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Written Bipmily for the Carolina Spartan. The Philosophy of Winter. ST O. S. S. This day a lesaou may inspire, Tie sot without a reason; The trees have doffed their gny attire, To meet the wintry season. And shall not we, when days lull fraught With chustening power draw nigh us, Lay by enoli high, nspiriug thought, And biJ gny vision* fly usT Tea, there are periods when tlio soul Demands her wintry season, And should receive the steru control Of that grave teacher?Ukason. Mt flowed by frost, the snow chid licld Is for the spring time fitted; And so the heart fresh fruits will yield To wise control submitted. StABTANBURO, S. C. Fur the Carolina Spartan. WOMAN. DT FORREST SII.VKRat.ADR. I've sometimes thought on womnu's ohnrms, Her beauteous form and face? The thrilling rapteres of her eye? . Her poetry of graee; And felt that she was born to bu A crcnturo of high destiny. Bat, whilst I thought, I pondered, loo, What trial and what euro, Oft veil the pro*poet of Iter life, That bloMom'd out so fair; That ooo so luir and gently kind, Should bo the spoil of every wind. I've thought on her as laughing girl, 'Mid soeiul mirth and glee; I've seen her as the winning belle, In festive company? The mother, wife, and sister, all, 111 louoly cot and glittering hall. As glows the pcnrl in ocean eaves, Far down airid the deep, Or shining star, looks down above On nature's quiet sleep; So glows her mind, with precepts fraught, By virtue and decorum Uught. 'Tis this that shed* a halo round, And fascinates the heart; Compels esteem?nay, lures to loves ? True joys to me impart; Of this posscse'd they sway a pow'r Moro lasting than the Hooting hour. Oh, there's n soul?a meaning?when 'Hie pohslied mind reflects, The brightness of a woman's love. Which rugged man reepcels; And nm I one whose aim shall bo To claim u bride just such as she? Lst others court at beauty's shrine, And raise aloud their voice, A t ...a .1.?-I- 1 ... ....... UlUII'IC, ? .1 OHM J ' , But the modest mind's my choice? Konobling tendency to make The married life n happy stale. SrARTANBURU, S. C. North American Hemp and Cotton Plant. We noticed the fact somo time since, iu the Merchants' Magazine, of tlio discovery of this singular production, by a Mrs. Beaumont, growing wild in the southwest part of Wisconsin. The discoverer, as wo learn, has since cultivated it with great success, having now some fifteen or sixteen acres of it growing on her farm. A correspondent of "Life Illustrated," has furnished that journal with an interesting description of the plant; and iho editors have seen specimens of the produce, and expressed their urprise at the value of the discovery. Mrs. Beauinout thus describes it: "Froin a single root that I transplanted, there sprung up abojtit twenty stalks, measuring fifteen to seventeen feet in height, baviug upwards of three hundred pods containing the cotton, with about fifty to sixty seeds in each pod. It can he planted in the spring, and cut in the fall; it bleaches itself alitiost white as it stands in the field; aud yields from llireo to four tons of good hetup or flax to tlio acre. The hemp or flax is the produce of the stalk, and the cotton is the head or bulb of the plant. It requires hut little labor to cultivate it, for when once planted, it will remain in iho ground for several years, throwing out fresh shoots and stalks every year. The hemp, when stripped from the stalk, requires to be dressed, of course, and the flax should be hackled in tlio usual way; the cotton, too, should bo dressed with a cotton gin, tho same as they dress cotton grown in the Sontli. I believe that this plant may be cultivated in any part of the world, and 1 think it will grow aud tliiiveou almost any soil, if it is not too still; hut rich black loam suits it the best." Tho discovery of this valuahlo plant proves at once that cotton can be grown at the North as well as at the South, and it may produce n great revolution in the cotton trade. Tho specimens of the plant that 1, ??A /-II *T A ?u umviuoii urc mi iuiiows, i>(o. i, /V specimen of the course hemp, beforo it is dros*ed. 2. Specimen of hemp or flax, dressed but not bleached. 3. Specimen of the bleached tlax, ready lor combing and carding. 4. Specimen of the bleached flax, combed and carded. 5. Specimen of the bleached flax, carded with a little wool. 6. Specimen of ilie bleached flax, spuu into coarse and line thread. 7. Specimen of the knitting work from the coarse and flue thread. 8. Specimen of the raw cotton, fine quality and middling. 0. Specimen of half cotton and half wool carded together. [Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. Not Money, dot Confidence Wanted. ?~The present financial dilKculties aro waII illustrated by the quaint old story of a Frenchman, who deposited his savings with a thrifty tradesman. A timo of trouble came, tho Frenchman was alarmed and called for his m<tn?v ??" ? 1 - ?# /? ? |'"""1"7 tendered to liiin. On second thought, however, lie b??afgjetl the tradesman to keep it, explaining himself after thin fashion: " Vou no av ze money, zen I want it quick; hut if youav ze money, I no want it at all."? New York Sun. "Indeed, now, and tho attraction of the earth is very wonderful," said an Irishman to his wife. "As an instanco of it, the other night I went to sup with Mr. Win. O'Flynn, and about ten o'clock, when the servant came in, ho found us on the floor." "Sure now, and it wasn't the attraction of the earth at all," said his wifo, "it was tho table that repulsed you." Tho philosopher was silenced. Wm. L.Cory, a benevolent old gentle- | man of Huron, Michigan, recently bought a little blue-eyed child from her diunken ( parents far #3,000. The following narrative is from the pen of John Davis, a young Welshman, who ?, emigrated to Salt Lake with his familv ( about two years ago from Maestsg, South Wales. It is tafcen from a private letter, dated Council Bluffs City, Iowa, June 29: *D "1 guess you are anxious to know the rea- r< son why I left Salt Lake. 1 shall try, in ? the first place, to inform you what a inan must do to be a Mormon. Be must give himself, bis family and all his possessions W1 over to Brighara Young, and then he'll J10 buve to give the tenth of all his income? ? the tenth day's work?and ho must keep from two to ten wives. If he don't agree to r*' these things lie had better quit; but by do- ? ing so be is in danger of losing.bis life eve- ? ry minute, for they would rnther kill him than let him be the means of letting the ' world know how tilings are in their midst. Muny have beeu shot down in trying*toes- ?