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J? . X t-r* TFTE CAMDEN TOURNAt^" A , . uo " - - " " . r ' . VOLUME 9 CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, AUG. 167l84a NUMBER 33. PDBWSHBD EVEBY WEDNESDAY MORNING \ BY THOMAS W. PEGU K s. < .r ; - ?; n i T FIRMS. Throe Dollar* per annum in advance, Three Dollars and , Fifty Cant* within six mouths, or Four Dollars at the ex pi ration* of-the war. , Advertisements inserted at 75 cents per square? (fourteen ines or lass,) fer tile first and half that sum for each subsequent insertion/ The number of insertions to be noted on all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered to he discontinued, and charged accordingly. j One Dollar per square for a single insertion. 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But tlure are ele- u meats in nature which could produce, were tl iliey allowed"(o combine, a fur more destine- ti tire cold than that which reduces the liquid It quicksilver to a hard block of metal. The it present arrangements of the Creator prevent p the union of such powers, hut chemists have si produced an artificial combination of natural S agents, from which has ensued a cold 1)1 dog. below Zero, and 131 degrees below the b freezing point. Phis fatal degree of cold is a caused by a union of two parts of sulphuric n acid with one part of snow; now, elements s< arc around us, which could, therefore, make tl a winter capable ??f destroying all animal a life in a month. A. frost equaMo40 degrees ft below Zero penetrates*about two hundred b yards into the ground; but cold of 91 do- w grees below the same point must penetrate a " -l -l I - to a Jar greater oepin, lurmng ui? wiuhc i m crust of lite earth into a frozen mass. The. u consequence of such a degree of cold on u the human body can scarcely be imagined; c i but some notion may be gained from the w fact that no metalic substance can be touch- n c:d by the hand, when the thermometer is 40 d degrees below Zero, without producing a : V burn like that caused by grasping a hot po- j is ker, so similar are the effects of ovtreme j ir heat or extreme cold. To produce a disoj- ' p ganization in our globe there is but needed is a fresh distribution of the acids stored up in i I; nature, but which arc kept in their present tl safe arrangement by the agency of ao all t? wise God. The cold does, indeed, some- tl linn's increase to the very highest point of si safety, but it never quite passes this line, d being held like the ocean, within its appoint- b cd limits, and exhibiting, through many sea- b sons, a uniformity which attests the control l> of some invisible power. Thus in the sever- '1 est winters in our latitude the frost docs not 1< |jcnctratc into half that depth, as may be tl jwoved- by placing a thermometer in the t< ground during a sharp frost. The waters ! h C +1? thrtco ?rlfr?ri<l lit nrn. I li <>l UIU StBS aillUllll II'VM/ I3KIIIUO 1VIIM iw |,, serve it from the highest rigors of cold, for si liie tem|>eraiure of the British Channel is, t< even in the winter, not below fifty degrees, It :uid that of the German ocean seldom lower a than forty-two degrees of Fahrenlicat. The d vast stratum of air around Great Britain is, h therefore, wanned by the ocean in win'cr, t< and thus the coid is continually checked in s! its intensity*?Sharps Magazine. e THE SECOND BIRTU OF T1IE L0- si GUST. ti They evidently pass through one, if not b inote stages of existence, preparatory to i? their becoming perfect winged insects. In e the summer towards evening, it is common u to sec on the trunks of the trees, reeds, or y any upright thing, a heavy looking, hump- t< backed, brown beetle, an ineh-aud-a half h bfhg, with a scaly coat; clawed, lobster-like j n logs, and a somewhat dirty aspect, which is j u easily accounted for, when at the foot of the p tree a little hole is visible in the turf, whence l< be lias lately crept, /have sometimes carc- si tuMv carried these home, and watched with 'i interest the poor locust "shuffle off his mor- h tal/' or rather earthly coil, and emerge into I 4i new world. The first symptom is the open- a .a onmll slit which nnnenrs in the back ! b ".