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From the charicston Mercury. THE ELECTION. Although the returns are not yet comr plete, enough has been ascerinitid, we think, to settle the question, and to render the election of Gen. Taylor for the Presi dency a matter of entire certainty. Io announcing this result we sincerely iish that we felt the confidence which would cuable us to participate in the rejoiring of his friends. Our objections to General Tavlor have not been personal, and our support of Gen. Cass has in no sort sprung from perional preference. To the former we have ever given credit for the bighest qualities as a ideier. for patriotism. for integrity. and manly simplicit) of charac ter. [fad] it been simply a question of .so lecting a man to fill the high office of President, whether our choice woud or would not have falleu upon Get. Taylor. we could at least have seen him elevated to that position without envy of his honors, or distrust of his conduct. But in these days, it is not men, but parties, that rise or fall in the Presidential election. It is not men, but parties. that are clothed vithi the Executive power of the Government. and have entrusted to them the destinies of the country. A grand superiority of mind and will may indeed make the individual man, the virtual master, as well as the ceremonial leader of his party ; and where we have full faith in such superiority, we may be justified in separating the leader from the accidetils position, and association, and supporting him purely on personal grounds. But we cannot frame a rule on an ex traorditary exception. In common cases. we must take it for granted that the can didate of a party will be one atong a body of compettors, that his fortiunate po sitien will be the result 9F this rivahy, ra ther thau his own acknowledged sup remacy, that his rivals for the honor, will be his rivals for the power after the hon or, is gained; that in office he will be sur rounded by men who will claim to have made him what he is; and who, instead of s~nking into the position of followers, will consider themselves elevated with him, not by him; and as dependent not upon his will, but upon the u ill of the prrty which has raised him; and who will claim the right not merely to advise him as friends, but to decide with him as equals, upon the policy and measures of the Go vernment. We study thea the probable action of the Executive, not through the personal character of the President but through the designs. the principles, the temper, -and the predominating ideas of the party which he leads. In all ordinary cases it is idle to expect that he will attempt to be other than what his party wish him, or that he will seek to escape from a control, wherein consists his security and his strenght. I. is. then, as the representa tive, especially, of the Northern Wigh Party, that we have opposed the election of Gen. Taylor. We do not so designate bim; because we think him their natural or 4heir voluntary reprentative. but be cauAibey adopted him as such, advocat-. hia4such, and voted for him as such.. This.fea re oX60 Bresidential election s indeed-s-i4st'_'sg one. That the Nopi~biPygma'yvowing strongest iuiti-slavery -sentiments,ad claiming, not through obsenre newspap'ers, but by their whole press, by the .leclara tionsof theig first statesmen, and by the considerate resolves of States Conven tions, that they were true, and only true, Free Soil Party, and the onily consistent, because the only prndent and elfective, enemies to the growth and power of the Southern States-that this party, we say. should have presented n unbroken front, and given an almost ananimous and cor dial support to a slaveholder and cotton planter, is one oftbose extraordinary re suits in politics, calculated to river the at-, tention and excite the wontder of men. To the Northern Whig Party, anti-slavery, has evidently been a principle of nition and strength. To the Democratic Party, ., on the country, it has been a fountain of bitterness, of int estine strife, of dest roying factions, and humiliating defeat. The wonder is. not that the Whug Party, com.. pletely united in principle. shtould have triumphed, but that they could possibly have adopted as the bond of their unuion, as the tittle of their faith, as the emblem of their cause, as the star of their h'pe, a man, whbose birth, life, position and as sociations, seemed to place between him and .hem an impassible gulf. By what means they hoped to melt down these rugged differences, and to con vert a slaveholder into a convenient in strument for executing the designs of anti slavery patty, we do not propose tnow to examine. That they bad such hopes, we know from their own express anid loudly repeated declarations, and we know it by the far stronger de-nonstrat ion of their vote at the Presidential election. It cannot lie denied, it wonld be worse than idle to deny, thaE the Northern Whig Party have sustained General Taylor on ant' slavery grounds; arnd that hey confidently look, not