Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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C aaer al--Tlfgeneral imprnmvenent e[. uIlested itself in our rePiD asstg. slowly bt Abq p nee of money in 1he contianaas fW as' ever. materal.ehsige in thir prices .eewisit, am any fractionalli wthat my be noticed, has been the of more tecaporary ca09" which Aim- to time bare a slight influence en tbe Londlon Market. Thiei has beD aigood demand for 'ens ofibod this week. al sales bve*iaot been very ex 'Thorpi' a gevneral impresion ill advnice as the sCason pro ,Tb. eport of manufactured goods has . beiwexteaive, stimulated by the unpar -eed-lowness of prices; and, as the aC aMtg from America indicate that the kmp of ctton, will be very large, there is - bbilit pf'he manufacturer be ma hb to continue his purchases at low - b ernmatig. of the failure of Bra UIIegoPitationshin the House of Cum Ne,- the other evening. has given the -biolders of colonial sugar inrrea4ed confi dece, and will, probably, produce a nso In prieer T4 -prieo6f provisions coniinue very " A espeially grain, which is causing . f.' iseaction in the corn growin enastrie& . TWottit market here has been rather A*HlItbougtitere has beeu little niteraton ief. which may in a great degree toe al t ed to the- late news frot Anirena. more privatesbaikitg houies have - sieod specio ayntn. I he one CGlark &Mo., of Leicester; the S.thed1ess5 lakersol & Gtdilard, of %Vrket iarh'ornugh. owdeisths European Tents. .prd 29. s.imirja.-ritse at.... or (s.u.an for tihe keniling ye'sterday am~..unt- it will b. sce. -wardd of :h3.000--ire than 4100 bap oe day.a The -beutr gnalitiea of Amnerican -- ateateady"hut inferior de,eripiiosa have rie VA"c. eebd edyan eighth. Fnrther advicee fromi settiv to tl-e weathier for acrop ate lonkled for with 41anne - i T iasket preists no btriking lea .U "post the whole lebu uV:.t than thlibernian sailed. est India produce has be-n slightly affect. -!e'tby the failure of the kazil enbasay. and thse hupaysment which took place when the re sk becama kunowo has' een ensnfihesud by tthe satseq Uet dedaration of the Priue Ain I'm Paliament.A bUFACTUING DISTRICTS. j Astie.--Many7hands are still out of work. wyetWe have to notice some ianprivement in tbe battig business. Bedb.Tradb on the whole continues ra theiraniiiated. Counterpanes have a (air salr; NLagand amiins have received a sliglal t cononyrans are unusually trisk, ~ther the trade is eneosraginet. The in boti bras and iron foundries cion. * ti.b.e amore.and more fully e.mployed ; .bi*wdos - 6are 1 well stocked wit work. Br -Taic Ilow been a steady deunand f_ pieces, both in pitds and fancy 1 but prices have not exhibited ay ::n proment,. We have had considerale acti j s -do- lia-U yarn arket, aid for particular a eost in nqes. lieber ales have - .e..s.a.S Wnmis without im ib'elS a-reg&e demand cir vaine. -Trade continoes It a tolerably heal. ahd'thre is .generally full employ int vbeasvei Lehw.-!Trare enntinue to wear a bhe y-haspect. awore etpecially as regards the mket. 274as i5's printing clotn ehbesui selysldat an advance of l4d per a- ithe current prices of last week. dscriptions of lrintaug cloths are .1aadvaneod rates. M -Our Wonl Uarket has had a dull teatim any change in price.. The de measdham heen cliciy confined to files of Da-. mmnn paper. Medico.-Wo are indebted to Mr. Geo. B . Crittendeo, son of the Hion. J. J. Crit. tmndee, one of the Texian Prisoners iu Mexico. who arrived in this city yesterday, - hgway of Ilaevana. in the steamship Ala. barna, (or the following verbal intelli:;ence: Mr. Southall, beprrr of despatches te iIealoo. arrived ot Vero Cruz n hen Mr. Crtttendea left. Thea Falmiiouth was in port, awaiting dhe fist payment of the Ideican indemnity. The parevailing opi. worn in Mexico was -that the paymfent gould ibe efectuated. It is confidently 'as~rted that Gen't. Wandly Thompson asu:duteined to demand his pahlporta eai ie the country ina the event of* the V eay'msOs of he lirst instalmnent. h,-was also esirently-.eseried thai San * ta At fronk be investedl with the dicta higetM co by the Junta. , ts-wuo Tutiana prisoners nere ia kmngwom -ware Col. Fiaher, e- Van Ness and Thos. II? 3?' More'isiigellptl. to work inl ag.'pI.seed to every Iiad of raIlteatment. Very littlo hopes - tbfe assiota enpair , was enter jiI 6 irfriends. . erg ~~s.I ~ dt George C. ~ ~&,n 'Presidetit Houe .1 Colonels Creen and andl not enititled to - eh ;Ievcaipiwtltionl, was dgby -eidissee obtaineia in ~sednerally hbived.