*? *" ? ?? - -r r of. his coal, between the shoulders, through (I which as il gapes wider, a pale, soft, silky v locking texture is seen below, throbbing and v heaving backwards and forwards. Present- e Jy, a tine square head, with two light red |j eyes, has disengaged itself, and in process of v time, (fur the transformation goes on almost a imperceptibly,) this is followed with I lie I the- n ration of a portly body and a conclusion: af- g ter which the brown leggings are pulled oft' e like boots, and a pale, cream colored, weak, o soft creature very slowly and tenderly walks y away from its former self, which remains o standing entire, like the coat of mail of a e warrior of old, ready to be encased in the r cabinets of the curious; the shelly plates of tl the eyes that a; e gone looking after the lost h contents with a sad lack of 'speculation' in e them. On the back ol the new-born crea- i) lure lie two small bils of membrane doubled a and crumpled up in a thousand puckers, like a a Limerick glove in a walnut shell. These o begin 10 1wfoM themselves, and gradually b spread smoothly out into two large beautiful ti opahcolored wings, which, by the following h morning, have become clearly transparent, r whilst the body has Required its proper con- r sittencv and dark color, and when placed on d a guin tree, the happy thing soon begins its ii vhirring, cracking, chirruping song, which :ontinues, with little intcimission, as long as ts happy, harmless life. Mrs. Meredith's New South Wales. THE LOVER'S SEPARATION. BY FREDERLKA BREMER. 1 know, Sigurd, that your determination s steadfast; that you do not waver. Nor vill I endeavor to persuade you. 1 would nerely say to you to night? farewell; and vould thank you for the time when you j oved me, and for the good will you showed ; 0 me. 1 would restore what 1 can no Ionic r retain. You leave the city to-morrow, ind I return to my faintly, to the home of my thildhood. We separate. There is your in<*-, Sigurd. It was with delight that 1 ?!aced it on my finger; with sorrow it is that remove it. But it must be done!' There vas a mournful, quiet determination in Gcrla's voice and demeanor, which was very ttilikc her. Sigurd had often seen in her owering defiance, burning indignation; he vas accustomed to these, and to see them [o over and change. But this was somelung new; it s lunded?it felt strange. A old shudder passed over Sigurd. He locltd at the young woman with an inquiring ;!auce. But her glance opposed his, calm, trong, solemn, but very sorrowful. There vas a something in it which penetrated Siurd's breast, and touched his heart as d villi the finger of death, lie looked awav, ml then again he looked at her; on Iter pale ouiitenance, on the determined, deep lance. For the first tune, Sigurd seemed 1 have met in her an equal, whose being he ould not understand, and against which lie ould not contend. An inrrensinft astonish tent iu his countenance, seemed to express ie question of his soul, and involuntarily lie tiered, 'What is litis??is it serious? Gerda lid her marble cold hand upon his. 'Yes, is serious,' said she, as before. 'We must art, Sigurd; but gladly would I that we : intild part as friends. And believe me, :gurd?I ant attached to you still, though say to you farewell!' Iler voice treui- 1 led. She leaned her forehead for a moment gainst i.is shoulder. Then she rose up and . mained calmly standing before him. His msations were extraordinary, lie still felt ic pressure of that marble hand upon his, ud it seemed as if an icy coldness went mil it up into iiis breast. There was a uzzing it his ears; his heart beat violently, : liilst he felt that soinc great change was bout to take place between liitns.df and her horn lie hud governed so long. 'I do not nderstand what you mean,' saul he. in aljost a stammering voice ' What is the I atise of all this? Hut this you know very ,ell, that I des re your true happincss-your jul well being; and 1 think that no childish ispleasure ought to make you doubt it. Viiat is it that you reproach me with? what i it that you desire of me?' 'Nothing, Si- , 1 urd, nothing; only to he free! It is no ca I rice, no accident, which separates us. It the necessiiy of the thing; it is the dissimi- ' irity between our two natures. More than lis i will not say to you. I will not cmbil ;r this moment by reproaches. You have one right for yourself and for me?but if I j liould, with the excited feelings that you aily awaken in me, become, your \\ ife; woe 1 oili to you and to nie! Our lives would ecome miserable. I have fell haired and itteniess towards you growing in my heart! 