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From Wiohinpiton.
The special correspondent of the Xew-"\ oik
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Hi-rain, leiegrupuuig 10 m.u }><ic.
Mr. Belmont, the Austrian Consul'of your
city, is a candidate for the Chnrgeship at Naples,
and is backed by many of the leading
men throughout the Union, but the indications
are that the ollice is destined for Governor
{Seymour, of Connecticut.
General Shields lias been a candidate for
the office of Mini-tor to Spain, which he desired
on account of his health, but it is under
stood that Senator Soule witt receive the appointment.
Gen. Shields will probably get
some other foreign appointment.
Mr. Marshall, of California, has a good
chance of being appointed Commissioner to
Ex-Secretary Buchanan, for England, and
Hon. John A. Dix, for France, are still spoken
of.
Thomas N. Carr, formerly Consul at Tangier,
is a candidate for that consulate.
To day, in reply to a gentleman who asked
him how he l.ked the air of Washington, Gen.
Pierce said, "I don't know, for I have not had
the opportunity of getting a breath of fresh
air, have not even time to shave," which was
evident by looking at the President's face
At the cabinet councils held on Saturday
evening and to-day, the Mosquito affair was
anxionflly discussed. I cannot furni-h you
with the details, but I have reason to believe
* there will be no want of pluck. Gen. Pierce,
has declared that his administration will, at
all events, be an effective one. The government
received a telegraphic message on Saturday
from New Orleans in reference to this !
affair.
i
Correspondence of the Southern Standard.
Washington Uity, iHarcii 14,1000.
Very few of the hoard of office seekers
have left Washington, as so far, the .administration
have hardly shown their hands in the
matter of distributing patronage. They are
the most indefatigable mortals I ever saw.
I rise at light, and go to bed at midnight, and
whenever or wherever I am about, I see them
canvassing or charging everywhere after office,
office office.
Just now the hive is swarming. It seems
that they are grievously di-satisfied with an
old, hut very improper practice. I refer to
that indulged in by members of Congress, who,
locking themselves in a room by delegations,
pick and choose between applicants for office,
insisting that this man shall he appointed and
that that man shall be disa oinU'd ; very
generally as the proposed appointment or disappointment
may seem most likely to operate
to the advantage of the particular member of
Congress, from the particular district in which
the duties of the particular office arc to be discharged.
Custom induces the appointing
power very generally to be guided by such recommendations,
more especially as by so doing,
the Executive and his con-tituiional advisers
throw off much responsibility for bad selections
of subordinates.
At present, as there are full ten gentlemen
applying for every office for which coiigres
sional delegations have made recommendations,
of course there arc nine greviousl v of
fended individuals, who are "down on'' the
congressional parties cheating them, as they
MtAulrl ntlinriiMco liivr*
aver, out Ul piHWS lurv iwum uim.1 I. ,a\. v
obtained.
The Hon. John A. Dix, of New York, is
doubtless to have the French mission, after his
two disappointments?in the case of his application
for the portfolio of the War Department
and for the mission to England. The choice
Is a eood one, as he carries a balance wheel of
O '
sufficient weight to enable him to steer clear
of difficulties with the half monkey and half
wild cat now on the French throne.
If ex-Senator Downs prefers the Spanish
mission to the vacant seat on the Supreme
Court Bench, I h.-.re every reason to believe
he will be appointed to it. He is deservedly
a great favorite, here, and will 611 any office in
the gift of the Executive with credit to himself
and greatly to the advantage of the Government,
The squabble over the Coll Ttorship at San
Francisco, excites much interest here, more
especially as the battle is between the friends
and opponents of the proposed division of the
State of California. Judge Hammond, who |
has been recommended by the Congressional'
^oIpfT*tinn. is. at home, the leader of the op
position to the division, otherwise his appoint
ment would be in all respects satisfactory t<?
all the Californians now in Washington, who
may not aspire to the same \position. 1 presume
that as the administration are well known
to be determined in no way to interfere in the
domestic affairs of any State, they will he
careful so to distribute their patronage in California,
as not to implicate themselves on either
side of the current controversy there.
The Hon. I). K. Carter, of Ohio, has withdrawn
his application for the post of Commissioner
of Patents, owing to the pressure of opposition
to his appointment from his own Congressional
district. lie is sufficiently learned
in Patent jurisprudence to enable him proper
]y to discharge the duties of the office, which
is more than we can write in favor of any other
gentleman aspiring to that position. Among
them is Mr. DeBow, the Editor of Do Bow's
Commercial Magazine, published at New-Orleans.
As that gentleman was an applicant
for the 6ame position under Taylor, he can
have no chance tor it now, even though it
might not unluckily happen that the appointing
power should get to reading his Whig,
rather than his Democratic testimonials.
Greene W. Caldwell of X. C., is the only
applicant, as yet, for the post of Superintend
cut of the Branch Mint at Charlotte, N. C.