-N. O. - fccfrn- ..-Br'ndeti but*a days from Sisaif'ws have Wih the following importan, pLth'e Menican Army, lltnea,ewe had been be * adwho a~ewwards had a em bsbiem -in their camnp t T hesYbitahSes nder tbt - fiugin the0 efty 01 TepaafZlilee secatamand ofGenera staias deJg edary Btaragan, were t aeate thet~r tory of-the state with al tB onors of war, on the next day, leat ~'~their arm of lagsztry, nde pereed * fani.doatde Beca and from thence' ie 'eehael whe shey were to be embarked - fgfmpcien, eight hays after their arr yaJ~onboard the Mexican trewaports ant -wt1 ar; IT Tbe officer' of the dissis . wadproitsedh to 18g -befure their govern' *Went atrue stafetnet-of the sirnt and &EestC of the Ypecatenese government, SiIU'their unOtt endevorsi to have S justiciones them. The division had th, iilege of leaving their sick and wounde 'he city, who would be taken care of a Ae, expense of be Mexican government 1he Mexicans wore to leave at Teopeum their artillery, which would be carried I 31crida, to be returned to the Mexicans a the termiination of the war. Prisoners were to be exchanged accord ing to the laws of an1tians. A body of 2.400 Yucatanese, left Meri da on the 2d Maytu their way to Telciha for the purpose of capturing the Mexica divi,;on, who hail not complied with tenm1 of the capitulation allowing thew rig days to quit the territory. Though a express had been sent to Goneral Amept dia for vessels to convey the division I Tampico. none bad arrived n hen the tim allowed them had expired. On the 2d instant. an express arrived j Merida from Campeacby, giving the it formation that the Texas sqadron, con manded by Commodore Mloore, had a riveI safely at Campeachy. On the 27th uIt.. they were attaeke during a calm, while doubling Point lint vey. by the Mexican war steamers Mot teuma and Guadaloupe. which after sh-trp engagement v ere driven oil, til Texas vessels warping into the harbor i safety.-Bee. iSamuel Vine alias James ClaudiJ Paxton, one of the individuals arrested b Capt. Taylor at the Balize, was re-ei arnined yestrday moruing tov Records Bald win. and sentenced to thirty slays in prisonment in the wnrk-hiusc, upon ti charge of vagracy.-Ibid. IMINCEL LA ME GIUS. [From Ie Macon Mssenger, .lIn II.J Gold in Ionro.-We lave bei mentiuiedl that cold hail been found i Monroe county. its two or three place.au ic mimies or depositc, so far ie'ted. a ;:iVe as.urniee that ihey cuul.l te pr..fit lily worked. We now learn thast severi othemr. have ben diaenverel.uniot if whi, tre situated near the rowialiga Creek, i the viciitv of the ro;d fron Forsyth 1 ithe In-liat Springs. Somne of them ni now workel Iy ,several hundsi. and we bi lieve thi.t all have collecled snificient gni to cosmpen-ate themn well for their lahor generally averaaiug a dullar and upware to each hand per lay. The number 4 hands is increasing. and should prcsi prospects be realizd. it is cipected h; in a few weeks they will amouu: to sol hundreds. Considerable gold has been frund on it plantation or the late John Mann. on tl south side of the Townliga, and circun stances exist in connection with tit ati I the otber-nines in tho vicinity, which as tworthy of notice, and may load to curiom and interesting spectlations, in comnecime with the mysterious remains of a forms civilized population in this country. %' allude to the remains of uumcrons fortil eatioas, apparently erected some hundre< of years since. hy a civilized people, ger erally supposed to be Spaniaruls. Ti site of one of these ftis ison ihe lands i Mr. Mann, and witbin a few yards of or of the best deposites of g4HPthat have bect discovered, an ' ;,; oth; mines are ni iti ithe distance of two miles, (uxccpt or which is bclow #Forsyth.) Pr.tiumptit evidence is strong that these formificmatior were erected in the viciiity of mines whic were known to, and worked by their ocet pans. Evidences of this have been ioun in the Cherokee eounty t and have alread been developed an the lands of Mr. Mani An earthn jar has been- duL up from Il depth of six feet. which haid apuparenti heen left there in a former