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tj? -J -?i-~ : ?don't st!! unless 3*011 qan pet a fair price ?until spring then you will have tlio aid of the speculators in getting good prices.? Abovp all, lot growers keep out of the city markets. Every one who goes to the cities to sell, adds to the great stock already there, and gives feverish force to the panic. Another, nnd no small cau*e of the? panic mny be found in the injudicious proceedings of growers and speculators in employing numerous agents to sell for them. We know ono person who lias about 15,000 ,,trees, who has employed five different agents to sell tliem for him, and each of these agents has adrertised fifteen thousand trees. This swells the amount of trees in the public es'imatiou iive.foiu?making 75,000 trees out of 15,000 ! We repeat, that our d. liberate opinion is that the trees rie.xi surinjr will S'-ll readily at O fifty Cei ts, or u wards for ficr sizes and good wood; provided the growers keep out of market t ill that time. If the present s ate of things continues, no one can tell what may he tin; result. If growers keep the city markets overstocked, as at present, and continue, lorcing sales in the manner at present attempt: 11 a we should not be surprised ?f tfm price were down to five or ten eeiVc, or if they do not sell ?t ail. Every taing ckpeM-Js wpon the nrmaess of the grow* rs. They can as readily obtain fifty evil's to a dollar, as they can five to ten cerrs : and muci? more so ; for if the prices are fifty cents and upwards, the trees will sell much more raj?id!y than if they are down to ten or twenty cents. Let no one suppose we vvi.sh to favour lire mere tree grower. No such ihaig. But we know that if flit* trees bear a good price next s;>ri:ig. the propagation of ;!v m wdl go on ; it ?hey bear a low price it will stop of course. Therefore, we are ndv'oca'mgthe legi imate oik culture in endeavouring to keep up the price of trees ; for af present wm have not on hundredth part trees i nough to supply the coun'ry for the aiik business. v.. The S ntes composing the (iertinn Costoms Union posse: se<J, towards the close of 1939, eighty.s? veri manufactories of beet r??ot so^ar iu full operation, v:z : l'russia, 63 ; Bavaria, 5 ; Wur torn burg, 3 ; Durmi. s*ad, I ; o her States, 10; besides G6 which were then constructing. Tiie rchn-ng of cam; sugar i< an important branch of :nilusrry in the States of the Union. No less than 800,0(10 (jtfnt.ds are yearly rt fined therein ; 750.000 of w hich are fur home consumption, and the remainder for cxpor _ A . .1... ' ..i 1 O.JO .1 ~ ..... .1.,.. IftiMJTi. /v: me l'idw; ui toco, me iiuuiucj of sugar yefinaries in tho?e Slates was 76, viz: io l'iussi!t. 66 ; Bavaria, 7; Saxony, 2 ; Lit'ttorui Ilfcasr, 2 ; (Jrand Duchy of He?s-, 1. Tim cultivation of silk in Piussia is yearly increasing, notwithstanding the frosts which destroy every wittier a considerable number of mulberry trees. Inr the neighborhood of fVedant there are now 276 plantation* of that tree. Last year's crop e\cfeded 13,000 pounds of si'* of un ex" cellenl quality, which sold at the rate of from 3'dd. to 37fl. 50c. per pouoJ. I A TAUTY OF FASHIONS. * % . It is a s artliog fact that human life is aborter in New England now titan it was fifty years ago. There are disoas?s now whicn Wore itardly known then, and winch bring thousands to a premature grave.? What is the cause of all ih.s? Has our climate oiweotially changed ? No?unless it r _i i iv._ r .. j ?e l'?r :nc Dciter. i nc cause ;s .o oc iuunu doubtle?3 10 the corrupting factions ot' ;he times, which regulate the food and the dress of people, and which make id!* ness n?ui\ r? spectable limn houest sturdy industry.? We deprecate those fashions; they are raj id!