However, he will surely get it, even if there
may be twenty applicants.
Perry E. Brocchus, late of Alabama, and
more recently one of Mr. Fillmore's Associate
f?* ~ ! ?/? rl orrilArt- nf I f i Jc on ??nnlt.
juugt'd mm uiv w. ,? .... %%rk..
cant for the place of 1st Assistant Postmaster
General, which he will not obtain ; as that
must go to some gentleman whose democracy
is made of two stern stuff, to have permitted
him to have received office at Mr. Fillmore's
hands.
There arc at least twenty candidates for
the superintendence of the Public Printing,
all of whom w ill probably be disappointed ;
as the present incumbent, though a Whig, has
managed so to discharge the responsible and
difficult duties, as to bring upon the minds of
sensible men an impression of the importance
of letting well enough alone in his case.
PALMETTO.
He that, is slothful in his work, is brother lo
him that i9 a great waster.
From the Xew York Tones of the
American Bible Society.
The monthlv meeting of the Hoard of AT
agers was held on Thursday last, at 4 1-2
M., William Forest, Esq., presiding. Twe
new societies were recognised, of which tli
were in Ohio, three in Illinois, and in No
Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, ti
Iowa, one each. Letters were read from <
ferent parts of the world; the Rev. L. S.
coby of Bremen, w ith encouraging staterne
as to the circulation of the Scriptures in (J
many ; fro in Rev. R. S. .Mack lay, of Full Gh
in relation to distribution of the Scriptures
that provincial city, especially among stude
and scholars; from Agent Buel, in San Fr;
ciseo, on Catholic and Protestant Missions
California from F. M. Dodd. at Malta,
Methodist .Mis-ionary Society for Germai
81000; Cor France, 82,000; and 8100 to \
Methodist Missionary Society, for purchase
Scriptures for the Chippewa Indians in Mic
From the Sjuth Carolinian.
To Tax Collectors.
Mkssrs. Editors: An article appeared
the Newberry Sentinel, a few weeks sin
headed " Tax upon Nostrums," to which I L
leave to direct your attention. Every eitis
has to pay something, in proportion to
property, for the support of the governor
of the State ; each one is, therefore, intcrosi
in seeing that property belonging to men <
of the State, but lying within our borders a
receiving the same protection as our own, sh
not be exempt from taxation. It is a notorit
fact that thousands of bott!cs and boxes
worthless and dangerous nostrums are anua
sold in our State by agents of the manufac
rers, and Tax Collectors will look in vain up
their books for a return of such articles. I
bad enough for our people to oe humbugs
by such trash, which only serves to rid them
their money instead of their disease. But
is still worse for us to encourage such trail
by exempting them from that tax wliich tli
ought to pay for the protection they rece
under our laws. As a class, the manufacture
of patent medicines are inimical to the iusti
tion of slavery. They generally hail fri
the North, and are actuated by pecuniary
terest, as well as other considerations, in <
siring its Abolition. What a field fbrhumbi
gery would the black population of the Soi
present if left, without masters, to their o
iimdranee and credulity.
o - ..
I have just received a letter Iroin Wm.
MofTat, New York, in reference to the arti
in the Sentinel, in which he denies the right
the State to tax his medicines, because he
not a resident, and says that he has never b<
made to pay the tax but by one agent. WI
a compound he exhibits of both ignorance .1
presumption. How dare a man claim exen
tion from taxation on his property here on 1
ground 6f non-residence ? llow dare lie cla
protection for his nostrums under our la'
and deny our right to tax him for that prot
lion ? The very reverse principle I shoi
think would hold good with every man of co
mon sense. According to iiis own acknowlc
I meat he has been taxed only in one install
It becomes a question, then, for Coilectc
whether they impose the double tax or not,
demanded in such cases.
Let our people, and especially our Tax I
lectors, see that the names of all manufac
rers of nostrums, out of the State, are put
the book, and that agents of such be requi
to pay the tax upon them, separately from tli
own goods. When closely examined, it v
be seen to lie a question of much more imj:
tanee than at first we are led to suppose
TAX PAYER
England and America.?" Inn," of
Baltimore Sun, says in his last letter:
"The speech of^Mr. Mason to-day \
confined to a reply to Mr. Clayton, aq
the single point heretofore made by i
Mason, that the Balize is within the jurist
I ..< t: -i I(* R1, Hi itisli Hondo
Wl ,
is in Central America, over which Great 1
tain has hy her treaty abandoned any jurist
tion. Besides, the extension of her protons
from, that qji a,transient and limited to a [
inancnt jurisdiction, is of recent date; and
an aggression upon the rights of Com
America, and inconsistent with the .Mon
doctrine and our future peace and safety.