only for his consent, lint for his aid, in settling the Territorial '"question, on terms at once hostile to the interests, anud degrading to the character, of the Southern States. God fo'rbid that we should say. these hopes are well founnded. or that we should charge Getn. Tavlor with having given pledges of such treachery to hits nia tive soil. But a prep'nderating majority of his support is Northern; and it is mnor. ally c-ertain that this majority will insist on the fulfilment of their expectattiuns, and that a refusal on his ptart, will lie denounc - ed as treachery, and a persistance in re fusel with result in the disruption and dis memberment of his party. Thus, then, if Gen: Taylor shall fulfil the hopes and pledges of hais Sout hern friends, it seetms almost inevitable that his administr-ation will witness the division of the people of the United States into two great section al parties. animated against each other by a feeling that threatens nothing less thatn a dissolutiotn of the Union. If, on the other band. be shall fulfil the hopes and pledges of his Northern supporters, rte Government of the country must be, througthout his term of office, a Northern Administration, with anti-slavery as its animating spirit, and the prostration and and ruin of the Soath as its leading object. In.c,.r aspect, therefore5 the udminls. tration ofen. Taylor presents a subject of speculatioo full of perplexity, and one cannot look forward to it but as a theatre of great events. and possibly of fatal cat. astrophe. In such an exigency, there are higher duties than party consistency; and the safety of our countrry demands that weshall judge of coming Administratin, not by procoucevied opinions. but by its acts. by its fruits. EDGEFIELD C. 1H. WEDNESDAY. NovFMBER 22, 1848. The Weather-On Saturday last, there was a considerable rli of rain in this Distric!. On Sustday Morning, there was seen sleet and snow, and the weather con. tinued very cold. On 1-onday Morning, the thermometer, was at freezing point. and the ground was covered with white frost. Mceting of the Legislature.-On Mon day next, the regular Session of the Lcgis lature of South Carolina, n ill commence. 5lauy important offices will be filled during the Session. A Governor. U. S. Senator, a Treasurer, and other high Officers, will be elected. It is supposed that the approaching Session, will be one of considerable in. terest. State Prisoners in lrcland.-O'Brien, McManus, O'Donohoe and Mengher who had been sentenced to death, will not be execuied. They will be trasported to Bermuda or elsewhere. The law being vindicated. by the conviction of the late leaders of the revolution. LnridClarondon has wisely resolved to temperjustice with mercy. Many persons who had been con victed on a charge of high treason, have been admitted to bail. The Honorable and Reverend Gerald Wellesley, brother of the Duke of Welling. ton, recently (lied, at the age of 78. The "irou Duke" himself i. now far advanced in years. Another brother of the Duke was also distinguished. The Wellesley family was certainly a remarkable one. Analysis of the Cotion Plant.-Since issuing our last, we have looked over the pamphlet hearing the above title, by Ths. J. Summer. it is written with:ability, si % nany !usl iuggestius whom are' farmers'aind directly int&ested in planting, should possess,a more scienti fic knowledge of soils, thana they now do. If they generally possessed but a little' mttch profit to them would resul L. Of the incalculable benenits arising from agri cultural knowledgce, it is scarcely aecessa - ry to speak. We earnestly hope, that the Southern people will at no distant day, wake up to a sense of the great im portance of this matter. CHARLES LAMBE. A new book called Literary Sketches and Essays, being the final memoirs of Chas. Lambe has been published by Thos. Noon Talfourd. We htave not seen the book, but judging from the account of it which has been given, and from ex tracts, we think that it possesses great in.. terest. Any thing about Chatles Lamibe, the author of Elia, must ever have great at tractions for the lover of literature. This book got up Sergeant Talfourd, contains some newv tmatter of a mnost thrilling chars acter in relation to Lamnbe arid his family. It is known, that this groat essayist and poet kept hotuse nith his sister, familiarly known as "Bridget." This lady it ap-. pears, nearly all the time she was living with her excellent brother, was in a state of derangement. In one of her paroxisms, she killed her mother and also inflicted a severe blow upon her father. To keep her out of a public ho<pital or assylum, Lambe took charge of her undier his own roof. and watched over her with more than a broth er's care. To her comfort he devoted all his hard earnings, acqu:ircd by a clerkship in the India house. For her, be sucrifnced all his fondest and earliest hopes of domes tic bliss. For her lie livetd in comparative seclusion. chereed tid true by literature and the presence of literary friends. The secret of his domest ic- misfortunes, was known to but few. His sister's aberration of mind and his own trials were of too sacred a character for the prying world to know any thing about. Lambe had his fauilts and who has not, but with them all, he was one of the kindest and most gentle of hu man beings. Snip FF.vER.