\ lead ng us as a people into those excesses which have proved the other and furliear cations. It is time this subject looked into viitii as much solic itude hnu care as politicians look for the causes ojfCivil I hettv and public good. In olden times?in the days of the revolution, when sons worked willingly in the forests and the fields, and partook of the simple hut substantial fare of their own farms, when daughters wore thick shoos, loose gowns and labored at the spinning wlied and loom, such diseases as consumption and dyspeps:a were seldom or never known. Doctors were rare acquaintances then. But now, if a young man would np. near resaleable. he must carrv b rr recti hat* I ? ' / o . o to cour , rather than a meal bag o mill; lie must wit i?J a yard stick, rather than a l:oe or shove!; ami'as for young ladies?alas ! it would soil the r lily hand and be an irrepurabls disgrace to be seen cleaning houses or be caught at u wash tub. Their shoes must be of kid thin as wafers : their chestmus! be p'-ut up in corsets as closely as a Chinese foo?, and their time must be spent in spinning street yum, thumbing the piano forte of discoursing sentimental sorgs.?All these fash .oris are prcjudical to human life end health. Oil, that fashion would t ver take the. right direciion, and go upon the maxim of sanctioning nothing w hich inter, feres with the laws of health. Then would the hopes of our country brighten, and individnids would enjoy an amount of comfort which is now too willingly but blindly sacrificed to false taste. Maine CuLjvutor. (iliOKGKTOWK Li A IX. We do not know that this, is the most nuspic;ous time, for asking appropriations by the General Govt rnim rit for any object whatever, but it is never too early, or out of place, to make n good beginning. '|>,0 Mttempl to make a Ship channel from Win. yaw B iy to tlie ocean across North Island, proved (us is known wo presume to the greater part of the people in this section of the Slate) a total fui.'urc. Since then, the Port and IJur of Georgetown, have not re. ceived much attention, from the Congress of the Union. We should be grateful how. ever, that so' old and expensive an elTort was made, in our behalr. The lino of the canal can even now, if wo mistake not, he truced, andany one at uII conversant, with the formation of soils, will discover the impractiribi'i'y of keeping open, the smallest Wc/k of the k'nd wi.hoo* an enormous ?*. penditure of money. It would require not only, that tiro sides of the canal should be supported by rwssy walls of brick or stone, but that the whole water line south of it, and a very great part of that to the North, should be skirted with similar defences against the waters of the Bay on one side, and those of the sea on the other ; otherwise, the wa'er would soon meet in the rear of the walls, and overthrow them. It is for this reason, wo have characterized the enterprise as bold, and expensive. Our view in adverting to the fact now, is to invite attrnj lion to another, and we behove, perfectly practicable plan for improving our B ir. One which will cost (in comparison wth the other) but a trifling expenditure, while the work w ill be asdurab'e as the coast itself. It :s well known, and therefore we do not mention it as information, that all the waters of Winyaw Bay and its tributaries, pass to the occean through the Norih Inlet, and over the main Bar to our Harbor, except the small body which, branching from the Bay. to the right, froms South Is land. Now to our mind, it appears very "l"''? tln> rtnlu corn nmt nernvmnnt in. MUUi lll'l ViHJ crease of drpth on the Bur. is to be had by stoppin f the vent of water at Notih Inlet. Whicti with the object Ixfore us, we think It! more proper to call outlet. This can bo effected by dropping arose ballast across this oulct, from the North end of North Island, to the opposite point of Debwrdieu^s, till a continuous barri? r of stone is raised from shore * > shore, a foot or two above t'.io highest spring tides. The sand, put in motion by the water and blown from the now connected shores, will in a brief space of ii.iv fill