'bus it ought not to be! No, I would still ivo you, as a friend, as a benefactor; and lerefore we must part before it becomes >o late. It cannot be otherwise, Sigurd: 1 ave proved it for many years; and have ecome clear on the subject only within a liort ti no. I highly esteem?I am attached > you; but? we must part!' Sigurd's head ad sunk whilst Gerda ihus spoke. Mild j nd gout e as her voice was to him, it soun- j ed like the thunder of doom. When she ad ended he looked up, and she appeared ? him beautiful as she stood there, in her lern gravity, with glances that quietly seemd to (lash fire,?never had she appeared to im more beautiful-more worthy to be deired! Love, anger, jealousy, rage, penelra d him, and Ins eve Dashed, as he said in ilterncss, 'You are really rash, Gerda,-this ; very easy to you;-it is a light matter of j ourse, it troubles you of very little how inch may I suffer! It is a small affair for ou so give up him who has devoted his life ) von f>r these manv vears.-beeause you i ave already perhaps-given yourself to an- | tlier; and I he whole of this courageous do* j tonstration, and all these great words, may ! crhaps. at the bottom, merely say, '1 am in j jvc with David!' 'On no!' replied Gcrda ; arionslv, but without the slightest anger; hat they will not say; and you do not, at the art believe it yourself. No, Sigurd; you have loved; and shall never love any one s 1 love you. And, if it can alleviate the itter feelings which you experience, know j lien, that I have not rent assuuder this bond j nthout suffering severely myself; that 1, een at this moment, love you above any othr man! And yet, yet-yet, Sigurd, we must art!?11 is as sure as the judgement of Ileaen above you and me. Hut never shall 1 gain be as happy as I have hitherto been; j either shall I ever marry. Solitary shall I o on mv way; let it be whatever God pleas- , s. Never shall I forget you; never be jov- ' us; never be really easy until J know that on are happy again, and that you can think f rue without bitterness. Oil, that 1 could (face that which you now feel; that I could eccive your forgiveness before I go?a litc word of kindness?of consolation?of ope, that we may one day meet again and xtend to each other our hands as friends!? M r 1 CimiH/lt I IIP IV menu?inv uTiiuuui:?oi^nw.?v... - ( friendly look!?it is too bitior to part thus! j heavy debt will, notwithstanding, rest up ri me?the debt of being ungrateful to my eoefadoi! She wept, Sigurd had clearly ndcrstood, bv Gerda's words, and her whole ehavior, that there was now no return, no cconcilialion to be thought of; but his pride osc up, and would not allow her to see how Iceply he was wounded; aud a nobler feeing also stifled in him the expression of an ger and pain. The noble womanliness i her manner and behaviour awoke the nob! manliness in him?for it existed there, hov ever mucli it might be held in subjection b ruder powers?in this moment of struggl and suffering it came forth. Sigurd rose u and said; 'Be calm! I forgive you. And a you feci it necessary for the happiness ( your life to separate from me; it is my dut to feel the same. What I may have to bea in consequence of it?1 will bear. You ar free. To-morrow I will myself conduc you to your family. May you find in then better friends than land my mother liav been to you!? " These words cut Gordi deeper to the heart than the bitterest re proaches would have done. She wept si [cutly out painfully. Sigurd, evidently prom and cold, walked up and down the room Did lie enjoy Gerda's tears? Did hecxpcc some change in her thoughts and resolution Neither of them said a word for a long, Ion; time. At length Gerda rose up and sail softly.'Good night, Sigurd!' He stood slil and "looked at her with darkly inquiring glan ccs. She went nearer to him and flfferei her hand. 'Good night!' repeated she, tfitl almost a beseeching glance. He did nn move, but, continued gloomily to gaze at her Thus stood they silent for a moment. Per haps, at this moment, each waited for tin other; perhaps Sigurd believed that now tin long power of habit and womanly weak ness would throw the young girl into hi arms, therefore he stood stiffly and proudh against her, as he so often had done before Well then?for the last time!' whisporet Gerda,'forgive? Farewell!' and she claspet him in her arms and impressed a kiss upoi his lips and, was gone. The kiss seemed t< take away his life. He gas-ped for breath. Tiie Daiik Side of Matiumo.ny.--Latch a negro in the West Indies, who had beet married to another negro by one of the mis sionaries, at the end of three weeks brongh luc it>ifn IiipL* f lio / loi'irt'tnon on/1 rft>cinH him to take her again. The clergs man ask cd what was the matter with her? 