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. , __ _ J _ ; -' VOLUME XXI. . CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH G,18(i(). NUMBER-10. ' , CHESS COLUMN OF TUB CAMDEN JOURNAX. Tuesday, march 6, I860. ttlOBLEM NO. 18, BY "A. if. P." OF THE . ; CAMDEN CHESS CLUB. * BLACK. " vH WM WS m H B P p^ ''vmt^wsd- '"wm - I ? it IH&'PI ?11 fill ?J. iPlj ? fea (Bi si I -: > ^ ivuitjl ' TVhi(c to play, and Checkmate in four moves. SolcUion (o Problem Ho. 17, WHITE. J * BLACK. * ,1. Q..to K. 7. 1. Kt. takes P. '' 7. Q. takes Kt 2. R takes Q. 3. Kt to -K. 2, ch. 3. K. moves. 4. I*. mates. - "~-*1 " - V AW l.l . ft I '?iie cnniBcn 'itrauj smtriim. Tuesday, March 0, 1860. ' J. W. CALTj, Associate Editor. The Weather Ir mDd and pleasant us Spring, and suggests to farmers tiie near approacli^of planting tjmc! Ambrolypcs. These in urant.of good pictures can gratify their desires by calling at an early day at the Aiubrotypc Gallery of If. Br McCaiacv, who remains with us a short timo longer. ' Immense Slanglster. w TVc leant that a party of five or six gentlemen from this vicinity, a few days since, while on a hunting excursion onthe'Waterec River "bagged" on one plantion 147 Rabbits, not counting the "wounded" and "missing." ? > ... . : .i | . _ Soiudhlug in h Kamc. ' "VVonote the recent organization in Summerton, Clarv endun District of a new Division of the Sons of Temperance, under the narao of Uccotxs Division. In ' . ' consequence of tho fact that tho Ritual of the order ' provides for.lady visitors, wo would suggest that the 'f letter s be dropped in the name?making it Uugyin f. Divitwn. You will tlieu have instituted, in name at least, on organization calculated to alwavs ensure a large Dumber of ac'icc members. - A ** Soose Item." ^ itvCf.iaS! an the evening of the IGth February, by /Vh'T-. - , If: Span's, Mr. geoimn Adolpii Fink. Kdito'r : 'llMakaa?0" nw nn'i r ! tjxuTit^aH otjiil-klngton Ihsy HPWBWBir^ohgcrTOd by tfeiabovo that our cotedipoJff-'-d.-Jsuy .of the*. Lexington Kbuj has, recently brought an, * AHtional-" star" under hut government. con-j B" putuiato liitn upon otitis practical acinous trillion 01 * Araori^-poltcy, and trust that his Flag nmy yet wuro triumphantly?over a goodly number of lilllc .hrHlotM perfeetly sound on the " nigger.'' " Playing Sumner. if wwiriMii t"'' in w'r ' i J It will be seen from .the annexed, that IIickjiaX, ,,the unblushing braggart which EonI'NDsox recently tltraxlicd in. Washington. Is about to catch up the dy* : mg tchines of Scjixke. We arc afraid that his "model" has taken too extensive a tramp for liiui to attract much ' - hotW by the self-same "show:*1 "1Lr.nkss OF Mn. TIjckmax.?By a private letter - from West Chester, wo regret to leijm that IIo;i. John u-:: llickumn is in a vety precarious state of health. He ~xi_:; c:uae lioiuo from Washington several chivs previously, intending to return on Monthly hist, but his indisposition waslourdio be so serious tliat it was deemed unadvisable to undertakethe journey, and his friends 'are fearful that ho will not be able to resume his Con . 'i .. . ? ....... \ greSSlomti amies ior some nine in icusi. " . Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner. A Woman'* Wonder. It is saidfhatan illustrious personage recentIV wrote the following-ill the album of a lady of rank: "There arc two eventful periods in tho life of a wo* ^ "'man; oije when she wondets who she will have?the other whoa jjhe wonders whej .will have her." We '^wonder'' if any of our lad}- readers have yet .. .. arrived at the "eventful periods'- above mentioned ? If so, and they arc unable to solve the problem of themselves, we would suggest that they avail themselves of tho facilities afforded by the "privileges of "leap year,"- and, in conjunction with sonic equally puzzled benedier, we are quite certain that a solution mutually satisfactory will Ixj elfeetcd. Wo know or an "old bach" or two?yea more?that r:-. would willingly lend counsel in such cases, if it was solicited. Sign* of the Times. Under tho above caption the Memphis (Tcun.) Argtn, of the 25th ultimo, thus relieves itself:? 'Tho sigus of the times indicate a general demoralization. The integrity and, virtue which distinguished itlic earlier, ages of the Republic, and tiic wisdom which marked the fonuders of the government, are rnpidly vMssin2.wav. Corruption stalks abroad iinrebukcil ? Iind the shallowest empiricism is regarded, at least in iwme quarters, as tlio prolbundcst statesmanship and tbq deepest political economy. Tbo public ear is liecoming accustomed to stnuigc sounds, and the press teems with new revelations and startling theories. The science of government is constantly receiving new lights, and lags not behind the improvement which, characterises ever}- department of human progress.?: Old theories are discarded?tlio lessons of the past are forgotten?the maxims and declarations of the builders of the State are trampled, on and unheeded. A new * vocabutarly hns bocn introduced, and patriotism and ^ treason are strangely defined bv the modern lexico: grapliers, who aspire to bo the prophets and expounders of the new gospel sought to bo introduced and inaugurated in our inidst .. * ^qviieu George Washington presided over the destinies of this Republic as its lirst Chief Magistrate, resistance to the government was deemed treason, and the num Who favored a dissolution of these States rey coivcd tho execrations of an indignant and outraged yeoplo. Public scorn would have marked and blasted the statesman of whatever creed or section that would have hinted at the despoiling of the labors of the wisest tmdbravest band of men on which the sun Pver shone, and tho most glorious patriots, that ever watched over the birth of freedoni or struck a blow for human liber tv. . "But, how changed arc tlic times?liow sadly out of joint. Treason goes unrebuked, and corruption holds bes court in tlie high places of tho uiUion. "fcven- Virginia, that proud old Common wealth that * * gave birth to Washington. Thomas Jefferson, James . i Mstiison and John Marshall, in.ni/na mater vimm. a State that has furnished Presidents, Statesmen and soldiers to adorn the annals of our country and to illus* IV trate tlie gloiy of our institutions, even she lias fallen from her high estate and bent a listening ear to those who would-destroy the lust hopes offreedom and man* hind, and in her ancient capital, adorned with so many Recollections of her early heroes, feasted tlipso who I havo'invited her to join in overturning tlie government r and in carcring lier notuc with eternal iufuiny, i '"God forgive lior, She's n cringing with tho rest, She, that ought to have clung forever To her grand old eagle's nest." ' Shame be upon her and upon those who would join _ 'J. . jtj such an ignoble call Let her drive all trailers from her soil. Let her discard all dreams so fatal to her peace and Luppiyess. Let her "Call in her ancient thoughts from banishment. , And banish hence these abject lowly dreams." "P. S.?Since writing the above we observe that Virginia has declined the proposition of South Carolina, and sent Mr. Memminger home :o waste bis eloquence on the desert air of the nullification empire.? Mr. Starke, it is expected.