tl'.r Herald, March 20. New Post Omens.?1 pirn's Gold Mine, A1 rcville District, South Carolina; James Dor tost master. Aimieville, Kershaw District, South Carotin 'luu les Perkins, p wtmuster. I Miami's Store, Anderson District, South Car na, A. M Holland, postmaster. Cwlnr P.lufV, I'nioti District; S D. Rrigjjs, poi n aster. I'luirubusco p. *t oflioe, Anderson D.strict, (sa he Gazette,) has been re established. Or a itKPRESKST a nvs.,?The lion. James )rr art .ved at this place on Wednesday last, du nj? the session of onr Court We were pleased ind him in excellent health an 1 spirits, ami tru hat tlie hopes of Ins friends may he realised by I election In fho Speakership of the next House Ivepi esentati Vt s.? A ltdrrtan dux file, Marrh 18 .lease (leas, ley, n student at Greenwood, Abt nlle, was lately killed *>y the accidental disnbst* >f a K<it> , , * * / . . \ \ ' . / , # # 4 J t . ' j ' * m Jfm ~ mbwsscuSTn WhiU Mr. PoaboJy, the Amerioaa-Londoo bank >* er, was io Washington, lis wh soHaitsd to put in application for bounty laud a a soldier io lh? wai Q ol 1812. A March revealed oerrioo of only twelvt i- duys, couaeoutively, wlteu tile law required fourteen j Tlie record was examined three years later, when hie name waa found credited with two days' acr|. i vice. Tbie liberal conatruotioo iruve him claim t< a warrant for land. We venture the assertion thai uo needy soldier would have secured nu allowauo* under similar circn instances. | Mr. F. K. Warley haa relirtd from the editor in y management of (be Darlington Flag. " , The Ilcrald of Truth says suow fell oil fender ^ aoiiville, lluucombe county, N. C , od the 13th, t( it j the depth of 8 inches. '* The Vorkvillo Chronicle state* that Matt, a bo; '' owned by the King's Mountain Railroad Company r was seriously hut not fatally injured on the road oi I the 16th instant, d The South Carolina Railroad has completed th< new bridge over the Congareo river below Colurn t bin. This structure is furnished with a draw, and ii > ' uo longer an impediment to navigation. Charles Blakclvy, of Laurens District, (says lh< || llcr a'd.) died very suddenly on the morning of tin ,, I6?h. He was just recovering from sickness, an< barely able to walk to the bed of his wife, wltosi * deutli was momentarily expected. The effort corn e 1 pell d his return to bed, where iu half an hour h< ! died. - j K. G. Read, of N. C., has declined a rs-electior n to Congress iu consequence of ill health. '' An election will be held in Prince George, Win yah, on the 6th and 7th proximo, to fill the vacancy 1 in the State Senate caused by the acceptance ol the 0 Governorship by Hon R. F. W. Allston. lion f J Izard Middlclon is the only candidate wc *< <. ,. ! announced. * A despatch to the Cincinnati "Commercial"sayi that the Hon. Jatncs B. Clay has declined thelitis, sioit to Berlin tendered to him by Mr. Buchanan, j Lord Napier, the new British minister, delivered his credentials to Mr. Buchanan, and was form ' ally presented on thu 16th instant, i The Stnta Treasurer of California, infected by th< t gold epidemic, has proved a defaulter for $".250,000 ' lMir?.1..4 u Inntpr ?if Hmm-nnmnl.. ?- ".. I.I | and 11.lit suspended. Gov. Geary, of Kansas, h;n> fiiji.td. e | Ben. Lane Posey, formerly of Abbeville, but now 11 ' of Montgomery, Alabama, u.i* "up" to fight a due " ' <m the Stli instant, near Weal Point, Georgin which did not lake place, it | George K. Vuse, coiiti Ieitlial clerk of Messrs, r ChurUa Lane ?Sc Co., produce dealer*, Boston, has I absconded, having embezzled $10,000 frein Ilia cm , ployrra. t. A project ia on foot to establish a colony in tlu , State c( Puebla, Mexico, of 20,000 Belgian*, torn posed of 4,<>00 or 5,0UU familUs. Suffrage is extended by Rhode Island solely t? | citizens of the Un-tcd Slates. The Supreme Court in the I)red Scoti case, hnviug decided thatncgroei 0 cannot be citizens ol the country, what ia litlh v | Black Khoda lu doT it i Tbe London New fears a cotton supply cri?i? ' ! and augurs bad eonseijuenccs from a too great