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iiscelalaneous. JOTTINGS DO - N IN LONDU. No. 11. Last night I was at the Opera. Bulwer and D'Or-ay, by the wa.,. seemed to have formed an alliance to in troduce the while cravat, as they were the only men at the opera who wore them. They are no longer dotnicillod together, the Count having given up his sepan,;e e< tablihment. and living now ahogether at GoreHouse, Lady Blessington's residence. D'Orsay's beauty is in high preservamiin. but he has reformed his liW-- altocelier, drinks milk, and goes to hell at 1U o'elock. (not A. M.) I met him drivinc vest--rday a very splendid turn aut of a eurricle and pair, an iurease of style correspon Iline to Lady B's additional sPglendors of' etuipaue. There is a dash of melancholv grown over D'Orsay's face since I saw him, which is not unbecotine. I would not give much for what remains for hin to discover in the fieldsof pleasure, yet ifever man was capable of its keenest zest, it was "le beant D'Orsay" at twenty. Lady Bulwer and Sir Edw:itd nre, as you may know, regularly separatedl. Site .is living at Bath. I can find few who have read her book, in the class for wIch she probably wrote, and people r:hler wonder at any curiosity about it. It Iti. they say, however, had : grent ale aiont the trades people. Bulwer *onk% tlimoer and more worn rhatt ever. but dresses with much more care and display th:an he usel to do. Indeed, the rule seems to be ii versal, that the frane tnust be embelli.hed as the picture decays. I h-ive tnet Mr. W 'bstet .it seve*ral par tiesand have heen am-ised;i, thesensation produced by his magnificent hea-l. I dio not say by his reputation. beesmwe three persons out of four who h-ive spoket to me of him, take him to he the Noah Web eter of the Dictionary ! It woul I he tilli cult to make our c.,untrymen holieve how ignorant are even the betterclasse-ijf Eng land ofour great names, htit I declare to you that I do not think there are ten peu pie in any hundred of those who meet nightly in the drawine rowns of London, who know for what he is cete .rated. It has happeued to me, not once, but several times, to be asked the question. and itie I have been obliged to rob him of the honor of the great Dictionary. The literary, political, and legal men, however. throng around Mr. Webster, and pay him all the honor and deference whieh his warnest friends to A nericia could exw;i-t or desire. I met him at Hallam's the hismorian, a night or two since. where were Sidney Smith, Babbidge, Milman Mills, MWar..a dy, and a troop of other bright spirits at the time. and his fine hetud was the focus of all eyes and thomights. Two ladies near me were discus-ing hi, phrenological beatidenwhen a third broke ii wit h.- Well, I should never think of wasting time at the top ofhis head. He is the hatdsomest man lever saw.humps or nob imps. Look at his stuile!" I do not know whether much of this sort of tribute was expected, ' but Mr. Webster is likely to reap as many compliments as laurels abroad.The Atne rican merchants in London, I see, art, to give him a dinner, and be is overwhelmed with nttentious, private and public. There are great nuimbers of American ladies in London at present, and ihey seem to he a good deal the fashion. Mrs. Van Buren's quiet and high-bred matnners are very muc'h talked off, and the M1ajor hin self, like his brother, has been received quite as a prince rtyal-a-rnited to the ,oor of the House of Lord, &c. .-Mis Sed wick is here, but she seetms to require a tru mpeter. I hadlbeena a lover of Mihn.atn's poetry all my life, atnd looked at hinm wi'h great interest. . He is a little above the mitddle size, plutmp. (ais herotmes his good living ini Westminster.) and of a v'ery diork Jewish physionuomy. Hi1k nose is miore taquteline than that of a literary Jew who sat beside ham, Hlaywa-'. the tran'tlutor, but Ilay ward is all a Hebhrew it e'xtpresion, which Miltman is not. The eye of the author oft Fazio is very fine, and alttgether he looks the poet. I was yesterday adttitted to the fltoor or the House of Commtons, atnd heard a very fluent and wartm speech friom Lord Multon on the Edlucatiotn Bill. Thi. yoittng