excavationm the earth. An axe was also fotntdi a similar situatin. The scite of thme fo at this place was firat noticed in tI spring of 1827, ini consequenmce of an c: tratrditnary freshet in the 'Towntliga,whit wnshed oilr the surfaee of thme earthi to ti depth of two or three feet, which hiad pro viously eoncealedl iv, (as the ground hst been cleared anid enmitivated wvithout mal ing the discorery.) We Passed over ti ground soon after, whtere we satw nmn curiouts articles whtich had principally bec collete-l by Mr. Manne. Amng thei -un-ibieks andi harrele of a rude construe tsir-a sword hilt aindm blade, small axe pikes, nils1. a small narlia spike, hame hells, plate-bras,, heads, some inlaid wi gohl, kivets, great quantitica of brokc p ;ottrs ware, atnd one Juc entire what would esmtin about a ;;lno. No cast miro was foundic, awl it won appear that their coo'kstg vessels were earthen, m ade on the spot (and no out qualiy of w'are but the most common wi sicoveiredl. Several articles of ston iently wroughi were four.ud. There wvas an appearmece of a forge I t nace, at which was eullectedl a gniant ty of iron ore 'if the best quality, a pici of which gww lies on the table. wlpic:' WI handled uas, by Mr. Muann, sos'n aftler ml di,.overy.) The space occuiedi as ml site or the fobvs, was from aliree to fat acres, andi some remains of pickets (~ lighwood) which had been bellow the su face, were still to be seen. T'here wet also esidlences (among the articles fitnmn hat she oceupants were pro~baly Cache ia. which wouluI we think most reasnon bly suggest the belief that they must bas beoged to the Spanisht exseditions unde Do ktoto, or others, into this regioni search of geld, about the years i540 I 1550, of irbici we have some limperfe trces, in the history of that dag A question is now suggested; which a tink worthy of reeeon and investig: to. Why, and for what purpose wee the seversi fosts errected, that can lI found in our State, uatess they were rotect and conuroltene object o( gret tterest or valuei The great esient some of them, and the labor bestowed i their eirection, shows that largo numbol msti have been engaged aind importam b~jecs to be attained. That they cots not haya been intended as a mere cha of posts, from the seaboard to the interio is evident fyo their being too wid~el scattered, ( 'well as too etensive.4 T'il most prominent of these remains withi ouv knowledge, are, the none at Brown Mount, on the line of this .counti .am Twigp- (which alone encloses fu y y ere4-ne aortsitle. in Jones conwuy onoion tholandshaMr.A. R. McLati lin near East Siacon. anid theone a have spokien of inm Monroe., Ia .onaking of itsrtilcaion. we mali i no reference to ilia Monuds, which are I scattered over akuost every part ofr Or t State-these are of a more ancient origin ltihan the others, and the work of a less en I lightened people. Both are sthrouded in a much mystery-yet the origin of the first t may be accounted for, with some degree caf probability, while the name of the pcu - pie by whom the others were erected. th i date of erectiot), or object, noouc presumes - to saggest. , With regard to the object of the Forts. i we trust that the suggestions here i-ade, s will fe found worthy (of entsideration and it investi;atitti, and hope to see it under it takeu. The Gold 3inaes throughout the South c are now tnively worked, ani with con siderable success. A new mine has been it discovered in Monroe county. N. C., iat I- which MO0 persons are engncted, raisin; $30 or $40 per week to each hand. The 'shining dros' is found in In-nps just below the surface, and lhfe search for it in very i rudely conducted. One lump worth $16 - was found. In Sianly county a rock nmne is worked hv maclignery lth great profit. a In Georgia and Alabarna the buminesinc e i. tctively prosecluted- The Fayetteville ta Oherver says: 11 is scarcely too much to say. hint ?he s entirely middle section of North Caroliun y i' one grewt gold mine. The tire has been discovered in o ninny places. smnie at the r surface, and soms' deeper. that we anny . reasonably conclude that it ahounds e thrnughout the whole region, ahich pie. seats the tnme general fean.res. 11 is not L ins everv inistanc-:. however, that the 1:>hur er Ian bcen reward.:d for hiii time, even .. ihen ol.1 Ia, been fonssd. ''he pteran n ho founil the largest lump of gold ever I discovercl. died a huankrupl. snid IIll n ISo n have been in tle! neighbiorbasls! Uf OCe of ai 0he m1:1-04. will :ettmit that istsainice.A of 41 povern v and m air:mi'mit :.bota'd 'herr A I. few i'adivi'lual., Lke she Messrs. llcarne, Il have::-011.1 selpe i profit by the di'covery; hI h the great msajo.rity sof gol.t hun'er, n I onii Ito much mi.