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-A----.y rD We toill cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liber utfdllwcwit Perish amidst the Ruins." - - r M% VOLUME XIL. a$2 2 -4-..- -o-. PUBLISHED EVERY WED NESDA.Y. BY WVM. F. DURIS0N. EDITOR & pROPRI EroR: N911! TERMS Two DOLLARs and FIFTCENTS,per a nnunm, if paid in advance -$3 i'f not paid withmi six months from the date or subscription. and $4 if not paid before the expiration of the year. All subscriptions will be continned, unless otherwise ordered before the expira tion of the year; but no paper will be dis continued until all arrearages are paid, un less at the option of the Publisher. Any person procuring five resplonsible Sub scribers, shall receive the paper for one year, gratis. ADVERTISENETs conspictonSTyinsertedat17 cente per square, (12 lines, or less.) for the irst insertion. and 37j for each continuance. Those published monthly or quarterly, will be dharge : $1 per square. Advertisements not having ilie number of insertions marked on them, will bA continued outil otdered out and charged accordingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. BY The followig gentlemen are announced by their friends as candidates for the Office of Tax Collector, at the ensuing election: Col. JOHN QUATTLEBU3, GEORGE J. SHEPPARD, ED51UND MORRIS, SAMPSON B, MAYS, Maj. S. C. SCOTT. LEVI R. WILSON. JAMES SPANN. LTThe friends of W ESLEY BODIE, Esqr.. announce him as a candidate for the Office of Sheriff of this District, at the ensuigg election. january 14 tf 51 7 The friends of -PETER QUATTLE BUM, Esqr.. announce him as a candidate for the Office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of this District, at the ensuing election January 14 tf 50 10 We are authorized to announce W. A. HARRIS, Esqr., as a candidate for a scat ,in the House of Representatives, atthe next elec tion. lebruary 9 t*f .3 ~ aring spirnt man of a force of borderrangeiri' forfie~~di. ,fence oflhe border settlehien'ts, aginst the . Indian (especially. the Cherokee) hostilities. He married, in 177', a young lady of the name of 'Caldwell, of Charlotte county Virginia. ~ He exhibited very extraordinary-natu' ral powers of mind at an early age, though his education before the age of eighteen was comparatively but little attended to, the three or four years pre ceding that age having been spent at home in the invigorating pursuits of Ag, riculture, and the sports of the field. He had been taken home by his parents from school on account of the injury which his health had suistained, f oni the severe application to which he had ex cited by a strong enthusiasm for histori cal reading, supported by a patient in dustry rarely exhibited by so young a mnind. In ]800, his school education was resumed, and in 1802, two year< after his first breakin'g ground upon the mndiments of the Latin Gramnmar, he entered Yale College in the Jne'ior class; -at the head of which his commanding natural powvers enabled him to giaduate, with the highest honors. He spent a year and a half at the Litchfield Law School; and, complemiing his legal studies -* in the office of Mr. DeSaussure,in, C1'ar leston, was admiited to the bar in 1807. *where he immediately took a htighl ralek ont he circuit of his native disti ict, A b beville. He entered Congress in 1811, having served two y'ears in then Legislatnme of~ his native State. Since tha't 'period, lie has been alwvays on the front of the stage deeply engaged, and playing a pairt sec ond in prominenice to nine, in all the important public afairs of the times. A distinguished position was immediately conceded to him, by general consent. in' the ranks of the Ra'pnbbean part, oft which lhe wvas a nmember', being one of - its most zealous and powe'rful chamupionts. Hie was placed second on the Comimit:ee on Foreign Amehirs; of whicvh lie sooni became chaii man on thieretire'ment fromi Con gress of Gen. Porter.-This post was, at that time, the leadership of :he Republican party in. the House. fis maiden speech was in defence of his report .recommending a declaration of -war, against a powerful attack. by John Randolph ;' it placed him at once in the first class of parliamentary. orators, Ii'is extraordinat'y powecrs had full scope in that position, w~hiich he maintained withi all the enthusiasm, energy and inexhaus 'able resaurces of genius by which he He displayed a strikingly bold inde- I )endence of'-party obligations, as they 1 ire more commonly estimated by public I nen.. Thougi a leading member of the i Elepublican party, he did not hesitate to I )ppose it in several important measures, 0 which a distinct and decided party iaractet had been given-in some in, t lances successfully, and in others in rain. One of the most important measures - vith which he is associated, was the 1 :haier of the Bank of the