'Why, massa, she no good. The bool says she obey me. She no wash my clothes She no do what I want her to do.' The minister: 'Hut the book says, yoi were to take her for better or for worse.' 'Yes massa, but she all worse and no bet ter. She am too much worse and no goot at all.' Soap Plant.? Lieut. Washington A Bartlett, U. S. N., recently presented to tin New York Farmers' Club two bulks of tin Amule or soap plant of California for wash ing every description of clothing in cold run niug water. In using them as soap, the wo men cut off the roots from the bulbs, anc rub them on the clothes, and a rich anc strong lather is formed which cleanses mnsi thoroughly. To propagate the plant the bulbs are set in a moist, rich soil, and grow itiosi luxuriantly in the bottoms of valleys oi bordering running streams. So the whole world hereafter is to grow its own soap, jusi like our Yankee farmers grow onions, an< we expect to see the article sold by by bunch cs instead of by cakes.? N. O. Delta. Whoever attempts to grow this soponace ous plant in a soil which does not abound it alkalies, will (iud it will wash no better thai a rotten squash. Inmostsoils.il will lake more soap to produce the vegetable than U wash the clothes in liic first instance. Aug. Llirun. A Shocking Occurrence. Iiiiclligenet of a most distressing character was corninu nicated to the Hon. Samuel O. Peyton member of the House of Representative! lor the third Uongresstonai uisirici 01 iveu lucky, by telegraph, last night. The par ticulars, as we have been able to gather then are as follows: It appmrs that a daughter of 3/r. Peytoi eloped a day or two since, from her father' house in Kentucky, wi:h a young man win was personally unknow to her family. Whei the parties icturncd, man and wife, Mi Peyton's brother remonstrated with tin young man upon his conduct in thusenticin* away his niece, and representing that tin honorable course would have been to hav< demanded the young lady's hand of her fa ther. Recriminations followed, when, shock ing to relate, the young man pulled out ; pistol and shot his wife's uncle dead! The shock of this dreadful act nfiectct Mrs. Peyton so much that her life was des paired of, when the telegraphic despatch wa forwarded, Mr. Peyton half distracted, im mediately started for his home in Hartforc Kentucky.? Herald. Fearful Rencontre. The Louisviih Courier, of the 24th ull., savs: On Salur '* .1 ~ i day aiiuruoon, mure was a Miiauiiuuiaianu ing among several young officers and met of the regiments returning from Mexico, nov in this city, and in the evening two of them Robt. \V. Morrison and Lieut. Shakleford met at the Exchange Hotel. Some alterea lion passed between them, and a fearful rcn contre ensued. Morrison exclaimed that In would shoot Shackleford and wasseen torusl upon him, having a cane in his hand. Shack Icford immediately drew a rifle pistol am shot Morrison, in the breast, the ball pcrfn rating his lungs. Morrison, now with a re volver in his hand, still continued loadvano upon Shackleford, and snapped his pistol a him once or twice, the caps only exploding Shackleford took a chair, and with it fellei young Morrison to the floor. In an install lie was upon his feet again, making ineflec tual attempts to shoot Slmklclbrd, but th pistol only missed fire. He then hurled i at his antagonist, seized n chair, and in tun struck him to the ground, arid while ntlcmp ting to seize him, fell headlong himself, fain with the loss of blood. The friends of th wounded man endeavored to seize Sliaklc ford, but in the confusion and melee, ho es caped. Drs. Gross and Price examined th wound, and pronounced it a very dangeron paltry money gain or fearful of offence-go ing, put on a pleasant smirk, and grasp wit in friendly zeal the hand which despise? This le is not honest. Do we not lie daily for 1 he /. if' not mortal one. The ball entered the y breast, passed through, and no doubt severed le the lungs, as he was bleeding inwardly and p spitting up much blood. Mr. Morrison is is from Fayette county and belonged to the jf Third Kentucky Regiment. He joined Capt. y Cox's company as a private, as it passed r though Maysville, and during his slay in e Mexico he acted as clerk to Titos. Marshal. :t Lieut. Shaklcford was attached to Capt. M'n Crcery's company, Fourth Regiment Kene lucky Volunteers, and is from Hancock a county." We learn from the CourierthatShackleford i- has since