- proftiihin and re a spectably emploved in diggit; their coirn I dunIt entau fields, even at porescut low a- priccs. - AMUieism S0d) Ye.rrs ago !--Marnkitit Is hive ever ieen. a*4 perhapl-s ever will lie. if linble ,t -he iyv of suY-rman themnelves it to ie much di-itirlsed and troubled ahoaut it 'hings far bevnait human conprehensioi ; e id tanly are s deldiled that they have the vanity to prctend they can tell that c which "not the nnels fit onven" know. e In De Siimotli's haistiy of the Fall of tie Roman Empire, amty to found the df following: e "There exist, however. ti the end of * the tenth century. a caiuse wh lich vokt n arrest our cnuirse, even hi we iitnletl -r its pursue our narrative hie3nd it : this is. e the al ost tmaiver-ral expecitaon theni on - tertniued. if the approaetlin:: end Sif the a worlal. So strong n"a this belief. tlit it . led the greater part of the consrctemporary c writers to Inv down She pen : fur awhile if silence was complete; for histioriats enred e not to write for a pn..terlty who10e cis. n tence was to doabhf..l. 'iaus )er-nns n 'to bud endeavoreI to - understandl the 0 Apocalypse, and to Jctrminic the time of e the accomopits-imient or*ts prrdelese. bad s been particularly strnck nith the twon h1 tieth chapter ; % here it is announced that. I. after the lapse of a thousanad years, Satan d woul'd lie It loo-to to deceive [ie nations: y but that. after a little: se.ason, G-l would . catise a are to cnmata down (roan heaven e and devor him. Ti.e accomplishment of y all t be an fijI prophecics e )tinedtl' in this ,f book. apspeared, terfore. to 5 o ait hand: n and time end of the world was suipptosed to -j he iaalicatced by the dleruring fire, anad by e the irst reserrecciin of shc demaI. TIhe - nearer the' thonsauntdh year from the tairth h of Christ apiproacehed, the mocre 'btdidanic e terror tke pos-essisn oif every mitct. 1'he .archtives bf tall countries contain a ;rn ta ntambcr of the charte.ru of the ten:s'cen .tury, he;;innting with tbh-te words : A p e propingmante f::me 'n:amdi,"' (Ai it. t'ie I omf y the worhld is approachaing.) T's~. .lti' as ur.sversal belief redoubaalle a. s ,--ur o n religionm, openedtl ri... :,- t ernl hamniit .anod aseJe vnriou-- 'act' 'if picty. by for s, t:e greater n-asier of which wtre dona-3 d sts toi the cler;y. of 1twesesions wthich h the te--tahrsr atientieml with'eut re;;ret from n hii.. tnannly. to- whom isle untive-rs .1 ,--,true hi ion ,*oukl renider theam useless. Or hers. hows ever, wrera of a tmore mterittorion< na d lure : manty enemies were reconelled ;i jmany powerful men gran-tedi full par-lonoi tr to thio'e hmi had been unhappy e'nuan~h to ohiend thean; several even gave liberty an! s, their slaves, or meliorated the conadi'i'irr oft their poor and. hitherto slighted depeat r dants." . T1he ahore extract was pointed nt to us e by a Clergyman of this plac. It is ex .ocdly like Mlillerist and shows that mani kid, upwvards oif600 years ago, were na ,, easily itsmb~uggedl, as at the present. Th-sit ar they acre wrong, every bodly notw enn .f see ; adr in all prohabilimy after this .3Iih Ioneice generatit'i shall have been gone as long as the Milleriaes above.- ken of, this world will be something nei a fue smile t. ofihe present time; bus it maiters himnie to -us whant it wilt be thenm, as int thid aickly e contry, none of us have an interest any r thing like that far aheasd. o Weo occasionally hear of a simpering. : double-reflned youmng lady,. boasting that she never laboredl, anid could~ not for the e life of her make a Pudding, as athough j ignorance of these matters was a mark of gentility and a leaning toward European e nobility. Thero can be no greater protaf * of silly arrogance than sneh remarks, anti t for tbe especial benect of snch, we wonidi f kindly inform them that $Iadaine do Geni a li supported the famitly of sthe Due do Or . leans (anti among theta the preseat reign it in monarch of France.) in Londont, by the sale of her drawing; one of the Dutch esses of the same court maintained hersetf - and husband at Batch, by teaching a mu sial schonl, aind the Queen herself, kept e her family ipy sputrced hennete. These n examples of onr own good couantry women s would be punished and ridiculed as vulgar. and rude republican models. :EBiry inch a uMa.