not bletman's htgh mtoral principiles, giveP li, speeches weight. and he was well attended to by the House, thaouih from a rather emphatic cotnversatton onm the benich just before tme between O'Conntell and another personi, I lost every other sentencee. [-e was dressed in an entire suit of black, with no shtirt visible, his cr-mvar very loose about his neck, accomnmodlatintr itself to a full and rather, unactutmus looikin! slewhip, ht foxy witt a lit tle askew,atid on the side of his bead a broad-britmmed, cheap long niap ped broad blacek hat. Ilik eyes we're oily and sly, hut his tmoush hmoked the sent of fun and good nature. lIe seetined entmirely at homie hough in his loung~iing autitude, his volumaiinus coat tails crowded very hard upon Lord Johni Russell, his next naeighboir. Shiel sattst beyond, in per son closely resetmbling Mr. Cambireleng and standing in the pussage at the entrance of the House, was the author of Viviati Grey, with a grass green cratvat utnd lotng hair, talkinig with the handstome Lordl Stormotnt, and looking ais little like a Le gislator as could well he imagitted. D'is raeli's face has grown painfully hollow and bilious, and his once beasutiful physiogno my, so retmarkable for its, pale, classic, scholar like cast, seems to me stow to ex pressnothting bumt oull'ering atnd qutertilous ness. His first spteechies in Parlinmtent were all flowers and poetry, atid fell flt on the cottmo sense ears of te Hotuse; but be has sinmce changed his vein, I was told, he now says his say, in very plain words and very briefly. On the same litne of benches with amy self' but ton the Tory side of lie House, sat our great stateman, Webster, attracting~ untiversal attention. On otne side of him sat Sir Robert.Peel, andI on the other Mr. Mills, (the poet and M. P ) and both were very earnestly engatged in cotnversationa with him. lit'uink the H-ouise of Cotmmonms a much more intellectual body of men than it is usoually descrihed to be, hut cer tainly Webster's head was very remai~rk bly distinguished amougst the distinguishedl From the Boston Ecening Journal. THE RATTLESNAKE. This snake is peculiar, we believe, to North Airica-and was farmerly.found in reat tilutldance in New England-but since the country has becoine settled, .mtd an exterminating war declared against these noxious reptiles. their numbers have rapidly decreased, und now they are set domi seen. They are still to be found, however, occaionally, we believe, in cer tain parts ofl every New England state but gener lly confine theinselvet to.rocky ledrles in uncultivated tracts of the cou-n'try. I a Chester, N. II . there is a hill, which as they formerly made it their abiding place, iscitlled Rattlesnake lill. A few still re main; and they are sotnetim-s killed in the adjoining tOwns, where they wander in search of water. A number of years have passed away since an occurrence took place in tle neigh horhood of Chester, which certainly was the occasion of considerable excitement in tile neigh boring families at the time, and a hich is still worth relating. Sortie men were employed in mowing a meadow, wiih wat. a distance frot a dwelling or risad-and as the weather was sultry, and man) parts of the meadow c( vered with water. one olihem. .11r. R., thought proper to di1 est hint.'elf of n, arly all his garments. and I d tle vat of the moiwers sans culotte' It i., well ktow t hlatv at this s nason, when drought generally prevailk,ratilesnakes are vo3erV api to route difown from the high lands in quest -if v.ter- and as Mr. R. got at the end of his swath, and stepped on the dry landt he placed his foot alimost in con tItt with a huge rattie -nake, which raised ils:ail, gave it a l'ew quick and shtarp 3thakes, anl sprung ;it the poor man just as lie turned 141 flee, ttalf frightented to death, from the vetinou., reptile! Hi, crooked poisonous ;itis entered the bower part of tite only garntit whicl Ir. R. Wore at the tii--the texture of whictt was par tieularly :tiron, amtoi titey coult not he ea sily diseitg.aged. .itr. It. gave a ser- amt andi started on lhe full run, tle snake sticking it) himt cloer i than a brother. He p.isised through