all the interstices in, and cover the top of the embankment, unking it impervious to water, and lasting, us the world. The sure consequence of closing this passage will he, that ins ead of two currrvn s flow ing through different channels to the Ocean, there will be but one, which moving onward witlrincreased volume velocity, and po^er, will fret away, and despen the paai s:,ge through the boar,carrying the drift amid I Or into deep water. By this natural action ! of the water, we should in a very f*u years j have depth enough, to p?ss any merehani ; ship over our bar, and then will Georgetown i become what her vast bHck river and o hcr ; natural ndvnnta .es seem to havo destined j her to be. To this suggestion it may b" | objected that the drift sand will form another j shoal, and we admit, that it will either do j tha\ or, by sen ling upon ihe pa'scnt shoals, j elevate them into islands. Which we coni coive to be a matter of no impottance, for | the drift will not be deposited any where, till j it shall have ceased to feel the impetus which i removed it from the bar; so lh.it, wheiur j a new shoal be formed, or an old one transj formej into an Island, is a matter of no ino mcnt, there being necessarily a deep, an t | spacious channel between, either, and the ' Cur. Another g tat udvuutage of our proj position is that the work once dune, it will I never require repair. These are crude | ideas, but we venture nevertheless, to ask I for them the cairn consideration, which the ! great importance to our Port of a ship chanj nek requires of those whose duty, it is, to act I upon such ma ters. Suppose tho Legislature, j requests our di legation, to move Congress, j on tiii.s subject?docs Georgetown wi h he r [ back country, ask too much ? We refer J to the Tax re urns, and challenge an answer ( in the a If; ri native. i Geo. Town American. ! TWliNT'y.SIXTH CUNGPvESS. 1 til r.T. .1 Mi/.HlitRs of THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SENATE. Maine. S. Carolina. John Uncles J<?hn C Calhoun Rcuel Williams Wm C Preston New Hampshire, Georgia. Henry Hubbard Wilson Lumpkin Franklin Pierce Alfred Cuthbert Vermont. Alabama. Samuel Prentiss Win 11 King Samuel S Phelps Clement C Clay Massachuscts. Mississippi. John Davis RJ Walker Daniel Webster John Henderson Rhode Island. Louisiana. Ncliemiab R Knight R C Nicholas N^lum F Dixson, Alex. Mou on Coi/hei:ti?-ut. Tennessee* | Perry Smith Hugh L Wlvto Thatlcus Letts ' Felix\Jrundy New York. Kentucky. Silas Wright J J Crittenden One vacancy Henry Ciay New Jersey. Ohio. | Garre t D Wall Win Alien j S L Southard LJenj Tappan Pennsylvania, In liana. j James Buchanan Oliver H Smith i One vacancy Albert S Wnl?? | Delaware. Illinois. ! Thoinns Clayton J M Rob nson One vacancy R M Young Maryland M ssourt Wm L) Merrick Lewis F Linn John S Spenco T II Benton Virginia. Michigan. Wm II Roane John Norvell One vacancy One vacancy North Chroiipa. Arkansas. Bedford Brown ^ Wm S Fulton Robert Strange 4 |] sevjCI HOUSE OF KEI'RESENr.wvES. Maine. Nathan Clifford Virg l D Parris Albert Smith Hugh J Anderson Benjamin Randall Joshua A Lowell George Evans Thomas Davee New Hampshire. Charles G Atberion Edmund Buiko Jared W Williams Ira A Easrnan Trislrain Shaw Massachusetts. I j Abbot Lawrence ? Wm B Calhoun Lererett SaJtonstall Wm S Hastings Cab b Cashing Henry Williams Wm Pnrmentcr John Rred Levi Liucoln John Q Adams George N Briggs (One Vacancy) Rhode Island. Jos L Tillinghust R B Cranston Connecticut. Joseph Trumbull Thos B Osborne William L Storrs Truman Smith Thos W Williams Jno II Brock way Vermont. Hilund Hall John Smith VViilliam Slade Isaac Fletcher Horace Everett New York. Thos B Jackson John G Floyd J,is do la Monmync David P Brewster Ogd?ii Modi nun Tito C Crittenden Edward Curtis John II Prentiss Moses II Grinneli Ju Json Allen James Monroo John C Clark Gouvern?