--The follawing in terraing item w as fstr:,ished to the Daily e Kettekian of the 29th nIr. by the gentle mn who is taking the census-or Lou is Mr. Ediur.-J cwme acrows a arlau lust Aeek who is 55 years old ; Joe has been warried three time%; by his first wre fe had ,.leven, by his second wife he had ten, and tweie by his last wire, making thirty three hId ren. and nis wife now iS ill it most i.terestiig siate. Twenty- thre- of his children were boys anl ten girl,: nine teen boys and six girls are living. ile muar ried in his 18th ycar. tend renaired in a stato of widowhood three years. 3IARILIAGY4 PROHIBITEDter BY 5ATC LAWS. Mr. Editor,-Acco.rding to your requr-t I setnd you a statement of the mar'i:t.es priliitled by the laws of twet, two, States and one Territory. I have wit placed them in the nrder in which they stand in those Iaxws; but supposed they wouli be more plainly seen. I have pined rogether relations by consanguinity ; atlin iiy by the marriage of W-lood relations,and afbuity by the wife. Where the sanie relations are repCrted. es lather'a sister. mother's sister, on's daugler. daughter'.sdaughter. I have soid autnt und granad-doughter and -o in other eacs--and whern ri-ter an! half sister are boah nmetin::e-, I have said sister. The proibititions un precisely the simo in the States of Mrine. Vermont. M!jssachusetts, New Jersey and 31arvland. Tnere are : Gr.ndm'other, !notlier, !autighter, grand .tnughter. sister. nont:, niece. grandf:.ther's wife, father's wife., son's on'e. granidon ' ni,!, wife's :;andnother. wife's mo'her. wit'-, daughter, wife's granddattghter. Dlm,-re is the name, with thr. tlalition elf st)i's wife'i ister, n hich is it rse of doubl: nfliniiv, and i4 the oily inue named in ttw i t h o ansv of the States. Cannerticut-Daughter. ernid::ughter. t.iste'r, n1uns, niece, grandfnth-r's wife, fn:hrr't wife. sin's wifr. g'ratndson's wif lro rc'~s if--, uncle's witf, nephc's wife. n ire's grandmtither. Wife's mi:he:r. vwit''s:i :hrr wife's* ::rnndt-ts:!,ter. wife's atint. In thi3 State and 3btsseb-ac setts, wif-'s si-ter and wis niero were once prnhibited; hnit the lsav ns to wifes niece was repealcl in this State in If.>59 anl in wife's si-ter in 1793. Fir;-inia.-3other, daughter, grand dati:l.;er, siet'r. mint, niece father'-i wife, s.)m's n ife, brother', wife, nucle's wife, neplew's w.if1. wie' daughter. wife'st granddaugh- r. i ife's iier. Thi i- the only Sta:e in which wife's ster ii natedl. Penn~Iganzit-Mfther, dnaughiter.ranl latighter. sister. mint. father's wife. s'1114 wife, nfe's daughter, wif'ss granddaugh ter. Nte !iampshire.-Daaghter. grand dlaughier. si-ter, anat. niece, fa'her'.- wife. soi's wife. wife's tnther. wife's d:tm;hier. Kentucky.-losher. daughter. grand. daunhiter. sister, stunt. nice. tathe;'s n ife, son's wile's unc!e's wif... wife's daughter. wife6'< gratnddaughter. In thi-4 S:ate ivife's si,se na' ptohibited 1ntil 179S when the law was rhanged. 7'T ns e the same as Kentucky. with the ormilnission of uncle's wife. Alabama and Mississippi.-1u't her. duhrgranddlaughier, si-te-r. aunit. rathier's wife. son's wife. ncle's %% it'en i.e's daut::hter, wvife'-s grnddahnzhter. Olo. .llir0ism and Wisconein Terri tory.-Male persons of tte age of eigh teei, and fenalo persons ou the age of foirtenca rers. not nearer of kin thn first cousirt, or not having a hushand or wife livin;, may marry. MJissouri, Ark:nsas and Louisiana. Mother, daughter. aranlparenus and grandichildren, in every degree, s:stcr,aunt, New l'urk.-Grnndmother, mother, dautghter. grandulaugh ter sister. .SouthJ Casroli.-.Ill maxrriages are lawful whlich are not prohiisilied by the laws of tfo.. Indiana.-31 a~e ge:m.ns of the nee of tighi2een, andl females esf the nee o.f t'eour n'een e-t ;nnV, " whecre t hisy atre tnot prn . ibitil by t he~NwS of God from so doin'g," he joinedu in tunrr,...r 1 hre . s seent a iy law ojf she Simies of1 Ge"-e.,, Nur:bI Carninta. Rhud'e isltand and' lihor-is. on the suldeet.