--A bark with 167 emigr ants from Londonderry, arrived at Phila, delphtia on Thursday. with ship fever on board. One passenger had died She wans ordered to quarantine. Alabama Senators.-By the death of Dixon H. Lewis, the Legislature of Ala bama at its next session will have to choose two U3. S. Senators. rr1, oO Carollolnt 'THE ARSENAL; AC.A-- 1Y. I Whilst we have given occasional notices to.the Colledge and the various insliiitions of learning throughout the State, A ,ke shame to ourselves for having this moosrexcelletit State schul h is doing so much good under the Ie r1ten dency or Capt. Matthews. The;Ily'y6has been when the cadets were no syandtrude jostlers on our side% alks, and con4qu'ently their superintendent becameodii,'-the town. But a different state o afl'Iir9-now exists, and we have never more exemplary set of young gn en., than those who have spent the tpast year-at the Arsenal Acatcny, They are quiet, order ly, attentive to their studies.- ,Ionugh rigidly held down to the regul they must cheerfully discharge theiW-!uties. The State need not fear that the ellent charity which she thus bestows it educa ting iudigzent young men, will be thrown away. Capt. Matthews is preparing them for vocations of usefullness, and futire benetfis will resuh from this instittion which are now incalculable. Itittist be a matter of pride of the Board afM-ficers who placed Capt, Matthews in,-present post, to ind that he so ably andsjystemati cally attends to its requirements. Possessed of modesty in a degree not usual ito Ofi cera. and tising step by step, from-;merit and worth alone, he is from these cansesa' proper teacher and guide fur these y'outls most of whom in early life have .been de hatred from the benefits of pri -v teach. ing. His course and exampe .Nd fur nish them all incentives, which shOuld lead honorable ambition to excellence and use fulness, and they should not forget 'that itn the most eminent sense. they are'truly the children of South Carolina. From the South Carolinian'. THE GREENVILLE RAR00AD. We have pleasant gratiffationin sta ting that this work goes bravely dnI. The grading is under cotract all thi-way to Anderson Court House. and in diny miles in extent already have been gitanked and excavated. Messrs. SuAkersi and Butler, who have the contract I dithe ires tie work, as far as the Crossing or Broad River, have a great portion of it up and are rapidly progressing %Nith their work. Col. Timmanus has all the piers or the Bridge out of reach of winter water in the river, and at that point it presen's quite a lively appearance. The solil--masonry rising out of ithe water presents realities of enterprise which are proof or its going ahead. The Bridge is thrown across t e river at a most picturesque point, and will w%hen finished present a bebutiful and im posing appeara.ce. The quiriies from which the granite is taken lie convenient to the river shore some miles ehove, and are boated frow their native bed-immedi, ately to the place they are iiinted.- 'No one need fear but that this rAd Will be built, and when built it will be'i' Bafva lion of the prosperity nl tliosesections of the State which it will tap. Itwill ;render the farmers upon its route independent of fluctuation in price of cotton-'nd all 'be coming farmers they - will itiiediately commence rural improvemon stisliute manufactures; and general in utry per. ding that , the cnry willno.lomser a a r .u uris s.-an .cit3 'otton merchants into r lisns eitators. From the CharIeston Mrray. THE COTTON PLANTERS. The depressed conditiotn of our great staple has ledl to a variety ofC suggestions with a view to its .aleviation. .Atioti them. a Conv'ention of Cotton Planters has been recotmmtended, and upotn this the Augusta Constitutionalist has some re marks which we deem worthy of cont sideration, WVith' tl:at jourinal we are of the op)iniotn that thte withholding of a por tion of the crop would have.g decidedly beneficial effect u pon prices. wvlti!e it would be a perfectly safe anid probatbly piolitable operation to those engaged in it. WYe do trot..however, concur to the roll extent in the Constitutionalist's opinion as the over production. If the present stock of Cot ton in Great Britain is compared *ith that on hand twelve months since. it will lie dis coveredt that not withstanding the monetary and political revnisions in Europe during the past year, and the conseqaent derange. nment and itnterruption of business, the entire crop of the last season the largest ever known with hut tine exception, has been consumed, and that there is at pres ent not four months supply -at Liverpool, while the stocks on the Continent arc ex tremely ligh t. It such has been the result under circumnstatnces