- will, in view of this failure, slink back into Mississippi as much discomforted as were the messengers of the Hartford Convention wlienthey were met on the high road to 'Washington City by . illL* 1ICU1V Ul J'CilVV. . "Wo perfectly agree with the first proposition of the writer, that, '"the signs of the times indicate a general demoralization." In some cases we are fearful that this ' demoralization" has been rather special: for, when . we see those who have placed themselves in a position to distinguish between truth and error for others, failing to meet the requirements they themselves have taught the people to exact of thoin, we naturally and legitimately conclude that, such failure ^or omission arises from a war.t of that honest moral element which induces the just and conscientious man to accord to those with whom he may differ at least an apparent fair construction of theif position. And, this conviction is fastened still stronger upon our minds when misrcpfOsenti.tiou is backed alone bv the most unwarrantable assumptions of uopudent assertion. It has been some time since we have observed a more confident demonstration of self-conceited declaration front the apologists of the Union, than that above. From this, aud this alone, are wfl induced to bestow upon it the dignity of a notice. When we have done,'we ran claim at best but to have drawn attention to the unscrupulous declarations therein, .for there is no argument to comhat?it is nerely the offspring of that peculiar species of intellect which seeks to carry a point by the"strength of its assertion. If the writer is honest in his admissions of tlie existence of so much corruption in the body politic, lie must certainly be persuaded of the necessity of some remedy to expel this loathsome disease. It may be. however, that ho has extracted a germ of "philosophy from the von- common assertion that dirt fattens, aud. in its application, he of course feels perfect freedom to declare against any system of practice that tends to an expurgation of this accumulating mass of corruptioiu This is evidently the position he occupies, if we are to hike his article as any indication thereof, lie points out the existence and location of the disease, hut utterly neglects to suggest any possible remedy?aye. he unceremoniously dcuouncej; those who are honestly striving to devise sotue plan Whereby the encroachments of a diseased sectionalism may be cheeked. Now, what arc wc to think of the vaunted patriotism of any party, which, thus cognizant of the existence and growth of abuses which threaten to submerge the country beneath the crimson wave of civil war, stands idly by, nor lifts an ami to stay the dark (lood? Is it not, to say the least, a tacit acknowledgement that its breath of life is only retained tf!rough the administration' of the stimulating pap of Federal patronage? that its energies have become too weak to make anything iike successful battle against tlio advancing enemies of the Constitution. And yet. despite its incapacity to accomplish the task assumed, we find at the South, which has been the chief sufferer thereby, men so lost to the actuations of true principle and courage as to become the bold apologists of this miserable, time-serving party. Like the fabled cur, tlicy will n?l allow the gratification of the natural appetite of another party, nor will tliey consume the provender them selves, but must snap anil snarl in defence uf all assumed right?a right to brand those wlio favor a dissolution of the Union from the most patriotic motives, vj.'. ,r. rnij-^gp., (,r>r.^<'?,, I . - -|LI ? Impudence of assertion is cvi^r the resort of those |; whose ctutso is tottering, and, we have never seen a. j Snore finished picture of unblushing effrontery than is j manifested in the declarations of the foregoing article. . Virginia is dragged forth nnd charged with having | 'fajjen Iroin her high estate and bent a listening car to ] tlioso who would destroy the last hopes of freedom i and mankind," simply because she courteously receiv- ( ed the commissioner of a sister State, and paid the de- < served tribute of n generous welcome to one whose j business was to offer counsel upon matters of common i interest to the entire South. The forgiveness of God ' is invoked, and for what, by this pious disciple of a | prostituted government? Why, simply because Vir- < ginia was apparently drawing around her the mantle : of self-protection?aye there, was a faint gleam of hope ! emitted from the crfhisoned soil of Harper's Ferry, that 1 the South might now unite upon Virginia as the pivot 1 to wheel her.