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Riscellaaeous. From th Charleston Mercury, April 29. OUa CTy.-Anniversart-of the Great Fire.-The number of stores. dwellings, &c. excluding back buildings. destroyed by the great fire was a little over 500. Of these it must be remembered the far great er part were wood and old, and many of them comparatively valueless. Since the fire there have been rebuilt(including aliout 40 now in progress) nearly 180 huildiigs. all o, brick, excluding, as before, kitchens &c. which in Southern cities are a neces aary adjunct to every habit-ition. A mong these should -be noticed 3 Churches. (all restored in a style far superior to those destroyed,) and the CharlestoU Hotel re built on the former plan. King street is. we think, fully half rebuilt, and probahly the value of the buildings there is greater than that of all which were destroyed im that street. Meeting street is rapiily ris ing from its ruins, and bids fair to go ahead of its neighbor in banishing the last e mains of the conflagration. We confident ly anticipate that these two important treets, with those that connect them, will in the course of another year be complete ly restored. In that consummination Charle" ton will have, in a great measure, forgot ten the great fire. That part of the city between Meeting street and the Bay, will no doubt wait on the more central and valuable district, and will wear some me morials of the conflagration for years to come. But even here,there are now abun dant evidences of enterprize. Many fine bnildings have been erected in Society-street, several in Hasel, a fiqe block on the Bay. and Market street is chewing signs of life- In almost every case too, the new buildings are a great improvement on the old, h hich is to be attributed to the brick law, the blessings of which will be both great and lasting. As instances of this improvemet. cott - pare the massive and imposing block at the corner of King and Society streets: the tasteful row opposite to it. Maj.Black's buildings near Market street, and many that might be pointed out on both King and Meeting streets, with those which we have replaced. and what a change for the better! We should also notice, as an im provement likely to add much to the beau ty of Churleston, the taste for granie fronts, the credit of iniroduciug which, is we believe due to Mr. Boyce, in the con struction of the noble tange known a., the Pearl-street Row. This range, con sists of 20 wholesale stores . though it comes not strictly within the limits of our loresent object, yet should be mentioned as an entire addition to the business accom todations of Charleston, no part of it be ing finished at the time of the fire, and much the greater part having been built since. We make no comment now on the statements we have exhibited above-they have a language of their own that is bet - ter than rhetoric, and will give the world fairly to-understand, that the progress of Gharleston is onward! From the Charleston Mercury April 29. THE COTTON TRADE. A FAcT,-The Steamer Sam Jones ar rived last week with a freight of 700 bales of Cotton, from Macon. Georgia, at $2 per bale f&eigbt, and has returned or will return with a return cargo of $150,00ti worth of goods for the country trade. This is one of a number of facts which might be stated, shewing the advantages we have for concentrating a controlling share of the Cotton trade; a little exertion only need be atdded, and a smnall outlay of capital, in aid of the natural facilities to -ensure such a concentratitin in a few mouths. Not at all interfering W~th our great Rail.Road to the West. the openinic a communicationl with the cismbnt ane re gions of the South and South West, will in fact secure the stability of that road, which must profit chiefly as a travel road. and the travehltvill of course increase to wards that point where capital and trade shall most accumulate. The plying of the now boat Savannah, outside passage, between Savannah and this port, is ano ther step in promoting the desired result. Cententary of Methodim.- A General sneting of the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in this city, was held in the Light street Church, on Monday evening; the object more especially in view, was to take the inittatory steps for joining with the Chmur'h in Europe, in commemorating, in a suitahle manner, the completion of the first century, since the -foundation of the Methodist Church,whuich will take place in October next. " A .thank offering" made during the meeting, according to an appr-oved custom of the Church, in aid of the various charities anid benevolent instituginna on the occasion, is said ta have amounted to nearly seven teen thoutsand dollars. A cheering exam of well directed liberality.