-Proteslant a!lleraldl. Sin uila r Occurrence.- Rr. -nirr in:'. -Th~le Mobile lieraldl say..:-Women arc gneer erentures, atnd 0 nistitke. On: the .2dn of last mnth, ana elderly matron at ;tun' Falls, in N. York, who hadl beens living withi her lor.1 anid maaster. Mr. Jo .ephl Fa.neis, for the Intst twenty-threa yca.s, took it iro her head thati she was not his wife. ft appears that the f.ormer marriasge was sniemnizedl according to 'he ites of rte Ca'tbole Chtnreb, and at this late daay, the wife lhegntu to haive qiuahns of conscience ahout the scriptural legali' y nif the ceremony, amti strenuouasly refused tol sharo rhe. "bed and board" of her liege Ford "another night'" until the knot bad beeni tied "in, language she could uder stand." Reduced to this alternative, the disconsolate ss ain w ith lisi old sweet heart started on toot through the snow for the village. a distanuce of two miles, where the ceremony was performed. The wife buride bh.shed, the bush~and-hridlegruoom kaoked ender and saluted lher, the clergyman de. clitned a Iee. andi the happy couple return ed home-the n ife being cttred of allsern-. pIes is ith regari to the legality of her title to .-bed and board" and all the privileges and pleasures thereunto "appertaining." WVe trust they may enjoy a happy "honey moon." Erft rnal A pplication of Laudlanum. A ease of death fromt the absorption of Iaudanum applied externally, has just oe crredl in Paris. A young dramatic wrt ter, 31. Camille Bernay, whose first at tempts bad been very favorably spoken o. wais ordered by his father, who Is n phy sician, to apply for a slight indisposition a poultico on the stomach, on which be was to let fall a few drops of laudanumn. To assuage the pain, which was acute, the paticnt let lall not four or five dlrops, but the cotitents of a nhole vial. The efl'et was aitest instantaneous after the appli cation of the poultice.-Antidotes were appliedt imrmediarely, but 71. C. Bernay died shortly allerwards. The Sa-annnh Georgian says:--"Print ing by Eltecicity is said to be almost ue com plished. Mr. Alexander Baitn, sa. a tive of Scotlasnd, hioldly proclaims that he can prinr any number of copIes of a news paper at any distance from his office, b man. of wrres efeetrrn.ms'tmetized. A Hr. aia has idenuted a clock an felt ;raph on similar principles, the' scientii ire very ready to believe a good deal c whliat he says." Distrescing Suicide.-It becomes E paiufio sh1iv to recitrd the detilh of Maste Francis M. P:-eples, a promiising you-he IS y.srs old, on of V.n. II. Peeaph Esqof Perty rounty. under the follou in. distressil" cr:cub-stneP- : lie It 'is fatitr's residence on thc 4:h inst.. wit a runaway neg-ro, belonging to .lr. Tod wio reides nsear Varen:on. and swii stray mniles Dud a pioney liavin.: urn-lei s0od 'that the mtles helon;Ing tt. the Rei P. -. Graves of this place, lie left fhle. here (Mr. Graves not being at Lone at Iih time) and w.;nt over tl:e r.ver to conve the negro hmme. which lie did. for whir 31r. Todd paid him 82. And Oh! hort ble to relatc ! he came back here on tl 5ih in,.t. and comnmenced gambling wit .nme blackklgs who infest our town : an beine young ntnd inexperienced, he bOn lost all his money and a golJ watch wori 73 or 80 dollars. and borrowed some E drllars from di!Terent persons in town, fi thu pirpise. as he said. of naing chane which he lost anoh. lie then started. as t ,aid, to go h.ame: but fecling himself di :raed, and unw :ling v, mept bia famil; be loiter:l al'n ittil the 9th trist.. wh<( hbe ot upas lar as Dr. Itaudiiis at Wooi lanu. le !errowed a gin. as he said. hoot a bird or squirrel. In the cour~e 1 few minttes the Doctnr's family hen the gun ire, and after waiting some tin: for him to retirn and his failing to do s, they went to the placc where they hlw thue'report or the gun and found him in iiting p-'sttire by a fence. etil, wvith h braints blotnn nut-nving ituck the hrem of the nun in the grourl and placed il Inzzle n:;ain-t his orehelnud ! We have been thut particular in givit : tatent of the harrid affair. hoipir rhlat it may deter others from ;mrsuing t1 atne cour,%e. What a solemt narning 1 the youth of the country !-Sdma (Ala Viree Press, 1:k.h ist. AltIr.pred Suiride.