*ur Kern bio JS B Leonard Cbaib's Johnson Amasa I)ana Nathaniel Jones Edward Rogers Rulus Pali'n Noherni'ih II Earl Aaron Vnndt rpocl ChristoVr Morgan John Ely Thcron R S;rong Hiram P Hunt Francis Granger Daniel I) Barnerd Meredith Mallory Anson Biowu Thus Kempshall David Russell S"lh M G'?tes Augus'us C Hand Luther C Pe<k Jo'iu Finn Richard P Marvin Peter J VVngncr Mnlurd Fillmore Andrew \V Doig Char's F Mitchell New Jersey. John l? Avcrigg J,)S F Randolph John P it Maxwell Char's C Smlto* William Unified Thos J Yorkc Pennsylvania. Lemuel Paynl?t Jninrs Cooper John Scrgoant Wn? S Ramsey Geo \V Poland Geo M' Culloli CTlinrl*m Naylor Davnl Pturikin Ivlward Divies K II Hammond Pranc s James Sand W Morris John 15'lwarils Charles Ogle Jostpii roruanec A G Marchnnd John Davis Enos Hook David D Wagener Isauc Lift Peter Ncwliiul - Rn-ttard lSi<<d!o Goo M K?-ini William Realty William Smonton Thos Henry James Gerry John Guilbraith Delaware. Thomas Robinson. Maryland. John Dennis Solomon Hdlen J Philip F Thomas Wm Cost Johnsot J T H Worthingion Francis Thomas Junius Carroll Daniel Jenifer Virginia. Henry A Wise Walter Coles Joel Holh'inan James Garland Francis E Rives Win L Goggins Jonn M Butts William Lucas R M T Hunter Geo B Samuel John Taliaferro Rols*rt Craig CiKirlcs F Mercer Geo W Hopkins Loin Banks Andrew Bcirne Geo C Dromgnolo Joseph Johnson John VV Jencs Lew s S.einrod John T fldl North Carolina. tr .? r? _ \\r il._, aenncin ita^ner ?v m niouguiucr Jesse A Bynum John Kill Edward Stanley Chariot Fisher Charles Shepaid Henry W Cnnnc James J McKay Jam -* Graham Micajah T Hawkins Lewis Williams KtliuunU U?-l>ciijf South Carolina. Dane E Holmes T? os D Sample Waddy Thompson Jr. Sampson 11 Btrlc Francis W Pickens II B.irnwtll Kht: John Campbell Jolui K GrilTin Janv s Rogers Georgia. Lott Warren R W Hahershar E A Nisbct Win C Dawson T I? King J C Alford Ma;k A Cooper El ward J Black W T Colquitt Kentucky. Lmn Boyd Win J Graves Philip Triplet John White Jos R Hndcrwood Richard I]awes Shcrrod Williams L W Andrews S:in"on \V Anderson Garret Davis Willis Grw-n Win O Butler Johu Pope Tennessee. William H Carter Meredith P Gentr Abraham McClellan II M Water-on Joseph L Willliams Aaron V Brown Julius W Bla<kwcll Cave Johnson Hopkins \j Turney John W Croeketi Win B Camplicll C II Wiii'uins John Bc!i Ohio. Alexander Duncan Isaac Parish John It Wellcr Jonathan Taylor Patrick G Goode D P Leadbetier Thomas Corwin Geo Sweeny William Do me John W Mien Calvary Morrs Joshua R G dJing Win K Bond John Hastings Joseph Ridgway D A Starkwcnthe William vetlill lluiry Swcarmgei Samson Mason Louisiana. Ivlwin! D Whim Rico Garland Kdwnrd Chiun Indiana. Geo II Proffit James Rariden John Davis Win W Wick John Carr T A Howard Thomas Smith Mississippi. A G Brown J Thompson Illinois. John Potrnnhie T??lm T Sfn.'irt Casey Alabama. II H ChnpmatK^ . I) Xon II Leivis David Hubbard - Janu s Dtlb lt Goo W Crabb Missouri. ^Svv\^ John Miller ^ JohnJamfcj^ Michigan* Isaac B Crary. Arkansas. Bdttnrd Cross. ? * STATE LEGISLATTRE. senate. Nov. 30//a. Mr. B? nnett, pursuant to notice given on Saturday, inroduced ? B II to regulate the future issue ofB il?, by the B.mk of the Slate of South Carolina, under the denomination ol Five Dollars: Read the first time, and referred. Dec. 3d. Mr. Evans presented the Petition of sundry Citizens of Marion District, pruning Legislative aid for the culture of Silk : Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and In ernal Improvements. Mr, flutter, the Memorial of the Ci'y Council ol Charleston, praying an annual appropriation by the Legislature, for the endowment of the College and high school of Cnarleston ; All of which, were referred to ilu; committee on Education. A message was received from the House of Repn >entutives. informing the Senate that the House had appointed a Committee offline, composed ol Messrs. Frost, David, VV ni. Reed, Wilhrrspoon, Brock man, Wardlaw, Irhy, Jamison, and Henderson, to attend on the part of the State, the meeting of