woodsi. bushes, fields, and pa.,tures-he crossed feuc,iltche., brooks and hogs-he jituped, halloed, galloid, atd screitfned for aild-vainly tryiug to rid hittselfof his ti.dy-lookiug atsociate. At lenuth, crazy with fear and fatigue, he reached tie public road, and pas-ed along, it, on the way to his dwelling hIuse. at a rate which would have astonikhel the most desperate pedestrian-looking behitd him at intervals, and screaming, whenever he beheld the horrid appendage to his home spun linen garment. He paoed several persons in the road, who were thunder. -ruck at the sight of the unfortunate man cutt'ng up such antics. usin- suen violent exercise-aud exhibiting hituself in disha bile, without regard to propriety or decen cy. Mr. R. at length reached his own dwelling, a distance of three miles from the -neadow-the door of which stood in vitingly open, through which lie rushed to the consternation of the woten folks having still attached to him the grikiook ing reptile-By this time he was complete ly overcome with terror, heat, and fatigue, and fell fainting on the floor. The poor rattlesnake. how ever, had got the worst fof it-and had been threshed about at such an unmereiful rate, that his life, as well at a larg.- portion of his tail, had departed, long before lie reached the goal! THE FIRST STATUE OF CANOVA. There are. doubtless, feiw of our readers who have not heard ientioned with honor the name of the great Canova, that skilful sculptor of modern times, whose admira bl* statues almo-o eqal the master-pieces which Grecian anitiqutity has transtmitted to us. Canova. like many other great mten, owed his rise solely to himself. l)ilient labhor wa~s the only source of his fort une, and the first attempts (of his infati cy presaged the success of his mature age. Canova was an Italian, the sont of a ma son. All the education which he receivedl from his~ fathe-r consisted in learning the business oIf his trade. As sootn as his streuth pertmitted, lhe learned to handle the trowel and the hammer, to mix the plaster and to place the aravel-oceapa tons which he discharged withI sufficient zeal andi activily to be soon ahle to serve as 'he journeymatn or rather the comp~an ion o.f his father,niotwithtstatdinig hti youth. But in the frequent intervals of repose, w hiic.hisweakntess rendered indhispetnsa ble, he amuuased himself lby observing lie differ put objects which he sawv about him-with sketchintg them rotughily with brick or hatrd stotne upon the wall against vwhieb he leantetd, or even with1 motdelling their fhrtts in the plaster and cemiettt whtich lie had miixedl. These constanit exercises, practi ced with ats much perseverance as intelli gence, sotn rendered himt fatmiliar with the practice of dlrawintg andt oif sculpture in relief. Butt his 3 outhiful talen' wvas un known to all, even to his father, who ontly cocernedl htimself wiih his greater or less skill int pas.sittg the laster to the sieve and int pouing etnough waiter ito t he trotich. A whinrsical event auddenly occured to reveal iti ti ll the world. ii father had been summoned to make some repairs in the. country house of a rich lord .f the neighborhood. He had ta ken his son wvith himn, according to customn, to act as his journeyman, atnd the genteel carriage of the little Canova'soon procured hitm the affe~ction oif the chief cook and of all the s.cullions of the house, so that, the days's work being ended, Canova did not stir from the pantry, where he executed in crumbs of bread or in plaster, grotesque figures anad caricatures, which delighted the valets, and in return they fed him in the style of my lord. One day there was an entermainment at thie counttry house. Canova was io the kithten, playing with the scullions, when they suddeunly heard a cry of despair from the pantry, and saw the head cook coming out in alarm, throwing up his. cap, striking his breast and tearintgjgis hair. After the irst moments of astonmshment, they crow ded routnd hitm. "T am lost, "' he cried, SI ant lost !My magnificent master piece tnmy palace, which I had built for the dinner ! see itn what a condition it is!" Atid with a pathetic gesture, he showed an edifice of