-Birtimcre *The-fbieriff and Clerk of the Court of Monroe county 31ississippi, have both re signed their oflices. The object seems to bave been to prevent the sitting of the -Court and thereby to prolong the time of broeuring judgeiments upon .cases which bad been placed .in suit. The el'et will bedso give those, .in-debt, a few months of grace, but the preedent was undoubtedly a very had one. -Every thing which has a tendency to impede the progress of the law, or to place barriers in the way of its execution, should be frowned down by the community,' and more -especially when. tbfe attempt is made by ihose whose duty~ it siffsid be to see that the laws are faith faily esiised.-Alabama Jour. Tl~e Columbu's(nq. of the 24 ult. says: - e undeistand froin a-friebd just frotu Hleard County, that the Court Monte and Clerk'sofflice, -with all the papers of-.any inioktance -in both, were consumed" :by -ire -on -Wednesday: of- last week. ' The .Superior Court had been in session, atfd several eases of importance were to he tried on the succeeding day. The fire wias th'e work of an incendiary. -- The St. Louis Bulletin states, that the trial, of the buit of the United States vs. Gen Gratiot, commenced on the 10th inst. in theCU. B. Circuit Court, now sitting in that3 eity. From the Boston Daily Ad:crtiscr Extract of a lener wtitten liy La Fay ette, in the year 1808, after the death of his wife, to M. Lacour laubourg, trans lated from oie of the last volumes of the Memoirs of La Fayeue, lately published in France. "During thirty-four years of a union in which her tenderness, her gooduess. her elevation, her delcacy. the generosity of her soul. charmed, emibellished, lid honor to mly life, I % as 4io aecustoined to all that slie was to me, that I did not iisinguish her from my own existence. She was tourteen years old, and I was sixeen when her heart amalgaiaed itelf with all that could interest ie. I thought I loved her, that I could not do withoit her, but it was onv when I had lots her that I was able to discover what remains to use, for the clase of a lilf which had been so di versified, and for which nevertheless there remains no longer either happiness or even content. Thongh she was aitached to mie, I may say so by the most passion ate sentiment, I never perceived in her the lighest shade of atthoritativenae5t, (d'exigence) of disccinte, never any a hang n hich (lid not leave rie entire freelom in all my underrakings. Aid if I go back to the slays of our outh, I find in her, traits of an unexam pied delicacy and gen - erosity. You sawi her, always associated heart and soul, in all my sentients, iiy political wikhes, enjoying every thimg which iightconfer hotnor on mne, still more, as she would say, what made me to he wh.dly known, and more than all glo rying in those occasions when she saw me sacrifice glory to a sentimetit of goidness. Her aunt. Madame Tesse, s.aid to ce yes terday, "I never coolt have imagined that ote could he such a ftnatic for your opmn ions. and vet so free froi party spirit." Indeed her attachmuent to our- doctrines never fora moment abated ter indulgetce, her compassion, her good % ill for persons of another party. She cnever was soured by the violent hatred of v his-lb I was the ohj, c: the ill treatment and injairious con ,it t. iowurd me, were regarded bay her as tillies indifferet to her, from the point from which ,he looked at themn, and where her good olinion chose to place sae. lers was a nmost etire devotion. I emay say that during tlc:rty four years. I never sulli-redi for a itnent the shadslow of a restraini, ahat all her habits were. without affectaitarion,.,torditate to my con venence. that I had the satisfaction to see my insst sceptical friends as constantly received, is; well as beloved. as mtuch es teemed. and their virtues as completely acknowledyed, its if there had been tn dll'erence of religious opinionis, that she never expressed any other senaiment han that of hope. that in continuin: to reflect with the uprightness of heart which she knew belonged to ame. I should fimally he cionvinced. It wits with inis teellng she lelt eae her last regards, beggaiis me to s cd for the love of her, some sooks.which I shall certainly examtinse aaain with ncew interest, antid callit-g her religion, to make me love it better, perfect free-dom. Site often expressed to me the thoughc thatshe should go to Heaven, and dare I add that this idea was not snaficient to reconcile her to quitting me; "Life is short.full of trouble may we meet again in (.od. May we pass oternity Iogether." She wishel mete, se wished us all the peace of the Lord. Sometimes she -as heard praying in her Ied. On her last niiht, th-re was something celestial in the manner in which she recited