-elf beyond the control of political gamblers and unprincipled politicians who attempt to lick- ! snittlc the acirressioiis of the North, and who are ever J ready to cry out treason! treason!! when one or nnJrc Southern States movc^n the direction of a simple con- ' ferenee for mutual protection. ' It is assumed that Virginia should, above all others, ; discountenance any movement that tends to a division of the Union. Wc regard the contrary as the position ' in which she stands*and in which she must continue ' to rest until the timidity of her legislators surrender her individuality upon the blacke'ued .altar of sactifiee, to ( the perpetuation of a Government which lias degeiicratdd in its' practical operations to a par with the low, j grovelling and debased apologists of its adherents, the ligaments of whose adhesion is naught but the golden i chair, of individual aggrandizement. i As to the 'hmllitication empire," South Carolina, j there is%very reason to question the political honesty and trutli of him who dares impute her motives to oth- ] er than a most just and cotuinendablo care lor the true interests of herself and her sister Southern States, in- | the jfl-oposition, fur a mutual Conference. | James Henderson Irlty. This distinguished geiitleinan died 24th Feb- , ruary. In December, 1810, lie graduated in . the Smith fhivolinn. Collu/re. w"v O" I lie was President of the Laurens liail Jload , Company, at tlic time of his cleatli. Indeed , the existence of the Load is referrible to , him. ILis life has been one of constant public em- , plojh.cnt. lie studied law" with Chief Justice O'Xeall, and was admitted to the Par, in Novtmber, 1817, and was for many years his j partner at Laurens. t , lie has been a member of the IIousc of Rep- , resentatives, and at the time of his death lie was the Senator of Laurens District. In Decern- , ber, 1852, he was elected Lieut. Governor, lie , was a candidate in Dccembei, 1858, for the j oflice of Governor. A few votes turned the , scale,against him, after several ballots. He was the Brigade Major of Gen. Wright, j | and afterwards of Gen. O'Xcall. Subsequently , lie was tlie aid of one of the Governors, and I thus acquired the title of Colonel, by which lie , was known and distinguished for many years. | A few weeks since, his brother, Dr. Irby, pre- ] ceded him to the tomb. Of four sons who survived their father, Capt. Win. Irby, the Colonel | was the last. We arc not aware whether any of his sisters survive him. _ ( Col. Irby was a perfectly good humored man; he possessed, however, a bold, determined will, i and was as cftnrageons a man as ever lived. He was much aUached to his friends. , He adhered to Chief Justice O'Xonll, through gOOll Hlltl CV1I report. ilC VOICU I'll' mill in III.-. military position, and in Jiis subsequent elevations to tlio Bench. JI is last public act was to vote for and sustain him as Chief Justice. lie was once a good lawyer ; he was always an advocate of great power. His acquisition of wealth, and his devotion to his planting interests, in a great degree, called his mind otl from the further acquisition of legal knowledge, lie was a rich man at his death. He married ' late in life", aMiss Earle, of Greenville, by whom lie had a largo family, lie died, we presume, in his 07th year. Newberry Conscrralist. n OHIG-INAL POETHY. TO MISS S***** II*****. Wore I a bright and happy bird. Floating free on sunniest wing, I'd hover o'or thy pathway, Love, And there my sweetest notes I'd sing. I would watch thy fairy footsteps, From rosy morn till dewy eve? And I would throw around them..Love. .The sweetest clianus my song could give. I'd watch'thee in thy change of moods: Aim when thy joyous taugn rang lorm, I'd sing in happier tones. Love, Responsive to thy gleeful niirtlr. Anil if a cloud o'er thy fair brow Had set. in gloom, its direful sway, Mine should be the joyous task, Love, To chase, with songs, that cloud away. Yes, I'd be a watchful angel, Around thy pilgrimage on earth : And I'd strive to pluck the thorns. Love, From all the flowrcts in thy path. And when from earth thou wast called away, To Heaven's bright and endless day, I'd perch me o'er thy mouldering clay, Love, And, in sorrow, sing "iy life away. KTATRAS. Camden, S. C.. February. 1SG0. MISOKLXiAKEOtTS. The Wreck of tlic Hungariatr-Purllier j Particulars. A despatch from Halifax on Saturday states j that the clearance of the lost steamship Hungarian had been found, front which it appeared that she had 300 passengers, mainly, of course, in the steerage. The clearance of the I . ni.tl.o.iH- )..,f .lirtl.rc very widely from other sources. Mitchell's Sliij)pimj Journal (London) of the 10th says she lmd seventy passengers.' The Liverpool Pnx^ of the 9th says she had "thirty-live passengers, together with a large cargo," while the London Chronicle of the 9th says she hud "from sixty to seventy passengers." The -Montreal j Jlerald of the 23d instant says: This most melancholy disaster has thrown a ' deep gloom over the entire city, for although there can be no absolute certainly on, the subject, it is too much to be feared that among ' her ill-fated passengers there were several of our citizens, whose families and friends are overwhelmed with anxiety for their late. Nothing had been seen of the ship's life-boats, of which , we learn from Messrs. Edmoustoue, Allen ifc , Co., there were six very superior ones on board, and excepting a few spars ami a portion of the ( mail bags, nothing had been washed ashore ] from the wreck. Among the passengers it is, we understand, but too probable, were the fol- ( lowing: Mr. Bermah, of the firm of Kohertson . ic Co., and his young bride, a sister of Mr. Jj Andrew Robertson; .Mr. Ibiillie, of the firm of James ]>aillic\fc Co.; Mr. Neil Morrison, of'tlie firm of Morrison Empey ; Mr. Roy, of the firm of Roy A* DufoM. There were some rchsons for fearing that Mr." Grant, ( the Secretary of the of the Grand Trunk Company, would be among hut we ! .? M1_H . M i i r " jgw;i)jg?; dtogether in favor of his ndt having' been able ' ;o leave iii the Hungarian. .Mr. Blackwcll, too, lie Managing Director of the Company, it was it first rumored, had intended sailing in her, >ut we learn, this was altogether a mistake, as \Ir. lilackwell had engagements in London j ivhich would render iiis leaving at so early a j late all but impossible. No bodies, it will^ be observed, had been washed ashore, and there ^ ire still some grounds for hoping that all may lot have been lost; and that the life-boats, ivhich would live in'almost any sea, may, yet ? wove to have been the means of saving some )f the unfortunates. Whcp, however," we con- *' lider that she went ashore during the night, 5 ind that no trace of any of the boats has yet j >een found, our hopes initios direction are, we :onfess, slender. . ;< n lict nf tlii> I'nl.in l.:isscll- . jers who loft Liverpool on the 8th inst., in the J Hungarian : Mrs. Montgomery, two children and two nurses, Miss Cartwright, Miss Anne Forsyth, Mrs. ' Manifold and two children, (t. B. Synics, .h [Jinmore, 'J'. M. Yalv, D. Zcter, N. Serutcn- ^ jliam, F. Quay, Mrs. Sable and servant, Mrs. s [>iinhore, Miss Forsyth, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Mor;i?n, Capt. T. Snow, J], (t. Montgoinerie, F. . liurpie. 