beerr at reside and held to bail, to d stand his trial before the Circuit Court. At i. last accounts Morrison was still alive: his ,t symptoms wcic decidedly favorab'e, and ? although the chances wore against him strong rr hopes were entertained that lie wou'd rccovJ er. II Correction.?The "New York Herald", J of Tuesday, in its summary of telegraphic It news, states that "A letter Irom Gen. Cass, 't avowing his intention to veto the Wilrnot _ D( # t , Proviso, in case of his elevation to the presi dericv, is said to be in possession ol the editor e of the Washington Union." A letter-writer e from Washington for the same paper says: - "It is ascertained, beyond doubt, that Mr. s Ritchie lias a letter from Gen. Cass, in which Y he states that if elected to the presidency, he . will veto the Wiitnot Proviso, or any cquivaJ lent of it, should it pass Congress." J It is due to the public to state that we i have received no such letter; nor has any a such letter been exhibited to us. We have received no letter, despatch, or message from Gen. Cass, since he left Washington; nor Y have we addressed a single one to him. We i have seen no letter uiat he has written to - any other person, no* have we heard of any I such letter. We ttr stand indeed, that J Gen. Cass has not written a political letter - since his acceptance of the Baltimore nomination. We hear from private sources, that k when interrogated upoi: the Wilmot Proviso, !. lie gives one uniform answer; that he adheres to the sentiments of his letter to NiJ cholson, and the resolutions of the Baltimore Convention Washington. Union. J Honesty.?What is honesty? 'To pay one's debts.' Exactly so. No definition could be nearer correctness. Always uund. ing, however, that there are other ledgers i than that of the trader's, that a man's d?*bts ? are not to be calculated in pounds shillings, . and pence. It is not h mesl /or a man to - deteriorate his own nature, to blight his own . heart, to enfeeble /lis mind, or e\en to ncgI lecl his physical culture* It is not honest I in a woman to swear she loves a man when [ she only loves his house and equipage; nor ? any honcster for a man to purchase a wo man as he would purchase a beast. For r everything has its certain value; and to pay that which is fairly due is the prerogative of t honesty. It is not honest to make a poet an I excise-officer; any more than it is to steal a . legislator's robes to throw them over the shoulders of a fool. It is not honest to im. povcrish one man to enrich another. For i honesty has the utmost respect for the rights i of all. It is not honest to feel one thing and ; say, another, or say one thing and to do anj other. Alas, for our daily custom! Do we not continually, bribed with the hope of some sake of halfpence, and so pick men's pockets; II I- I * ? - /* .. n.wl iltlU IOOK IIU8 lOl' lilt; SiUVU ui Ullljiiy aiiiuns UIIU ; compliments? This is n ?t honest. Do not - some ol us go about with cold sneering lips, , as if we were of custom's frost-work, when 5 our hearts are burning within us; making - conventional grimaces, and repeating formal catechism, when our inmost thoughts are i struggling for utterance? B it we should displease this friend, give advantage to some j foe, but laughed at by some fool, be deemed s rude by the world; and so we sell our hearts ) for the rewards of woildliness, and live, not 1 like true men made in God's image, but . rather like automata manufactured by cus2 tom's [latent. 7 ?? 3 'A Yankee Thick.'?The following ancc; dote is strictly true; it is contained in a let ter from a young gentleman who lately went - out in a vessel bound for St. Thomas: i 4 We were chased by a privateer oft'King's channel,on Sunday morning (ltjtli of March.) I The villain was close in under land, in a small sloop, with about twenty-five men; * vvIipii hp discovered us we wore cearlv be 3 " ? -- J - calmed. lie gave chase and came down on J us very fast. I thought there was no chance to escape but by stratagem, and having on hoard a man whom I could metamorphose i into anything, I observed to the Captain - that he had better make a gun of Billy Lul ly, and give chase in turn. i 'We accordingly went to work, put a black cap on Billy's head, stretching him fore , and aft on the keel of the boat, with a rope I, made fast to his heels so that we could slide - him on the centre of the gravity freely; point ed his head to the enemy. J laving rigged c up a 'long torn,' the next thing was to fire it, li