United States. r ie was at the head of the Committee i in Currency, which reported the bil! for i lnt pnrrpose which the exigencies of tlhe imes seemed to demand. Since that iecessity has ceased to exist, Mr. Cal- I totun has as stretuously oppnsed a re- t harter of the Bank in common with his )irtv. In December, 1817, Mr. Calhoun, at he age of thirty-five, was appointed I secretary of War by President Madi- t ion. The state of disorder in which he c 'ound the complicated concerns of this lepartment, is Well known and may be 3est proved by the fact that it was over flhelmed with a burden of not less than s ifty millions of dollars of unsettled ac- i :oents, and all its intricate machinery, i o a great extent - disorganized. The r -redit has always and universally been i :onceded to hitn, of having been one of he most active and efficient officers that ver presided over any of our public f Departments. The arrears of unsettled ccounts were speedily and almost en- I irely extinguished; the army was re- t rganized in an admirable ianner, in i 3oint of discipline and economy, on its < )eace establishment ; the West Point t kcademy- was revived, and placed on a i iound ahd effective footiig ; a thorough 4 iystem 'of fortifications, maritime and : rontier, was organized; nor ought an I iusion be omitted to the coast surve, i Gir' id d -Tunjr his .administration;- to I Dlection to the Vice Presidency, in 1825, His name had.been. brought before the Public as one of the candidates for the Presidency, but withdrawn._ On the election of Mr. Adams, over General Jackson, by the House of Representa tives, his own favorite, Mr. Crawford, being out of the field, he was naiturally I placed in the opposition, as well by the mode of that election-being by the House, in opposition to the manifest popular preference-as by his natural affinities. He discharged the duties of that position with efficiency and digni ty. It was there that the conviction fofced itself on his mind, that there were no wther means practicable, to arrest the tendency of the distracted affairs toward a Federal centrali7ation fatal to the rights of the States th.an by a trial of the experiment of the extent to wvhich the power of the pi inciple of State sover eignty might be carried, in a direct col lision with the usurpations of the Fede eral Government. On General Jackson's electiont by the people, in 1828, lie again came in as Vice President. On the c'rcumstances afthe violent and embittered quarrel which so shortly thereafter ensued be Lwen him and the Presidant, we need nake no remarks. Th~ley are fully be. ore the public in the copious publica ions of correspondence and statements nade at the time. Mr. Calhoun became placed in ani attitude of deep hostility to o President and his princip~a friends, to strongly and severely personal as toI extend almost of necessity even to po-i litical relations. A tmorbidi bitternessi af feeling towards General Jackson's entire Administratio'n, sems to have arisen out of these personatl relations. In a'word, Mr. Calhoun was soon deci dedly ''in the oppositioni."'-The affair 1)f Nullification soon succeended ;anid Mr.i Galimoun, in obedien~e to the call of his State, resigned his seat. in< the Chair of ihe Senate as Vice President, to take is place in that hody as a Senator from South Carolina, and as her especial :hamrpion before the country for the< ustification of the course ivhichm that I State was then pursuing. Th~e result, ll know. A compromise was agreed jponi between the c'onticting interests. A gradual reduction of the prote'etive1 uti'es, down to the scale of mere revenue .axation, was agreed upon,to be consum nated in the year 1842... M~r. Calhoun continued decidedly and rery energetically in opposition to Gen. F..c.ksn. administrat..,; his oppositinna >eing maikdd by dl the vehemence 6: is character, and the active vigor of Pis.mind, acting under the stimulus of trongly excited personal feelings. *'Op, >osition to "Execulive usurpation" was lie quarter of the field, in the general >arty contest that was raging, that par. icularly occupied him. Mr. Calhoun has evidently taken )emosthenes for his model as a speaker -or rather, I suppose, he. had studied vhile young, his orations with great ad niration, until they produced a decided mpression-upon his mind. His burning nvective, in the simplicity and brevity f his sentences, throughout all his spee hes he-shows the model he has studied. n fact his whole character and life are iinently Greek. His striking and rand conceptions-with his unassuming nd plain manners-his calm dignity and omposure-his sterness and exemplary iurity in private and public life, all show hat he has bathed deep in tlc fountain I antiquity. In analysis lie surpasses almost any mblic man of the age. His powets to xamine a complex idea, and exhibit the imple