sot unfavorable, there can be no dloubt that a re-establishment of tranqunilitywill be followed by an in creased demand and enhanced prices. Ever, at te presetnt rate of consumption, we feel safe itn asserting that the whole oh the present year's crop wvill *he wated, and wve tare decidedly of the opinion that it rests altogether with the holers of it whether they receive five cents "r seven cents per pound. as at advance to that extetnt wvould h:ave ito material effect upon the consumption. We again.ex press the opitnion, that if an organised coancert of action atnoug Cottotn Platers caunnot be effected, the suggestion of the Coinstitu tiotnalist is entitled to seriouts coinsideration, and that those who can withhold their crops, by dSing so would greatly benefit the planting interest generally without in curring the slightest risk themselves. Last Words of thse Union-The govern metnt organ at Wasbhington, in given uip the Presidential triumopb to General Tray bor, says: But we may be permitted, in all frank ness to say that we regard the present administration as one of the most brilliant and useful whbich the country has'witness ed-as.preserving the pure principles of the constitution atnd the great interests of the coutitry -as eminetly respounding to its prosperity at home, and its utntivalled glory abroad, and as enlargting the biounds of our empire and the er'ea of freedom fom ocean to ocean. For' the sake of our counttry, atnd ,for his owvn sake, we wish General Taylor an equal degree' of success andi of reputation; mid if we are not as sangnine as the National Intelli geneer is, it is because. perhaps, -confi dence is of slow growth - in an aged bo P RIEDENTIAL ELECT'ION. We Ivive so little confidence in the telegraphic despatclCs rcceived, detail ing the actual enajorities in the different States for the Presidential candidates, h.it we did not think it woith whiltto encumber our columns with them ; for, however correct they may be in the gen eral result. when '1ey can haidly be relied upon as appRximoting to accura cy in the detnils. Suffice it to say Tavr6r and Fillmore ae elected Presi dent and Vice President of lhe United States, for four years, frum the 4th of Match next. The following States hare, br-yond a doubt gone for T ylor and Fillmore: Massachus.-tts 12 Prnnsylvania 26 Nt,w York 36 Kenueky 12 Vermont 6 Tennessee 13 Rhode Island 4 N. Carolina 11 Connec-ticnt 6 Georgia 10 New Jersey 7 Fli ida 3 Maryland 8 Louisiana 6 Delaware 3 - 163 The following have probably gone for Cass and Bader : S. Carolina 9 Ohio 23 Alabama 9 Indiana 12 Mississippi 6 Ilinnis 91 Texas 4 Michigan 5 Virginia 17 Iowa 4 Missouri 7 Wisconsin 4 Maine 9 -- Now Hampshire 6 124 *M aking a Whig majority of thiity, nine votes.-Banner. GEORGIA AND S.- CAROLINA. We find the following in the Milledge ville (Ga.) Union. Such a compliment from such a source it gives tis inch pleasure to place tin record. SoIn CAfoT.rNA AND TIE PRESI DENcY.-Tbis noble State, which has ever taken the lead (if Southcrn Rights, and which when the day or trial cones, in her zeal and good s -rvice will be seonld to none, biving no persomal pre dil(ctiions for Gen. Cass, with her won ted intelligmnce, pitriotism and devotion to principle and to the Socah, has cast her vote fm Cass and Butler. The ballot for Electors io her Legislature stood : Cass and Butler 129 Taylor 27 Blank 8 No press in that State insulted her people by the advocacy of Millard Fill more. The few Taylorites, spurning this alliance with Northern Abolitionism placed upon their ticket the name of the gallant Butler. Hereafter when the serried ranks of the enemies of the Soutb shall be plut. in-g and developing their plans of ag gression upoi her, South,Carolina can stand proudly erect, and none can taunt her with tampering with the enemy; with having joined an alliance by whicl bithrightfor a mess of puttage. When that day comes, as it will, whlere -will it find the Whigs and the Whlig press of Geotgiat ? Convicted by the tecord of an afiliation with Fillmore anda his friends, they may reason, rebuke and rave, but thgeir words will' be re garded as "soutnding brass and the tink ling symbol," the-ir mtog al power is gone their strenigi b is shorn ; and like Se-mpson in t he lap of Delilah, all they can do, is to be crushed by the f-illing pillars of ihtat noble ediftee whose ruin they them selves have invoked. It is in thgis aspi-ct, that in the name of the Democracy of Geor gia, weo tender to South Carolina their cordial and heartfelt congratulations upon the noble and elevated position sihe has occupied in this Presidemtial election. Shte i, the banner State o3f the Southm. From the Hamburg Respubiflan. PRE~SlDENTIAL ELECTION. Ii is searcely worth wvhile to multiply words on this subjec.t. Gec. Traylar has been elected hy a bount 160 votes out of the 290. Full returns hnve not been, receivec from such a numbter of States as will give hire this vote, but sufficient to show that such has heen the result. The result presents