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'hionthly Advertise ments will he charged the sanic as a single in sortion. anid semi-monthly the sanie as new ones For the Banner. To flue Candidates ini Cla-en don for tlhe ensuing Legibia tatr~e. GENTEiMEN.-YOU have assumed the position ofsoliciting, the confidence and sulfrages of your fellow citizens. The prestige of a good name and a reputable character, have already be spoken for your claims, a favorable consideration. But in reposing a trust, of the in portance of that which you ask them to confer, I hope you will not take it amiss, if they exercise the utnidoubted right of "inquiry" as to the manner in which you propose to discharge it. To remove at once all suspicion as to the source or the noti'e of this appeal to you, let me premise, that (tr my own part) I have neither preference; affinities, nor predilietions- that would noi be amply gratified, by casting my votc for cther or any of you. sut, as a citizen, and a sitafiragan i ijiust seek for other mid higher 'consi derations, than those of a kind ammd personal character, in selecting those ihd aspire to represent the interest of *laren'den, in the urgent necessity to which i am about to call your atton tion. To the State,i he deliberations of the ensuing Session, are not without that interest, which questions a(Tectinig her currency-her organic lawvs-andi her constitutional comlprumises-nmut. necessarily awaken. [tut to the Il'e. ple of Clarendon they have additional --perhaps even a higher iimport:tne in the local andl peculiar requi rements, which her case presents for Legislation. You are not unapprise(d that since the adjournment of the Legislature, the charter of Nelson's Ferry has been abandoned,--you must also be awaro, that the impracticable and ir reparable condition tt' 'ances Swatop -has lc'ng since abated the use of moth Kuad and Ferry. The fornter is ito longer available as a transit to our markets;--and the latter ;the most ft Yored and eligible we eecr possessed, the State very much against our wish es, protestations, and remonstrances, expended a hundred thousand dollars, to render an impracticable gulph; which neither Lazarus nor Dives in their mortal shapes could now pass. A charter for a Ferry at Wright's Bluf, has it is true, (as a very great boon) been granted. And were it es tablished, a *ubscription of more than forty thousand dollars, is already pledged to construct a Plank Road from there to the Manchester .epot., or to Sumtervilie. But how is this: charter to be carried into effiet.? The '~'Swamtp unfortunately is mostly, if not Mlusively on the opposite shore of the River. It is doubtless one of the most eligible as well as convenient locations for a Road that the topogra pily of any alluvial territory could pre sent. But it. must have Bridges aind causeways, at a cost of sonic Iwo thotu sand dollars. And how is the expense of these to be met ? Surely not by our own cotummissionters of Public Roads,-whose powers-as lat/itudina* ry as arbitrary-and as much abused atnd nseglected as they are, nevertheless do not extend to the imipositiotn of tax. es, to improve--construct, or d/c roads-out of their District and jitris. dictions. But r.long with these consideorations, carry with you that also of Wright's BlufT being the D epot of more than ten thousand bales of cotton annually, with its accompanying up-freights, ami hundreds o1 Tons of Guano, and that transportation in this formt either 01 produce or returns, must. soon altogeth. er cease, with the construction of the North Eastern Railroad. For whlo canl douibt, that the special franchise prhieoh it has obtained, of omitting ." draws " for Steamb~oat. navigation, ~vitha an insumllicient elevaou of Bridg es, (ini any, other than that, of an unnavi g able state of the Ri vern,) wi~i nt prac ?leablly and electually operate to the exeiusion.1 of.Steamers. Nowa gentlemen you have a clear and ( isIl, pyrfeption~ 0(8a patt oh the g~rievances run,1,digabhilitI ies miah.r which <nn' coinnf.ryv labor uis, and~ a tterii' presenm - a as 1 tskall do'a hiiity comnsideratiou of their efTects-let me ask you how much you propose to dofor, or by what measures is it you propose to achieve her relief'? You can doubtless appreciate the diflicllty, if not the imposibility of hauling the ten thousand Bales of cot ton (now shipped at Wright's Bluff) an average distance of not less than forty miles, over a heavy Road to Man. chester Depot. The expense of such an onerous and complicated mode of transportation, as compared with the facilities of other portions of the State, would in eflect, almost anoutt to