twice in succession,witli a firmt voice, a passage of Scriptnre alp plicable to her situation, the same passage which s.e recited to her d ...aghteac per ceivmrg the bpir.es of 0lmtacz. Shaell I spaeak to you cit the pleaare, ever' ressew ed, whatch an enstire confientce in her aave mte, which was never exacted, which was received at the endc of three moanths as at the tirsc day, whiceh was jtastilled by a dis cretion prooi~ agaisa all thinsgs, bsy an ad unrable undlerstandting of all rs:y feelings, may wants, arnd the wishes of ray heart. All this was msingledr with a sentimenrt sea ender, and eapinion so exalted, a worship, if I dared so to speak, ss sweet tand ilac tering, more especially gratifying, ias cotm ing fromt thse tmost perfectly natural and siacere verson who ever lived. improvement in the Lightning Rod. Dr. .Josepha S. hiarber has jst r'eeived sa penscoon fhr the impalrovemtenit he hats lately masde ini thte lighinag rod; or rather for the tnventieon of a substituaie for the present mosade of condluctisag electricity. TIhe in strumtemi oh D)r. Basrber has tno rod to coan duct the electricity to the earth. It is so conduceued thiat wiaile it receives a charge oelectricity, it at the satme tme scatters it ins the air. This instumenit is peculiar ly adapted to pirotect churchtes, aind nal buildinags with domses. Th'le expense of prtectsng a building with this instrumuent will cot exceed two thirds thse expense sof the roed. Dr. B. will soon be ready to or fer his services to those who wish to have their buildings protected ini a cheap and safe way from so powerful tan agent. Gloucester Tel. The following is copied Ifrom a slip of the Norfolk Hlerald, dated "April 27-4 P. M."a Fatal Dul-A meeting toosk place on Friday last, in Nearfolk county, near the North Carolina line. betweeni J. Setawell Jones, Esq. of North-Carolina, and H. Wright Wilsoen, Esq of New-York, to set tle by the b-arburous appeal. to the duel. -a point of' honor, which had originited bd sween them a short cimne before, at Peters burg.. They fought wriih iltols, at six paces.: At~the~ftrstfirc,>Me: Wilson was sho through the hady arid dliedron the sphot. His ball gr'azed-hcs adversairy's temaple.- I This fatnl .veht- ikthe more to be lameni red from-the circumstance that the parties had long known and steemed each oither, and uip to the moment of their feud hadl reciprocated the most friendly and respeect rul sentitments-Thtis. is evidenced by the, survivoar, in the bitter agony of his feelings mdhe avowal fif his high appreciation of the worth and chsaracter of the deceased.< The. New York Correspondent of the Natinal [ntelligencer, under date of the .. 5th nIt. says: The-Cost of Gov. Fairfield's -movementJ ineMaine is estimatea t'fromn $700,000O toi 81,000,000.- He isitnbout to call on the t edralm Cnvcrnmernfoj pa. From the mcw York Journal of Commerce. STEAM SrIPs .oF War.-While our lovernmnent, by their commissioners, are -ugaged in devising plans for the best con truction of steam ships of war, three of vhich are directed to be built, the follow ig extract, which me have been allowed :o mako from a letter of Junius Smith, Esq.. now of England, to his friend in Ihis city, will, we trust, be both accepta ile and useful. Mr. Smith is well known 1ts on of the principal authors of the late succes-ful enterprise of Atlantic steam nauvigation. Ctn LosoN. March 11, 18-39. "I wend you by this opportunity the de bates in Parliament upon the navy esti Mates. Yonr attention will he directed more particulatrly to Mr. Charles W dxxi's sieceh, because, as decretary of the Ad mirality, he speaks otlicially. -You will notice that the present En elish stetam navv, exclusive of steam pack - ets, cotsists of 36 vessels, from 140 to 300 horse power. In 1639, eight are to be built. You will notice that these ships not only increase numerically but in size also, n'Ihring evidence most conclusive of the gradual pwep of daylight ut pon the de partnments of Government. I cannot say whether the Government of the United States will ioillow thisexample but I know they ought. Next to the iault of hav in:: no stearn ships of war at all is that of huitlinig little cockbonts, and depending upon their number to master steam ships of 5 or 600 horse power. and capahle of carrying a proportionably large arma ment. If I do not over-estimate the sa guicity of my countrymen, they will not hie dhetoved into a false position, but they will show their superio)rily in the superior itv of their ships. It is better and safer too .to have fewer in number dad greater in force than less in force, and greater t number." NEw ORLEANs, April 29. Three days later from Vera Cruz.