( capo. 1 have seen dozens shot down on the 8" streets; and throe days before I left I saw r.e three persons killed merely because they in- 11 tended to%scape?they were shot down in ,n< a place called Springfield, while they were ?.P proparing their trunks to leave. This took ll8 place about 8 o'clock ou a Sunday morn ,ai ing, within fifty yards of the gates of the '.'1 city. The first was a young man called William Parish; ho received seven balls in his body. The second was his father, aud the third was a man called Potter, whose body received as many as fifteen balls. The old man was pieiced in the back, and his throat cut in three difi'erent places. I saw them lying down, and I could name the persons who killed them. BrigliHtn Young ' lias got men ior this purpose. Their nuin ber is four hundred. They are called the wt "Destroying Angels." Their captain's name is William Ilickinan, and the second in m command is Porter Rockwell. gu "The walls around the city aro fifteen ftr feet high, and they aro surroundud by a ga deep and wide moat. The city is entered by four gate?, which are watched in the tj( night time. The gates are so narrow that lw only otio vehicle can pass through at once. The "Destroying Angels" go out on the frt plains in the spring, in order to intercept l|t thoso who may escapo from the city. Ma- ov ny left on foot last January. They sleep W( by day and travel by night, I know of vf men and women who havo travelled this m way?tho men dressed as women and the fol women as men. I came across some who -jm where very short of food; tho little they had ft|( they gave to the women, and the men |n were principally sustained by the women's milk! ' I lr.lt *i..ll I nl.? Hllu .... .!.? 1*7.1. * (V< V liil l\U V/lkJ VIII VIIU 1 ill Ul April, in company with two Welshmen oa and an African. The few Mormons who jn| know of our intentions said that wo would never reach the Stales alive, but I told |a| them that I was determined to try, nliat- Co ever would occur. On Saturday, (tho day vv| after wo had left) wo had travelled thirty j/, miles from tho city, when we saw three ^ men following us. They wore sent by the S(, authorities of tho city to catch us. Tho ;in name of ono was Patrick Linch, an Irish- a man by birth, and Secretary to Brigham ? Young. This man fired his revolver at me, hut the ball went by without hurting me. They then camo near us on their nurses, t|, and inquired our names, and when we refused to tell them, they swore that they &t< would blow 'our damned brains out.' With |<*j that one of them raised his revolver as it wi he was going to u?o it?he had ono on va each side of his saddle. I then took out my revolver, and told hiin to fire if he ve liked. I had six revolvers with me, and a W) title, containing :n all thirty-seven hall". Ur Another ball was then fired at me, which :lt whistled by my left ^heek. I then tired at tr; him, and ono ball hit him on the log and lit another or tho shoi.lder. (My friends by >V this time had run in tho woods, and I was ey left to fight it out Myself) I .hen lost my J* fooling, and one of the men ran attno with ha a knife and cut my belt nnd took four of It my revolvers. I had the other two hid in |jr 111V hoots. I rvnt linht of mm of llmtn on.I > - _ - "i tired, and succeeded in keeping them oil' m for tome time, till I had a chance to run to the woods, where I got the assistance of my th friends. b< "We continued to travel that day and to following night, and succeeded in reaching th a place called Kort Bridger, which is one te hundred and thirteen tniles from llio Val Wi ley. The number of pursuers had now in- fHi crea-sod '.o twenty, and we had to put to tho tli woods again. We travelled till night and were so fo* lunate as to meet a host of friendly Indians, who gave us buffalo moat to g? eat. Tho next day we overtook a number he of wagans known as Mr. B .dibit's train, in ed number twenty-oight. I was hired to drive nt one wagon which was drawn by sit mules, th We had aonte trouble with a lot of Indians or called the "Crow Tribe." Tiiey were well armed and about a thousand strong. About sh six hundred shots came into our toots. Wo wl killed thirty Indians, and they killod live of w< our men. m m ?? > SC A Dutch So.mnamdui.ist.?Vol I shall ,H do mil mine proder Kretty, I no can dell. lt lie slants up von he lavs loiin. nut emu l)r valkin arount vast avako ven he ish vide *1' asleep. Ho sleep* iu tier same ped in anodor room a* rne; 1 moan, lie sleep* in anoiler lS room in tier same pod as f. Vel, nex veek Salui lay nite, tier (lailor sents homo my new suit luit plack prondclot close. I links nox lay I vares dem mil medin?, unt Parpary vill dinks I looks nicer as mine 1,0 rifal, llenrich ttoitishimer. So nex morr.in I gets up early, like everpody toes veil lav hues new close, unt looks arounl, veil lo! < >. anil pelioli! 