a prohibition of the culture. But this you may suppose is a burden chiefly to be borne by the rich. I am not I assure you in thatfortnate catigory. For wealth I have no ex pciniwental sympathy whatever; few of my profession have. But in the hurnble and pious brotheroood with whom it is my fortune to he classed. and among whom it is my vocation to :seek peace-and I trust ensure it" there are wagons-farm horses, poul try, stock, and a few bales ofcotton, with which they were wont to wend their way to the markets ofour cities with little expense to themselves, but with small, although satisfactory pro fits on their produce. But the improvements of the age have abolilhd all those h mnh/ instru ments of commercial industry. The all pervading spirit of ni Iron'd mno. ply, without substituthig (to them) amy advantage of its owni, has as coi. pletely isolated them from any other form of tratie or of transportation as the shipwrecked Robiuson Crusoe on his desolate Island. The supposition therefore as to the fa vored class upon whom the burden de volves is far from being true, and still tarther (were it true) trmi being gene. rous or Just. W hatl! shall mnci, and t0''9"t.; H."'A~ .'"i"> ""lt en joy their indisputable rights, because i1.ay ,ure either rech or poor ? If the rich are excalued froin justice, will not the in vidious exception extend as well (and very soon) to the class, who possess none of the propiciating appliances, to appenso it ? Do not the poor strive ani hope at some time or another. to become rich-A d i may not the we:ilth of the present possissor, or his pos terity, as suddenly "take, to itself w ings and flee away ?" I am sure gentlemen you are incapable of repre;cnting the People of Ciarendton with aly such views of P'olitical 1-thies. It in-v be that local and other advantages, I ave exelltel qoua friom ony s'iel depend once, on the ordinary facilities of in tercoure with our market. But favor edl as you may be (and as I trust you are) I have no suspicions on that sc-ore. I caenot entertain the belief, that ohrr than by a gelierols ambition to serve your fellow citizens use/ally to them, and honorably to yoursel ves, you could not be actuated. But what is mnch more to be apprehended, is your im periect appreciation of the vital in portance to them of some measure of relief; and the too modest loathing of the bold and and toilsome e'flrts, by which its success--(unaided by party or political influences) can alone be achieved. The zeal, ability, experience and deserved influence of our Senator, will doubtless secure for it a favorabli consideration in that Body. Whlat then are' y'ou pr'epared, andl res"olvedo to ac'omllish for them'i in this mal~tter; anid by whlat means ? These'5 are quiestionls, to wh'ichl I would respect fully direct y'ouri attention. Conceive the great emergency of' thoso whom you as-k to hecoime youir conusti talents, anid I am sur'e you will excuse the. solicitude with whi''h I urge f'or them, tile expression of' youi' pledesi and opinionls. WVero may next, doior neighbor ill " Summaertmon "to start in his owni coniveyance for Chau'leston, he would have to dliic-t his course Eastward instead of Southward utih he f'ound a pathway through Santee Swamup, somewhere within tie busi ness current of Georgetown. And should that 1)e Murray's F~erry, he woul have the consohition of knowing cble as it is, thlat ovenf that chialnnel of intercourse, is inevitably dlestinted to be abated, w~hen the North'eastern Isailrocad is compihleted. Should he on the othier hand be pr'impted, or called oil, to confer' wvithu you in Colum. hlia on the subject of thlis very giiv an-lce, mi a simlilar nmaiiner he woiild har'e to wvendr his way North eastwaurd, inste~ad of Westiwar'd, unltil ini milita r'y par'lanuce he tur'ned the obstr'uctions oif thie river of Camden. My friend on thie Easternl llufi of the Santee laiver., can stand inl his (door andI~ see hleu smokLe curiing out of' the chimneys of his neighbor's dwelling, not five nuies distant on thie Western shore. Biut yet were lie prlomfpted by business of ev'er 6o urgen'it at character to reach lhim, it would only be attainled b~y tra. -verisiag a circujit ofra hundred miiles.. Thusi aro thmose wa hom you ask to be' Coe V:Ji r. consti tuentsa solr. tor from all the facilities of trade, of travel, or of intercourse, by a barrier as impena trable as the Chinese wall and as diffi cult of access as tho heights of the Ilenalaya mountains. A small ap propriation of two thousand dollars, to construct Bridges and causeways on the opposite bank of the River to W right's Bluff, would at once, and spee dily remove