ideas of which it is composed, is vonderful. Hence it is that he general, zes wiith such great rapidity, that ordi iary minds suppose, at first, he is theo etical ; whereas, lie has only reached a ioint at a single buund, to which it rould tequire long hours of sober re lection for them to attain. As a public speaker and debater, Mr. ,alhoun is energetic anc expressive to behighest degree. Without having nuch of the action of oi ator, yet his :ompressed lip-his erect and stern atti. udes--his iron countenance, and flash ng eye-all make him at times elo ent in the full sense of the .word. N nan can hear. him without feeling.,I H' >ower is in his cleat analysis-sui iressed passion, and lofty earnesinej dany suppose that hehais anT-abi'r i - itueatnei with love for Rome. illificati6n, so much misundersto, nisrepresented, was with hii ind enthusiastic devotion to t- . ;pirit of the Constitution and the tent interest of the whole Union ling to his understanding of then reatest weakness, if weakness ircan-uu )e called, is his free and unreserved :onfidence in those who are not his rriends. All are aware that Mr. Calhoun rep 'esents South Carolina in the United States Senate, and on all great questions als viens have harmonised with the Ad, ninistr itation of Van Buren and Polk, xcepting the present war with Mexico -his intiueice throughout havingpbeen it favor of peaceful settlement of our ifculties in that quarter. Mr. Calhoun is, in every sense, one f our great men :-m ty he long live to tdorn the atge and the people. From the Laurenceville Herald. TH E RIG ETI MOVE. We are glaid that the only feasable lan, by w"hich thei returni of our gaillanu Regimtent, can be accelerated-has at ast been proposedl. Anid we are pleased hat thme first step, towards the atttain ne1t of so- desir able an object, has beetn nade in our District. As will be seeni iy thle coiimtnniemtion below, GeneralI X. C. Jones, actinated by a sp-irit of' par -iotism and disinterestedners, that does uii great honor, volhmteers to be one >f ten, to raise a newi~ Reginment, and1( -elieve the whole of the war worn aind aurel covered Palmettoes. Or fatilin g ni that deternmined to 'do his share-will -aise a single company, to take the ~lace of any on~e company, in the pre, ent Regiment, that desires to return o me. This is as it should be-aod from our ~nowledge of the chivalrous Palmettoes, is the only waiy, in which they would visht to be iclievcd-by leaving in their uead, another Regiment of the sons of Jarolina, who wvonid retain untarnished, he honots they have won-who would ven opportunity offered, add new rays if glory, to the bright halo, that has teen shted around their native State. Now, that the first move has been nade, we feel assured the praiseworthy -mulation,. will artise amongst those yistricts, wvho have not yet sent .men to lie war-as to wvhich shall belong, the redit, of having the first company in he field-towvards-the formation of the low Regiment. As for Laurens District, General rnsaysa, company ..a be eased ys. We sincerely hope giinent, will be speedily ped-and that the shat of our noble Palmettos, urn to their homes, and :eive that entliusiastic honor, comfort and at glorious deeds, have so iiem id.; taern I the Herald. THE PALMETTO 3IMENT. f South Carolina. have a great interest, in the : tto Regiment, fsom the stment into the service tates, until the present - ve followed them with !, as well as anxiety, , ig and -tedious marches, irious battles, from the Castle of San Juan de ifimphant entry into the -They have seen them fatigue, prostrated by s r ranks thinnad by di, S Is.of the enemy, until a bet remains; and of these .o fear, but few will be ive the diseases of the permitted to return to heir family and friends, ccor be afforded. f, application has been o the Executive of the 'ho though reluctantly, led to refuse their dis I thing further can be tIaf, I am sure the cit alrous State, who have so gloriously, by her tic sons, will not refuse But what can be done? inother Regiment, and 6bstitute, to supply the -Mexico; and by this zffifther 'service rialmetto Regiment, -who gnify to me a willingness A. C. JONES. . Oth Brigade, So.- Ca. Mi. .c Intelligence.-Develop Adultration of Medicine. -Froni .ai inted circular by the Trus tees ofthe olledge of Pharmacy, New York, the )llowing passages are cited in the last i sue of the A merican Jour nal of Scie 6e and Arts: Blu11 Pi t is imported containing a per centageiof mercury. Ten down to seven and aimalf, mixed with bliue clay and Prussianhblue, to give proper design and color.' Tywo importations of this kinil, from the m inufictory of William Baily, of Wulva hampton, have already been exposed; , the first in 1&45, and the other recently.' Its composition, according to ibe analysis of our Profes sor Reid, is mercuary, eairthly clay, Prius sian bTue, ised i'n coloring, sand, in combination eviily the clay, soluble sac charine matte'rs, in soluble organic mat ters, and water. - Very, large - quantities of Rubarb, much decayedthe better parts of wvhich ate dark cologed'with scarcely any taste or smell, having probably been exhaus ted to make entracts, come from Eng hind, invoiced there from 1 1.2 to 3 pence sterliri er pound.