de ' pen deuce- o*" uo Unites! Slates. India is again re e commended aa a cotton field. JoM-pli Wiiliaina, charges! with the murder o ( slave Richmond, belonging to Col Simkias, o ; Edgefield, was tried, and found "guilty of man - , slaughter." li s sentence was six months' impris >" oiitne-ut and $jiHI fine. Seer tary Wo<?lson ia acting a* Governor of tlx Territory of Kansas. i? Je??c Langley, imprisoned in Raleigh fbr hor* ' i stealing, escaped ou the 11th instant. e ' A \oung lady, as was supposed, d.c! of heart di K> sense, st C neinnati, on the 6th instant. She wn ? \ kept for three da)a. A flush on the check led t< doubt of her death. The region about the beat was warm, and medical advice postponed inter r menl. She it p<?ed in the Iranec at the latest ac counts, and huudrvdn gaz-J npou the ngnl.tr spec ,, i tacle. 1 | A valuable drp-m t* of anthracito coil has beei '< i found within 25 miles of Petersburg, Va , and '' ; company has been formed to work it. j. Secretary Msrcy designs making a toar thr>>ug r Enrope, leaving the United States in the snnuiie ' or full. Both Houses of the Minnesota l/-fis'sturt- hav Is ? passed n bill to remove the seat ol government frot it ' St. Paul to St. Peter. 'r The Charleston Mercury men lions the re np |M>inimcnt of W. F. Coloock, Evj , as Collector < the port of Charleston. r- Tlio Ind.an troubles o( Florida are nut yet ovci ,s General Harney'* wholeforcei*operatint? in ?c>ul l( ing parties, and many suffered severely from wan lt. ol provisions?eating a horse valued nt $210 K ie l^irgo and adjacent keys were ransacked an. J burnt. Washington authority (not very reliable excep l, when official) says that Messrs. Pickens and Aike 1 are competitor* for a foreign mission?per hap Russia. [)t Hon. Naac R Moras, the Commissioner appuinl it ! ed by our Government to effect u settlement of tli to difficulties witli New Grenada, growing out of tli Panama massacre, has failed in bis negotiations. 1 The London J^tnret a ys there area quntter < " a million persons living in Great Biitain constant! under ground in the darkness of the mines. ,n The Havana correspondent of the Chnrlestc b Standard reports the discovery of large deposits . | guano on the South Keys of Cuba. A Spams lg war vrui 1 is engaged in their exploration. t) | The deaths in Charleston, lor tho week codin L"' the 14th instant, were 20?0 whites and li black rt 4 of tins number were between 60 and 100. " I re \ Tlie Senate of tlie United Suites adjourned c ?- Saturday, 14th instant. Previously thereto Hoi ,e ; T. J. Rusk, of Texas, was elcctid Pies dent pi lj tern.?29 to IS. c. The Uiuon states that to securo a majority i id the next I louse of Rsprescnlati res, 118 member the ] )cmocr.itS must yet gain seven members ovi ^ their strength in the last House. ,(a The Raleigh (N. C ) Standard says the Co is weather has killed all the tobacco plants in that r n gu?n. Tunc enough for n new stand. L ' .1 ltd fc Ttntlnr ikiiMk.-.t ihrniirtii ( .1 t to t..n nn 1 (iJ way to Barnwell, on the 17th, on a visit to ) ?c daughter. He is said by the Time# t<? be worn at * ' fatigued with tho labors of the session of Congrci nt 1 r|. A man named Dunbar, of Aikon, S. C., had 1 head severed front his body on the South Carolii It.nlroad, nenr that village, on the 16,h insl. 1 ^ was sleeping on the track at night, it, 1 * Judge Glover will hold an extra court for W a; liamtburg District commencing on the 16th April. jThe Charleston Courier's Washington corn it- pondent states that President Pierce, under ad*i of a physician, will leave that city on a South? ** tour as soon as Mrs. Pierce's health will permit. 