- By the arri% al of the schooner Carter Baxton from Ve-ra Cruz, which place she left on the 17th inst. we have recetved iutelt ence, that General Mejia, within 15 leagues of the city, [and not 15 miles as we were nt first informed.) Reports had reached Vera Cruez on the 17th inst. that the dony of Gen. M. was caused by the non-arrivat ofrsome of the vessels which lie trd chartered to bring his artillery.&c. The arrivalof the schooner Andrew Jack sotn at Mobile accounts in part for his in a-tivitv. All ihe French and English vessels of war had sailed from Vera Cruz, except inc five French and tw)i English. The U. S.sloops of war Vtndalia atd Ontario sailed on the 10th inst. for Laguna; U. S. revenue cutter Woodbury was to sail for Tampico on the l3th. Business wats at a stand, great conrfsio prevailed a monsg the peoplet prep ratiotis were ma king to defend the cit%, and the attack froiu, Gen. Mejia was hotrly expected. No-a Scotia.-The Woodstock Times stat.s that "tur companiies .)f the 69th rekiment oh Regular Troops were in gar ris.n there, and one at the Grand Falls, with a detachment at the mouth of the Restook. The rest of the regiment is at St. John. Maj. Brooks, of the 69th. has assunied the commsand in the county or Cicrletto. The liast of the 36th regimeni has left there ibr Frederickton. The St John Royal Gazette states that a consid erable lorce i6 stationed at the mouth of the Restook, for the purpose of protecting the boom which is placed across its mouth The ofli'!er in comttmand is instrtteted to seize all the timber cut on the disputed territory, which may bec attempted to be panedI ito the St John. The watrden ohf1th0 (isputedl territory has also) receivedh tthtority to etmploy a suflicient civil fore to tmake seizure of all the tituber cut upon St. John. LATS- AND IMPORTANT FROM PERU -- Letters from Callao to Feb. 1st. (says the New York Journial of Commerce of the 29th uIt ) brought by the supercargo of the brig Ocean, which arrived at Mazathan, (Mexico,) 20th March, bring intelligence hat a battle had been fottght near Lima, et ween the Chilian and Perttvian armies, each Gut00 strong, resutltitng in thte loss ohf 1500 killed and wouttded on each side, and te dlefeat of thte Peruvians under Sntn Cruz. The Castles-of Callao stilt held out for S:tnta Crutz. The Peruvians had is~tned letters of mnarquie. b'ut all the errisers thtey had sent Out, had becen taken by the Ciiians. S NEW OLENa:Ss, A pril 27. From Matazmoras.-A traveller arrived in lton..ron, brings late informatiotn from M~imoras as to the movements of the Ftderaists. Their forces before the city were daily expecting the arrivatl of Gen. D~mus fromt Monterey, with a larce body f fresh troops. It was supposed that im nediaely after their arrival an attack wuld be made on the city. The Federal Ioldiets were in excellent spirits, and sighy elatedl with the prospects of success. I'he news from the interior was of the most cheering kind. The cause of the Federaists wa~s gaining ground rapidly n all the northern provinces. Z~ra& C'olburn.-We learn from the Vt. Watchman the death of Ze'rahi Colbutrn, in he 35th year of his age. He was distin tuisded, whoen a chiltd, for the most remark shle power of artthmetical calculation, of iy person of whom there is any account 'Itant. He was-born in Vt. & at an early ge.he visited tbis city, and guhsequently nany parts of tbis country and of Europe. le ret urned to this country and to his na ive State, after an absence of twelve rears. On attaining to mature age, it is tderstood that he lost his peculiar talent, ,et was possessed of respectable abilities intl acquirements. After retttrnimg to lermont. he became a clergymnit tof the dethodist Episcopal Church, and recent y a professor in the literary institution at orwich, in which het remaitted until his eth.-Boton Daily A4dv. The Bangor Whig of A pril 19th, says: -"A getntlematn who went on to Wash aton last week, with despatches from Sir oht H arvey arrived here in the Bangor 'esterday oA - is ret urtn. with despatchies rotght by thin Grceat Western for Gov ae Hnrey." EDGEFiEL1 U. L. TuuILSDAY. MAY 9, 1839. The May Festival at Edgefidd C. H. We have prepared an account of the cel ebration of this Festival, which we will publish shortly. In the mean time, we recommend patience to all concerned. Remarks of the Hon. E.Moore.-Accor ding to promise we commence publishing the remarks of this gentleman, on the sub ject of abolition. We deem it unnecessa ry to make any apology for their great leogth, as they are worthy of all commen dation, and the subject is of high impor to the South. The news from England (says the Charleston Mercury.) comes so void of all details, that there is only occasion for a single remark. The action of Congress seemi to have been anticipated by the English politicians, without giving occa sion to any fears that it would add to the causes for-war. The danger of war, there fore, from excitement, may be considered as passed. The West Indies.