the Rad Road Company, which is to take place to-morrow, to investigate the affairs of tha, company, and report the same to the House? aim requesting the S nate to appoint u similar Committee, to incet thu Committee on the part of the House, i A messug* of concurrence was ordered, and Messrs. Huger, Aliston, lienor, Ilig.. I g ns, and Gregg, were appointed on the part of the Senate. Dec. 5. Mr. Gregg, from the Commit' tee under a resolution of the last Session, in I . felation to the expediency of purchasing the Library of Dr. Tlios. Cooper, deceased, submitted a report, accompanied by a catar loguo of the Library, both of which were referred lo the Committee on the Library. Dec. 6, Mr. Hug'r. pursuant to notice inroduced a B.ll to excuse the Honorable Judge Gantt from further duty, and foi other purposes: Read the fi st time, or dered to be printed, nnd rcf<*rrud to the Committee on the Judiciary. Dec. 7. A Bdl to authorize the Sheriff o MUl Ibnro/ to lodge in the jail of any adjoin ing District, prisoners committed to hii charge, and for other purposes, which ha< been reported by the Judiciary Commit'ec was read the second time and order, d to b< sent to the Senate. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, r Nov. 30th. Mr. Phillips introduced ih i following Resolution : Resolved, That i be referred to a Special Committee to en quire nnd report how far several Banks c this State have violuled and forfeited th?*i respective charters, bv suspending speci payments, and by refusing to extend tli usual accommodation to tbo citizens of th< S ?ite. On motion of Mr. Bellinger, the Resoli lion was amended, by adding "and that tli said Committee be directed to enquire an report what course i becomes this Legisla , ture to pursue on he subject. *| The Resolution as amended, wns agree to by th'* House, and the following gent It men were appointed to compose tin? Con j mitee; Messrs P'tillips, Bellinger, Gout din, Irby, and Burt. Mr. Perry, from the Special Cnmmittri ,r to whom was reierred the Preamble un Resolutions, om ilie subject of collec'ing it formation on the Penitentiary System, sul mitred a Report, recommending tbe estut lishment ot u Pcn.renrjnry in this State unil a Billon the same subject, which wf read the first time, and ordered I or the si r cond reading to morrow : and the Repo 11 and accompanying document, were ordc ed to bo printed. Dec. .id. Mr. D ivit),pursuant to notice iiVrod tced a Bill to amend the Law in rob it tion to R? tailng Spirituous L-qoors ; whir was read first time, and ordered for a si cond rending to-morrow. Resolved, That a Committee of N nc h appointed on dm part of the State, to alien the adjourned meeting of the Louisvilli J Cincinnati nnrj Uhnrlcston Kul lioau tun I p*ii?\, to ake place to-rnorrow. to obtain it j formation on the condition of and to inves* <;a'e the affairs of that Company, unJ Ri port tin; same to this House ; and that Message b - .se nr o tin; Senate, to meet an act with t!n? Committee of the House. Messrs. Frost, David, Wm. Reed Wit! erspoon, Ilroekman, Wardlaw, Irby, Jami Y son. and Henderson, were appointed th Coinmctee on the partor the House undc the above R?*solu ion. Message No. 4, was received from Hi Fxcellemy ihe Governor, informing th , Hous" that lie had b? en r quested by t!i< Hoard of Trustees of the South Curolini College to apply to the Legislature for pi appropriation for the completion of the Li brary Hall : Refe rred to Commitb e on Edu cation, and ordered to be printed. Dec 4. Mr. John Douglass submitted at unfavorable Report of the Committee or 3 Agriculture, on the Memorial of sundry citizens of Marion District, in relation t< the cultivation ol Silk ; ordered for corisid. l oration to-morrow. Dec. 5. M . John Douglass prcson'ei die rnornorial ol the Agricultural Convcn ion, praving that an appropriation be madt for a Geologcal and Agricultural Surve) of this State, &c.: Referred to the Com* m