1 will come to South Carolina, and perhaps visit M h, | sissippi. r- The eighty-second anniversary of tho Meckk 1" hurg Declaration of Independents will ba celebi tta ted in that county of North Carolina on ths 20th of May next. I>?tighornc, tried before tbe circuit court Prince Rdwsrd, Vs., for the murder of Kdic, a f< low elodeot of Hampden Sidney, baa beea aoqu ted on the groond of self defence. f i-.. J* LJ i? pgg? m A r*?g ?aa ?Mtd Stubba UU IbMi VI Joocs, shooting hits arith a guo, on lU 14th k?, stoat, at Brigbtsvittv, Marlboro district. r Tha Rev. Mr. Taa.i.li, Baptist, has km larga> I.T auoaeaaful in awakening religions iotaraat ia 8amterrille. Tha alur ia nightly crowded by ? *! ? Jy i inquirers after truth. Tha grand jury of tha Dwtrict of Columbia baa , found a true bill tor mardor agaiaat Lea, who abot I Ilujuv at the Pension Oilier, Washington, i C. 11. tiubcr, named aa a candidate lor Congraa? from Ninety-Six District?Brooke' deeBnea by j card in tha Newberry Mirror. The eorner atone of tha Clay Moa unseal will ba . laid at Lexington on the 4tli of July Wit. , Dr. Andrew Ure, tlte eminent eliemiat, died iw> London on the Sd January, 1807, in hia 79tb yarn. f Iter. William Paisley, of the North CarolinaMethodist Conference, died at Grcenahoro, North , Carolina, ou the Khh instant. I a Loudon the prices of ieu have again* e&e viinced. Hon. J. Foster Marshall, of Abbeville, is aa*s nounoed as a candidate for Congress in the Brook# ^ district. ' j A lot ol printing paper was lately shipped from 9 Allien*, fia , to the Philadelphia Enquirer, j It ia rumored in Washington that Mr. Forsyth, t our minister in Mexico, will be recalled, and ha place supplird with a "competent" person. , M ij. Ben. McColloch, the gallant Texan Raager, doclinea the appointment of Governor of Utah, ( which lias been tendered him. Rrigham Young , has burnt the Government archives and Court I records of Utah, and that tiie Territory is in a vir, ' tual state of rebellion. !A Smile.?A smile! Nothing on ?wrth asn smile hut in in! Gems may fl.ish reflected light, bat what > I is a diamond-flash compared with an eye-flash and | mirth tlaahT Kluwvrs cannot smile. This is a charm which eveB they cannot claim. Birds eau1 not smile, nor cau any living thing. It is the prerogative of man. It is the color which lovu wears, ' i?nd ohecrfolncas, and joy?these three. It ia lha light in the window o( the face, by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend, that it is at ' I home and waiting. A face that cannot smile ia liks I a bud that cannot blossom nnd dries upon the stalk. , Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, nnd a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than cither. Bui all smiles are i not uhWe. The cherrfuluces of vanity is not liks ^ cheerfulness of love. The smile of gratified pttd# is not like the radiance ol goodness surf truth. Tha r rains of summer fall ulikc upon all trees and shiubs. But when the storm passes, and every leaf lungs ' a drip, each gentle putr of wind brings down the , petty shower, nnd every drop brings with it aomatllilli/ of the nature of the h-?il or Ikinmnn --II -?l*u?k u lain;;; the roadside du?t yield* dust; ihe walnutleaf b iternc**; some flowers poison ; while the ' grape-blic-sum, tlie n?e. the sweet briur, leod their aroma to the twinkling <lrope, on j s>-nd them dawn in perfumed drop*. And bo it ia with smile* which ctrery henrl pc-ehum-* accoridng to ita n.-oure?aeKishneaa ie acrid; pride, Utter; good will eweet and fragrant. . I Thou sh.-ilt not kill h?a always been considered to ' huld a positive paaiiiau in the decalogue. It matters i uot w he titer by had, auiei or paiaun, the crime is i the aarne. Yet we find men holding social poeitions j in society tritling with the lives of lis* community by imputing on us rile and trashy imitations of tb? various papular medicines. Among othtrs we no, tice s??nie vile scoundrel* are imitating th<we justly celebrated medicines, I)K. M'LANKS VERMIKUGE AND IdVEIl P1LUS, manufactured by Fleming Bros. Pittsburgh, Pa. The chief injury resulting from this base imposi ion is to those f who may be m> unfortunate as tu take the rile stuff, f We therefore warn the public to be careful Tbs genuine M'Laue's Vermifuge and Ijvcr Pills srs pie|Kire?i only bv Fleming Bros , and must Itsve ^ their signature on the wrapper of each viol or buz Mar- h 26 5 It Outward Things.? For how much that is in its are we indebted to the solicitation r ntiij influence of natural object*! For the .JH heart needs lo l>e struck from without bofore it lings?as bells that let funeral and " wedding go past without note of woe or " joy, until the sexton's hand seize the cot?