-The Jamaica Cour ier gives a gloomy picture of the appren ticeship system in the Parish of Trelawny. The price of labor there has greatly risen; the number -of laborers has diminished, and the amount of labor performed by each negro is less than it was previous to tho act of emancipation. These are the bitter fruits of abolition in one of the finest islands in the world ! Business in New York. A now impetus has been given to trarte ih this Cit. It appears, from several accounts which we have seen, that business is flourishing to a greater extent than ever in New York. Mezrico.-The Castle of San Juan de Ullna was delivered up by the French to the Mexicans, on the 8th uIt. The troops of Vice Admiral Bandin evacuated Vera Cruz on the 7th alt. and the Mexican flag was then raised aloft. A Now Oleans paper of the 27th ult. gives an account of the installation of San ta Anna in the Presidential Chair, and of the raising of half a million of dollars from the clergy.to carry on the war against the Federalists. The cause of the Fed eralists, (the anti-government party,) at Ihe latest date, was gaining ground rapidly in all the northern provinces. Rcbbery of the Bank of the Metropolis at Washington City.-The Globe says that Mr. Dennis G. Orme, a Teller in the Bank of the Metropolis, very respectably connected, and having a handsome patri mtny, recently took 350,000 from the Bank. Upon investiention, he confessed that he had handed it over to a Mr. A.W. Goodrich, a Clerk in the War Depart ment. Mr. Goodrich was arrested and stated that he had received it for safe keep ing, as Mr.Orme wvas drinking and crazy, at the timne he saw him with the money. Two or three witnesses~in a great degree, corroborated the statement of Mr. G. Hoth Mr.. Orme and Mr. Goodrich were then discharged. The latter, however,I was afterwards required to give hail in theI sum of $2000, for his app~earance at the next Criminat Court for the County of Washington. The whole amount of mo ney was returned by Mr. G. except 8200. At the latest date, Mr. Orme had not been re- arrested. The political game of Ches.-We find under the head of "Varieties," in the Journal of Belles Lettres, the following: " The Argus says that Lord Melboutrne is about to publish a new work on Chess, in which is fully exemplified the best method of playitng the Queen; of getting posses 'ion of the Castle, and of entirely disre garding the old system with regard to the utility and service of the Bishops." Chess players will ttnderst and this. Those who have read any thing about the present po litical condition of Great Britain, will also understand it. They know that the Bish ops of the E~nglish High Chureh, are in bad odor with a large portion of the peo ple, who do not believe "in their utility and servtce." The VicePresidenc.-T he Louisianian strongly advocates the claims of Mr. For syth, to the V. Presidency. In the event of the resignation, r non-electi'on of Col. Rt. M. Johnson, the present imecntboni,to the office, at the next term, the editor of that paper recommends the Secretary of State, to the support of the Democratic party. The editnr speaks very highly of the gallant old Colonel, hut evidently wish es him to retire, and give place to the ac complished Georgiamn. He greatly lauds the cotmmanding talents of Mr. Forsyth, and says that he "has discharged the func tions of every species of employmeat un der the Govern ment-legislat ive, judicial, diplomatic and oxecutive. In each and all of these -varidus parts, he acquitted him self with honor." It seems plain to us, that a portion of the Van Buren party are anxious to rid themselves of the V. Presi dent. They wish him to retire. Ho ap pears "to hang as a mill- stone round their necks." We feel g-rateful to the al.-11. reteran for hia uilitary services, but we have always -thought that he was notjRn his right place. He neverfibedthe' chair of V.President. His election to his present high office, we never approved, for vari Dus reasons. Let him retire, and we will say in all sincerity, Requiescat in pace. An old Fable adapted to modern times. Two men who had a deadly hostility to each other, sailed in the same ship. One sat at the prow, the other guided the helm. A furious storm arose, and all on board were in despair. He whosat at the prow. was requested to give his assistance to prevent shipwreck. ..No!" said he, let the ship go dlown, for my enemy will perish with her!" It is recorded of Daniel Webster, that when a particular measure was under dis cussion in the Senate of the United States. that he remarked, "I would not vote for this bill, though the enemy were thunder ing at the walls of the Capitol !" l'erish the noble ship of State, since my enemy the President is at the helm, and will go down in her! What an awful commen tary upon the opposition of a portion of the Whig leaders! Yet this man, Daniel Webster, is called by his satellites, a Pa triot! AMOS KENDALL. Oh Amos Kendali!