1 find at mine close Iwul'nt (J staid pill! lo key vas luckeil tliglit mil ier lour on to insito, unt ter vindows vas billle<l lo oil te outside of plints, unt not It|| ings vas proku loose novaros. I look on te ou pod, unt miter te pad, unt arounl to pod, re>l lint like tier olt tdienlluman 1'yron dells V( apout, overyvaro but in te pod, unt I no f vints dem. I>nn I pegins to sware iu low (T(., liensylvany dietcli, vicli sounls very much J)r( like der *fcum music unt cat squalls mixt, |j(j unt der noise vakes un niudur Frettv. . - ~~f' cm Sourkrout unt grab opples! vot vou dink? |j( To scamp has i?ot up in der nito, tressed g(K himself in dem, unt come pack tor pod ^ initdein on. To sniardrst Chew in Chnlain ye| street vould'nt hafo soil der vvliolo unit vor i vifo thalars! If I had'nt a known Kretto ,||( tone it in hi* sloop, unt dat lio van moro as ^ a coot teal stronger as mo, I'd a panged t f him dill ho vas placker as plow.? /'ortcr'i Spirit. " tin: "George, you aro looking very smiling. I What has happened?" a?k "I ho most delightful thing. I caught fat* my Jenny l?y surprise, this morning, in her hiu wrapper, and without hoops, and I got tho first kiss I've had since whalebone skirts i cr.me into fashion." ' lior K A TsnniBtB Punishment.?The Loudon ectator contains the following expression opinion at to what should be done with ma Sahib, in the event of his being capred alive: He should be caged as a matter for study, d after exhibition in India should be aught to England, and carefully guarded live out the terin of his natural, or untural life, a monster ? without sympathy, is physical health should be preserved til the utmost care, and he should live to dergo the most painful of all punishment such a miscreant?the absence of all rapathy. and the knowledge that he was luced to the condition of a captured beast prey?a study for the natural philosophers the nation he had outragod?ns some mpensation for his forfeited humanity s should be caged in the Tower, as the d llongal tiger, with some of the four>ted tigers?his brethren?in cages along le of him for comparison. Wo do not rengo ourselves on wild beast*; we kill am out of the way, or keep them as specious; and we cannot afford to waste the portunity for the punishment of a human ;er as a warning, a punishment that disice from the scene of his atrocities will ngnify manifold, as a doterring infiuonce, a is a gentleman of high caste, ever sus ptiblo of mortification by the process ol gradation from the condition of humani to that of brutality; devoid of moral iling, probably a moral idiot, and only usitivo in pride or vanity. Tho spectacle his bopoless captivity will do indro to do r than would tho hanging of a hundred ousand of his follows. Mero death wouhl no punishment to this human brute? >uld have uo effect on the future. It is not best to abuse the South tot uch. In this tremeuious money pros re at the North, while our city mrcbanu q failing for immenso sums, the South b id to be 60und and above board; and i! o good weather of this month holds out e cotton alone will yield onehundndana <enty millions dollars paid by Europe l< e United States, besides the profits ol tight, to lift the nation out of its tliilicul s brought on by tho extravagance and ortrading of the North. Tho fact is, iht :alth and prosperity of the South, instead being precarious, as asserted by our abo ion spoulers, is bused upon a more solid [nidation than tho business of the North le South depends upon agriculture, which though not so dazzling and pretentious ai aimi.-tctllriiirr I n, m.?i> ... w vy? lUU team) tout it; nixl upon this southern agricul re tiie manufactures of tho North and o lglatxl in a great measure depend. It i? sy for uninformed, half-witted nbnlitior italics to decry the South ns dilapidated but without it what would New Eng nd manufacturing bef Without Southorr tton and the market she opens for shoes :iere would our population find bread ren our clergymen, who love to denounce e South and her institutions, could not b< pported did she w ithhold her production' d shut up her market. Without hei ;riculture our commerce would tie nothing [ ATVui Hampshire Democrat. A Skli..?The Fall Ilivcr Monitor telli o following good story: "A countryman (farmer) went into j jto in Boston the other day, and told tlx leper a neighbor of his had intrusted liirr til sotne money to expend to the best ad titage, and lie meant to do it where in iuld be best treated. lie had been iiNei ty well in Boston by the traders, and In jnld not part with his neighbor's m<>nej ilil ho found a man that would treat hin out right. With the utmost suavity tlx vder says, 'I think I can treat vou to voui ting; how do yon want to bo treated yell,' said the farmer, with a leer in hi: e, 'in tho first place I want a glass of tod ', which was forthcoming. 'Now I wil ivo a nice cigar,' says the countryman was promptly handed him, leisurelv [hted, ami ihen throwing himself hack til itis feet as high as his head, ha com enced pulling away like a Dutchman tow what do you want to purchase,' say o storekeeper. Countryman?Mv neigh >r handed me twn cents when I left home buy him a plug of tobacco, have you go eailicle! The storekeeper sloped install r, and tlio next thing was heard of hin as that his sides were shaking and hi co on fire with laughter us ho was relating e sell to his friends down town." The Boston Post recently heard of am ive full credit to a young lady who, upot ling given a seat in a railw iy car, thank [ the gentleman who had vacated it. Tin >xt day thu saino paper was informed o c following incident, communicated In 10 of the parlies: "A ladv ? I suppose she was a lady, fo e woro beautiful clothes?got into a cai liich was completely occupied, and al arc ladies save a Cambridge student am vself. She looked anxiously about f<>r a at, Tho student politely relinquished hi* hereupon the ladv threw herself into ii ir hoops clattering heavily, without ox easing theslighest thanks whatever. Th< ident looked anxiously at tho occupiei ot as if he had lost or left something, am: ked her to riso a moment that ho inigh ircli the cushion. She acquiesced; sin ut immediately glided into the place d having installed himself, allowed tlx ly to stand up the remainder of the jour y, as a reward for her want of civility." A Novel Plant kkom South A kmc a The Boston Boo, describing a bu I l>on? int rejoicing in llio not over euphonious me of Pormnrtqua Josephine, a nnlivo ol utli Africa, says: it is so raie, that there is n probably other in the country. The trunk shoots I from a largo bulb, at the top of which, leinbling the palm tree, branches start in fry direction, each tern*'anting in a (lower a reddish maroon color, without fra ince. it has no leaves whatever at the jsent lime, though before blossoming a 0 crop was visible. These possess a polar fibre, and, in the opinion of Professor irsford, of Cambridge, may bo used with com in tho manufacture of paper. Tho re resembles cotton, and is white and y tenacious. Tho plant was forwarded the Rov. J. Rath, a missionary among 1 Oweberenos, to the Rev. Louis 1$. i wartz, of the German Protestant Church Boston, an enthusiastic botanist. A farce was performed in Bannister's 10, under the title of "Fire and Water." predict its fate," said he. "What fate}" od theanxiou* author at his side. "What if' replied Bannister, "why what can tiro 1 water produce but a Am.