and this we did byMischarging a pistol into a . barrel and raising a smoke bv throwing ashJ es into the air. The trick succeeded; the i. sloop tacked and made oft; we hauled on a wind and pursued her close in under the land c then tacked ship and stood into St. Thomas, t Thus were twcniv-six men drove by four. r. il John Smith Cost.?We mention this it gentleman's cognomen with some reluctance, .. for the same reasonJthat there are two perc persons of the same name in Gotham. John it Smith was returning to town on one occai, sion about midnight, in a dark snow-storm. He was ''full of new wine," and was quite it unable after riding for an hour, to find his c own dwelling; but he drove up to a bouse . which he thought must be at least in bis j. neighborhood, and almost wrenched me dcii e pull oft* with his hurried and repealed ringis ings. At length a neighbor's head peered r- from an upper window: h "What do you want, down there?" said i not the best voice in the world; "what th< deuce do you wunt\ ringing the bell as i the house was on fire! what do you want!' "Can you tell me where John Smith lives!' "J*o-h-n S-m i-t-h! I" answered the re cognizant neighbor, with a kind of exclama torif interrogation; "why, you are John Smitl yourself;" "I know that as well as you do," hiccup ped John, 'but I don't know where I Jive 'want to know w-li e-r-e 11 i-v-e\" Somebody showed him. A negro minster once observed to his hear, ers at the close of his sermon, as follows 'My obstinaeious brethren I find it is no more use to preach to you than it is for a grass-hopper to wear knee-buckles." HAPPIEST DAYS. They tell us, love, that you nnd I Our happiest days oro seeing, While yet it is shut from cither's eye The change that waits our being; Alii life they say is a weary way With less of joy than so-row; * For where the sunlight fails to day There'll be a shade to morrow. If ours be love that will not bear The test of change and sorrow, Anc! only deeper channels wear In passing to each morrow; Then better were it that to day We fervently were praying, That what we have might pass away While we the words were saying. The heart has depths of bittorness As well as depths of pleasure, And those who love, love not unless They both of these can measure. Thero is a time, and it will come, When this they must discover; And woe if either then be dumb To power that moved the Lover! Some spots there are where each will fall, And each will need sustaining; And suffering is the lot of all, And is of God's ordaining; Then wherefore do our hearts unito In bond's lint none can sever, If nol to bless each changing light, And strengthen each eudeavor! Then while these fleeting days we bless, Let us no doubt be stowing: God's mercy never will be less, Though fie should change 'he showing. Such be our faith us on we tread, Each trusting and obeying, A? two who by His hand is led, And hear what He is saying. GEN. TAYLOR HAS ACCEPTED THE WHIG NOMINATION., He refuses to say he icould Veto the Wilmot Proviso.?The letter of ex-Governor Morehead, and Gen. Taylor's reply, sneak for themselves, and speak very plain that the Whigs have solectcd Gen. Taylor as their exclusive instrument; and ho consents to he their candidate, and of course ho is the candidate or nobody o!?o. He has surrendered to the Philadelphia Whig Convention. Just as we anticipated: Gen. Taylor discusses and asserts no principle, hut that he takes post as the chief of Whigs. Of course he will only expect their support, and not the support of any independent man, least of all of a Democrat, after the publication of this correspondence. We should go further and say (if experience did not warn us otherwise,) that Gen. Taylor would not receive the vote of a single Southern citizen of any party, after publication of his letter to B. M. McOon key, of Ohio, in which he refuses to say that lie would veto such a bill as tho Wilmot Proviso! Would any Southern man who is a statesman, and who regards the Presidency as a position of high responsibility, and capable of lining ma.lrt iic,?fnl to nrotect tho Constitution of his ... , country, and the rights and equality of the States refuse to say he would oppose a measure so degrading as the YVilmot Proviso? Would President Polk, or Mr. Calhoun, or any other Southern statesman, take the same position as Gen. Taylor has done? No real Democrat, or undisguised politician, (in modern days synonymous terms.) could take such a position. Gen. Cass has come out openly