1'. Shea, .1. II Forsyth, A. I toss. s The following passengers were "booked" in j treat Britian, and then went 011 board - as re- , icrted by Messrs. Sable A Searle, agents of the ) J rat id Trunk line in New York: j Hugh Mjjpaftrey, llichnrd Madden, AY111. ^ Kcrby, John Daley, Martin Don iters, Ellen t Shechan, Win. Yolge, Geo. MeDcrniott, Mich. ( Lucey, John Delaney, F. Bichft-dson, l'atriek . McGiverin. The first three were booked at j Liverpool, and the latter were at Cork. t The despatches given below give more infor- ( nation relative to the disaster than has yet s been published : ^ f JI ah fax, February 24?Evening.?A de- f -patch from Knggcil Island, 24tli, to I lie J'ost- | ^ master General, says that the supplementary c mail bags for Canada and New York have been picked up-and are in safety, but in a very j Jamagcd state, and are awaiting orders. J'ost- , master General Wcodgato. lias ordered the , mails to be brought to Halifax to be arranged; I g is the bags are burst and the letters torn. The ! ;1 following is the latest news from the scene of j j the wreck: - h ^akrisctox, February 2 J?0 I'. M.?Thos. ( N'ickcrson informs nic that on Monday morn- j iug, at 3 o'clock, he saw from the main land a , steamers light. It was stationary for some * time, and he supposed a ship had struck on the f Horse I (ace, about two miles off the Cape. It ,, was then seen to move. At day-light a large steamer was seen ashore, with one mast standing. He thinks he saw men on it when it went \ ;>vcr, which was soon after day-light. A re- s port lots reached me that the steward's pocket- 1 book has been picked up, having some pusseii- 1 jcrs' names for extras. I will inquire into it j tnd report. The bodies of a small child and of 1 i man (supposed to be a fireman) hstve been j found. Portions of the mail and cargo are 1 being yet picked up. t The Hungarian touched at Quccnstown, Ire- , 1 land, at 11 o'clock on the morning of Thursday, j t the 9th ilist., and sailed -that evening at 5 i \ o'clock. The purser of tlie Vigo, who lias ar-1 f rived in New York,* thinks that on leaving ! < Quccnstown harbor, the Hungarian bad nearly j ] * * il ' I Forty cabin passengers and sonic sixty m me i steerage. The steamer Bohemian sailed from I Portland on Saturday, having in tow schooners j < to go to the scene of the wreck. j < Co li'mm a Fkmai.k College.?We learn ^ i that on Saturday last Rev. Whitefoored Smith, i President, and Rev. T. E. Wannamakcr, Resident Professor of this Institution, tendered their resignations to the Board of Trustees. Their resignations were accepted, and Rev. Win, Martin was appointed President and Rev. Charles Taylor, Professor. These appointments arc understood to be temporary. The exercises * of the College were not at all interrupted. Columbia Guardian, , The Poitition o-J South Carolina m ls-ty in regard to the Democratic Presidential Convention. Tlic gentlemen w'ho are now moving to place this State, to tlwjrcxtent of their influence, in the counsels of tfnSKJharleston Convention, frequently cite the attjitudc assumed in 1843 .as a justification of their present course. To show what the ground tlierfi taken was, and that our readers may judge l)or themselves knowingly whether 111esc gentlemen now go into the coining Convention'npou the terms of 1S43, we to-day reprint tho celebrated Report of the Committee of Twenty-one, which was made to the Columbia Convi ntiou of May, '43, and adopted ncm. run. by that body. After the organization of the he jy, May 22d, Mr. .Thos. X. Dawkins, of Unit a, ottered the following resolution : Resolved, That a. Committee of twenty-one be appointed by the Chair, to report an address to the Democratic pa ty,,recommending John Caldwell Calhoun for lomination for the Presidency of the United States'by the Genes?.! Convention, and alio upon the principles in which, in the opinion of this State, the Convention should be the mode of its proceedings and the Ufne of its assembling. Under this resolution, Mr. \V. B. Sea brook, afterwards Governor,' tvho presided, appointed the following gentlemen members : T. X. Dawkins, F. \y. Pickens, S. \V. Trotti, Kcr Boyce, R. F. W. Allston, J. \V. Harrison, II. J Onnghnian, J. A Black, P. II. Elmore, Sainl. Porchcr, John S. Brisbane, J. L. Manning, E. J". Palmer, J. j. Chappell, J no. Douglas, J. M. Folder, R. DuTrcvillc, J. T. Caldwell, Edward Frost, S. W. Dargan, John Mori The address which tftcy reported is what we lay before our readers to-day, omitting the reasons for recouimendiiig Mr. Calhoun. The portion of it we publish suggests certain reforms in the organization of*the Convention and in the method of voting. ' This is from the pen of Mr. Calhoun himself, a? we are informed by a gentleman who saw the original report in his handwriting, and was. cognizant of all the transactions at the titue. At tfcat time there was a bona fide Democratic party of considerable power, if not ascendant, in every State at the North. Even Maific, New Hampshire and , Connecticut were State jtights Democratic in their politics. Put bj-causc the Democratic , party refused to make, the suggested reforms, ' and left the Convention us it is now to a much ( greater extent, an imtjxSnsihle and unfair assembly of party inen, Jlr. Calhoun afterwards | refused to allow his mwiilc to be brought before the Presidential Convcif[Tonijuul South Carolina j refused to be repicscute] at Baltimore,although , she liad delegates appointed who went there as j spectators, and who, afag- the nomination of , Mr. l'olk, expressed tiieir approval, and the , opinion tlint South' Cxrolilin would support , liim. . ] W c nicntiou these Jjjiings merely to recall | the action of the Stat* ?t that period, and to | point especial attention^ the important paper | before our readers." : I (jfctrJeaion Mercury. \ A Paii: ok*'em.?rJ ho recent visit of the 1 Legislatures of Iventiieiv and Tennessee to Dliio. has given r^-e toaifi^v'gbod thiligs. We t print twoiixm^Pjjjj^tiiati^'ottiwitrc/r//: | icq^^rtra I fter the champagne liable in Ohio. A man t m the train going dow/u to Lexington, peronated Governor Lhniniiloii, and made harangues v ,t the way stations which amazed the populace, j lid have probably convinced the people of t Centuety, who listened in good faith, that the f Iftnnlilii-.