-Phoebus What a name, To fi the speaking trump of future fame! BRyoti. The whole country has rung with the name of this Prince of American Post. Masters. From the disputed territory in the State of Maine, to the remotest boun dary of Louisiana; from the islands on the coast of New York, to the distant set tlements of the Oregon, this name is sounded without the least cessation. If you go to the crowded commercial mart, it strikes upon your car. If you go to the sequestered village, you bear it still. If you ly to the rural districts of our coun try, the name meets you there. 'Tis Ken dall! Kendall, forever! All North Amer ic4 speaks of Kendall. A large portion of North America curses Kendall! All the Whig papers teem with abuse of Kendall. So do some Democratic papers. Editors revile him for his rude insolence, or inde pendence, we do not know which. Mail contractors curse him, because they can make no money in dealing with him. le is too sharp-sighted a Yankee for them. Does a paper from Washington, fail once in the year to come to a subscriber? He curses Kendall. Amos has kept it back! Do numhers of the Globe go in shoals from Washington to any post otlice? Ken dall sent them. He wishes to create a fa vorable impression for himselfand the Ad ministration. Does the stage, running to a remote village, break down, and half a dozen subscribers thereby fail to receive their papers for a few hours? Amos is the cause of it. He is the cause of all the detention and miscarriages of lettera -and papers over this extensive country! What ever is wron'g in the maiL arrangements, is attributed to him. The sins of 8000 piost masters,and of stage drivers innumerable, are chargeable to him! He bears on his hea-l, the iniquities of them all! The Whigs call on the President to dismiss Kendall. He twill nsot. The Conserva tives takes up the cry. The Presidlent hears them not. Whigs and Conservatives command, entreat, threaten, curse. Amos will not resign ! He is as firm as Mont Atlas. ''Thou hast seen him When storms and tempest. thunder round his brow, And oceans break their billows at his feet, He stands unmoved, and glories in his height." The enemies of Kendall assail him in vain. He holds on to office with the gripe of death! He woill not let go. He is not yet gorged. "'Non mismura euten tisi plena cruoris hirudo." The case of General Gratiot.-Thbe trial of this ':ase which commenced about the 12th uIt., at St. Louis, has been postponed until the next term of the United States Circuit Court. Circular of the Hon. James Graham, of North Caroina.-T he Hon. Mr. Grahain, Member of Congress, has writteh a Circu lar,to his -Constituents, '-the Freemen of Rutherford, Burke, Yancy,- Buncomibe, Henderson, Hay ward, Macon, and Chero: kee Counties, in N. Carolina." These Circulars are veryfashionable in N. Caro linea In that State,Members of Congress write them, we believe, every year, giving a general view of the policy of the Gov ernment, either favorably, or unfavorably, according to their own political notions Like his colleagues, Mr. Graham has given his views at length, on several important qtuestions. He commences his Circular by giving his constituents the follow ing neoul and highly interesting infor mation. "Fellow Citizens:-The 25th Congress expired on the.3d day of this month; andi with it, the term for wvhich I was elected your Representative in that body. Or dinarily, Congress holds its seasions but stee a year. .In the last two years, how ever, there hheq been three sessiens. You rememher ceitain experiments were made by the Government on the finances and turrency, in which I couldonot concur, lbe liev-ing it is always wisest and best to 'let well enough nane' Verily, thd- honorable gentlenanprep unimed'inuch upon th:e ignorance of: @6s eonstituentes as he ilought it necessary to inforn:them that .Cbngress usually held its isssions but onceayear. We think it probable that they were apprized of.this fact,before the appearance fttie'Circular. They were not so ignorant as their fli-nid Representative supposed they Irei. But Mr. Graham is a Whig, and like manyfof his brethren, he thinks that. the peopleare exceedingly ignorant of Government lif fairs, ana need much iastruction 'froin their intelligent Whig teachers. The Sub. Treasury is his abomination. He em ploys the following powerful arguments agaiust it. " The President in his sub-treaeury scheme, proposes to furnish relief to the