' The posses-ion of the Bay Islands is a
another act of open aggression, and we h
just received advice of a fresh aggression
the same quarter. Mr. Mason closed hisspci
with a solemn declaration that England
gone as far as she could he allowed to go
her aggressions upon Central America, t
that this continent, and the whole eontim
must be made free from British aggressi
He alluded to and accepted the alternative
war in preference to any policy that wo
jeopardize national safety and national hoi
" Thus we are drawing nearer to an iss
deprecated by some, but desired by many,
tween young America and old England.
" Mr. Douglas' late speech also represe
? ? . e U A 99 ?rwl ?
luIIV tne policy Ol " iwung niiivnui, .uiu t
fur immediate action, ami it is considered a
fair reflection of the sentiments of the Inuu
ral.
"The British Government, as we learn fr
late proceedings in the New Foundland J,ej
latlire, arc solemnly pledged to enforce tl
j extreme const ruction of the Convention
I 1818, in regard to the fisheries, and we kri
also that they will not abandon their occnp
j cy of the Bay Islands. War is therefore irn
I table within a year; and, perhaps, a state
I things may arise that will demand an c>
tee.-ion of Congress during the summer."
? ?
regard to the Spanish Bible; and from R
Dr. Perkins, of Oroontiah, stating the eonif
tion of the Bible in ancient and modern Syii
so that the Neslorians now have the ent
Bible in both languages, published by fui
from this Society. As it was understood tl
t!ie Rev. Samuel I. Prime is about to visit 1
rope lie was appointed Delegate to the Brit
and Foreign and to the French and Forei
eign Bible societies, lion. Joseph Ilei
Lumpkin, of Georgia, Hon. David L. Swai
of North Carolina, and Fran'is Hall, Esq.
this city, wore elected Vice Presidents of t
Society. Grants of books were made for G
many, Arabic Testaments for .Madagasc
French Bibles and Testaments to the Ann
cap and Foreign Bible Society, Bibles a
Testaments for .Mosul, also f r schools at Ci
Ion, and Sciipturcs in .Mpongwe for the (
boon mission. Appropriations in money
I the publications of Scriptures were made, v
! For China ?5.000 being SI,000 each to Am
! iean Board of Commissioners for Foreign M
I sinns, to the Methodist Church, to the Prot
taut Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Board
Missions, and Northern India ?3 000; to I
Swearing in of the Vice President.
We have been favored with the, following ex ^
an- tract from a private letter from Matanzas, lvceiv- =
P. ed in this city by the Crescent City :
Ive "For the fPst time in the history of the Herec
public has the man chosen by the people lbr the =
rt h second post of honor taken the oath of oliice in a
md foreign laud. William Rufus King was, on the
Jif- 4th instant, sworn in as Vice President of the fl|<
Jn United States, at the Cumbre, near Matanzas. 0f
nts "The day was a most beautiful one, the clear ou,
ur- blue sky of the tropics over our heads, the erne- an
an. raid carpet of Cuba beneath our feet, and the ar(
in delicious sea breeze of these latitudes sprinkling j
nts its coolness over all of us. Early in the mornxn
ing Consul Rodney, deputed by Judge Sharkey
in to . dministor the oath, left town on horseback .
in for the Cumbre, accompanied by several Ameriev.
can gentlemen. A pleasant ride of three miles c
ile- brought us to the estate where Mr. King was re |?
:ic, siding, called La Cumbre, (the peak,) from its c
iie situation on the culminating point of the hills ou
ids that immediately surround Ma'anzas. The view crc
iat from here is one of the most beautiful the eye of
]u- ever looked upon. Far as the vision could reach
ish in this clear blue expanse the beautiful valley of Rc
ign the Yurnuri extended, with its winding river, its ^
iry varying fields of green and gold, dotted here and wt
im, there with white sparkling buildings that looked cx
of like pearls set upon emerald, and the brown lulls CJ"
liis stretching fiy, far away in the distance. No an
er- more lovely impressive spot could have been
,xr, found in the whole world fur tlje ceremony, and
ji i- the solemn grandeur of the act and of the scene
nd ?he l its spirit over us. . . lm
PV. "Tlie oath was administered by Consul-.Rod- ai
ney to the Vice President, who was ready and St
for waiting our arrival. The volante was brought f?!
jz; up to the door, and Mr. King stepped into it, in
cr order to ride into Matanzas before the sun should ^
js. be too high to make it pleasant. The whole 0'u
os- cavalcade, consisting of some twelve or fifteen nb
of American gentlemen, immediately mounting,
t|ie and forming as an escort around the carriage, jf,
accompanied the Vice President lo town. pe(
|ie "The Creoles who had gathered on the lawn ;
0f round the liuuse, uncovered, and manv a heart- op
hj. telt I aya a a can utos (Uou oe wiiu you) uroue j
from their lips as they rode away. On the road
to town the natives, wherever we met them, silently
uncovered as we approached, and as we .(
piissed sped after us the same universal salutnin
lion. A few Spaniards, standing in gloomy ire
ce, at the doors of their shops, viewed us iu silence,
ieg or muttered a silent ajo as the dust from our
:en horses feet flew in their faces. ,s
his "Mr. King left Matanzas on the same day for sai
ent the estate of iMr. Chartrain, in the partido of Li- ltal
Led monar, about 18 miles from here. His health is is
>ut very poor, and no one accustomed to see patients du
aid with pulmonary disease in this climate, but an
mil knows lie cannot survive very long. He may sur- tie
)us v'.\? for weeks or months in this mild climate, in
of but he can never be,better. The old statesman sai
lly views his coming fate with calmness, as one who
tu- has fought the good tight, and will lay hold of
ion eternal life."?J\r. 0. Picayune.