-iii (invei'nni* nf ( Jliin. holds ntleerdon-. f riiics on tlic subject of niggers to be entertained J iy a man living in a JNortlicrn latitude. 1 "The story goes that when Licuteuant-Gov- a irnor Newman, of Tennessee, was here with J he Kentuey ami Tennessee Legislature, he was s iccompanicd by his 'body servant,' a sprightly, ?s able colored 'boy,' of about thirty, who was< 11 onscious of his dignity. Ilis master, who was c n the habit of jesting with him familiarly, ae- I osted him in the hall of the Neil House, just c icforc the departure of our guests, with a 'Why, s aek, haven't any of the abolitionists carried 1 on off yet?' 'Yah! yah! Mass Xowiflan,'? 5i pioth Jack,?'when 1 seeil you gwiire down de i treet arin-in-ann with Guhncr Dennisou and iiilmer Chase, I tot yon wor gone, sure?yah ! t ah!' Governor Chase is responsible for the c torv." * i j i JJEGIXKIN'O TO UKAPTtIR 1' HI* ITS.? lllO 1ICWS- , taper paragraphs tell lis tliat the journeymen | hocmakers of Natick (Senator Wilson's town), | jvnn, Haverhill, Marblchead and other shoe t nanufacturing towns, have gone oft' in a strike ) or higher wages, and in the same connection ^ s announced the failure of one shoe inanufac- j urer for ?75,000, and other like failures are j ixpected. This is the beginning of the fruits | ?f needless anti-slavery agitation in Massachii- | ctts. These shoemakers arc lionest, upright, t lanl-working men. and they are sincere in t heir anti-slavery views which lecturers, preach- s ;rs and politicians have hammered into their j ouls while they have been hammering soles N or bread. Thcv have talked and voted hatred ii tin' Smith mid devotion to the noimi. until . liey liavc driven oft' custom : now, when thu N :inj?loyers begin to fail for want of customers, , ind cannot pay the high prices which this an- ^ i-slavcry agitation has cut down, the journey- t lien strike and insist on more wages. The < cnicdy for them and their employers is not a j trike against low wages but a strike against . inti-slavery agitation. What thrift has there locn in the Ulack llepiiblican press that has ,, neitcd them to wrath and anger and unchari- ^ ableness against their Southern customers ? -- , iCt the laboringmen of Massachusetts, of.sound t ninds and good judgment, reflect upon this . tate of free labor among us and sec whether ( >r not the plain remedy is not to let slavery t ind negroes alone!?Boston (J/<m.) J\ost. ( 'J'liere is a lady in our twon, at present, who vould- not like to be called very old, who lias j ecu ten out of the fifteen Presidents of the < j nited States, and lias also seen Henry Clay, ^ iVcbstcr, John 0. Calhoun, Aaron ]>urr, fScnc al Scott, Col. Croghan, Sir liobePt Peel, Lord Wellington and Queen Victoria. She Iras sat 11 the chair occupied by Queen Victoria, in ' W estminister Abbv, on the day of her corolla- ' ion, and would have seen Louis Pliillippc, ' iad it not been for the death of his son at the ( inic. This is indeed very remarkable, and /vl.nlLn.rrn *lir? Khitn von oven the United 1 States, to present a lady who lias seen so many >f the learned and .distinguished men both of Bngland and America.? Chester Standard, { ? . 1 Temperance.?We arc glad to sec the good muse of Temperance pursuing the even tenor if its way, prosperous and prospering. A new Division of the Sons was organized in Summerton on Tuesday night last, and called the Ilnggins Division, in compliment to anc of our most worthy and estimable citizens. Clarendon Banner. Stabbing Affair.?We have been informed that on Sunday last, a negro in the employ of the Kail Koad Company, v-as stabbed, near the depot at this place, by one Henry Thomas. Fortunately the negro is not severely injured, though it came very near being a fatal blow. Che raw Ga:xttc. J LcUcr (from (icucral jJSonSsaiu lo Joseph Abney, Esq. WasiIinotox Citv, February *J t, ISGO. DeAii Srit: Unavoidable circumstances have prevented my answering sooner your letter asking inv views as to the Charleston Convention. This must now he an answer to yours and to others making similar inquiries on;jlie. same subject. ' Tt is known to my constituents that 1 favor, : whilst! do not.urge,theStatesbeing represented in the Charleston Convention. The system docs not command my approbation as a. mode of selecting a candidate. If it were a new question, I should not advocate its inauguration. The conorrcssional caucus svstcm would at this day be better, as the nomination would bo made alone by the representatives of democratic constituencies. The fact that the democratic candidate, (Mr. Douglas not excepted, should lie be nominated) will, in the next election, probably not receive one of the ninety-one votes to be east in the Electoral Colleges by New England, New York, Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin, makes it still more objectionable even with the long settled two thirds ruic as a part of its organization. Thinking we may stiH-participate in their de- 1 liberations, recent political events make it, for 1 various reasons, a matter of vast consequence 1 that the State should be correctly represented J in the Charleston Convention. ' Extraordinary efforts are now being made to | secure the nomination of Judge Douglas to the | high oflieeof President. And whilst there is no little of brag in the announcements made by ^ partisan presses of his strength before that body, I believe it is admitted that by aid of the votes he will be able to get from the black republican j States above mentioned, and others, which will j probably go against the'democratic party in the ( election itself, he will go into the Contention ^ with a larger vote than jiiiv other candidate. lint let us analyze this vote. The one bun ilrod and twenty Southern votes and the seven ( votes of the Pacific slope Judge Douglas cannot obtain, in the first instance before the Couven- | lion ; so that if he gets the remaining Northern vote (which is very impr? able) he will enter the Convention with'one hundred ami seventy- j six votes. Ninety-one of these, as before stated, | neither he nor any other democrat, will probably ( get in the Elect jral Colleges. The remaining ( eighty-five votes are from the doubtful States j of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Minnesota, one-half of which, at j least, will support the republican candidate for f rrosiueiir, anu tue outer nun won in as soon, ] perhaps sooner, vote for a sound Southern democrat than for Judge Douglas himself; so j that the probable available vote with which ( Judge Douglas will enter the Convention will * not exceed forty-two. Laying aside the right . :>f the South to have the candidate, the three ^ last candidates of the party having been from the Xorth, with what propriety can it be ashed ( that the South shall accept Judge Douglas as ( Iter candidate, when that South will have to t furnish three-fourths, of-the votes in the Dice- ^ torn! Colleges which are to secure his election i j If availability be the rule Judge Douglas should ) not be the candidate.