it, and while the State is erecting for herself, and for you gentle men I trust a "magnificent Captol " to display your rhetoric in-at an expcnsse of more than a million of dollars to her citizens, (of which your constituents are necessarily destined to pay their proportion of more than fifteen thousand) I trust she will not begrudge so small a pittance, to the indispensable, and almost life as well as thrift sustaining requirements of your constituents. But how do you expect it to be ob taned ? By simply introducing a pro position, and voting for it'? Wihy the mienibers from Lancaster and Kershaw can do as muck for us as that ; for their constituents have almost as deep an interest as yours, in passing this insuperable Balkan of &the wagon trade. The most raving demagogue and radical disorganizer of the upper country, would be glad to make this an ex(cption to his otherwise cerberous Vigilance over the behest of the Treas ury. Nay, North Carolina, with her stock, her produce and her manufac tures, would be ready to do more. But none of them can or will, or ought, except on convicticn. And that conviction gentleman it is your province to produce. It is the duty which you ask to be permitted to per form- If you are unwilling, do not I beseech you undertake it. If you are incompetent ; then do not presump tuously attempt an experiment which you fbel 3 ourselves inadequate to con duct to a successful conclusion. Fail ure with whatever good intentions or ardent wishes will not, excuse you. You know th task- and you have con templated the dileuimes. ic y.r cannot perform the one, and surmount the other, then you will have occupied places which might, possibly have been filled more uscfully. The Legislature it is true is slow of confidence and olftimes cautious and suspicious in making sectional ap'ropriations. It has Often been deceived, sits generosity grossly abused, and in no case more conspicuously so than in its extrava gant, appropriatiois to inmprove as they intended, (but to destroy as it happened) the road throumgh Vinec's Swamp. hit truth, right and justice, must anl will prevail, and no where more readily, certainly and tririm phantly than in an .assembly like that, comprised of the intelligence, patrk'tismn, and public spirit of the State. Make them cornprehenl the exigency, and I an sure they will re spond to it, with a liberality as prompt and as munificent as your own. They want but the necessary information, and that you can or cuyt to be able to give thenm ; or otherwise, accept not I pray you the trust. It is infor mation which they are not e.rpected to seek, but which you are bound to offer, nay even to obtrudc on them. Truth, to be enforced, of or even to be under stood, has oftimes to be reiterated and explained. Modesty it i . true, is one of the most unerring indications of merit. But it certainly would neither b~e just nor reasonable to expect that your constituents would b~e satisfied with the sacrifice of their interests, to the ditlidence, inexperience, or incapa city of their Public Ser-vants. Nor can they for an instant presume, that you wvould aspire to occupy an offiee, as a smeicure of hoiior without a single compensating return of toil, of useful ness or of duties, you have already adl mitted, (for you must admit) that the Legislature is usually composed of a very fair piroportioni of the wisdom and intelligence of one of thme most eligh toned and liberal States in thre U~niorn. You have alroady acknowledged for you must acknowledge that the claims of your constituents in this instance are irr-efragabhle arid indisputable. If threreforeo before a tribunal of such con fessed ability impartiality and enlight enment, and with a cause of time unques tionable character of that which your constituents present, you should not succeed, whose ftult, is it, or can it, be save that of your own, who are its ad vocates, and its exponents! It is burt a small thing at last,, that your constituenrts require ofyou. They (do not expect you to reform thre Tarif/ to atbolishi thre monopoly in the Gun no tr-ade, to pacificate tire Turkish war, to settle our difliculties with Spain, or to allay the agitation of the free soil par~ ty in tire di ncussions of the Nebr-..ska Bill, In short they neither ansk nor de sire, that you should play tire part of tire fly, that rrdes upon01 tire wheel. Our Delegation in Congress is already surf. ficiently self-gorified andl obscured by thre dust which ascends fl-om the ear of our Federal Ahggnrnraut. What, they dlesire ;s t-n- of k: kind. It is but a childs bon they crave. Give them a channe of inter course with their accustoma markets. True it is, that that the eleitnts of our State Government arc unappily re solved into two great Auncracies of Rlail Road, and Bank fl)nopolies ; which unquestionably preldes over, and controls its destinies. 