*." Nothing checks tho play of thoimagina? more effectually than empty pockets. "Did you know I was bore!" said the bellows to lb* fire. T* "Ob, yee, I always contrive to get wind of you," was the reply. A Startung Stout.?The OpbmPoiar set 9aa.?We find the following comraunica- p'1 1 lion in the National Intelligencer: J".' To the Editors of the Nut. Intelligencer: ^ Gentlemen: In the recent discussions aud p,; speculations touching the existence of a to "North Polar (open) Sea," superinduced by h" 1 the publication of the work of the late la- . men ted Dr. Kane and others, I bare been jui somewhat surprised nev. to hare mot with sei 1 any allusion to a "tract," entitled "A Brief 'q Disccurse of a Passage by the North Polo 1 to Japan, China, Ac., pleaded by three Ex1 periments; and answers to all objections that can be urged against a Passago that way, 1 by Joseph Moxon, Follow of the Royal So- lhl ciely." Froin said document I mako the following verbatim extract, to wit: "Being about 22 Years of age, in Am- no ' stordam, 1 went into a Drinking-house, to sin ' drink a Cup of Beer for my Thirst, and sit- ne > ting by a public Fire, among several Poo1 pie, there happened a Seamen to como in, c,t who, seeing a Friend of his there, who he l 1 knew wont in tlie Greenland VoyHge won- Pr dored lo see him, for it was not yet timo for ,,r the Greenland Fleet to corao home, and ,j f ask'd what accident had brought him home pu so soon; his Friend (who was the Steennan rni i aforesaid, in a G. eenland Ship that Sum- rci mer) told him that there ship went not out > to fish that summer, hut only to tako in tho |,? Lading of tho whole Fleet to bring it to an Ik* early Market, ?fec. I 1 I "But, said ho, before the Fleet had caught Hsh enough to Indo us, we, by order tv of the Greenlnnd Company, sailed unto tho G North Pole, and came hack again. Where' upon, his relation being Novel tome) Ion- f" tered into discourse with him, and seemed JJJ] ' to question the Truth of what he said; but ;n ho did insure mo that it was true, and that pu the ship was then in Amsterdam, and ma "r ny of ilio seamen, belonging to her, to jus- f tify the truth of if, and told 1110 moroovor, t lhat they hud sailed two Degrees beyond tn the Pole. I asked him if they did not meet co with a groat deal of Ice? lie told mo no, tliev saw no ice. I asked him what wealh- j"' ! er they had there? lie told mo, tine, warm po weather,' tkc. Ti To tho "tract" from which tho above ex- l'? tract is taken thero is n<? dato, hut I infer ' the period <>f Mr. Moxon's conversation ^ ' with the "steerman" to have been in tho at ! year 1G4G, from a date given in another part of the document. " The "tract" is published in the "1st vol- ^ ume of John Harris's Collection of Voy* j^t ' ages and Travels, page GIG. London. 1 MDCCV, folio edition," tho only copy of *?ii ' which I have ever soon is tho one belong- nr ing to my library, and from which I quote as above. J Very respectfully, your obedient servant, c Jrc. 3 m , m of ? One of those inconaistent fellows, of whom * wo have some, even in this duelling region, m r who think it no sin to abuse a man over so of * roundly with their tongue*, hut a groat sin to fight, received a well merited rebuke the other day. Ilia old man was up, as it often vv was, and he wound up his abuse hy adding: i "I would give you what you need, but v>u 11. know iny hand* ate tied." "Then," -.aid A the oilier, "you ought to keep your tongue ' lie''." We think so tout A little th? meanest man out, is one who pretends l<? |>e so ci I religious that he o.annot light; I ?t It is not * religion enough to restrain him trout insult- ! , ing his neighbor. , . 7 ~ 1 he 11 ill s, 1 do, (Mich.) S'I'm lard has the following: "A 'dead head'on the Uenlril , Road s< nt his expired pass to Superintend- , ^ ont Riio, with the following on its hack: ItU-sit my stars, ui No more on the car*, " As a 'lead head I' 1 rule on a ra I; ri l/nl- s? Mr. It to sc T Snout I take mv adviee, And semi me a |-a-s hy m nl. di To which Mr. Rice replied: Tlio Conductor will para ,) 4 Tills lnilldh* of gas j? From duly 11 the middle of Lent; .i< Like any *d< III Ih-ad, I Without paying a'red,' in t I.et limi ride to ! s heart's content." of ' Jones is getting luxurious. Tho other |( * day he purchased a bottle of the Iialm of a t ' Thousand Flowers. We met him shortly alter, and asked him how ho liked it, ro " j marking at the same time that it ought to ; smell sweet. "Oh, verv sweet," said Jones, ! ' with a wry face. 'What does it smell |.' strongest of?" wo asked. ''Well," replied I m , the little joker, "it smells strongest, I should ^ s.ay, of fifty (?)cents." Mrs. I?. desired Dr. Johnson to give his ,!i r opinion of a new work -lie I ad ju>t writ- 1,1 r ten; a iding, that if it would not do, she i ; begged him to tell h- r, for she had other i ... I irV?n-? hi the fire, :iu<l in case of its not being :,i k likely to siieeee.l, she colli I bring out - onio- 1 ri thing else. "Then," viitl tho doctor, after <>l having inrue.l over a few of the leaves, ''I 111 . advise yon, ma lam, to put it wlioro your j; } other irons are." i< | 'Tom,' said an impudent wag to a con- 4 I ccitod fop, "I know a beautiful girl who s> t wishes to make your ae>j lainlance.' a. '1 >eviIirslt glad to hear it?tine girl, struck ih , with my appearance, suppose, eh?' ,u ! 