| 1 ?then they ring out ns if every one had v ringing soul of its own, &elf-move?l like ' bird*. And we, too, are wrought up<>ti by ?* these external ministers of nature. \Yc ?r# mute and dead, until the voice of friend* or a the objects of nature seize the eye nnd the a ear, and through tin in let forth the sonh Thus clouds, trees, water, rocks, grass, h mists, winds, snow, and frosts seem to lend r us some influence of their own, but do, in fact, only cover themselves with fancies and e j feelings drawn fioin us. Tbe beartsils re? i cent in the world. All things are speechless and hidden without it. But the heart itself, like an enchanted spirit, cannot move ,f or speak until nature touches nnd breaks (he sorcery of silence, and then it seize* ail . ' things and rules over all. '* I 1 OnK too M an V for THE wldow. y There is h good slorv told of a handsome ' Yankee peddler who made Jove to a young willow down in Pennsylvania He aecom1 ; pli?hed his declaration wiiJt an allusion to " two impediments to their onion. ''Name s them," said the widow. "The want of means to fret lip a retail store." Ther partt ed, and tlie widow sent the pedd e. a check ?- for ample means. When they met ngnin, e the peddler had hired and stocked hi* store, and the smiling fair one l?egged to know ,f the other impediment. "/ havt pot a wife.* COMMERCIA L ~ Columbia Market, March 22, I8S7. '' ; Cotton?Our l;ist report chwed on a (air and h steady demand at our I rmrr quotations of 22$ a 12] cents. The demand throughout the whole of g the ?*. ok w quiet hut eery firm, oi>d every bale was freely taken, at full price*. The sales oI tho * week loot up some 600 bales, and we at ill continue 1 to quote: Inferior I I] a II], ordinary I I( a 12J; >11 middling 12] a 12$; good middling )2| a 13; and ? fail to choice loft a lit) rente per pound. IIacon.? We have no material or quotable change ro ' to nt itje in the bkcun market, i'iie stock on sale : is fully adequate to the demand, and the market la el I quiet but steady, at 9J n HI for old shoulders; clear ,a ciiies II u II]- and lu-tma 12 n 12$; new hog round 11 a 1 I]; and liumn 12 a 12] Vents per poond. Corn.?The dun ind lor corn is good, bet the v,' K?k on sale > fair; puces art not materially high- ? hi 1 er. \N e now quote $1 per bushel. e. Floi'* ?There is a fair supply of ihw artiole oil ale, nnd the market quiet but ateady, at oar forin< i quoLitions of $7 a #7 J for common to good "R br mi*: sopcrfiuv $7 J; and catra lannlj floer $8 a . . LSI ... F I Ok. ..I id 11 ' ???a?a MAnnxBD, Oil the 19th iiMinnt, by A. K Smith. Km., Mr. " j .J KKFKRSON TURNER to Min R. TKNSEY ,,a ELLIS, a!l of SpurWinbarg I>i*tr?et. Ic ?????????a NEURALGIA CURED.?Read what Mr. il- j Hoyden MijrK no medicine ever had certificate* j Irom mioli r?*pect?hlc aonrcr* a* C rt*r*a Spr.aiah Mature. Mr. K. Hoyd> n, one of the original preprietor* oT the A?tor House, New York, and for a number of jcnra.M the Exchange Hotel, Richmond, liy Va , was cured ? ( h Mtun nt?*vk ot Nrcnlgia by Curter'a Spuiimh Mixture. The r*|M and perfect '" cure effected in hi* case by this valuable naduiM iirreated In* attention and excited hia interest; ha i*- recommended it to .th*r? afflicted with a variety of dia ane-*, and in every inatanoe a cur* waa effected. II* hit* aeen it euro A goo and Fever, Rhenma' tarn, Ijver Complaint, Dyapepeia, Krwri, Vtotem a' Cough#, and caaea which were said to be confirmed of Consumption, and nearly every other d aeaaa fa* which H * used. lie remark* it ia difficult ta kaow . what diaruse it will aot relieve or cor*, and aa a Blood " I'unfier, and ttprnig und Tall rncdtcw*, h*ha? ^ never aaeii it* equal. Ha ohecrfaMy remnomeMda It It on at) ooeaatoaa, tod belitvr* it to ba tba |MM valuable rsimdy extant, Mafeb 5 5