-Prolemnies, the taliar. who moade -in attempt upon the Ii ofrour worthy Mnyor. itade an effort I take his own lire in hik cell its Moyamei 4sing prhon some time an Mosnday night yesterdlay morning. When his breaka wns taken to him early yesterdny. he w, found -itting against the nll speechles It is stipposed that he round a broken kni, blade in the cell, which prolibly belloa Sto siome %v retched being wh, hal occi piedl it before him, with which he opettc mon of the veins or his arm, andi aho- stal bed himself 'I the foot. It appears ohi he hal liso eo an attempt to hang hin elf. Ilis t.,ndition and the condition 1 things around Wim honwed that he had ro meniderable quantity or blondi, which pri ltced the tste of insensibility in which I as outnd. By the timely application i proper rmnedi,-s lie revived, and is no, rnti-dered out of danger.-Phil. U. Ga:e tte, 10th inst. Surgiced Operation.-Wo learn that z -vcecdingly deliente operation was pei ormd at the Ilospital itt this city on We, nesday last, by Dr. P. V. Ellsworth, turgeon of lanrtrod. The subject was ;il eleven years ofnee, of H umphrey rille, who was horribly deformed from Iitrn which she received when three ye& f age. The car covered the whole i ane side of the neck, extending from it lell ear tot the middle of the chin, and aga from the anterior to the posterior end the collar bone. By the ctration Ift! skin the lower lie waes comtpletely tutrnt nott nearly to) the~ bot tont of the chin. ar he jaw was odrawn dow-n to the breast that t he posititon of the lower~ teeth we hor;'izin'ni. Dr. E'. dlividled the scar an brn:;h4lt the jtiw andI lip Up) to i's propt poitioin: but this left a large gaping Wont w hih was necessary to lill, and this wa donie b~y cutning a 'suip of skin large enous to anlawer the purpose from the shnoldet tis strip, severnil inchecs in length or breadsv, was notl entirely detachted, bi n ;ts ennectedi at oune end where it wi t witedI and titen laid over the w ound, tI fleshy tsubstncc of courso downt; and ti noourd wats them bound up. rTe wioun-i en the shoulder was care fulb drawn together atnd the patient doiiog wtel!. Shie hore the te-diouos at painful disiection with great tortitud Th'le enetireu operation we learn wats nevi peitorrmed in Europe andl never bcforei New Englntd. It is not uniusual to r< lease such contractions of the skin by it knife ; but Dr. Muter, oi Pinladelphia.Gr attempted to cover the niound from ti tijoitning skin. It has beeni tried tEve sixc tames in tbe country since with sui cess, and it is believed that the first cas in New Eniglandl nill result satisfactoril: Dr. Ellsworth has been very s'uecessfulI ither delicate operations, and takes a big rank in his profesin.-Nt lHaren P n ladiumn. Odd Felloes.-Th'e origin of the ords of otdil fellows is oaf antique date. It ws first established by the Roeman soldiersi cnmp. after the order of the Israelites du ig the reign of Nero. the ioman Emnp rr who commetnced lis reign A. D. 5, at u bich time they were calledl fellow cit rent. The ntame of old fslluw was giva to this order of tmen A. D. 79 by Titt Csar, Emperor of Rnme, from their sit gularity of notion and from their knowir each other by night as well as by day at for their fidelity to him nd to their cual try. he net onily gave thtem the name 0d fellows, but at the same time as plde of friendship, presented theta wil a dispeasation, engravedl onea plate of go having the following emblems namely Te royal arch of Titus Cesar, the ark< the covenant, the golden candlesticks, it golden talbles, (weighting one great talen rThe sun for N. G., the moons and stai for V. G., a lamn% for seeretary, the lie for gutardian. the dove for warden, andI ml emblem of mortality for the G. SM.-Spa tanburgh Journol. It is no sin to be ugly, but it is rathi inconvenient. Still sotme men like I M irabeau was proud of his extreme ugl ness ; he valued himself as much on beit the ugliest man in France, as 0 on~ir e best orator. Hle wats so ugly that :1 boyssedto stepbiga in the ustet and a, bnm tr his taco didn't hurt him... EDG~fIELD C.11. r r W DXoESDAY. MAY 24. 1342. it h idCi 41A-CO lie u dlig to tha ilars ofh Tampre of our 1.ter.and iituutfall xv ail Perish 0 amidst the Ruins." .1 FOR ZSiDiET: JOHN C. CAL HOUN, Subject to the dciion of thet I ocratic r Republican Contwion,. aeaemble i .May.184SMas reonsasde4lty Iiate~s of MaryLmd, Michign, KEntucky, Lou. osrn. New Hampaire. Maseausells. ' Alabama and Mississippi. o The lreather.