'Ves, very much so. She thinks you'd " make a capita' playmate for lier pretty little j t|, poodle dog" 11, Knit fop, shockingly sold! A Dutchman was relating his mat velous escape from drowning, when thirteen of hi> j. companions were lost by tho upsetting of a boat, ami he alone was saved. "And how did ro you escape their fate.'' a?ked one of his hearers. 'I tid not co in te poal!' was the vi Dutchman's pi acid answer. |l4 "Well, wife, I don't see how they can e<! send a letter on them ere wires, without w touring on 'em all to bits." ''La, me, they w don't send tho paper, hut they bciiiI the writing in a fluid state." When wo see a man sitting on a corner, on a moonlight night, trying to convince his tli own shadow that it is improper to follow a I Ul person, wo usually set him down as a good ! '* subject for a sign at a whiskey shop. 1 I 1 The woman who made a pound of butter l'' from die cream of a joke, and a clieeso front ! the milk of a human kindness, has since ' washed the close of a year, and hung 'urn . to dry on a beo lino. ,ni ' I4C A modern wiiter, who is probably fit only for "treason, stratagems, and spoils," | says: "Kvery thing is very tino until you frc 1 have got it. A sirging wife is like a pip' ing bullfinch?great fun for your friends? I deuced tiresome to yourself." as Happiness is a pig with a slippery tail, j which everybody runs after but none can f ' hold. ' ed ?aw?wnr-??w?1 LBTTBR 0# QK3. UillLTON. i the Edit ire of the Charleeton Mercuryi An esteemed IrietrJ in the interior of the State jD i called upon mo to declare publicly whether, if cted to the Senate of the United States, I would re. The terms of this call are so kind and corninentnry, that delicacy forbids my being ins re- te mta! in m iking it public. The partiality of other ^ i-nds has also brought my muno before the good . ?pl? o( South Carolina, in the columns of your >c per and the Charleston Courier,ns a lit successor the lamentod iintlcr?a racanoy more cosily w ed than hie place can be adequately supplied. Believing that the Kansas complication inny pre- nt itate on the country a momentous issue, a con- d? ncture of cireumsiituces may arise, which in the bti rriee of the State would inrgl-e an obligation P' ually imperative ns her defence in easo of n pub war. To avoid all misconstruction of my posin, if the State thinks proper to elect me 1o the ?h and honorable post in question, I shall led it I,; f duly to obey her mandate. I beg leave, howover, to avow, thnt, regarding 9 office :ui one that may bo declined, but never so- b* itod, I will, under no circumstances, make my If a candidate. 1 will solicit no man's vote; I will "r pose no man's election. I enter into no canvass. combination, iio confederation with others. I "I nply stand in a position of entire quiescenc e and u utrality. ready to obey the unsolicited wishes ?>f w a legislature, if it calls upon ino to represent the n rcreignty of South Carolina in the great couu<?f confederated sovereigns?in which event '1 will repair ?, my post with all possible despatch, " epared with uncompromisiitg zeal and tidelhy to 1? omotc her interests and susta'ti her honor. If f past history in comartloii with the public aflairs to South Carolina, at a crisis of iut< nso interest and th blic peril, gives mo no claim to be trusted, then 1 ast submit to the verdict of public sentiment, and 1 main in u retirement iu wliicli 1 hivo many nii- hi te duties to perform, and inany sources of con- f'1 Jtmciit to cuitivato. I think it due to candor, *') wcver, to declare that ldiave no desire to serve I'1 y n 1 tlio remaining term of the late incumbent. 1,1 ihould go into the representation of the State un- f? r a belief that ttie issue must c<>mo u;> within the xl three years, whether th? South can,Consistent- ('i with her interests und honor, remain in the u ion. al This question being pacifically so!ve<l, 1 would on seek n retirement so well suited to my own '1 olmauoiis, penetrnied witli a deep ninl incxprcasi- ,r s feeling of gratitude to my native State, which al times past has lavished upon nio so many ul her iblio honors, and what isol fur more inappreciable lue, much of her public confidence. tl I belong to a past generation?to a confederation ' men who have passed from the strifes and connti< nx of this fit ul and feverish world to an im- " ortality of happiness. When I think of tlioso ,r m pan ions of my then comparative youth, and as- 'a eiates in a glorious struggle, "my heart grows uel as I write, and I could pour it out like water." ^ hope that I, the humblest of the throng, may be ^ rmitted to plnce a poor garland on tbeir graves. ^ toy rise unbidden to my memory in nl the strong " icr.mcntH of life. c' There stands Calhoun, in all the grandeur of his h niu* and the aolulity of his immovable integrity. w a.at inscription ot praise does tio need beyond the *teriinoe ??f his namef '' There stands llayne, in all the milJ radiance of ^ s character?with an ability <?f tin* highest po** - J" e compass, with all Ins truiisccndant powers tor } ivcrnment and a {ministration?pure, spotless, and "j iduunajc 1. ^ There stands MoDufHe, with It's robust intellect 0 id blent honesty, exerting powers if nnaly? s and gum ml which made liini one of the first dialect:- & ins of !i s time, and with a Koitian patriotism hloli hurtled even in the caverns of the tomb. There stands Turnhull, whose head was os gi- 'k intic as his heart was incorruptible?who, with C s lino Grecian face, disclosed the great qualities K the raeo front which he sprang?burning etithn- ' ism, intense genius, and uncouqucrublo courage. ? There stun Is Harper, a bright emanation of that a telligenoe which (hid conf.us on tho most gifted ^ his oieaturei?simple, artless, with a subjugated 11 It" lose. h Of the leaders of "tho Old Guifil," but tivo of '' ar?' left. Preston, and tho humble iudisidual b ho addresses you. l'reston, who having been ^ rely smitten my the hand of infirmity, survives, c lank God, in renovated !i ilth an I u? fulness. It is ?.u I hv a di-tiugu shed eonten?