'he admin. istrative departments of he sovereign ty are but the enshrined sptulchres of a venerated superstition. Such is the shorn condition, to which from these causes they have been reduced,-that if in the exercise of a somnk discretion, and an independent judgiment, they but dare to dispense H eavln's Justice, or the laws mercy, (for the law is not without its mercy too) ot er than the " Village politician," the " .nisi Prius" Lawyers, or the cross roads " whipper snapers" may dictate, lie Teapot. Tempest of every little prtry clique, or Vigilant Society instantly begins to hiss and bubble and efierreso its dis approbation, in all the hncied puis sance and ominous comnotion, of a threatened volcano. If governed by reason. which none but he oflicial in cumbent can know, or appreciate; if upon evidence modifyin , or aggrava tiog oflences, which the Irins and bar riers of the law have -cluded from the ordinary modes ofj dicial investi gation, and which by theconstitution is as wisely (as it has been imperatively) made accessible to the consideration of its highest functionary only, he should dare to exercise the duties ef his office, the startled pride and offended self-consequence of every little neigh borhood " Imperiun in Imperio," in stantly blusters forth ith rage, its de nunciations, and its vindictiveness, in all the pomp uagniloruence and mock gravity of a Santa Anna or a Rienzi; a Mexican pronunciamento, or an Ital ian emento. If the form as well as the substance of any of these constitutional depart. nuit are not therefor . - "-" . literatel ; if they 4tit r' twm any por I -I tinw a.., othe ashes of departed worth," -" s nevertheless sheei' force and dignity of character homage paid to worth, rather than a deference shewn to prerogative, attri butable only to the distinguished mner its of their present occupants. But neither Banks nor 1ail Roads, nor Vigilant Societies, nor cross Road politicians are your adversaries. You enjoy the singular and peculiar im nunity of ltving never incurred ci ther their lore or their hatred. The) have no motive to fiear, to persecute, or dis trust, and no power I hope to dc/er you. You may Ipossi bly, tlherclb re, pass through all the wards of their vigilance unheeded and unnoted, and without even being questioneid as to the '' shib boleth of your allegianuce." Excuse mse, gentlemen, for having invited your attention to this subject, in a manner more formal and elaborate perhaps, than may seem necessary. I amt aware that your frankness and courtusv would have accorded to ine all the information I desired, in any of the modes I may have selected of pri rate or personal intercourse. lint miy object has been a very dillerent one from that, of selfsatisfaction. I wished (and hope) to attract the attention of all parties concerned, (both pcople and candidates) to the importance of the subject presented to their considera tion. I desired to establish a fair unt derstandinrg between yourselves and your constituents as to the terms on whnich you were ta represent thema. T1o your pledges and p, omtises, it, is fot thnemn to hold you responsible. My lot and part in the matter extends ne. farther thtan to give the solemnity on a public proclamnation to the pioli tical bands, which you propose to coelbra&t wvith themt. I have flu other topic savi that which I have already referred tc your consideration, in which I feel any intterest whatever. But there are oth ers in which manny of your constituent do ; and as I have availed myself in this address, of your position before th< public to accomnplish my own purpose I will im return do you the favor o proponnding a few othner quteries, it whnich your constituett- feel a deej anid abiding interest. Arid to which. am sure you can respotnd in a marine; entirely satisfactory to themn. 1st. Are you int iiavor of giving th< election of' Electors of P'resident, art Vice President, of the United States t< the peoptle'? And if so, in what mode, (bey Genm oral or District ticket, system,) and fo whamt easons I Also wnt cel'ect would the chnan gi have in diminishing or increasing thu influence, wvhich Sumter District, nov exercises int that election, through th< peculiar advatages which she on joy: of hav ing two Senators I YourF constitu etnts are, I believe, open to conviction on this subject, and it is thereforn worthy of y our greatest elaborationi. 