- For the last snkwe haive had fine weather for gardening.. and working d the crops in the ground, having been bonti. c fully supplied with rain. The corn andcotton, which had been safering from the edrught, begins to show a healthy appearance, and we have a hope, should we not again be visited 4 by a severe drought. that the crops in this ! neighborhood, although a month later than last year, will be abundant. 1T7 Edward G. Heriot. Esq.. of Charleston. U S. C. hau been appointed by the Governor of :o Georgia. Commissioner for that State, to tako ) acknowlglgements of Deeds, &c., to be used. or recorded in this State. [- MISSIONARY NOTICE. le 7Te undersigned will commence their Mis. ' sionary labors On Saturday before the 1at Sabbath in July, ir at Point Pleasant. On Satt day before the Sd Sabbath in July. at salem. re Ott .aturday before the 3d Sabbath in July, at Red Bank. On Saturday before die 4t Sabbath in July, at Cloud's creek. On Saturday before the ith Sabbath in July, at Bethel. On Sturday befrot the 1st Sabbath in An *4 gust. at Rocky ereek. . On Saturday before the 2nd Sabbath in Au ie gust, at Sardis. )f On Saturday befor, the 3rd Sabbath in An IV gnat. at Lexington. On Saturday before the 4th Sabbath in An glost, at ...oud's creek. WL WATKINS, JAM ES.FP. PETERSON. I. a 5irgixia Eedions.-Tbe ottlrnshaving been a fully received, of the election. in Virginia, it 6. is now ascertained that their Delegation to a Congres wil consist or 12 demoa and 3 s whigs, viz: Meysts. Archibald. Adkion, G. )r C. Dromgoolo, Walter Coles, E W. Hubbard, e T, W. Gilmer, John W. Jones, Hony A. u Wise. W. F. Lucas, W. Taylor,'."W. Watts, f G. W. Hopkins. and L - Steenrod. who are meJ'incrat: and Mesers,. Willonghby Newton, j Samuci Chihton, and G. W. Sumnmers. whigs. nThe democwrat~s has a majority in the Legis a latute, upon jotut ballot, of 24. d r Bank uf the Stateof Georgia-At an election d fotr Directors of the different Branches of the is Blank, to serve for twelve months, held at the hi Banking liouse in Savannah, ont the 15th inst. the (ollowing gentlemen ware elected: d at .tagusa.-Geo. Mt. Newton; WAI. NJ. ,Torpin, J. Rt. Balkley, 11. WV. Risley. Win. Bostwick, James T. Gray. Joseph Davis. e At EFtonton -3.C. Masou. Henry Dran ham. John hIuatson, [thy Hudson, J. Clarke. s~ Alexander, Garnet Andrews,Thomas Semmes. dJohn H Poupe, Aaron A. Cleveland. SAt Aihess.-W. L. Mtitchell, SteenaThom as, Thomas N. llamilton, George Dent. Small P'o.--The Greaie Mo..ataw of the 19th inst. says: " People et a distance still. e insist that the Small Pox is raging in Gueea r title. We again state that there has not been-. -a single case wihia thirty miles of this place; ie and what is more, we don't expect to have it h Traaing.-The candidates for lhe Offce of -Clerk of the Court of Sesions and Common - Plas, of Greenville District, seven is number, rhave piledged themselves as gentlemen, not to s treat to intoxicating or other drinks, either da n rectly or indirectly, by their friends or other. r- wise. -We hope the candidatas in onr district will. ,. follow this good example. a Professer lriss.-TegLersVauss.4West e of the 8th inst.says;t "Ware happy to learn 'from Drs. Wells and Fair.is attending Phtysi gcians, that this gentlemnen is doing well, and .hopes are enttertained that he will seem he re yf stored to his former htealths and usefulness." ha7g II. L Atwater. oftColatabiaarS. C.. bas d off-red a reward of Finty Dollars. foi'a Pedlar .in Tin Ware. by the name of Jaka Norgen, f who he sys, has made his exit, after having 0 disod of the ware, with a wagonatd horse, ) which Bir. A. provide~i for him,.&leo a-fine a old watch, detached lever,1l3jeweis, the man ufacturers names on the inside esp-Freneh, .Coopee &r Co., Cornbill, Londee, No, 1900. Nortos, is about 5 feet6 or 8ltnesbhigh, a native of Albany, N. Y., and a Ttnner by trade. . printed at hhilledgevilie. Geo.,heqng dirous g of remosving to the west. oiets so dispose of g the wbhoe or one-balf of the establisinmen 0 whichhe statesisa gtery proitable one, bat k inag a circulation of about 2,000, with a very respectable advertising patronage.