|sir.iry, that our T sie'iatioii i .itit i tied a gr.-at an 1 extr.tordinarv va: ? < : i dent?a p'.ioe tor every ni.iu. and every ^ ail su .ltd to h s place; an I tils' tiu country was * r. r In ttir pn pir. 1 tor revolution than Sunlit " ar oh.i i in the elK.'ieiiev of her pnbl.e agents. Prcs- fsi was empliatc' ilv ur orator, an I was the fir?l " :C.?r of his titn.\ The var egntod riuhne?a of his h a I'jin itioii?'.he purity of Ii - ta?tr-?h s power i f " githioiil, as if lie had ner? r cultivated au^ht liut ' to severe facility "I ratiocination?and over all ho n tog tho drapery ?>! a ino?t at tractive mod, sty. mid private oliar teter without r> proa h. An associa- 1 hi with such rni ti (how v-u humble my station,) a vch of whom was lilted for etop r-. i- a full mens- fl re of honor ? ilhoiit tny looking farther tor dist tic u >rt. If South C r-.i ii i is destined for another ' v.itut a.i, may she till i such sons ready lor her * rviee. 'I i shall say but little of the pros- i,t ci sis?of 'ho ' u'.y it will impose up ii our members to Congress ' -bc' llise it tllurlll lis rio ll*-lw.t .J > " ?'.It? ' 11 " electioneering lor an oilier, which, if it conies at 1 I, must com* with >ut solicitation; but I must be 1 ruiittcd to make oiio declaration. If aggression ' p. h ii't ccaw, revolution must fiw#?; but, for one, mu>t I).- permitted i i ihvl ir', give in the Con*ti- r itiort, an?I as its best coiniiK'iit try, tliu tfovernineut e ' tli- I nion for the tirst thirty yrnrt after it went ito operation, ?n I we are content. Too South Mi !?! I ask for nothing in ire, and take i c tloiij less, without, nnleo I, she is b<uely recreant p It is. If ninl In r |i isterity. | Tlu-rc is a sentence in Junius'' full of beauty ' 11 wis lom, adapted to the present crisis: "No x i asures arc hkely to be sustained with so much I 1 mints- as tli'isc which arecommenced in modern- r >n." Wc i .ve this tn i In ration to our allies in tlio i 1 roe Stat: *. Think of the earthquake shout of that } 1 i ij.>rity of twenty thousand freemen In tlio city of ll < v York at the !a?t autumnal election, who de- I l' .red that our iiiMtitutiwtia were not to be intruded, ' ' nl what we owe to their gallant lenders, who eon- i " n t< .1 the people t > such a victory! I have as en- j b re c iiiii lenee in the administration of Mr. liuelian- ) i as I have in h sspotless integrity ami fine talents, 11 devoted loyalty to the best interests of his conn- ^ j, hut stdl he an I Ins Cabinet may lie overruled 1 j id overrun by an incendiary horde bent on the I , mi of their country. Then tlio grert issue must nne up. We have no all. rnativc. The crisis is ( evitahle, and the catastrophe n<>t t>> be averted. I contributed to make one revolution?or, n? | arko tai l,in r. lation to the revolution in Kiigland of ' rp^. l,.i revolution prevented r.itlna-than made'"? , ' revolution, which, in despite of nil falsehood and i ^ Ise doutrinc, resulted in th<? establishment of the ' J K inng to the principles ?>l Free Trade. I trust | i ^ n not t s> old to contribute to the making ol aimer < jually cert .in, an 1 I >r more glorious in its ro i ill?the emancipation of tlie South from the most. lions and diie.stjbloot all tyrannies, the despotism a base and hy|?icr:tioal Inn itic sin; but I say of' ^ e Constitution an I the Union, as they came from I j e hands o| th? ir tram, rs, rslo perpetua. I have the honor to remain, v. ry respectfully, iurobedient servant, .1. HAMILTON. ' Klallion, S. C., Oct. 3, 1S37. A Frenchman xvlio was exhibiting some ! a lies and other curiosities, produced among (l Iter things a sword, which he assured his ' .-iton \v;w Mo sword Balaam had when i ^ ) would kill do ass.' A spectator remark ? [ that Balaam had no sword, hut onlv 1 idiod for one. *Ver well, dis is do ono ho I' iabed for.' 1 * A genuine "Yankee gal" ndvorlHos Ijcr- j If as follows: "Am *J8 years of age; nei-1 ,v or handsome nor a Singing angel,' but n idorstand tho most of the pudding slice, | ? in in no hurry about marrying; hut think t( should like to find my partner as soon as :v irty-one." 9< Tho young lady who hurst into toars, has 11 en put together ngain, and is now wear- '' g hoops to prevent a recurrence of the '' cident. Nonsense?senso that happens to differ o >m our own. ? r A straight line is the shortest in morals tl well as in geometry. It is said that 'pillars' of liherfy arostutT- 1,1 w ith tho feathers of the Americas Kagle^ f c? J?. fc** THB SOT-BUtf U JKDU. Tbs Rsr. Mr. Il*y, th* imtriin mWoanry India who escaped from Allahabad, and who ?u iloJ lor Now York iu (he Arego, had furnished e English government with the folow'ny vary inr re ting account of the rie# of the ma tiny, It will i aeon tliut Mr liny does n A regard the aoodi>n of British affaire very hopefully: 1 Mr. Hay is decidedly of (he opinion that Delhi ill not l>e taken before November or December. 0 bus visited Delhi. The foit is built after the itive fashion. Heavy guns would soon better ] iwii its walls. Unfortunately, the guns sent to ittcr them down were captured by the rebels at I liillour. When Mr. Iluy left Allahabad the Kng1i troops before Delhi were scarcely able to bold . eir own; although beating the mutineers in every tack, tliey liad slightly receded from their origi- . il position. It takes nearly fifty days for troops to J ,-t to Delhi from Calcutta. Mr. lfay was sevenen days getting 11 the latter place from Allnhaid. He got down in Caloutti in a steamboat, fhile he wns on the voyage Sir Norman Ixelie 4 id other oliicers Were nnt-oajred near Diuapore by jHiys belonging to the very regiments the mum- t y of which wiiH unm uuc -d on M< n lay by electric legrnph. The a-Ktmins of Sir Normun Leslie J cro caught, tio-1 up ra.n ih" hacks of elephants to galkiWi, and then s vuug off. The soldiers of ^ ieir own regimenti w< re made e.