contsideratiotts of the most seri ous character for Southern men. WVe are noit prepared in feelintg to enter upon de-' tagls, but it does appear to tts that those of the South who have lenit their aid to elect Taylor have now before them but a small portion of consolation itn the alter nate of chtoosing one of two results. The South must he prostrated at the free of a Nort hern WVhig majority. or their President must prtve a traitor to those w ho elected him. In either event but little honor, anid we fear but less bienefit, can result to the great mass of American citizens. What Gen. Tanylor's-policy may lie remains to be seen. Stiould he he found sustaiintg the Consitution, and protecting the Slave States in their just and equal rights, noise will be mote ready to sustain his Adminis tration to the extent of our humble abilities than ourselves. Ott the contrary. shouldl te prove true to his Northern Anti-slavefy allies, we will he found regarding him as an entemy to the South. and therefore ready to condemn witht the same zeal and motive that we opposed his electiont. Dyson's Pactor, Burni.-WVe are informedi that the cotton factory of Mr. Jeptha Dyson, situated in Clarandon Co was but nt on the night of the 10th. It was not known howv the fire originat ed. The builditng was of bri:k. and this unfortunate casualty has resutlted in an immedi te loss of abont $30 000. Sucht a disaster is much to be regrett ed, not only on account of thte loss to the proprietor, bttt many workes are its thrown out of employment, and on ac cidental check is put upon sucht enter - ..td.. in t.hi3 Stnac_Suineto Bnne. rGm the South Carolinian. WHAT WILL THE COTTON PLANTERS DOI This a question daily asked by our planting friendc. There seems at pres !nt great solicitude as to the policy which is to be puisued by them in pitch ing their next crop. We hear the ciy Df less cotton and more grin raising rrom one end of the State to the oither. We are not surprised that mar-y plan. iers who plant heavily, shou!l say their present crop will bring them in d,-tbt if the ruinous pricr s continue much longer. No planter can make both ends meet who receives only fiul or five c nits for his cotton, and has to pay the present exol bient pi icus for bagging, bale rope, pork, muies, sugar, ruffel, sah and iron. Mllules are figi, pork is high, bagging and rope are tip to the pices of the twelve and fifieen cent times of cotton, and sugar, coffe'e, iron, and salt steadily stand at the old i ates. If to expendi tures for these necessary articles, the planter has to add his negro clothes, shoes hats, and blankets, lie will have nothing left to iemunerate him for his abor. These are really mattets which they should ponder over, and a system of plantiig which does not repay for the labor and investment of capitol engaged in it, we t easonabl think would soon be abandoned. Bitt it will not be. Our plat,ters a:e taught no other systems; itey do not know,how they will supply the vacuum which would be made by an immediate abandonment of the cot ton crop. hi would take several years befoie they could peifect, with the strictest economy, those arrangements which would render them entirely inde pendent of the marketable crop. There fore the step taken should be wisely considered before adopted, and the ut most caution should be obser%ed in mak ing, what we sincei ely believe would be, if onet begun, a radical change tn our ystem of agriculture. We therefore would advise for the coming year, a reduction simply of one third of the cotton crop th oughout the State. devo ing at the same time, the land thus ihrown out of the cultivation of this crop, io the production of grain; and the increase of labor which wou.d thus he iven, to the proper manuring and im proved tillage of the co;ton planted, and he general improvemenE of the planta. ion. By this process the cotton lands wvould be increased. in fertility, and the increase of grain which would follow, ould greatly faciliate the rearing of -ules, hogs cattle, and sheep ; and in a ihort time the whole State could render itself independent of the exactions -ol )tr Keitucky neighbois, who kindly mUpply us With all such thsngs, simply at he expense of the prosperity of our igricutufil population ; for in practice,. hey annually sweep the country of all* he surplus cash.which sfloat, in pay able to procure as much cotton on fifty tesres, as we do now on one hundred, Emd the investment of the agricultural protfis of the State at home, although hey might be small, would have a won, :lefl influence on general prospeity, and build facilities throughout ouir now desolbte and almtost uniapproacihble State, wvhich would not only enchain ur own sons to her borders, but induce :apitalists to come io our midst, to nake their dollars tell, by giving us o esson of enterprise. We say to the planters, rai<e less cottotn, more grain, ntote mutes, more hogs, make your own egro clothes; raise she p-make your >wn blankets, erect tanyar ds, encourage rloemakers and hat ters-in fact, artisans 2f all kinuds to set:tle permanently amongsi you ; labor at making your soil rich, and do not devote all your energies o weariteg it out, and so'-n all thirgs will go well wvith you. Yeu will nut nake so many bales of cotton; you nay nut cur such a swell on~ your factors' Jo.ks; but take our word for it, you wll have' happier shaves, richer lands, imore thrift and fewer de*bts, and sleep Ices thoughts, to harass yours hours of rest. ExTRanRn:nany CAsE.