itee on Agriculture : Mr. Burt, from the Committee on Fed eral Relations, to whom was referred sr much of the Governor's Message as relate* to the controversy between the Sia'es o Georgia and Maine, submitted a Report with the following Resolutions : Resolved, That it is the duy, as well a* the right of any State, to insist on a faithfu observance of the Federal Constitution, by each State in the Union. Resolved, That to demand the surrrndei and removal of fugitives from us justice, is by the Constitut ion, n right, and the arrest and surrender, a duty ; that the denial 01 impairment of that right, is inconsistent with the cons'i utional obligations of a Stnte, and subve'sive of the pence and good govern* ^jnent ol* the other States. (solved. That this right has been im. paireh>ipn0f denied, by the audiorities of I. Jnr.r, nfM jHnt this State will never consent that nny State shall become an asylum for b those, who are fugitives from the justice tfT other States. Resolveds That the Executive of this Stute be requested to transmit to the Executives of the several States, to be laid before 8 th'-ir respective Legislatures; .to the ? President of the United States, and to our S'*na ors and Representatives in Congress, * to he laid belore that body ; a copy ol the r, above Report, and of these Resolutions. 1 he Report and Resolutions were or n dered to be printed, and made the special r order of the day for Tuesday next, at 1 e o'clook. ' l Mr. Elmore, submhted the report of the Comm'ssioners appointed und? r a resolution of the Legislature, passed at its last Session, to enquire and leport as to the pro- | pru'ty of purchasing the Library of Dr. Thos. Cooper, to be added to the Legislalive Library, the College Library, and the i Library of the Appeal Court, at Columbia, ] recommending that the said library he not j ! purchased ; Referred to thcCommi tee on ( Eiueation. : Mr. D Saussurc, from the Committee on | the Judiciary, submitted unfavorable Re- j | ports on so much of die Governor's Mes- , sagr, hs relat- s to County Courts, Public j Executions in capital cases, Judges c arg- j ing Juries as to matters of fact in civil cases; i and the communication ofD. Brent, Esq., U. S. Consul at Pans. Mr. DeSaussure, from the same Committee, reported by Bill, on so much of the Governor's Message, as relates to the m m^ .? -.1 1 ner ol impanneinngjuri<'s m civii cists, ui lowing the ponies litigant to strike from the > panel two jurors, without s'owing cause; which was read the first time, and ordered ' for the second reading to-morrow. Mr. Bellinger presented the annual Re' port of the Attorney General, on the coridi! Hon of the District Offices of the Eastern r Circuf: Referred to the Committee on ' District Offices nnd Officers. > The Rev. Robert Henry, D. D. has been elected Professor of Logic, Rhe'oric ' and Metaphysics, in the South Carolina Col? lege, in the place of Prof. Thornwell, who has resigned. The profound and varied i * learning of Prof. Henry must command no 2 ordinary respect. It must, too, have been gratifying to his feelings to have h ?d this Professorship offe red to l?im without his of. L* fering himself us a candidate. He fi led t the Chair of Metaphysics when we were in ' College somo ten years ago. We admired >f him them, for Ins frank, manly and inde? r pendent course as u disciplinarian, even e though we came in for a share ofitsexerciS'J, and loved him as a mat. for his kind's ncss and paternal admonitions. May peace nnd honor attend trim. l* S. C. Tetnpeiance Advocate. e d The Rev. Mr. Hooper, formerly n Proi fessor in the University of North Carolina, nnd recently of the Furmun Ins itution in d Fairfield District, has been elected to fill | tli'" vncany, occasioned by the resignation ?. | ol Prof Stuart, in the South Carolina Co!r-1 Those who know Mr. Hooper speak | of him as n gentleman of estimable chorac. ?, ter. ? Ibid. j college commencement, On Monday las', went off with an eclat ). very gratifying to the friends of this nobk* .. institution. I was attended by a concourse ls of the intelligent, the disinguished, and the beautiful, from ail parts of the State. The r literary performances of the young gentle. r. men were very ereditabfe to them, and the address of the President exceedingly im, pressive, admirably sui ed to make a most las ing and bcnofici ! impression oti his |j j you hlul auditory. Col. 