Government, but none to the people. Now I think this partial, unequal, and unjust. The banks have all, or nearly all, again resumed specie payments; aud their notes are current, and constitute the chief cir culation of the business transactions of the country. The expenditures of the Gayr ernment have recently been between thir ty and forty millions of dollars a years-I Now, suppose forty millions of dollars in gold and silver he abstracted from the banks and the people, to pay and support the expenses of the Government, there is one half the coin in the country suddenly withdrawn from the trade and commerce of the people. This would be killing the goose that laid the goldeneggs.. It would inflict a fatal blow on credit and. confi deuce, which constitute the very spirit and soul of trade and commerce. Anoth er suspension of specie payments would follow, prices would quickly. fall; and the States and people would suf'er great em. barrassment and distress. The sub-trea sury proposes two kinds of currency-the better sort for the Government; and ther baser sort for the people; gold and silver for the President and office holders; bani bills and depreciated paper for the peope and tax payers. Now, I see no sort of equality in this proposition; but rank in-. justice. What! shall a partyof individuals 1 ho happen to be members of Congress, and dressed with a little liisf authoiitj, vote to feed themselves out of the public treasury with silver spoons out of golden dishes; while their constituents are'Aje d off and fed with horn spoons out of woodn irenchers? Surely, surely there can be no equal rights in this!" In his circular he speaks about defalca. tione, public lands, the expenditures'alid appropriations of the Government aboli-' tion, and other pnllie matters. Wei make the following "elegant extract" upon abo4. lition. "The subject of abolition frequently x cites otrong and angry feelings in Congress. It is a very delicate and dangeruis ques tion. and it requires much prudence and. vigilance to guard off the assaults and as sassinatiuns which those deluded fanatics and misguided philanthropisiawuld in fict upon the Union and thierighis of Southern institutions." Mark the classical beauty of- th x-.. pression, "the assaults and -hb-s-r-t0ss -which fanatics would insjict upon the Union!" The style. of the circular is unique. It comes -under no.-partiettlar* kind, of wh1ch writers on .rhetoric have' given an account. We would character ize it as the Homespun style. It is just such a style as suits the backwoods of N. Carolina. Commnications. SCIENTIFIC. Mr. Editor, - I read in a late No. of your paper, an article extracted from the Boston Mer cantile Journal. headed- "the New Art or' *the Pencil of Nature." -The French 'it seems, claim the glory of a "'wonderfnl discovery made by- M. Daguerre; that of. transferring the picture of any- object to paper by the action of solar light. The English too are laying elaim to a similar. discovery made by H. Fox TPalbot. Why should America he backward in asserting her claimi It is afact that Professor El lett of the South Carolina College, has bean teaching the Art to hiis Class,'ever since be has 'been in .the State, and that there is evidence incontrovertible, that he made the discovery four or five years ago, His mode is doubtless, similar to that of Mr.-Talbot. IIe reveree..thie natural ef fect, representing .dark objects, light, and light objects,.dark. - -JUSTICE. From the Neue York Observer, A ' 28t$. THE DAGUJERROTtPE. The following is an extracti froqi a pri vate letter of Professor S. F. B. Morse to the Editor of the.Observer, dated Paris, March 9th. - "You have perhait he of the Da guerrotype, so called fromn~j discover' M. Daguerre. It is one oIemost bean tiful discoveries of the age.- [.don't .know if you recollect some experingents of -mitt. in New Haven, many years pgo1 when! had~my paiating room next to Prof. Silii. man's, experiments to ascertain i t wep. possible to fix the imagewer the.Caiera Obscura. [ was able toprduce different degrees ofshade on paper, dipped into so lution of nitrate of silver,.by means of dif ferent degrees .of light,, but fnding that light produced. dark, and dark 'lipht' I piresumed the piroduction of a true image to ihe impracticable, and gave up .the at temnpt.'- . Diguerre ha. realised in the most exquisite manner this idea. A 4few days ago I addressed a note to. Mfr..mD. requesting, as a stranger, the fa vor to see his results,.and inviting him in turn to see my telegraph. .I was polkely invited to see them under these 'ei~nm itances, for he had determined idt- to ,hoy them again, until the Cha'mheirs had pased definitely on a proposhtiod for the tovernmnent to purchase theiseet4f. the liscovry. and make it nnblie."'The'da'