against the Wilmot Proviso principle, though living in a non slaveholding State, and Gen. Taylor, a thorough Southern Whig, dodges the question. We repeat, Gen. Taylor dodges the question of the Wilmot Proviso, and hc-a Southern man! and run on that ground, by some! The people of this State would not consent to vote fur any man as Village Constable, if he were to dodge this vitally important question, which attack; the rights, equality and independence of all the States, undthe union and peace of the whole country. Can partizan Whigs themselves ask anybody to go for Gen. Taylor now, for the President of the United Slates, ufter the disclosure of the McConkey letter? They may do so, hut we triivt very few will respond to tlie invitation. Now a favorable, time for Southern Whigs to disconnect Iliemsolves from a party to which they have, in an evil hour, permitted themselves to he attached. What has the Whig party of the Union ever done for the Southern principles, and to thrust unon (hem all the Northern principles of the Whig party. Every body knows this who knows anything of parties and politics; and as the last act of the dratna, after surrendering everything to the Northern Whigs but your opposition to Abolition and the Wi|. mot I'rovisnistn, you are called on to follow Taylor and Fillmore, the latter being tinques tiouably like all lite other Northern Whigs, front Daniel Webster down, a Wilmot Proviso man; and the former, for fear of offending the Northern Whigs, nfusing to oppose it. In all of Gen. Taylor's correspondence, there is not the slightest hint of opposition to Wilmot Pro. visuism, but to our regret there is much to justify the Northern Whigs in asserting, as they do, that he would oppose, if elected, no obstacle to their consummation of the measure. "He who maketh haste to be rich shall not bo innocent," and ihos? who like Gen. Taylor, make haste to step from the military carnp tr the Presidency, to snatch at once, without pro liminary training or civil promotion and honor - t_ can hardly remain innocent ot the vice amm? fion. " By that sin fell the Angels." Gen Taylor does not "resist" the Northern Wiltno Provisoists; the consequence is, they do not al "fly from him." It is time Southern men, with out distinction of party, should leave him alom with the Northern legion ot Whigs. I Greenville Mountaineer. 5 All Kight in Chestehfield? I he Meett ing and its kesults.?In obedience to the call a very large meeting of the citizens of this " District assembled at the Court House on Saturday last. After the disposal of the ostensible object of the meeting, a string of Democratj ic Republican, Whig, anti-Cass anti.Fillmore, pro Taylor and Butler resolutions were introduced for the consideration of the meeting by ( Col. D. S. Harllee, which were advocated by ' that gentleman and J. A. Inglis^ with much ingenuity and at considerable length. The ai^ guments of these gentlemen in favor of the resolutions were responded to by Gen. W. J. Hanna, the Senator from this District, in an el; oquent and triumphant speech. The manifes! tation of opposition to the resolutions during the discussion so plainly indicated Their rejection by an overwhelming pnajority, as to induce their withdrawal without a vote, and contrary to the wishes of the meejihg. Chesterfield is sound to the core. Her honest, intelligent, and patriotic voters are not to be entangled in the meshes of political sophistry. We do not think iKn ro i?i is T1 ict rint in ilia ^stoto morn itnonimAlK. x' J i"? ?uv III IIIO IIIUIV uimiMiiiuuw ly in favor of Cass and Builer than Chesterfield.?Chcraic Gaxeite. . I , #| The Pbess.?The art of printing is perhaps the mightiest instrumentality ever contrived by man for the exertion of moral influences. The Rev. Dr. Adams in his late address at Yale College, remarked: In the city of Strasburg, on the eastern frontier of France, there stands, in the principal square, a large bronze statute ofGuttenbiirg, the inventor of the art of printing with moveahie types. It is a full length figure .of that fortunate individual, with a printing press at his side, and an open scroll in his hand, with this inscription?And there was light. Upon the several sides of the pedestal on which the effigy stands, are four tableaux in basrelief, designed to represent the effect of the art of printing on the general progress of the world. In one are the names of the most distinguished scholars, philosophers and poets of all times; in another, the