pastry. which he had just rawn from the oven. Alas, it was burnt, overed with ashes, anid half demolished. There was a general cry of surprise and rief. " What is to ho done?" dcemandcd the chief cook ; " here is the dinner hour. I have not time to make anot her. I am lost! My lord expects for the dessert sonethiug remarkable. lie will turn me away!" During these lamentations, Canova waked round the demolisbed palace and considered it with attentttin. "Is this for eating ?" he inquired. "Oh! no, my little one," answered the chief cook, - it is only to look at." " Ah well, all is safe. I promise you someihing better than that in an hour from now. Hand rue that lutp of butter." The chief cook, astonished, but already half persuaded by his boldness, gave him all beaanted ; and of tis lump of butter, Canovamnade a superb lion, w hich he sprinkled with meal, mounted on a pedes tal of rich architecture, and hefore the bp pointed hour, exhibited his finished work to the wondering spectators. T e chief cook embraced hint with tears in hib-eyes called hin his preserver, and hastened to place u pon the table the extemporaneous master-piece of the young mason. There was a cry of admiration from the guests. Never had they seen, said they, sorentarkablea piece of sculpture. They demanded the author of it. " Doubtless one of my people," answer ed my lord, with a satisfied air, and he ask .ed the chief cu k. He blushed. stammered, atndi eled by confessing what had happen- d. All the Comttpany wished to see the young journey mit, and overwhelmed Canova with praisee. It was decided at once that the toaster of the household should take charge ofhim.and have him go thro'igh sttalies sttitable to his precocious talent. Ti'lway had no cause to repent of this dci sioti. We have seen that Can .va kirw how to profir by the lessons of his masters, whom he soon excelled. Ne-verthtele-s, in the midt of hi celebrity, he was pleased with renembiltering the adventure of tie Ii ot of butter, and said he was very iorry that it had bee-n ielted. I hope," he added, ' that ty latter statues %fl be More solid. otherwise toy reputation run. a great risk EM1IG RATION. There are few of its who have notrel.i 1 tives or friends that have enigrated to the wesi. and whose flatt-ring accounts rf that region do not render ts tune.tsy, not to sny unhappy at our situation here. Many of us have been there ourselves, and their deep, rich soil, their luxuriant fieldo. their boundless discourse of hundreds ofithou sands and of millions. have seldom failed to make us look back with absol:e con loampt upon our own harren and 4tiritless land. With imaginations fired by the glow which rests and shines on every thing around, tnany purchase at oice, and return home to pull up stakes, and aban don all the ende:iring associaions of in fancy, youtl and manhood. for th> glori ou prospect of unbounded wealithn more favored clitnes. If any come baclito kunk once more upon his own fields, hlbre he determines to give them up forevg ; and the lapse o time, the ch.ittgeof scqfe, the comforts of home and friends, wel away his first vivid impression, aid depqve him of the resolution to go-still, in 141s in stances, the thorit rankles in hilbpsomr, and he feelo that lie htas marde an iWmen-e sacrifice to his ounlortutiate attaelment to the spot where an unkind destin "has cast his lost. Most probably he yeth opes, at sonie future period, to break awa, tind he looks upou the soil and institulins of his father scarcely as his own-ce'ainly as tot his children's. I invite all rich, and all who from the accounts ofothis may be troubled " ith this fell spirit of niigration, to ftllos% me in the caleniltion latn about to mak', by which I hope tt conivince them that the difi'erence is not o great as perhaps titey imagine. But firf, let them look around anid scan mnore nerowly the circumstances of those whomr tijy so much envy. I do not ask them to l k att, metn who left us with reputatiotns iA paired, or brokeni fortutnes. To such mpn, almost any change is for the herter,Ibecause it gives new habits, new energies and1 above all, new hopes. Their gains. not to be easily estimated-it is moral -at