-' . This contest should be waged squarely upon ;!ic constitutional rights of thcSouth?1:0 coin- j nroiuise . of yrinrijilq.. ir*1'qftjj'ittd or foe. If | to ride (.'f a"tHUidirr -j It Is an insult to the South to ask her to otc for liiin, for it implies that she will sell her j] >rinciples for a false triumph, or yield them lirough fear of J?er enemies. It is otiering to orcc on her the humiliating alternative of ac- j opting Jiulge Douglas or a Black Republican, n 1 1 ' :,i i.~ ...hi i.,. +i.? ......,i:.i..f,. ?r ti.n 11? Ililb 2*41m iiu mn ui; niu u/imuuuLir v/i mv j Jcmocratic party on tJie Cincinnati platform, ^ iiiil not otherwise. Ilis construction of that i ilatforni is, that it recognizes his doctrine of j] qnatter or popular sovereignty, by which the (J South would be most effectually und% forever | leprived of any share in the eoimnon territories j>f the I'nitcd States, If the South accepts J lim as Iter candidate for President under such | ;ircu instances; she tintjliestionfiblv endorses y j natter sovereignty. 'J'he distinguished Senator ^ font Indiana, Mr. Fitch, in 1tis speech on the o !d.instant in the Senate, presented this matter 11 its time light: * *n "If the South lioiiiinate the Senator alluded ^ o, [Mr. Douglas,] with its present views, the . v ,i ..in i i ... _.. 1 mure .xorui win ueein me hcl .-iii c.\|-iv.^.-iuu <u ^ villingiioss upon their part that his views shall iccoiiHi the future settled policy of the (Joveni- ( iient; tiio ui.itud North will act upon that ' lolicy, carry it out to the full, and no aid must ic expected by the South from any portion of lie North in any effort-they may hereafter Jj nakc to prevent the progress of that policy to ^ lie end. When by such act it establishes his uilicy, the South, and the Senator from Illinois, ( Mr. Douglas,] will have done more to aeeom- j tlish thu favorite and avowed Scheme of the ^ icpnbiiean party than 'any effort of that party ^ :ould have done?the scheme of surrounding ; lie Southern States with free territory, and tarviug out their institution ; for under that |( >olicy, organize a Territory where yoft may, vhether it lie in Dakota of the North, or VraZ'Uia of the South, the bold, adventurous lon-slavchulding frontiersmen of tlic West. ' vhosc movables include no luxuries?whose icccssarics are readily supplied by the axe and j lie rille, will go into the Territory, possess heniselves of its Legislature, and exclude kuithcru property, while the owners of that u-operty are packing up their household goods md preparing their chattels for removal." Lot the South claim the just measure of her j' ights under the Constitution in that eonvon'cntion, and accept nothing less. We eanbetcr sustain such measures before the country, j veil at the North, than such as concede any lortiuii of those constitutional rights. The '' riends we have at the North can belter sustain o f' heniselves at home on such a platform than f hi one "sectiouallv unjust and uiicoiislitution J a The gallant State of Alabama has taken a n ligh and patriotic stand in the defence of the ^ iouth, and has instructed her delegates to the ^ Charleston Convention to insist upon the pro- ^ ection, by every department of the O'overnnent, of the rights of the owners of slave p.olcrtv in the Territories; that the same shall be lartol'the platform of that Convention before roing into tiie nomination for President and . Vice President; and upon the refusal of the Joiivention to adopt,in substance, the Alabama j platform, lior delegates arc instructed to withdraw therefrom. Such should be the position of every Sontli- ^ .Til State; am! if wo cannot secure the appoint- j iikMit to the Charleston Convention of delegates ( who will sustain the movement of Alabama, it j will be far better that we should not be rep- f resented at all! # Very respectful I v, vours, M. L. jiO'XHAM. Joskpii Abxkv, Es-j., Edgefield, So? Ca. j - ^ ^ ( Col. Lkwis M. Hatch.?Our gallant friend,! ; Lewis M. i latch, who, without any invidious;. comparison, we may say, lias done as much as j, any officer of his years and rank for our vol- ; . unteer service, and especially for the ritlo <er-1 vice, has been called by a flattering vote, after i an eager canvass, to the command of the First j i Regiment of South Carolina Rifles. C.'iiirfcstoii C'c. r'.f. MEXKi' C1LA?, noux in. jiaxovei: cuixtv. Virginia, aimml 12, a. n. 1777. - The leading mind among the Democratic past-iievolutioiiary'Stntcsmcn of America?tlie mind which has most impressed itself upon our institutions, and more than any other, given direction to our domestic and foreign policy, is that of Ilenry Clay. The son of a highly fcIpcctahlc and educated, but poor clergyman : fT6rn in '77, in the very clangor of the Revolution,die not began to listen to and comprehend the language of men amidst the congratulations of a triumphant people. Mingling with tuc masses on terms ot equality, lie learned to sympathize with their wants, and their wishes, and their pleasures, and their antipathies, their hopes and their fears. Ky birth, therefore, by position, by the training of his infancy and childhood, he was fitted to become a great Leader of the People. His boyhood was spent in aiding to support a widowed mother ; his youth in the Court of Clian.ecrv at Richmond. His vivacity and genius attracted the notice of Chancellor Wythe, Governor Brooke, and other eminent jurists, by whose ad vice lie applied himself to the study of the law. Intense application prepatcd him for admission in one year, and before the age of majority, lie received his diploma, find followed his mother and family to Kentucky. He began his career at Lexington, and was soon known as the most'powerful advocate throughant the West.