2nd. Arec youm in favor of subdivi ding the large arid poullous E'letioj Istricts of' the State, being one of th< fiuvored modes of nitlietin~g the comrn maises of' the constituti-in ao tiy ao .mi exist in favor of the middle and lower country ? 3rd. Are you in favor of correcting the abuses of our Banking System, by which the present extraordinary strin gency in the monetary affairs of the State, has boon produced,-our dock ets unusually crowded with litigation, the operations of our Banking Capital transferred to Georgia and New York, instead of being employed in accom modating our own citizens, which all the indispensable facilities of trade and business at home (of which the State have given them the exclusive monopo ly) are sacrificed to an usurious traffic in Exchanges ? Should you accord with your constituents as to these evils, by what measures do you propose to remedy them? 4th. Are you in favor of sacrificing every other interest in the State to the aggrandizement of Rail Road monopo lies? Are you disposed to sanction the gross abuse of their charters, in their delays, losses, dangerous roads, insecurities either to property or to life, together with the perfect immuni ty which they enjoy of any responsi bility whatever, either to State or citi zen ? If not what measure do you in tend to introduce for their redress. 5th. Are you in favor of continuing the enormous amount of seventy-live thousand dollars (nearly one forth of the State taxes) now appropriated to Free School purposes; wholly misap. plied as it is under our present system, to the objects of education ; admitted by all to be as useless as it is burden. some to the people, and together with the several amounts annually applied to the College and the Military Acade nues, make up a sum equal to 'one half of the Revenue derived from taxa tion. 6th. Are you in favor of reforming our Judiciary system, by which the expenses of litigation, and ?he extortion of the liar, may ;n ti'ma degree, at - . - .,,..saai leQ 5 7th. Are you in favor cf lcssening the present high rate of taxation in .posed oft the people, unnecessary as it IS in these piping , un. called for by any exigency, and endur ed at great sacrifices under nne of the severest monetary pressures, that the State lhas ever oxperieniced ? 8th. Are you in favor of abolishing or reforming the Militia system, or otherwise ofmabating the onerous and useless burden to your fellow citizens of petty musters, and that worst of all despotisms, the tyranny of ignorance, displayed during a summers solstice, in the mock heroics of the muster field ? 9th. Are you in favor ofestablishing the Viva Voce mode of voting in all elections made by the Legislature, and thereby holding our lI epresentatives responsible to their constituents for the manner in which they may exercise their trust in the selection of public agents, as well in the support of public measures. If not, what are your reasons and objections? Respectfully, W ESjLY. The population of l'aris in thirteenth century, was 120,000; in 1474. 150, 000 ; under Henri II., 210,000 ; under Louis XIV., 492,600; in 1711), 509, 630; from 1752 to 1762, 576,650 ; in 1776, according to Bulhin, 658,000: in 1778, according to Mohan, 670,000 in 17841, according to Necker, 660,000 at the end of the reign of Louis 14th 610,t720 ; in 1798, 6;4(,50 1 ; in 1802 672,000 ; in 1801;, 517,756; in 1808 580,600; in 1801), 794,5960; in 1817 713,966 ; 1827, 890,431 ; 1831, 774, 328 ; 1836, 909,1'26 ;181,1,23 not including the soldiers on service the abiscnt, and the children at nurse 18416, 1,053,897; and the whole de partunent of the Seine, 1,32,467 ; Ii nally, in 1851, when the regular eensn was tak en, 1,053,262. it 1852, 33, 2841 children weore born at l'aris--o whotm 22,420 were legitimate, 'am 10,858 illegitimate. Of the tota number 16,810 were boys. In the same year, 27,890 persons died, o whonm 13,877 were mnales; and1 10,413* marriages were corntracted. The tota population of France in 1700 was 190 699.000 ; in 1831, 32,560,934 ; 184t~i :35,4000,486 ; and in 1851, 35,783,059 JA MAtca.-Crimie is shockingly ram pant in Jamaica. Out of sisteen ease tried at the Assizes, no fewer thai tme were for " those abomninabli crimes which are dangerous to humai nature." In charging the grand jur' the judge expressa his conviction tha mere punishment is instullicient as prevent ative of these heinous off'encet and suggested that the only way ii which they can lbe eradicated, is i bring the clss of persons amnong when they are frequent u: der sonmc hunmani zing influences. l'oszimL..