her than physical. But look at those 40o left htere -well to do at homte." to hettettheir con dition. Coutnt their slaves, count their acres, count their chiitiren-te noblest piort in cf their wealth. I tlo jot ask you to count their frietnds, or to tri-e the con nectitons which these childreimay have formetd, or to entumterate thue sad hours which hear themn hack to theimtative land. But ask thetm hnw tmuch tleaitmoney they have on hanud each year, arid all ts paid, andl then intquire how neh roperty they can piurchase with, it. If ymp~an perceive no great accession to their vible wealth or comtforts, if 'hey number noimore slaves, and have no btroadler lainds bnaght and paid for, what avails any high nagmatry va lue, which, in conformnity w ht the fashion of that counitry, they may alace on wht they have ? And htow m:oh sweeter are the bought anid badrren luxntiesof a foreign land, because purchased rith more tmo ney ? Let me ask them a do one thing more if it is in their poweg to go and in q'uire of t heir frientds or reL tive<, if, laying 1iside all afYeetion, anid jpeaking itn th. Jonest sintcerity of t heir harts, thfey do tnt wish they had never left tieir native state;t nay, if they do not induly the hope, vague perhaps, but very comirting, of otte day returning tbhitlher!-Souht. Agriculturalist. Faorz TExns.-By 1e Colttmhia.Capt. Windle, in 34 houtrs fom Galveston. we have receive Hounston lates to the 9th inst. They contain no Iocabews of importance. The Telegraph of to 7th contains the death of D. Juan Armi Patdilla. This gent lematt was fortmrly Secretary of the State of Coahuila isd Texas. lie was the frienid anui coatdjkot of Znvalla, andl distinguished for his iiciency as a mem ber of the State Le latuore. Hie took ai decitded stand agai'st thte oppressors of Texas, and from thepommencement of the revolutionary strugge was warm and zeal otis in the cause if indlepenidece. The Town Cotncil of Houston were busily engaged in disposilg of the gatmblers and loafers. Their exitionis had bteen atten ded with compilet success. The Tele graph boasts that f ouston is now one of the tmost quiet, prderl',, antd peaceable places, in any cjuntry-the reformation having been effeeed solely by the exer tio~ns of the pene oflic-ers and the co-op merion of the ged citizens. EDGEFIELD C. H TaunSDAY, AUoUsT 29, 1839. Mfilitary Encampment.-The encamp ment of Officers and Sergeants of the 2d Brigade of Infantry, and of the 2d Regi men of Cavalry, commenced at Shi bley's, Edgefield District, on the 26th inst. Sad Accident.-On the 26th inst., Mr. Henry Mason shot a negro wan belonging to Captain William B. Mays, of this Di trict. Mr. Mason fired at a squirrel in the woods, and, unfortunately, hit the negro, who was hid firomn his view,by a thick un dergrowth, and partially, by somne trees. A Jury of Inquest was summoned, and they reported, that the deceased was killed ac cidentally, by the hand of Mr. Mason. The Congressional Vacancy. - The South Carolinian says-His Excellency the Governor has accepted theresignat;on of the flon. F. H. Elmore, and issued or ders to the Managers of Elections, to hold the election to fill the vacancy, on the se cond Monday in October next. Colonel Sampson H. Butler. of Barn well, is annotnced in the South Caroli nian, as a candidate for Congresi. to sup ply the vacancy occasioned by the resigna tion of Colonel Elmore. Major James O'Hanlon is innounced in the Columbia Telescope, as a candidate for Congress, to supply the vacanev ocea sinned hv the.signation of the Hon. F. H. Ehnure. CoNanGsstosAL ELKcTIoss.-Alaba ma-haiman.HubtiHbard,and Lewis, (A.), Dellett and Craha. (W.) Kentucky-Butler and Boyd. (A ). Tri plett, Underwood, Anderson. Green.P. -pe, Graves, White, Hawes, Andrews, and Davis, (V.) One district to he heard from. Indiana-Davis, Carr, Smith, Wick, and Howard, (A.), and Rariden, (W.) Result between Owen, (A.), and Proffit, (W.), still doubtful, in the districi repre sented at last session by Boon. Two years ago, there were one Administration and six Whigs members. Appointments by the President.