i is ? pr
;ed During our Court of Sessions last week an fel
i of individual was tried for the crime of Bigamy,
it and acquitted. In the charge of his honor,
fic, Judge Frost, to the Jury, he remarked that
ley there was no law in the State of South Caro- c'(
ivo lina prescribing a marriage ceremonial. That rc<
ers if a citizen wished to buy or sell a piece of no
tu- land, the law prescribed the form of the deed an
om or title; that if he; wished to buy or sell a ne- sp
in- gro, there was a legal form for the bill of sale;
de- that if be wished to secure the navin*ut if
ug- 'money to himself or to another at a firnire
.it!) time, there was a legal form for the bond or J"
wn note; but for the bonds of the most solemn las
and binding obligation into which man or wo mi
B. man could enter, there was no legally preseri- Hi
cle bed form. thi
;of At one period marriage was held to be arc- on
is ligious sacrament and could only be solemnized
;en by the clergy: consequently magistrates were
bat prohibited bom performing the ceremony. At
ind a later period the law prohibiting magistrates Cli
ip- from officiating at marriage contract was re- co
the pealed. This we believe is the extent of Ic- no
,im gislating by tliis State upon the subject. Hence of
ws, the mode of the ceremony and the character of vie
ec- the officiating functionary are left to the choice on
uld of the parties entering into the contract. If co
un- the couple who desire to enter into the holy be
dg- state of wedlock choose to call in a clergyice.
man or a magistrate before whom to make
>rs, their vows of love and fidelity, it is well: but
as if they prefer to make their vows to each other
and assume the relations of husband and wife, rC(
Jol- acknowledging each other as such before the
:tu- world, it is also well. By the latter mode
in they enter into as indissoluble * bond as by
red the former. If Mr. A. and Miss B. jump over Is
icir a broom, the former saying I take ibis woman eii
vill to be my wedded wife and the latter, I take ho
lor- this man to be my wedded husband and go to ijc
housekeeping they are legally married, have be
entered into a bond of union which cannot be
annulled, so long as they both live. This in- CI
the difference to the form of a ceremonial, binding rn
the parties to the end of life, ntay to the casual ev
>ils observer seem strange, but to tbosc who are t?i- ! rc
">n miliar with the working of our system no such 01]
^r* feeling is experienced. Liberty of conscience ri!
"c" is a right too sacred to be abridged by legal (jt
ras prescription, even as to the mode of entering ())
*' " into this holy compact. And this is ample roa*
I"5* son for die apparent apathy of our legislators ^
,on upon tiiis subject.? Chcraw Gazette.
ier- ? ^ ,r
|s A Wauninuto Scoktsmkn".?We arc cogni ^
fra' zant. of a fact which we think should serve as a tn
roe warning to all persons who are at all accustomed
to using fire-arms, and therefore give it to the
dso public :
ave On Monday morning last, while standing in f?]
i" front of Messrs. Cheshire it Smith's store, a re- Pc
ech port was heard as if a gun cap had exploded in
l'as the counting room. Mr. Cheshire immediately
i" proceeded to examine, and found that a cap had
md exploded on the nipple of a gun, placed thereby n"
' it, his brother about ten minutes previous, with the
on. hammer down. No one was within ton yards sa,
ol of it, and the apparent spontaneous combustion
u'd remains a mystery. The gun was loaded, hut T!
fortunately the powder was not ignited. Will w;
>ue, not our young friends take warning from this ? wi
be- We almost begin to believe the old saying, that op
"a gun is dangerous without lock, stock or barints
rcl."?Laurensvil/e Herald.
s a Tim S.xnnATii.? "If," said Daniel Webster to hu
gu- a friend, "religious books are not widely circulated
among the masses in this country, and the
om rieoole do not become religious. I do not know 111
uis- what is to become of us as a nation." eo
it-ir Willis says : "What can a nation expect to po
of receive from Ood who allow their Senators ami
10w Representatives to sit in session on his holy Sab- p0
an- bath, and who allow thcirPresidont to subscribe c(i
?vi-. his name to acts passed on that holv day, when
of ths exigencies of the country do not call for it.