'IVIescope. f" The Washington correspondent of the j New Y nrk Herald says ? |f> I A not er marriage is spoken of as about I to take place in a few months. Tec nupf>? [ Hals, it is supposed, w ill exei e I in splendor. ' , any th'ng of t' c kind ? ver before witnessed j in tliis district. The happy man is the po i- i ILWI fnwl mrifrn fieent n?r*resi-nt ifive of the I H" I { Emp? ror Nicholas, and ;lie equally lirippy a j (aii on?? is the young ?an<i benirifii! duugfrcr ^ j of a citizen of G? oigetuwo.? live ry body thinks it will b?* n brilliant m itch, and en ry I '* body has a right to think so. The 1 uli.-s " are all envious of her good fortune. The '' other foreign ministers are unmarri d, and r possibly some of them may fancy AineriI can w ives, is several have done before. The '1 American women are d< cidedly superior in 0 point of personal beauty and fiiscinntion to p :ho European, and how can foreigners re1 sist? II ___ We understand that the Bank of Charleston, S. C., is now Checking on New York, for the Notes of the d,(Trent Banks in tins ^ Cny, us well us her own. Courier. > Dreadful death Jrorn spontaneous com , huction.?An uidoruiniite being residing in a miserable abode in Eid ridge street, N. Y. | was on Monday burned to death, it is sup. . posed by spontaneous combustion. Between i 12 and 1 o'clock the ne'gl.bors were alarm. j ed by voluni s of smoke issuing IVoni the . windows of the victim's apartment. On rushing in they discovered the women lying . in her bed enveloped in fl.irnes, the bed , partially consumed and sail burning. >v ith ? great difficulty ihc fire was extinguished, n and the woman conveyed to the Hospital, I where at about 6 o'clock last evening she I died. No cause for the lire can b g ven. 5 J The woman was discovered lying in bed ? 11 herself and the centre oftho bed in flames? ; but no traces of how the fire was rornmunu Cuted could be dis mguished. It r? there. fore presumed that the miserable womin lost her lile by that ?* !! attested, but very i rare occurrence, spontaneuos com oust ion. The uamo of the burned woman did not , transpire, as it was unknown to those who I convened her to the Hospital, and she herself was speechless from the ex rut of her sufferings. An inquest was held on the body, and the jury returned a verdict that * tho deceased unknown women was bjrned to dnath, N. V. Rxpress. t lindjh* influence of tassion and prejudice. From the S. C. Temperance Advocate. No yrfe, who will look back a few years nd fochII the sentiments of distrust and mbiitered hostility with which the adherents i the Nullification and Union parties view, d each other, can doubt the truth of these pmarks. We remember when about to set. le as p is or of a Church about that time, dilinjr one day with a Nullifier, and he decla> d hat he did not believe there was an honst man in the Union party, and the very i? xt day or the day atler, we dined witn a Jnion man, who asserted no less broadly tnd bitterly that he did not believe there was in honest Nullifier; yet, before that contest, hese men hud been friends as well asjneighbors, reciprocating the kindnesses of social life and believing each in the other's integrity. The subscribtion of this State to the Lou* sville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rait Road Company, is $1,000,000, cf which four instalments, amounting to $200,000, have been paid up, one instalment having been paid, since the close of our fiscal yenr. The shares in