-Henry Ledyard to be Secretary of Leantion of the Unitsd States, at Paris. John A. Parker, of Virginia, to be Clerk to the Commissioner, for Marking the Bouodary between the United States and the Repub lic of Texas. Candidates for Presidency and Vice. Presidency.-We find the following in an exchange.paper. It is an exceollem hur lesque. - More Whig Candidates.-An eastern paper proposes, ' The union of the Whigs for the sake of the Union.' For President. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. For Vice President. James Watson Webb, of New York. They are wor:hy of the Whig party, and the Whig party of thett." 'Public Meeting in Augusta. Ga.-A meeting of the citizenis of Angusta, was held on the 17th inst., and his Honor the Mlayor was called to the chair. The Chairmant stated t he object of the meeting to be. to take into further consideration the memorial of the South Carolitna Canal and Railroad Company, praying to be al lowed the privilege of crossing the Sa vannah river. and of establishing a deposi tory in the city. It wa's resolved, " That the further consideration of the memorial of the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Cotmpany, be postponed until Saturday, the 2d day of November next, and that this meerting stanid adjourned to 12 o'clock, M., of that day." As many rumours about the recent cases of fever which occurred in.Augusta, Ga., have bteen spread ahroad, wve have thought proper to lay before our readers, the sub joined report of the Mayor of the City: MAYOR'S OFFICE. Aug~ust a, August 21st, 1839-5 P. M. During the early part of the last week, five cases of Fever occutred in the second Ward of ouir city, which terminated fatal ly otn the 18th and 19th inst. Some ap prehentsiotns having been excited by thts utnusual circumustatnce, I have consulted the miedicalgetlemnen in rehttion to the character and supposed origin of the dis ease. The Faculty have rep~orted, that the dis ease nlluded to, varied in no material fea tures from those fregntently exhibited in the ordinary stummter and nurttmnal fevers, of all sonat hern climtaztes--thta it was neither infectious nor contagious-that it was con finecd to narrow litits, an~d originated in somew local cautses, which have sitnce been remtoved. The general health of' our city wnas never better than at thte present mo ment. By p)reserving attention to the cleanliness of the lots, I feel assured that our citizetns will be enabled to maintain the reputtation of Augusta, as the healthiest City in the Southertn States. A. CUMMING, Mayor of the City of Aunusta. Some passengers in the stage, last Mon day mornitng from Augusta, informed us, that several eases of fever had broken ou't, a fewv (lays before they lefi that city; and tan, era daths haed taken nlace. The following return of the Census of the white population of South Carolina, for 1839,.and 1829, has been politely fur nished us by the Secretary of State: 1839. ]829. DISTRICTS. POPULA. DISTRICTS. POPULA' Abbeville 14,006 Abbeville 14,tiz Anderson 1:.839 Anderson 12 29i Barnwell 10,97t- Barnwell, 8,71s Ciester 9,341J Chester 10,!2i Chesterfield 5,413 Chesterfield 5.13: Darliugtoa 6,29 Darlingion - 6,3& Edgefield 15,0(69 ldgeicld 14,05' Fairfield 9,15. Fairfield 9,47( tirrenville 12,5rt, Greenville 11.45( Kershaw 3,9-47 Kershaw 4,9. Laica.ter 5,501 Lancaster 5E5 Laurens 12,382 Laure's 13.701 Lexington 5,146 Lexington 5,1 I Marlborough 4,119 Marlborough 3,762 Newberry 8,286 Newberry J0,082 Orangeburgh- iOrangeburgh St. Mathaew's St Matthew's Parish,2,116; Parish, 2,170; Oratnge Parish, OrangeParish, 5,276- .7,392 4,947- 7.117 Pickens 11,491 Pirkens 11,442 Itichland 5,773 Iich,and 5,6 4 Sumter-Clare- Claremont 6,824 montU. 5,583 Clarendon 3,146 Clarendon C., Spartanburg 16,228 3333- 8,916 Umion 11,047 Spartaiburgh 17,-47 York 10,978 Unioa 10.873 Charleston York 11,13 St. P7ilip's and Charleston-St. St. Michael's, 13,177 Philip's and Saint James', St. Michael's, Goose Creek, 1,108 L -.661; St St. John's, Col John's Colle- leion,,. 