:tru God lias said it : 'Remember the Sabbatli day Mi
to keep it holy.'" ' ctt
"Ijf (Camitftt lllfehlt) Journal. ?fli
~ res]
Tuesday, March 22, 1353. n,c
THO.- J. WARREN, Editor- faV<
had
A Plank Road Once More! of a
Don't be alarmed friends?we do not intend to in:t
a long article upon you to-day, for we are as tired *
talking, as any of you are of reading, about what we ^'c
;fht to do. Tho suggestions of our correspondent in ^r0
other column are entitled to weight, and we think
) worthy to bo considered. Is there not as much t'ia'
ide and patriotism in Camden among our monied
:n, as would build a Plank Road to North Carolina? ^0I
e hopo there is. Then why delay in a matter so
portant? livery good citizen ought to be interest- aro
in the prosperity of his own town, at least enough ef n
do something towards keeping it up. If there had j. t
en a good market road to North Carolina this winter, pea
r trade would no doubt have been very largely in- j
:ased: for even as it was, our streets during a part jn ?
it wero crowded from day to day, and it made us can
ink of old times. The fact is, with a good Plank jmi
md, we would ask the Charlotte Rail Road no odds,
e could rival it easy, and our own Branch Railroad j
>uld feel tho benefit beyond a question. We do jov
rnestly beg and entreat our people to open their ti,e
es and their hearts and their hands, and go to work ]a(p
d help us to make a Plank Road. ier
cttf
O. S. West, Esq. UJm
We ask the attention of such of our readers as may
vo business in Texas, to the Card of our young friend
id lato fellow-citizen, Mr. C. S. West. Tho Texas
ate Gazette introduces the Card to its readers in the ej(*
lowing terms: an(
,;Thc attention of our business men is directed to tho k .
.v card of Mr. C S. West, in to-day's paper. Mr. ' J.
est comes among us highly recommended, and from ?'"
r personal knowledge, we can recommend him as an J
lo and safe lawyer." ny
Wo endorse the recommendation of tho Gazette, and efft
any of our readers should require his services in per- ag*
ting titles to land; paying taxes on lands; redeem- stil
5 land sold for taxes; collecting or securing Foreign pai
Domestic debts in any part of the State, or in any cili
.siness connected with the public offices of the State, c'd
; feel assured that he will attend to it with prompt- C01
ss and fidelity. Wc wish him abuudant success in to
i new location. ?'''
Mr. W. J. Crafts, ?lir
The gentlemanly Agent of the Charleston Courier, soc
now on a visit to our town. We deem it unneces- l|s
CiO(
ry to say any thing in commendation of this long es- ^
blished and valuable paper. The Charleston Courier
familiar to every one, as the oldest and best con- ^
ctcd commercial, news and business paper in this ^
d the Southern States. We hope Mr. Crafts may |
abundantly successful in his mission amongst us, ^
collecting and in every matter connected with the :?
rac- abl
Charleston Medical College. ^
Among the list of graduates and admissions to tho
actico of medicine, we observe the name of our (
low-citizen, Henry T. Cantey. a f
Col. Keitt's Address,
D. livcrcd before the Polytechnic and Calliopean So- ' ^
. ties of tho Citadel Academy of Charleston, has been
s?if
:eived. It has been highly commended, and wc have
doubt from our personal knowledge of CoL Keitt. ^
d the reputation which lie enjoys asa ready and able j1 'j
caker, fully sustains its author's reputation. (
a j 111 1 i_ d.ll
AUUllbkCU UJ uau. .
010
Cupt. L. W. II. Blair, appeared before Ilis Honor
dgp O'Neals in Charleston on Thursday evening j
it, on a writ of Habeas Corpus, and was by him ad- ^
tted to bail, in the sum of ten thousand dollars.
3 was represented by Col James Ciiesnut, jr., of
is town, Col. F. I. Moses, of Sumter, and J. L. I'eti- . '
:c, Esq., of Charleston.
Ins
Federal Appointments. ^ol
Wo see by tho Telegraphic news furnished the ,na
mrleston Courier, that Thomas Evans, Esq., has been 01,1
nlirmcd by the U. S. Senate as U. S. District Attor- 1''
y for Charleston, and J. D. B. DnBotv, Esq.. Editor ^1
DeBow's Revieic, as Superintendent ot the Census.
UII1
:e Kennedy. Mr. DeBow entered upon his duties
\vc
Friday. Tho nomination of the Hon. "W. F. Col- yy
CK, as Collector at tho Port of Charleston, has also ^
en confirmed.
The Vice President.
iiij
Late accounts from Cuba state that tho health of |,e
r. Kino is much worso. There arc no hopes of his yt
30 very.
JLonaon quarterly Keview.
This valuablo periodical has been received for the sec
t quarter of 1853. Wo have not received as yet, an'
:her tlio Kdinhurgh or North British Reviews. We 0
ipo that according to tho terms propossd by Messrs. =r<
>onard Seott & Co., and acceded to by us, they will ^'C(
i duly forwarded.