- Kcfore the termination of the :ir.st decade of his professional life he led the bar of his State. In his 27th year, I803,hc consented to serve n the Legislature. On this congenial soil he prting up like ;i giant from Iiis mother earth. At once lie took rank with the oldest and the jest. In three years he became the leader of Kentucky and was sentlo the National Senate. )\\ his return, he again entered the Legisla:ure, of which he was chosen "Speaker. Two rears after, he was returned to the Senate at Washington, from which he withdrew in 1S11 or a seijt in the Lower House, as the more mmmauding position. It was an epoch in our listory. Torn by unequalled party rancor, rumpled upon by the belligerents of Europe, he nation required a strong hand to guide icr. Clay was selected. On his tirst entrance, ic was placed in the Speaker's chair. From hat moment lie became the acknowledged diampion of the country. He roused her sleeping honor, hurled defiance at her haughty inciters, and denounced war upon England.? Under his gallant leadership, the nation assumed a noble attitude, compiling thendmi ation and respect of the world. The wisdom >f the young Statesman guided the war which lis eloquent appeals had created.a YVhcji congratulated on its successful conduct and termination, Madison replied, "to the right arm of lie administration, to the young Hercules of lie West, the credit is due.'' > To the genius which guided the War, was soniided the negotiation which ended it. Alhough the youngest of the august Synod of he chosen men of England and America at Ilicnt, to his sagacity the country was mainly nueuieu ior an noiiorauie peace. \jnc 01 inc nost skilful of his colleages, .Mr. Gallatin,'dedared that, on every question, Mr. Clay was Jurat's prepared with the best and most praeieahle proposition, l'eaee restored, we find iiia again in the Speaker's chair, leadin;- the j?"" Stfo, selected liiin to fill the olfiec of Sccreirv of State. Under the previous adminisrations of Madison and Monroe, he had pcrniptorily refused to hold a place in the Cabiet. The appeal was now jnade to bis patriot>111, not to his choice, and ho yielded. As ocrctnry, lie negotiated treaties with Russia, )enmark, Prussia, the llans Towns and Ausria ; with Mexico, Columbia, and other South kineriean States. lie struck a fatal Mow at jgalized piracy, under the name of letters of larquc; lie liberalized commvrcial intercourse y discarding the English rule of restricting jreigu nations to the direct trade ; lie proctirdtlie intervention of Alexander.of Russia with lie l'orto to liberate the Greeks, and with pain, to acknowledge the independence of ou'ili America. Soon after the termination f the adininistiation of Adams, Mr. Clay ieldcd to the wishes of Kentucky again to epresent "her in the Senate ot the L'-nited Kates. And there he stood, at the age of L'Vcnty-three, one of the ^chicf guardians of lie Republic ; the scarcely abated tire and igor of his youth, guided hy the wisdom of ge ; admired,, revered, the champion of no arty, the honored counsellor of all. A glance along the crowded and brilliant atli ot bis public life, is enough to paralyse lie hand of his biographer. What, then, can i s i . re say. ?l mni 111 a tnousnmi worusi .vincu:i owes to liim tiie first impulse to liomc manfacturos: tlie spirit of internal improvements; lie Cumberland road ; tlie exclusive liavigaioii of tlie Mississippi; the integrity of the Jnion, and her exalted position among tlie unions. The work! is his debtor for extending opulur governments to South - America and [> (irecce, and for uniting civilized nations noru closely under a more Christiau'law. fienial, sympathetic, and generous, lie was crsonally the most beloved man that hps lived n tiie iiepiiblic. Kloipieiicc, perseverance, trong will and unequalled moral courage, were is characteristics. Xo obstacle discouraged, i o opposition daunted him. Scarcely forty otcs in Congress sustained his "first proposal n recognize the South American Sfatcs. Vear fter year he poured forth his inspired ch>ueiiec ; his speeches were read by Bolivar, at lie head of his armies, to re-animate their onrage. He finally triumphed. Nature formd liiiri an orator. Tall and erect in form ; ignificd and courteous in bearing ; an cxrcssivc coniitciiancc; a piercing eye ; a triiinet-toned voice, deep, llexible, clear, and of ' lu-rfeet master of evert" i t of oratory, lie was most remarkable for an bseiioe of studied effort, or intcii<:!e<l effect.? Yitli liiin, oratory was never an end ; I:is aruiiiei't never paused : his chxpieiicc came carer to the Greek definition, "earnest reasoning," than that of-any modern orator. lie won :i succession the titles of the Western Orator - lie Great Commoner?the American Statcsi.m?the Great Pacificator?and, while disord was threatening: the Union, in 1850, lie eemc I to have been preserved by l'rovidenoe a add to his long life of public services the rowning glory of being one of the saviors of is country.?iVYto York Const mtl'c \ F,\ti.fke of tits UrcK Caor.t?Throughout ,11 the Hast, from India to the shores of the 'aeifie, says a Hong-Kong correspondent of lie Mew York Journal of Cmtnntrctt aoeordr.g to the most reliable information, the past easou has been marked beyond anv one for a ' . OII<* PCI'IOS OI years ny UH-.i;tium- <ji nil- nwi which, as a means of subsistence, is hard- i y exceeded in value by nil the grains produced' n the Unite*.} States. For various reasons in lifferont countries?the war, perhaps, aeeonntng for the failure, to some extent, in India, Hid floods in the Malayan Peninsular, and Iroughts in some parts of China?there will he i deficiency in the usual supply of one-third. We are very happy to say that the Carolina ! rice crop is a very large ami .lull one. Indeed, j [lie whole rice crop of the South, for the present sea-ion, lias been exceeded bv but few, if ;t:.V W.U .? C7:?/:Weo Vr/V. . 