5.3 ton. 679; St. St. John's, Ber Andrew's, no kley, 527 return ; St. St. Ste phen's 511 Janues'. Goose Christ Church* 464 Creek, 1,202; St..lames's, San ChristChurch, tee, 392 no etrn; St. St. Andrew's 301 Thonz.n, and St. Thomas and S.De,-nnis,do; St Deno's' 19. St.John's.ler. St. Paul's 164 kIey 812; St. it:iartholonews 3.32 tephen's.390; St.George's, Dor St. James's, chester, 1,378 Santee, 2e3-19,027 St Helena 1,000 Coll-ton - St. Prince William 1614 Paul's Parish, St. Luke's 919 777; Saint St. Peters's 1763 George. Dor- G- orgetown 182. chester,1.603; AllSamts,Geo-ge St. Bartholo. iown, 149 mews. 3,46,- 5,84- Harry 2.949 Beaufort, no re- All Saints. Horry, 826 turn. Marion 6.938 Georgetown 2,014 Williaulsburgh 2663 Horrv, 3.145; AllSainis;785; 3.930 Marion 8.291 Williamsburgh 2.6.7 250,769 250,843 Census for 1839 - - - 250,769 The Parishes of St. An drew's, Christ Church, St. Thoians andSr . Dennis, and Beaufor b)istriet, are tint re turne.1, but at the Census of 1829, the aggregate from them was .5,782 2,56.- 51 The Census of 1829 gave 250,843 Increase . 5,708 Note.-It will be seen ist Edgefield District has gained 1.013 inhabitants since the last Census, and that Ablieville has lost. There has also been Onie change in the number of inhabitants in other Dis tricis, since 1829. The Nautucket Enquir,-r says, that . in the town of Nantucketeontaining a popu lauion of nearly ten thousand souls, there are but three hundred subscribers for the Etnquirer, the only newspaper published in the county." It must be acknowledlged that this ntutmber of subseribers only, to a paper, tonks like a poor btusiaess for an editor. Btut what prudent edbitor or pub lisher would not prefer this numler. small as it is, toea much larger one of non-paying subscribers ! Some editors boast mitch of the numerous names which ther have on their hooks. They speak with great comt placency, of 30.000 or 40,000 subscribers! Some papers which we have seen, pro claim every week, to the world that they have upw ards of 30,000 readers. Now, to what, does all this vain boasting anmount ? Probably, one-hair or two-thirds of these subscribers do not pay once, in four or five years, or not at all. Still the expenses oif these establishments, which must necessa rily be v'ery heavy, are going on at a fear ful rate. In the course of time, as is " eli known, the puliishers often fail, and ' This is the end of all their greatnes!" For our part, we prefer a snmall tnumberof good, punctual subscribers, to 30;000 n ho may neaer pay. We are pleased when ever we get a new .subscribier, who will pa5 us, at the end of the year; bu: we are much more pleased, when wve get one, who pays in advance. The Two Magicians.-A Whig paper thus notices the reception of Mr. Clay, at Rochester, N. Y. :-" Mr. Clay appeared nmid the most deafening and really enthu siastic cheering, we ever beard. He spoke briefly, but ncver was miore of true, unaffected, life-like eloquence, andI oratori cal beauty concentrated in th~e same nutn her of moments. The faithless Loco Fo co Administration was noticed with that perfect courtesy of manner and language for which he is distitiguisheid. Its cor ruptions were unveiled, andI its false, de lusive promises were unmasked by a nmas ter-power. The Loco F'ocos stood before hitm as in the presence of soume piotent Magician, overshadowed with the gran deur of his eloquence." From the above account, it appears that the wretched Loco Focos in New York, are spell-bound by the incantations of the Great Magician of the WVest. But let them not despair. The Little Magician will break the charm, cre many moons sall wnane.' The Mobile Commercial Register, speak. iig of tho vitit of Mr. Clay, to New York, and further northward, says-" Mr. Clay (only to gratify his ' curiosity to see Cana da') is speaking every where, and is open ly practising those electioneering acts, of whirh, Mr. Van Buren has been accused. Mr. Van Buren tent home, after an ab sence of three years. Mr. Clay travelled a thousand miles away from home, to go to-New York, and the Whig presses have it, that Mr. Van Buren is electioneering, and Mr. Clay is only travelling to gratify his curiosity. A most probable conclusion, and highly calculated :o gain credit from fools." Doubtless, if the truth could come out, Mr. Clay. and Mr. Van Buren,.both, had some curiosity, to know their political standing in New Yolk. Confess it, ye. Clayites, and Van Burenites, at once! Sports of the Turf.