We shall certainly, however, use our prerogative of
iticizing very closely theso publications, and com- ^ j
en ting freely and without reserve, upon any and . ]
cry article which hears unjustly upon our rights, and j ^
fleets in any degree upon tho justice and policy of ^
ir own peculiar institutions. They have no more tho
jht to intermeddle with our affairs, than we have to ,f ,
ithrono Louis Napoleon. No! not as much; for we :l^
ight be doing the world at large some service by jj
inging such characters a step or two lower. The (J,,
ct is, the South has too long slept over its rights, and 0|J
wo were only true to ourselves, it would as inevita- an
y follow as the night the day, that others would be till
no to us, and respect and adthirc us more. tin
Peterson's Magazine. ()p
The April number is at hand. The cmbclishments So<
r this month are unusually interesting, and we supine
the reading matter is in keeping with tho work. nu
No Sheriff. of
n.|.. nf Onnn./,|n,m, n.olrt/,* !.?..? In si,.
1 iiu uiiauiio ui uvvib?.iv?ii 4.iovuvw iia?v juiivu iu niu
lather effort to elect a Sheriff for tlint District. The bet
;e 7Y?<esoftho 9th inst., iuapcakingof this event pai
ys: 5>C'
An election for this officer was held on Monday last. w'b
icro were no candidates, and consequently no one to
is elected. Wo don't know whether this speaks
. 11 or ill for our district, but we arc inclined to the
inion, it is a mark of no great credit. Wl'
mil
The Blue Ridge Rail Road. \yli
The City Council of Charleston have subscribed fivo ',;,l
indred thousand dollars to tho Blue Ridgo Rail Road. 101
Col. Gorninn, a member of the late Congress, from "lit
inois, and an officer of merit in the war with Mexi- bee
and a personal friend of Gen. Picrco, has been spirited
Commissioner of tiro Land Offico. '
"Bon McCollough," of Texas, has been already npinted
to the command of the new regiment of Mount u
Rangers. |
Death of Col. Bf.najah Dunham.?The Greenville Ka|
Duntaincor announces tho death of this respected "ill
iten of Greenville, at tho ago of 70 years. g
Lmong the many good hits of President Pierce, one j ]i
lio best is his reply, reported by a "Washington cor- (j
Jondent, to the grabbers, for the great Pacific road. ' it
y were trying to draw from h!m some expression j si
)rablo to the measure, but ho answered that '"he w
been elected President of the United States?not l?
, Railroad Company.1' ?
L telegraphic despatch from Norfolk, signed A. A. rj
kburn, says that the American schooner It. P. fa
wn, captured by the Germantown off the Coast of tl
ica, and latoly arrived at Norfolk, is no slaver, and n
t she has bced unjustly seized, her papers being all rt
tL She cleared from the New York Custom
JSC. tl
rithiu a radius of fifteen miles from London there j."
two hundred thousand acres of land in the hands f,
iarket gardeners, all laboring for the London Mar- ft
Ten thousand loads of turnips, 10,000 sacks of \
s, 20,000,000 celery, 40,000,000 cabbages, and ct
Ifi fnna "tofni* rtfOOJflO 1 ffl QQlll ti\ Vlft Crvll] firmiH.lllT Sll
xarden market alone, to say nothing ofthe potatoes, a
ots, beets, onions, herbs, &e., which are sold in a
nense quantities.
n
t is said that tlnf husband of Mrs. Stowo called on tl
relt, the Boston publisher, on business. During r<
visit, Jcwett inquired of Stowe?how it was bis tl1
j came out in favor of colonization in the last chap- P
of her book! "I should have supposed, "said Jew- tl
"she wouldn't want to." "She didn'tsaid Stowe, ~
t she couldn't find anyplace else to come out at*For
the Camden Journal.
Mr. Editor?Sir, the time is close at hand to
ut Intendant and Wardens for another year, al
1 it becomes the citizens to think well who
ill be the most suitable persons to fill these p
ces. ..
I feel great pleasure in recording ray testimo- ...
to the improvement our present officers has
;cted on our streets, and their general man- !(
?mcnt of the affairs of the Town, but much
1 remains to bexlone. We tieed further re- ^
rs on our streets, and above all, we need fa- 4>c
ties to bring in trade to our Town. Surroundbv
rail and plank roads in all sections of the ?
mtry, we certainly ought to bestir ourselves
improve our communication with North Car- ^
;m, almost the only one left us?let us have
dank road to the North Carolina line in the ^
ection of Monroe and Concord, and we shall
n sec the happy results. Mecklotiburgh wants
to do so, so does Cabharus and Union, and, in;d,
all the counties in these directions, and
y will soon respond to our action.