7. IT9oi:uuicilt. Our attention, as well as tliat of all passers by, lias been drawn to a singularly chaste and elegant niomiiiicntal memorial, in the marble yard of Mr. Robert D. White, on Mccting-st., It lias been prepared to mark the spot where rest the mortal remains of the mother of Got. Gist. The monument is carved from a block of highly lustrous marble, of an Italian white, and polished to a high state of perfection. Its form is that of a rectangular pillar, with a base and cap. Tl ie pillar or die block-is three feet and seven inches in height, with faces of two feet , _.. i 1 . . J- " . i ^ <iuu Mill's 01 jounoen liu-iics. un tlic laces an .ova!, raised handsomely from the die, exhibits one of the iincst pieces of ornamental carving to be found in workshops. Nothing short of the sculptor's studio can surpass it. It consists of a wreath of blossomed flowers and delicate leaves, alternately entwined in a winding belt. This work is the same on the two faces. The . principal, however, bears tl^e following inscription : SACKED TO THE StEllOUY or MRS. KI/lZABOTrt L. GIST, who departed"tins lite tlic 27th June, 1859. in the GSth year of her age. Below, on the base, which is a block of the j same marble, fourteen inches in height, thirty| one in width, is the following verse : I Hark! the golden harps are ringing, Sounds unearthly till the ear: C.ixtt licrjnj'ful entrance there. The cap of tlic monument is of classic.pro- j portions, sixteen inches in lieight, and is carved into pleasing and graceful ornaments, which set oft'and crown the whole. Its brackets unite with tinialson the pillar, representing the eternal flame of affection. T! ic whole monument, which stands seven and a half feet in height, is set in a free-stone ground piece of;i foot in height. When erected, a marble curbing, as high as the ground stone, will accompany it, completely circumscribing the outline of the grave. The monument, in it:; harmony of design and skill'of execution, will be one of the most appropriate in the State. It can be seen at the yard but a few tlavs lonio-r.?(.'/mr/fx/on Air mini Rev. II. T. Lev/is.? Overton, n correspondent of the Koowec Courier, writes as follows :? '*1 see an extract, headed, "The Author of the Harp of a Thousand Strings." The gentleman's name is in print. As a friend of his, I will take the liberty of oftering'one other { tring to his Harp. 1- hope it will not prove discordant. The Rev. Henry T. Lewis, of the ' .Methodist K. Church, South, and a member of the Mississippi Conference, is of Welch descent. They emigrated from Wales, and scttlcd'in AI- ^ licrmavle county. Va., long previous to the Revolutionary war. John Lewis, his grandi* -1 ? 1 I _ . * - - i . ? ? ? " * - - ?1 iauier, ueiongeu to uoii. warayettes envision ot the army. Jesse Lewis, his uncle, li.nl served liis time in the army, ami a requisition being made for more troops on Virginia, be volunteered and. took the place of a gcntlenianAhat was drafted, and tlicy were both pel-formers in the grand serenade o5? more than a thousand ya-moil that was give j by Gen. Washington;, his officers and soldiers, at" the battle Yorktown, in Virginia. (Blood will tell'the reverend gentleman's descent is from a musical family.) I think lie was horn in the village of Pendleton, S. C. His father, John Taliaferro # _ Lewis, was Clerk of the District. Jlis capacity for business was of tiic highest order, lie married the daughter of John Baylis Earlu, who was for a long "period of time Adjutant General of the State, and also a member of Congress from South Carolina. The reverend gentleman's relatives and friends, on his recent visit to Carolina, greeted him with great, pleasure, and parted with him in sorrow, under his precarious state of health, hoping that he might yet sec many clays." The Love of Praise.?There are very few people in the worhl who arc not susceptible to flattery. The love of distinction pervades every class of society, but with various shades of intensity. The hump of self-esteem ever feels gratified when it is tickled, and it is according to development of that hump, according to phrenological laws, that the pleasure is graduated. Xo matter how much we may endeavor to conceal the truth, the love of praise burns in every heart. The proud and ambitious man in order to earn it. will endure tolls whose very telling might cat into a heart of adamant. The modest shun it, hut then they are only more sure to obtiau it, and they cannot deny the thrill of pleasure that pervades the bosom when the kind words of appreciation fall upon their cars. As the "poet Young, beautifully cx- . presses this universal passion : -It nitls the dancer's skill, the writer's head. And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead. Xor ends it here: it nods with sable plume, Shines oa our hearse, aud flitters on our tomb." A Tii:MAitK.vni.E Will.?The will of Mr. JoliBjjiiose, a retired merchant of Xew York whose decease was announced sonic time ago, makes a conditional bequest of $300,000 to the city of Xew York, for the education in agriculture of indigent White children. The condition is that a corresponding sum should be appropriated by tbc city, or raised by charitable edTitriliiitiotis. for the purchase and stin-* port of a farm in the neighborhood of New York, to be devoted to the education and training to agricultural pursuits of pauper children. If this purpose be not carried out, the *300,0.00 goes to the' American colonization Society, for the deportation and support of frco blacks in Liberia. The decedent was a baehc- , lor, and a bachelor brother of largo wealth is constituted his sole executor, with the remainder of his estates about 550,000, placed in his charge for benevolent and charitable distribution. The only personal bequests art; a gift of *20,000 to his executor and ?12,000 to another brother now advanced in years. Tho wholcfcvalue of the estate, principally in productive stocks, is reckoned at ?880,000. Tho foundation of this largo wealth was laid in ono of the Southern cities. Tiik Sumter Watchman, in alluding to the death of My. Thomas I). McLood, bv an acci.m? f]^ Wilminnrfstn oiol Manchester Railroad, says: Mr. McLeocl had left his place, which we believe is near Uafton Creek, in the upper portion of this District, early on Saturday morning last, and proceeded to sonic point on the Camden Railroad, whence he took the train to Kingsville. '.Lis railroad destination was Florence, intending a visit to sonic other neighborhood of Darlington District. Mr. McLeod is the first passenger that has ever been killed upon the Wilmington Road. Mr. McLeod was a young man (probably not more than twenty-five) of fine personal appearance, of generous and genial heart, and ondcarI ed tb all who knew him. lie was the son of ! Mr. Daniel McLeod, deceased, who was a worthy and highly esteemed citizen of our Dis trie!.