--A girl in i'ittsburg be ing sitruck dumb by the firing at' cannonl, it is said that a' number o mainrried imein of that interesting villag. have, ini consegqnence, invited the ai tillar~g company to parade umd'er thei nremnises4 - IIORnIJLE TRAQornr.-One of the most tragic and awful scenes that ever shocked a community oceured in this city on Saturday morning about 10 o'clock, resulting in the sudden and violent death' of a husbind' and trife by the hand of the former--under the frenzy of a momentary riiahia. Mr. John W. Lambeth, formerly a ditizen of this town, bait of late a resident of IIalifax county-where he had war. ried a daughter of William Ilowerton -hinsclfand wife botn beionging to families of high respectibility-being on a visit to his mother in this city while sitting with his wife, in company of mnUcI'ibers of the family, without warning or a sign of any c.aractcr, seized her and inflicted a frightful gash upon her throat, Vitlha pocket knife. She attempted to escape, but he rushed after her, and inflicted two other cuts. She st.aggeted out of the house and fell in the yard. His attention was then arrested by the children of his brother, Dr. Lambeth, and he made an attempst to aeiz th', but wa's thwarted by anegro womin, who.threw him o'er the pailing ! 11e then made at his uncle, Mr. Bingham ; but he escaping, the murderous but uncon scious maniac returned to the spot where his wife lay, and tore the bloody knife across his own throat-fulling and dying almost instantly. It is be leived that while engaged in the strug gle with his wife, he inflicted one or two cuts upon his own throat. His mother having interposed to shield his wife, received an accidental gash 6n the hand. Dr. Murrefl, who resides in the immediate vicinity of tie trage dy, hearing the cries, repaired with all speed to the spot, and succeeded by hi coolness and skiU, in arresting the her morrhage from the wound of Mrs. L. although all the cheifarteries and veinm of the neck had been severed or opened and restoring consciousness for a while-!during which time she en gaged in cdnversitiori, true to the in. stinets of tac wu, eUEMnh5 t.g last, " Oh ! my dea'r husband." But the loss of blood had been so great before the Doctor's arrival that it Way impossible to save her, and sh'e died in three gnarters of an hour. Mr Lambeth had been in bad health and had sufTered nuh from the depressior of mind it occasioned ;but no one con ceived the possibility of so terribl< and tragic a dethronement of reason Hle had returned, some three Week ago, fror l'mhilidelphia, where lie had been in search of imedical relief, anc had been remaining with the ta'ndl of his rmother in this city siiice. ii. wife joined him about a week after hi arrival, bringing with her two children expecting other welcome and othei fare, froins his bettered condition, thar: the bloody one which has Biefallen her Lynchburg 'irginian. MUnRnet.-An atrocious murder wa! committed in th bar-room of the gro cery stcre of M. Grother, corner o Whitaker-street and Taylor-street lane about eight o'eock Sunday night. The nanme of the udforttinate victim tea Lawrence Richardsoud, a carpenter b3 trade ; a man of family .with whom h< lived in the upper part of the buildin in which he was killed. At the honu named, in company with two or three friends, one of whom was Sorgean Morse, of the City Police, and wit whonm he was at thme moment convers ing, lie was quietly sitting in the bai room, when all of a sudden the repor of a gun was heard at the door, an immediately after Richardson fell bac mortally wvounded, and expired in very few moments, having received heavy charge of buckshot in the neci and head. Search was imnmediatel -made for the perpetrator, but withou success. The city authorities wore a on1ce notified, and Marshall Russel with the entire active force of the city have continued unremitting in thei eilort~s to secure the mnurderor. Corc ner Eden held an induest over the ri mains of the deceased yesterday, wvhoe such facts wvere revealed as to fix th deed upon a man named Green B. R< berts, for whose arrest and convictir we trust no possible efforts will hb , wanting. -..P. S.-Just as we go to press, w . have word that Roberts is arrested. Savannah Gecorgian. The physicians of St. Louis hav combined for the purpose of keepin druggists to the pestle and mortar. They declare that the apothecary hi no just Fight to put up a prescriptic the second time, unless -authorized writing by the physician prescribinf Nor has said apothecary any right i make usc of said prescription in n .way? unless by the consent of thepa ician; and pledge th 'usel os withhold their influence frorrd ai -druggist who may thus act, ata to u i othier nyeans to make such *eondu f public. And further,.that etey 'ai i withhold their. support fran -apotheca'ries who persist Ni. r reprehensible practice of' p:sbibin fom' diseases, - e Trade Reversed. Not quite twelve .month. aro, our market was supplied with Flour from' Baltimorel New York; alid other mar kts. 