Now is the time to be up and doing?let the
ds in the hands of the Treasurer, from the t
a of Rail Road Stock and otherwise, be appli- n
to this purpose?let a meeting of the citizens h
called to devise the best measures to forward
and let none have our votes who are unfavur- e
to it. tl
Let us awake from our sleep, else it may prove ll
i sleep of Death to all our hopes. 11
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Office Sf.ekeus.?A Washington letter of f
11
ec nt date, says :
" Some weeks ago, Shillington published a 11
ik containing a list of all the offices with the
aries attached. He has sold over a thouid
copies already. This book will cause a
ely competition, f?>r these fat offices are like u
iretty woman?every body wants to get her,
t only one can succeed.?A few nights since, I,
0 office seekers being in the same bed, one U
them dreamed that he had secured a 81.000 ti
1 kship, became so eNthftishlstic that he p
ked his fellow sufferer on the floor. In the>e
les of excitement every man ought to have a
1 to himself."
{
A revolutionary soldier, aged 104 years, tvas ^
Cincinnati on the 4th in>t., from a visit to r
friends out west, and was on his return
me tn Richmond, Ya. lie is said to he re- i
trkably active, and has never been sick but i
ce in lus life. I lie Cincinnati Times says i
it during the revolution he fought in all the s
ncipal battles in North and South Carolina r
; lost an eye at the battle of the Cowpens, ?.
iler General Morgan", and received two 1
?unds at the battle of Brandy wine, under a
asiitngtos and Lakayktte. He was at
> battles of Trenton and Princeton, where
) brave Col. Merck it was shot. He saw (
in. Warren fall at Bunker Hill, while cheer- t
; on his troops to victory ; and to sutn up, >
fought in sixteen battles in New-York and j
irinont under Generals Gates and Arnold, t
? -?? t
The Cabinet of Gen. Pif.rce.?We have
m several articles, giving sketches of the lives t
i characters of the different members of the c
jinet, and all of them favorable in a high de- t
,'C. We know that this is easily done on all 1
:asions for public men, and a very moderate I
ire of ability placed in high stations, commands 1
nagnificd respect which exalts it at once into
importance and dignity never before possess- s
But this cannot bo said at least of a major- ]
of the new cabinet. Gushing, Marcy and I
ivis have hitherto occupied a place in public t
imation, which renders any attempt at oleva- r
g their standing entirely useless. We doubt I
lie office of Secretary of War has been more \
ly tilled since the time John C. Calhoun held c
than it is now by Col. Davis. We mention t
i Secretary of War* particularly, because the J
icr offices of the cabinet, Secretary of State,
d Attorney General especially, have been, from
10 to time, filled by the very highest talent of ?
i country. Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Buchan- [ ?
n, Van Huron, and others of the greatest men J v
the United States have been in the place ol j j
eretary of State. a
llic Administration of President Fierce starts! (
iler the most favorable auspices, and is corn t
iridium at this time, the undivided confidence | ?
the whole Democratic party, and not a small j p
ire, also, of the Whigs themselves, who have | j,
;n driven off from the support of their own I cj
rty, by the coalition of Sewardism with Gen. ! c;
jit; which was calculated to kill dead, the j p
ole Whig strength m the South; but strange 1 t(
say, did not d<> it, Tennessee and Kentucky tj
ring voted for the coalition at the late Prosiitial
election. The papers in South Carolina, sc
liout exception, are supporting Pierce's adnistratioii,
so far; and we hear of not a single
ig voice raised in the Palmetto State. Per ^
>s there has never been, in the history of the : ^
ifederaey, any State so perfectly united, so far
Federal politics were concerned as South Car- ^
ia at present, even General Commander has ^
ii cashiered.? Greenville Mountaineer.
tpinitcai. Rappers.?Col. P. F. Perry in his
torial correspondence with the Southern Part,
writes that Gen. James Hamilton, formerly
vernor of this State, but now a citizen of Tex- a,'
has become a wining vicum "i me
pping delusion, and a firm believer in the
anifestations." It is strange that any intelli
it person should lie duped by so monstrous a tC
umbtig. But that a man of Gen. Hamilton'*
istingiiishcd eminence and intellectual endowiC'tits
should suffer his strong mind to bow in
ibj- ctiun to so manifest a delusion, is indeed
'underfill. His domestic affliction in the loss
y death of two of his children will explain tho
latter. We incline to the opinion that those
nly can ever become converts to this mercenaf
delusion-, who are unstable in their religious
lith, or who have a vein of superstition running ^
trough their charaeters, or whose minds are fl
mde impressible by misfortune and the death of ^
datives mid friends. ~
Col. Perry also writes that Gen. Bailey's
augliters, of Virginia, are performing all tho
icks of the trade as successfully as the Misses
ox?the sinion pure rappers. Mrs. Burt inirmed
the Colonel of the same feats being per- %
.rmed in her parlor by Mr. Burtaud herself and
fr. and Mrs. Bell. They likewise succeeded in
tiling up a spirit, or rather the rapping of a
tinf Time nvirl^nflir clwuwir*** liof
mystery to the uniuitiated, it is nevertheless %u
rrant imposture. /
These rappers seem wending thejr way Soyth
ard for the purposes of gain by their trafire in
le souls of men?for the imposture cannot bo
>garded as anything else than such a nefarious
affic. Hitherto hurnbuggery lias met with
oor encouragcmeut at the South. We trust
iese huinbuggers will be treated as they deserve
-with indifference and contempt.?Newberry
\entinel.