names of those who have been most emiuent for their achievements in the cause of hnman freedom; conspicious among which is an allusion to our Declaration of Independence, * with the names of Washington, Franklin, Hancock and Adams. On the third, is a representation of philanthropy knocking off the fetters *of the slave, and instructing the tawny children of oppression in useful knowledge; and on the fourth is Christianity, surrounded by the representatives ofall nations, and tribes, and people receiving from her hand, in their own tongue the words of eternal truth. Christianity! Divine philosophy! Look down with indifference or disdain on that bearded man at work with tools in his smutty shop, away on the Rhine.? Affect to overlook and undervalue him as a mechanic! A mechanic! why, out of those bars of wood, and nounds of mettle, and ounces ofink, he is constructing a machine to make the nations think, ile is constructing wings for Chrislianity herself which shall hoar her with the music of her silver trumpet to all abodes of me? The Latest Humbug.?Our readers may have seen st maretnem--4^ il.. N~?iionnt Intelligencer, from a New Orleans paper, to I he effect that our government was in some , way directly or indirectly concerned in a movement al lodged to he going on in some of the northern Slates in Mexico, with a view to the establishment of a new republic there, under the name of the Republic of the Sierra Madre; and that General Shields was at the latest dates, in San Luis Potosi, giving direction or aid in the business. The whole statement is a sheer fabrication, and utterly destitute both of truth and plausibil. ity. We have just concluded a treat)' of peace, amity, and boundary with Mexico, which is now part of the supreme law of the land, and which as such will, in all its provisions, be re* ligiously observed in good faith by our govern* mem. As to General Shields?who lias served his country so valiantly and nobly in the field, but who, iu whi" eyes, labors under the crime of being a sound and staunrh democrat?we are happy to learn that, instead of his being, or having been, since the conclusion of peace with Mexico, at San Luis Potosi, or at any nth. er place mi that country, he !s now, and has been for weeks, in the State of Illinois, making eloquent speeches in lavor of Cass and Butler; and thus in politics at home fighting ably and manfully in the same good cause of his country, which he upheld so well on Mexican battle fields. And so explodes the whole ol a very silly whig fabrication, got up on the stump in order to n atiufuclure political capital out of nothing. ' It is only worthy to take its place among the most barefaced and ridiculous of the "floor, bucks" of 1844. NVe must really condole with the National Intelligencer in the sudden loss of a theme, out of which it has woven only two or three indifferent humbug articles. But let it not despair. It has only to task its usual ingenuity to supply it with another inare's nest, equally flimsy, and equally ridiculous. 1 lr? .7. ,*?? rr4/\ n Tfriifin nf Srrturdau. V Niagara Octdonb.?Among the cliffs of the Eastern Ghats, about midway belweeu Bombay and Cape Comorin, rises the river Shirawati, which falls into the Arabian Sea. The bed of the river is one-fourth of a mile in direct breadth; but the edge of the fall is elipticnl, with a sweep of hail a mile. This body of water rushes at first, for three hundred feet, over a slope at an angle of forty.five degree#, in a sheet of white foam, and is then precipitated to the. depth of eight hundred and fifty more, into a black abyss, with a thundering noise. It has, therefore, a depth of eleven hundred and fifty feet! In the rainy season the river appears to lie about thirty feet .in depth at the fall; in ( the dry season it is lower, and is divided into , throe cascades of varied beauty and astonishing , grandeur. Join our fall < f the Genossco to that of the St. Lawrence, and then treble the two united, and we have the distance of the Shirawati cataract. While we allow to Niagara a | vast superiority in hulk, yet, in rrtpect to distance, it is but a mountain rill compared with its Indian rival.?Rochester Democrat. i < ) ? . . r??' important from washington.?The Hudt son Bay Company, it is staled in despatche# | frotn Washington to the Eastern papers, have . made proposals to our government to soli Gut ' ?.!lUn urncHis. ? all llicir possessions. j 110 |>rujjuau"'u *?cussed on Friday in secret session of the Senate.