- It is inten ded and used for-powdering, color being given to it bjeturmeric, &c. The articeecalled Oxidte of ince on the English labels is generally carbo nag of zinc, betng inmported, it is said at a price which preclu~des the possibili ty of honest pieliaration. All that is received under the name of Precipitated -Sulphur, or ''lac sul phur," as'-the inerchants commonly term it, except wvhea it is expressly ordered from an honorable manufacturer, con tains from.80 to 95 per cent of sulphate of lime. Opiumt is often invoiced at onc-third the value of good- quality, and is found upon examination not to be worth even that. The samne may be said of Scam m'bny. Most of the -foreign extracts are not what they profess to be, and cannot lie relieqa upon in the treatment of disease. The. salts of Quinine, Mor phine, and all the-more- costly chemnicalIs, are greatly adulterated. The agent of an FEnglish manufactory of chemical; efracts,.and many other praparationsi.d in medicine, has said (atnd his remari fare' in' print) that it is a tegular and systematic - business, car ried on hvehiannpincinni and' others in his line, to make articles for the Ameri can market of different qualities-one for the Atlantic cities, and another, very much inferior, "for the West;" meaning thereby. our Western' States. He gives for instante, the'following quotations: "Compound extract of colo cynth, 93. 6:.; do for the West 5s.;" the latter, as we are allowed to infer, con taining no scammony only the poorest sort of alloes, and but little of any, colo cynth, or extract from it. Again, we have "Blue Pill, 3s. 9d.; for the West, Is. 8d. It is wonderful(temarks Silliman's Journal) that such uncommon doses as we hear of are taken and indeed re quired, at the West; and that disappoint ment is everywhre experienced by physicians in the action of medicines; aid these examiples are but few out of many that may be given. Stringent laws, rigidly iorced, h6uld at once be applied to the removal of this monstrous evil. Keep Moving.-Don't stand there, yonng man with your fingers in your notith, moping over your bad luck, but .iold up your head like a man, kick dull :are to the winds, and show that you are !ot made for a prop to hold up the buil fings. - What if your last copper has uint a hole through your pocket, and tou know not where your next meal is s coming from, emember you cannot ecommend yourself to th-notice of hose who need your labor by wearing k downcvst look and biting your fingef inils.-Kick'up a dust and you cannot ong remain idle. Be not too particular. f you can't get high wages take the aest ofler you can get, and don't stand -ound'the strcets like a very loafer-,: a, ingle moment longer. If*nobodj "ille ire you shove off into tletCgelln r9,wk or board and go to- -scha1tHiouhth 'all and inter, a in e ...... . mnue, sornyrcargo, and after taking on board thercoeipts, which amounted to three or four thou, and dollars in specie, lie again put to mea. A norther coming on he was oblig ed to put into a hostile Mexican port, when his property was confiscated and his person put into close confinement. H is ft iends hearing no news direct from him, and a rumor being in circulation that his vesiel was lost with all on'board, hey snpposed of course that lie was ead. A succession was opened in the proper court, his property sold, the suc, ession closed and the proceeds Paid Dver to the supposed widow. The wife about six monins ago married a young Iwye-r of this cit'# Thred.or four dlays since, to the wonddr of every one, the long lost but veriiable captain Lund, atrived in this city propria persona. He nds quite an ateration in his affairs, both pecuniary and domestic. This may give rise to sonie interesting discussions of the law.-N. 0. Pie. Nevel mode of securing a Debt. We eani that Mr. .- R. Rand of this town, hiaving ain old debt, with lit tle pros pects of secuuing it, and even that con tingent upon the debtor's living to re cover Isis fortunes, took the precatution to have the debtor's life inisured for $800, at the New England. Life Insurance Company, Boston. For this insurance he paid Ilast Jasnuary, $10 00. Last week, the company wvere notified of the debtor's deathI, and yesterday Mr. Rand received the $800. By this precaution lie has secused ihis debt, and afTor ded another evidence of that prudent fore sight and sagacity wvhichi has advaniced him far on the road to wealth.a-iest, eld News Letter. A New wcay to Pay Old Debts. A printer of Gotham had an account against the keeper of a public house, which lie had long and hopelessly tried to collect.