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Temperance Celebration.?The Anniversa
7 of the Darlington Division Sons of Temp?rnce,
was celebrated on Tuesday last, at tkis
lace. The Cadets turned out on the occasion,
nd in procession with the Sons marched to the
resbyterian Church, where an Address was devered
by the Rev. William Lewis, of Sumter,
he orator laid down, as the foundation for his . J4
;marks, the two propositions, that intemperance
a very bud and a very dangerous thing; and
lat temperance is a very good thing; that the
inner "works bad all around " and the latter
works good all around," all of which he succeodd
in proving conclusively, we suppose, to the
linds of all present. In truth, they arc both
ery generally admitted facts, for the most abanoned
inebriate will acknowledge that "intemerancc
is a bad thing," and "temperance a good
liing," for it is notorious that men
"Know the right and approve it too;
Know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue "
Darlington Flag, \1tk inst.
Professor Anderson, who has been for some
me past ] e.formiug to large audiences in Rich*
iond, has been exposing the 'Spiritual Rapping'
urnbug. During his remarks he stateu that
its originators were young ladies who had made
75,000 by their operations." He also sated ^
hat "statistical accounts from the various lunaic
asylums throughout the Union report 573 luatics
as victims of this destructive delusion?
rbile 17 persons have committed suicide under
lie influence of a monomaniac belief in the spir:ual'
{lowers of these juggling pretended coranunicators
with the immaterial world."
Nf.w Orleans, March 16.
Decline in Cotton Receipts.?The cotton
narket yesterday was not effected by the news
ier the Africa. We note sales of 10,000
tales, prices unchanged?strict middling fair
? 1-4 a 1) 3-8 cents. The Receipts are rapidly
ailing off?the the inciease at all the Southern
mrts being now only 476,000- bales.
Bacon sides, large sales 7 12.
Death of W. F. Anderson.?It is with re;i*et
tliat we have to record the death of Mr.
?V. V. Anderson, of New berry, and formerly a
espected citizen and merchant of this town.
lie lett Charleston, on Wednesday mornng,
apparently in his usual health, was eized
?n tiie rond with a violent attack of cholera
uorbus, (a disease to which he has been very
object,) under which, in the absence of all
emcdial agents, he continued to sutler throughlut
the journey. On arriving here he was
bund to ne in a sinking state, and died soon
liter.? C'urulutian.
'J'ii k Storm in Columbus, (Ga.) and Giuard,
Ala )?The Columbus Enqitircr states that j
luring the late storm there, valuable houses
vere partially, and some of them seriously inured.
Hoofs, and especially the tin ones, were
>lowu oil', hundreds of ehimnies were prostraed,
fencing in some wards destroyed, and a
;reat number of latge and beautiful. shade
rees uprooted or shattered to pieces. The
lamage is variously estimated at tro.n ?50,000
o ?100,000. This is the merest guess work, ^
lowever, but it can hardly fall short of the
irst named sum, or by any means reach the
alter.
Girard, the neighboring city, across the river,
luflered somewhat, but not so severely as Coumbus.
Their new Methodist church, which
uul been completed but a short time, was lev
?iea wiin me earm, ana now lies a scauereu
uin. The bridge across the creek was also
down down, and six mules and two wagons
vere destroyed by the fall. The drivers were
:arried with the teams, in their fearful flight to
he water, but escaped death, both being bady
hurt.
A Sermon Manufactory.?In England some
ii-rsons are constantly employed in writing scrnons
to sell to clergymen. The following adertisemeut
appeared in a late number of John
}u||: "Many young ministers, from the parochi- ?
1 business, and from inexperience in composiion,
being sometimes obliged, very much against
heir inclination, and to the serious injury of the
linistry, to copy sermons from books, the adveriser,
an experienced clergyman, engages to suplv
original sermons, of good composition, of deided
Evangelic doctrine, and of practical appliition,on
receipt of half a sovereign (&2.50) each.
'ersons requiring sermons may choose their own
>xt, and need not enclose their own names, as
ie sermons can be directed to a fictitious signaire,
at any post office they are required to be
int.
Hk Employed.?Every man ^should remember
lat the world will always honor industry. The
ilgar and useless idler, whose energy of body
id mind arc rusting for want of occupation,
ay look with scorn upon the laborer engaged
, bis toil; but his scorn is praise, his contempt .
)nor.
The word dun was first used during the reign ,
' Henry Vll. It owes its birth to Joe Dunn,
i English bailiff, who was so indefatigable and
tilful in collecting debts that it became a
overb, when a person did not pay his debts,
why don't you Dunn him 1" Hence originad
the word which Is in general use. ^