\o. utioucr*, and was boasted :it the tmio that one of the us-assies , as hung by h -i o.vn f> her, iu order to s! o r the lynltv of tho regiments. . Mr. Hay says that mn iy ill East Indians foreId that throe troops w >uld ultima'aly mutiny, nnd at there could be no doubt they synip thized witli ic as-assius of Leslie und bin brother officers, heir turning executioners, and u father hanging ' s own son, were only a blind. They were baling ieir time. Mr. Hpy fh'i.kv tho ii#.vh of the mutj- ] y at Diuapore is bad news, b -eiiune it shows that io communications b- twecn Calcutta ami Dcllu ] ay be intn ruptcd. There is one thing, however, 1 be cons'dercd: the mutineers have no guns in le neighborhood, and tlicy have a very wholcvumrcad of the stemners j a-s tig between Calcutta and ll.ihnba I, all ol wbicli carry guns. He thinks, so, tbat the telegraph despatch on Monday did not iiittin good ncHs gem r illv from India, ft can ftrdly be said that Central India is tranqailit"d; it ius?i do only small portions ??r it. The mutinies r Dinapore and the linmbai/ presidency are otn 1 ituts (J evil. He wna twenty days iu Calcutta 1 .fore lie left for Kuglanl. 1 taring that time lore had been two or three panics there, and per- i ns living in the outskirts li.id taken refuge in the i t and mi board the sh'p?. Confidence, Ihiwever, ;?* rettored when he loft, owing eh ctly to 1,700 oops front China that were landed from the llimaya. It was at ono time fully expected that the native 1 Inhan.mednn servants would teb?*l in Calontta lumbers had been saying to the Kureprnti cliil ren of whom they hud charge that nil the Ii<>um> i Cnleutta would soon Wong to ths native*. A I onverted lir.ilimin in Calcutta hud been accosted y natives who did not know of his conversion, and i its told that there would In- a general ruing in Islcuttfl, and that tho troops would be nss'Mrd by to native servants in driv'ng out the linglisli. ibout .1,000 fresh troops h id arrived, and been lit up the eoantry since the mutiny broke out. 'hoy got up by steamers ns fur n* Allalutbnd, which situated at the juuct'on of the Jumna and the Ijnges. Mr. Hay, a* lie was proceeding to Caluttn, met (Jen. llave'ock and his forces going up ie country. He considers that Agra must la illen by litis time, unless relieved Mr. liny thinks the issuing of the cren>ed cartulgts !:n* been a great mistake. The intelligent adi rs of the mutineers wed tndertlon) that tin reused cartridge* were withdrawn, and that the overnment explanations were sat sfactory; but thv htenitc natives never were convinced that the utr.igo on their religion was discontinued. It wh? Iso an error to sentence the 8l> high-easto men at leerut to live yiarti' imprisonment for refusing to so the cartridges They were all natwe gentlemen elong tig to s cavalry regimint. The sepoys would uvo griased the cartridges themselves, and u-e-1 beep's tat, a mutt rial wliicli scarcely a Mi ban m an or Hindoo would have tcru|!ed to use. Tin olor of the piper of the cartridge* being d fTert-nt umthct wl ioh had hitherto been ua?d and the picr being greasy, excited smpieion and nlnrm Mr. I lav sa d that tl.c I'.rit si; govcrmrnt should iavo *1 col it e l itredf a Christ an government. It liould not have persecuted the natives in ord?-r to \ aake them Chr sli tns, hut it sboul.l hnve m l i|> d ice against cast'* as nitteh nSn.n nst wi iiw burn rtg. The governno nt relied up n ke- t.ing alive the jnornnt prejnd c- of Hindoo* and M l.arn nt dan*, nd preserving its nuthorily by b.i inetng raee gainst race and religion against reh. n. ami the iiutiny shows that its scheme lis* ??j?nally faded. The nii*?iotinry schools wer l\\ ice as rrowded ns Li- government schools. In the forrrnr the lliblc iii Catechism were t?ught,aiid dtt sdwnli ttw i <-n el nuil enM with prayer. I'Vmu the I.iter, int v ry rea Btlv, the It ble una excluded. The v 'an m l the Sha*-t> r w:ii in the govrtnn'.eat chool-; but no pro'euaor was al'owrtl, even if r?|U--*tcd, t > extduiti anything with r< fercn.'e t?? the lible, not even a* a historical Imnk. Neatly it'l tlvc uitivc professors ami pradu tea ol the government mivcrsitie* mid schools are atheist*. Their cdacn ion caused them to disbelcvo Paganism, an<l they vera nut encouraged to bcl eve in Christianity. Ma r ty of them are implicated in '.he present revolt ' S?>me extraordinary disclosures have yet U> be irnle public ?n this matter. Names are mention d in Cu'outt t of p-rsotts who it i* expected will yet c >o cotnproni s?d. It is expected that Sir Cohn I1 Campbell will proceed up to Allahabad, or i"ni( 1 lentral place, where h?? can best Auperinteod the " hxp'wal of troop# where they are wtuitcd. There \ ire now about 31,000 Enrupcan troops up in the ' l<irthwent province*. The Sikhs, Mr. I lay believe*. 1 rill b faithful; at has: they have no -ympathy with 1 he Mohammedans and Hindoo*. 'lite missions ' ea who were kilted ill l>elhi were Kuglish Church c n ssiouaries. Mr. Hay believe* that four of Ins bro- * her American missionaries, with their families, 1 lear friends of bis, au I with whom he correspond- ? d, were roaaracfel at Kallygltar. It is possible hat some tnen who arc now missing may turn up gain, hut no woman could live in the jungle in con- ' e'juence of the intense h at at this time of the 1 ear. Money Matters in Columbia.?The only cf- ? l'ct of the money panic at the North on our banks t a-rc, so far, is the following: An Irishman from i ho lower part of the district, who heard of bank* ? ol ng hi Philadelphia, came up on the morning run. and hurt.cd to one of our hanks, where he 1 Irew his deposit, ceu^isti p of ?1(K>. Soon after ' avmg the bank, ho showed the bundle of bills to I friend, and e.xu'tingly said, "lie jr.bers, I'm all ? igbt now. I've got niy money safe, nnd intend to i ccp it locked op in my ebist, until things gits i ir.tight again. Me rctnrned by the crrntng train, villi the bills all safe. This is tho only run upon i ur banks that has ocourol.? South Carolinian. Tub Irishman's I>bkinitio* ov tub i iVoui> MvsrBttv.? Chancing along where n * lumber of lite Emerald l*lo natives