-Every body has heard of horse-racing, boat-racing, and Sub-Treasury racing, a the Whigs'call it ; but whoever heard. belbre of hog-rac ing ? This last sport seems to be fashion. able in some parts.-of the West. Only - think of a rough Western man mounted on the back of a huge porker, spurting and whipping most lustily! What a picture for a painter! We find the follow ing in an exchange paper. Rational amusement.--We learn from a Western piape,. that a hoa-race, for a purse of $350. came offat West Union, Ohio, on the 29th uIt. There were five entrances, for the puree ; avi; the coursers had been in training for several weeks. One of the Smiths (not John) % a- the fortunate backer of the wininng ang." A Friendly Worning.-A person in Charleston, recently through the Charles-. ton Courier, nttified a thief who had bro- - ken open his-drawers, and taken some money therefrom, to restore it, otherwise his name would be exposed in the public papers! The rogue must be a tool in deed, if he does not profit. by this 'itid warning. The Whig Advocate. at Canton, Miss., .4avs, that no less than tix editors hold ..ffice in that state. M ell, there are bis offices well filted then, we will be bound. -Boston Post. If these office-holders were Democrats, what a set ofscoundrels they nould be, according to Whig notions! ' - Happy Fellow.-A brother editor writes to us, thai he is " getting along well plenty of stbscribers-a wife-and no thing to rntp:lain of."---Aug. Daily Netws. Unhappy Fellow.-Plenty of subscri bers, few payina-No wife;. but devils, (blue devils, and printers' devils,) and duns to complain of.: - ...,. Why is a ntewsapuper like a good wife? Because every mai qttght to have one of his own.-Erchange Paper.. This is '.4uiid doctrine. Let every bachelor in Edgeefild, marry a wife, and subscribe to -our paper. iistantly. The London 'I imes, of the 30th ult., says-From the Paris papers and letters, it would appear, not only that the accounts were substantially true, sof an attenapted arrangement- bs-tneen the Bank of Eng land and the Bank of France, but that the additional mocrtofication is imposed of two failures in the application made-cme of the Bank of France, and the other to tbe capitalists of Paris-a disgrace which cer tainly never before~befel the great banking English corporation. Riots in .England-Some serious riots broke out last July in. Birnuingham, and in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Chartist wore the rioters. A fter considerable exer tion, the police succeeded in suppressing them. Some disturbanees Also occurred at other places. Frota the news brought by 'the steam-packet Liverpool, it appears 4bat England is in a state of coitsiderable disquietude at present. The poets Rogers and Moore have been unanimously elected members of the Aca demy of Arcadi at Rome. The Academy oirdered that their diplomas, printed in gold, should lbe forwarded to London. H EALTH OF CHARLEsTo.-The Board of Health report the deaths of 25 persons in that city during the week ending the 18th instant-23 whites, and 12 blacks and colored-1&of the whites by stranger's fever. The U. S. Sloop Hornet-T he follow ing. respecting the ill-fated Hornet, re garding which vessel so many rumors have hee-n rife of late, is from the Galvestonian. The account appears plausible enough let our readers peruso it, and judge for Some time in July last, Dr. Dunman, a respectable inhabitant of Point Bolivar, ridting with hiis brothee-in-last, on the Gullf shoate observed a bottle corked, and alight ed in the hepe that it containted wine or spirits. It turned out, however, to con tain onlv a roll of paper. The bottle was. small, with a lon.g cork, not sealedl. Thte cork and patrt of the bottle's neck, were covered with barnacles. Impatient to gratify their curiosity, and having ho meatns to extract the scroll, Dr. Dutnman. broke the battle, and left it on the spot. It was about twenty mtiles from IBolivar city. * On Saiturday last, Dr. Dutnman brought he mannscripit to the Gailvestonian otlice, and left it for inspection andi disposal. We hae tnken snonn pnins to exhibit it. and