-At last he sued Ihis debtor and obtained a judgmsent. Some friends laughed at his folly in thus throwing good money after bad, wvhen the debtor was, irs esponsible. "Never ninad," says Typo, 'Iwill raise something.' The execution was placed in the bands of an officer, and one day the landlord to his surprise and indignation found hris day's marketing levied upon. This brought matters to a crisis, and the money was paid. But, upon. his:remonstrating with his creditor at suich an unheard of, not to say ungentlemanly, way of doing bu siness, the only consolation he received was the. reply-"'Well I think you ought to be wll safed that I did niot levy on your dinner after it was cok. ed."-Spirit of the Times. - Mechanics Wioes.-Speaking of tie middle ranks of life, a goodwrite ob serves:-' There we behold women in her glory ; not a doll to carry silks and jewels; not a puppet to be flattered b profane adoration-reverenced tbday, discarded to-morrow ;- always - jostled out of the place which nature and sociez ty would assign her, by sensuality br contempt; admired but not respected; desired but not esteemed; rulihg by pai sion, not affection ; imparting het weak,: ness, not her constancy, to the sex she. could exalt; the source and mirror of vanity; we see her a wife partaking-th& cares dad cheering the anxiety of her husband; -dividing his toils by het do mestic diligence, .spreading cheerfulness - around her; fLr his sake sharing tl:d decent refnements of the'world, with- : out being vain of then, placing all her joys and happines in' the man she loves. As a mother, we find her the affectior. ate and ardent instructress of the chil dren whom she has tended from their infancy, training them to thought and benevolence; addressing them as. ral tional beings; preparing them to become men and women in their turn. Mechan- A ics' daughters make the best wives-in the world.' - ' The Interior of the Earth.-A fact of great interest, says, Piofessor Sli man, has been proved by the boritigsour artesian wells in the suburbs ofr Par- - namely, that as we got t wards' t c tre of the earth, the temperature Ae es at the rate of about one degree 7Aip_ ., every fity feetv That thewhole Jit greaktpar(-Ja ' s" leo V ?mblted~ .."li ga -s eru-iitmsI; ar'x iiave little GOvr0 the *irle rests on the action of elet and gilvanic Mi~iplesvihich rai eon. ~ s.4 . stnitly in the enth.ie 'nor 7-t Mi. when certain metals are brought togeth. err powerful electric action is envolved, and a light is produced superior even is uffulgence to the splendor of the sun. ; Now if a small strangement producer such results, what may *e not expect from the combination of these immense beds of metal to be found In the earth - Here we have the key to( all the grand phenomena of volcanic action. An i1. lustration ori a small scale may be seed. in the thermol.-ctric battery made of zinc, bisbuth, and antimony; packed in. a box and vainished. In this ieat ig evolved below, while the top is cold;- and here we have the very case, of the vol. Cdno in the interijr a fiery occasion i - heaving its surgesi while its peak is capped with everlastitig snows, Injurious Efects of Cftlorofdr. At a meeting of the Surgical So~tety of Ireland, Mr. Sta-pleton stated that hW had lately tried chlorofotar in soirre ca sets-in Jervisstreet Hospital., On'e man was put into a sound sleep, but woke itV about a minute afterwards, and espress-. ed himself as having benf conscious'of every thting that was done to him; while apparently unconscious;- he said he fei himiself pinched, and so forth; but was unable to resist, or, give any indication of feeling. A resident pupil of ihe hos pit at tried it a day or two a'go, and wa~ very merry during the action; to-day he again tried it, arid was put to sleep it~ t wo minutes, but recovered in two min utes more, and shortly afterwards begati -heaughiog in a hysterical manner, and' soon fell tmto violent donvulsions,' sb a to require the united effojrts of seve,4 people to hold him down in bed; h~ then got rigors, cold perspirati'ons' and sickness of the stoma-ch', his pfdsb some' tines felt-low, aind wvhe'n'the edcitement was coming on, it woutl'd rise to 100. He remain--d in this unc'rtamn state for :uout two hours,. and then expressed a - wish to sleep. Under the operations of the chloroform there was a complete loss of mnt'scular power, except during the convulsions.-DubLin Mcd. .Pre*i A farmer was asked 'why he did not take a newspaper because said: he "mf' father, when ho diedieft rr agood'marly newspap'ers, and, Il have n'a'read -tiheu through yet. *Bewda-e of Mad Dogs.-A' dog was killed yesterday, in the upper part of Co lumbia, exhibiting strong symptoms of bydrophobia.-Teegraph