were ^ tssembled, 1 happened to hear tho follow- f ng tlislogue: 1 "I say, Murphy! what's ibe meaning of n nyslerv? Faith, I was ruling tho paper, 'J nil it said 'twas a mystery how it was ' lone!" ' a "Well," said Murphy, "Vat, I'll teach ye. t o see. when I lived with me father, a little 01 ossoon, they give a parlhy, and me mo- ll lior wint to market to \>y somethin' for the j, aithv to ate, and among a lot of things w lie hot a half a barrel of pork, ye seo. Veil, sho put it in the cellar, bless her sow I, ir safe kaping, till the parlhy come on, do f e seel Well, whin the parthy come on j le mother sint me down cellar to git some f the pork, do ye see; well, I went down > the barrel and opened it, and fished bout, but divil a bit of pork could I find; ) I looked around about the barrel to sec w dicro tho pork was, and found a rat hole i the bottom of the barrel, where the pork ad all run out and left the brine standing, * o ye see." ni "Houldon Murphy! hold on! wait a bit; ow toll mo how could nil the pork git out v the barrel and lavo the brine standin'!" "Well, Pat," said Murphy, "that's what d like to know myself, do ye see; there's io mystery." Chcxks, Jr. Stuff your pockets with mackerel and _ nagino yours'jlf a whale, and you are a ? opeful member of the codfish aristocracy! I Y $ >? l4 IS1H t5 J* 1 . \ Br. in rERStIFU6$ i LivEiipa.ua. I Sr?ofifc* B?* yi?Ki>l>>>lJf- *' They are notrecom- | nendcd as Universal a Cure-alls, but ivhat their name fWrjfjF ports. < * ?| The Vermifuge, for j * expelling Worms from the human system, lias K | also been administered ?5 < with the most satisfactory I,, \ results to various animals | subject to Worms. '/Si* The Liver Pills, for the cure of Liver Complaint, all Bilious Drrangements, SlCK HEADache, scc. * m Purchasers will please J be particular to ask for I Dr. C. McLane's Cele- J brated Vermifuge and I Liver Pills, prepared bjr 1 I bole proprietors, Pitts- jp I burgh, Pa., and take no other, as there are various other preparations now before the public, purporting to be Vermifuge and Liver Pills. All 1 others, in comparison with Dr. McLane's, are worthless. The genuine McLane's Vermifuge and Liver Pills can now be had at ^ all respectable Drug Stores. FLEMING- BRO S, 60 Wood St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Sole Proprietor* SCOVIIj ife MEAI>, Orh?t?*, General VhoMllt Ac?mi? f<>r the S<?nth, to wht'Pi kU #rk-ts wu*t be HtirlrewtHi. Sf?li) by KISIIEtt.t II KIN ITS! I Snnr?:..t?.? K.. <* DEAN * GoODQION, " " A. TOLI.ESON, " " " K. KRUTCH, Greenville, " 44 KEEN AN tc NOUR18, Cnionville, 44 44 .JOHN II. 1IKNUY. Lnimnsvillc, 44 44 W. F. PR ATT <fc CO., New berry, u * ? * Ij. 1'. HARNETT * CO.; Yoikville, S. C. N J. \V. HARRIS & CO., Rutheifordton, N. C. Mny 7 U _ ly Rogors* Liverworth & Tar ik tue com1m.kte ci" he ok colour, coi.dfc, influenza, asthma, bronchitis, spitting of blood, a all other li*no comi'l a int8 tending to conscmi'tion. * 8 ^ ^ ^ ^ This prejviration i* getting into use all over on ountry. The nunicroun letters we receive from >ur vnrionn amenta, informing us of cure* effected n their immediate neighborhood*, warrant u? in vying it is one of the beat, if Lot the very best Nmgh Medicine now before the public. It almas neariably relieres,and not unfrequently curss the ery worst cases. When all other Cottgh prepare* inn* have Jailed, thia has relievi-d the |>atirnt, a* ruguii't*, dealer* in Medicinra, and 1'bysicisns, an testify. Ask the Agent in your nearest town, vhat has been hi* experience el tlie eftvetsot thia nedicine. Ii he h.va been selling it for any length >f lime he will tell yon IT 13 TIIE BEST MEDICINE EYTANT. Below we give a few extracts fr<ni letters wa i.vve received lately regarding tb? virtues of thia nedicine. Dr. 3. 3. Oslin, of Knox ville,Ga , rays 1 hars ieen using your Liverwort and Tar very externlively in my practice for three years past, and. t is with pleasure t state my belief in its sera, tioairv ovr.a all othkk artici.ra with which I im actj'imutcd, for which it to recommendedV Messrs. Fitagernhl & Benoer*. writing from A'ayniavillo, N.l.'. nay: "The Liverwort and Tar is becoming daily more popular in this Counry, and wi tiiink ji mtlt po. All who hars tried t speak m commendable lerme of it, and say it s very beneficial iu alleviating the cotnjdainlsfar ehich it is recommended." _ Messrs. Fitzgerald ?fc Bcuncr*, writing from A'ajniviillf, N. C., say: The Liverwort and Tar is becoming daily more popular in this Conn ry, ano wk think jistlv so. All who have ried it speak in commendable terms of it, and ay it is very beneficial in alleviating tht ram* 'Imiifs for which it is recommended Our Agent in Pickens Distrrot. 8. C., Mr. 8. i. McKnll, ?hjui*v* us "Hint he uses it with great ? cnefit in hi.vown family, and recommends it to his eighbors." He gives an instance of ft Negro warm, in his vicinity, who had b?n puttering with ifit nafl ftf ill** I nn/ro f-"?J J * * .... !? "l lIllCIMiea Willi Mt ere coujjh, who wne relieved by the Liverwe? nd Tnr. Such r.ro the good report* we hear of this Midi iue trom all part* ?f the South. For a report ef to uipiwing cnree it has performed in the Weet ru and Northern and l ot. ru Suites, we woeld ivitc tho Buffering patient to rend the pempklet hieh accompanies each bottle. To all we eejr? ore Aope, hare hope' TRY THE MEDICINE!! IE \V4 It IGDII S K A SOW. ieware of Counterfeits ami T3&M initiation* J Tho crrnuino an el.? ? \ ?? ^ ? ?? 41 n ?? % > w (\ WIKB the engraved wrapper around each bolt)*. Price SI per bottle, or six bottle* for S6. ?di h< Icutluund retail by SCOVI1. A MKAD. tl 1 1 Charter* St., bet. Conti and 8l. Ia<ui*, N. O. * Sole Aot nth for thk Soi'thkrn Statm, t* hom all order* and application* for Ag*e<lcr Hist llO addrt vat'd. SOLD ALSO BY FISHRR A HKINITSH, Spartanburg, Sc. Oh. DRAN A GOOIHMON, u " m \V. 11. WATSON, OreenriUe 41 W K KRUTCH, H K BN N( )N A NORRIS, UnionrH!*. 44 S R. 11KNRY, Uurenaeill* ? C. Is. HARRIS, A OO , RutbcHordton, W.O April 24 ft Si JoV> Printin? PROMPTLY RXWHTTBD. .