'T'hings hav'e dhanged. Since Sept. 1', 1853, t1is market has been' supplied' from oiuth Caroliha; debrgia and Tennessde, principally fr6m Geor gia, asid the receipts,, up to' t'fs tinie, have bee' larger than ever k:;own befo're ;' besides sipplyirig Our o*n' market, some 20,00 barrels have teen' shipped' to foreign markets, and coast. wise to New York, Philadelphia and' Bioston. 5000 barrels have been' exported coastwise within the last twenty days. Tennessee, has si.nupied the greater portion of Wheat which was manufac tured into Flour in Georgia. The majority of Flour was shipped in sacks; had the Flour been put in barrels, three times the quantity would have found its way to Europe; fr orne' tnglish' house had, at one t'e, an order fd; 1o,00U barrels;; gen 6nly sacks duld, be had. One shlpn'ent of 30b0'sabks' wras.niade to Liverpool. We Would remark that the pi-ice of Flour this season, has ruled lower by $ 1 per barrel 6n' a'n aferage than in any seaport in th'e United States. Our highest figure Was8.5O, when in Newi York the same qinality of Flour was sold at $9.50. About the first of thik' month Flour was sold here at $6; in the New York market at $7 3.4 to $8. The Flour trade ii Charleston must increaso rapidly, espcially when that great enterprise, the Islue Ridge Rail. road is. completed. Tennessee can furnish 500,000 bariels of Flour in a' few years. Millers aind farmers should pa' strict attention in' putting tip Flour, so as to pstabTisl a character for Flour, exported from Charleston. They should go to work now, and cut out timber, d get barrels niade, and not send' their Flour in sdcks. Flour in barrels will bring 50 cents more, and find ready sale for it; - Charleston tanidad Facts arn human Life. The gvhile number of languages' spoken in the world amounts to.3064 -2'7 in Europe, 396 in Asia, 276 in' Africa, and 1264 in America. The imhabit:ints of the globe profess more: thaii 1000 different religions. The' nuinber of men is about equal to the nunibcr of women. The average of human life is about 33 years. One' I quarter (lie previous to the age of 7; one-half before reaching 17; and those who pass this age enjoy a felicity refused to one.half the hnman species. To every 1000 persons only one reaches 100 years of life; to every 100 only six reach the age of 95, and not more than one in 500 lives to be 80 years of age. There are on earth' 1.000,000,000 inhabitants; and of these 333,333.333 die every year,91,324 die every day, 3,730 every hour, and 60' f every minute or one every second. These losses are about balanced by an equal fiumber of births. The mar. reed are longer lived than the single, and above all, those who observe a sober and industrious conduct. Tall' men live longer than short ones. r Women have more chances of life in' their favor previous to being fifty years' t of age than men have, but fewer after. 1 wards. Tfhe number of marriages is' - in proportion of 75 to every 1000~inp -dividuals. Marriages are more fre tquent after the equinoxes; that is, dur 3 ng the months of June and December. l'hose born in the spring are general-lif a more robust than others. Births anmd a deaths are more frequent bry flighi C than by day. The number of men i' capable of bearing arms i~s caibulat'ed t at one-fourth of the popu-lation; though' m i many countries r't is less. ,' The arenasla of England hlwve beek rclosed foralong ime, even to m'enm hers of Parliamene, while experimnfits have been makcing in rlew and terrible mnaehines for carrying on wa'r. One of these is called the Wagner Floating Gun, w~hich glides-along on the, water mastraight line till it strikes tle ves e sel at which- it is directed, wh'en' is thrust into its sides its iron headoii. e tairmng two pounds of fulminati'ng - powder of mercury, wvhich, b* 'xgl. dimg, blows a hole iin the.veess n o't twelve feet in length hteit s' fi': o possible to close as ths .*6o6 g made by cannon ball . EdH a Tmis SoVEnSloNS --? following are tl e.Q~p n reagong sovereigns: .ite.a , MI4thelKing ofth , r' 'rra, r i~ng of ,Prussi,$i 4 the .0 Rssia, 56 ; te . Kidf ro ao :Norway 5 tl4 ~or Den an -44; oa,.. .nr' othe T14 S ;. a e ing - 0the &jlt , 30Oj tJe '- nVer,83 etr#4al 28 ~. emperor of A u. 11 - ?~* --n ----.- .. 11 Je es deen Ordered in all the ge secess1 o'fgoues in F'rance, for the Russian,, ranch arms againsttie