tlw Road are $100 each, those In the Bank are $50 each, so that the State is a subscriber to the Bank for only $500,000, and no. for $1000,000, as stated in yesterday's Mercury?and on her Bank subscription she has paid up one half or $250,000. The Mercury is in error in saying that the estimated annual profit of the Charleston and ffamburg Road is but $130,000. Mr. Topper offers to take a . _ .t__ i lease (it u tor thai amount aa mu annual rent?mid of course estimates its clear in_ come a* considerably more than 8120,000 p r annum, to yield him as lessee, an adequate profit on so heavy a transaction. Char. Ccur. g ?? FARMERS' GAZETTE. FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 13, 1839. The River has fallen a little, but is still navigable for pole boats, and probably for our steamboa:s when lightened. From the slate Legislature we have nothing important. The B ink question has given rise to an an'mated debate, said to devclope some symptoms of^e Anti-Bunk mania, so rife in some parts 0( the country. We have no apprehension however of destructive legislation. Some valuatfe legislation is hoped for in regard to drunkards. Poor fellows, they are their own and families enemies ; the s ate ought to interfere iu behalf at least of their families. The ?Vtug Convention at Harrisburg met l ist week. We have accounts from t the second day's meeting. It votes by J states, and had five balloting without maka:|? a choice. The first balloting Clay had 12 sta rs, Harrison 7 and Scott 3.? Afterwards one of thesi deserted Scott, A new paper lias been issued in Charleston cal ed the "Southern Medium and Impress of the Times.'' It is Whig in politics, and wil] support Mr. Clay for the Presidency. It is published three limes a week, by J. M. Simons and J. Bailey, at $4 pcrannuin in advance, or $5 after six morths. t CONGRESS. The Senate have organized) hut cannot pi oc ed will; legislative business till the other house be orgauized, and messages passi,,d Tne first \ve? k in the Ilou-e was spent hi wrangling about the question which set of claimants from New Jersey are entitled to be enrolled as the representatives from that | Stale; and when the question is to be sct| tied no one ran now foresee. ! If appears that the election for members of I C<?ngre>sin New Jersey is by general ticket, and that in counting the votes, those given in two precincts were excluded, on account of illegality in holding the elect ors. The proper officers made tl<eir returns to the Governor, without any notice of these precincts. The Governor issued his proclamation announcing the election of the p?rsons who had received the greatest number of votes according to the returns made to him by the legal officers, and gave them cer ificates in the usual form. Those wore the Whig cand.dates* Hut it is alleged that if the rejected votes had been counted the Van Buren candidates would hare been elected, and these latter have also come forward ;o claim their scats. When the clerk in reading the roll came to the State of N'-w Jersey he read the name of Mr. Ran. dolph whose election is not contested, and proposed to proceed with the other S:ales leaving a blank for ?!io oilier five members from New Jersey till ihe I louse after its orgauiza'ion should fn'.c up the subject. This gave rise to an informal discussion which lasted till ihursday evening, when Mr. A-i- ^ nms was appointed chairman of the "meeting" as the assemblage is rolled. A proposition b' ing made next day to take up the New Jersey election, and division beinjr ' C culled for, a debate arose on the question whether or not the members from that Stale should bo allowed to vote, which lasted through the week. The Governor of Virginia, in his message to the Legislature, states that the Go*, efnor of New York has refused to d.liver, when demanded as fugitives from justice, two" men charged with earning jfi from the Stat? n slave owned by a r'hv ri Norfo'k ^