-There fel undier our eyes today, says th.- Kimgston (Ulster Co.) Joutnal the most singular case of disease we ever witnessed. The suject is a man named Snyder aged lirty-five years, residing in the torwn of Warwaasing, in this coumty. *Four months ago lie had an attack ofl sickness bit recovered and was to-all appearance entirely healed. About a fortnight after his recovery he wvas seized with drowsi ess, and for some time after, slept early twvo-thirds of the day. This dis ase continued to increase, until lhe wotuld sleep two or thtree dlays wvithout waking. When we saw him yesterday to was continuing an uninterrupted deep of five days. H is pulse is regular, boughn nor very full his respiration is asy and natural, and his skini moist and cool. if food or drink be placed in his montuh, he swiallows it ; and lhe walks when led by the hand and slightly stup ported. Thursday last he awoke freon a sleep of two days, spoke a few woids, struck a lady whlo was in the room vio lently with a chair, and alnmost immie diately afterward sunk into his present slumber. He is on his wa;y to the New York hospitai. Accordion pianos of tiue tone, beautiful inih, randh price not beyonud $45, are now manufactured in large numbtters at Buf I'ao. The manufacturer, it is said, caw.~ not keep pace with the demand. PAINFUL INCURATILE9 DISEASE Mr. J. W. L. Childers, the Mayor of Mobile, has recently resigncd his of. fice. In his letter to the Council be sajys' "The melancholy fact, that I am ti' %ictin of a disease utterly incurable is impressed upon my mind with encr succeeding hour tf my life, No' pen can describe my physical sf.M-rings, nor any generons friend estimte my mentall angnisli. Feeling myself incapaciated to discharge the onerous duties of the ofice of Mayor, by reason of my aflls-. lion, I especuolly tender you my les ignation." We chanced . frtw years agof to he come '1rqu:tinted with a fnct in the get. tieman's history, te rec4al of ilhicir. 11my throw light upon hia mysterious letter. About tix years ago, when the siject 4if wemperilce had excited very general attetien in Mobile, under the then new phrase of Washingtonianism, a- young man, apparently not more than twenty. one years of age, made his appearance in one of the meetings which were night ly held to promoto the cause, and re. quested permission to sign the tempe. tance pledge.- If not an entire stranger he seemed to be known only to a few of the numerous assembly. He was bloited and haggard, and bore about him indubitable marks of a degraded druukard. Aiter signing the pledge, he - tose to address the meeting. His youth. fill appearance, and the earnestness with.. which he enlisted in the ranks of the., "reformed," drew from the audience an expression of universal sympathy, and excited unusual interest in his case. And this interest was greatly heigh tened by an unexpected burst of elo quence from the trembling lips of the speaker, as he depicted his own sad ex perience of the blighting effects of in temper.ince, and counselled his young friends to shun the path which *had led him io the brink of destruction. N'r many succrssivo evenings this young man was the chief speaker at -the tem perance meetings,. which pecame ve.ry4 attractive, mainly through the eloquent and stirring addresses. The beneficial efects wer6 soon visible in his improved. personal appearance, as well as in his biightened intellect and more vigorous oratory. This young man was J. W. L. Chil ders, the son of a respectable physician of an interior town in Alab-4ma. .He* had been educated for the law, but.had in early manhood fallen deeply into'tho snares of intemperance. He had been aroused to a sense of his degradation, and to .a resolution of reform, by..he. Washingtonian excitement..-which.e at, that time, by a sort of charm was.work. ing wonders.among the drinking.,poPP! lation of Mobile. .He fintly-.seled in the city, in the practice of-the law,and gained a higt atitnding.in the. communit was ttom!fnated its a .candidate,swith.a e good prospect .of.-an election, :hat ho miodestly magnanimously declined -ind favor of Ex Gov. Gayle, the present member, a horn lhe conside:ed as having-N higher claims to ti-e honor. Subsequent. hy lhe was elected Mayor of the city,'and for aught we know to the contrary,hlas ever since continued faithful to Jas.a. pledge. The peculiar phriiseology ofs the letter a bove quoted, howe'ver war- - rants us at least in suspecting that he has again been ensnared by the demon In tempera nce. The coincidence of circumstances eads us to mention, that Ex-Governor - G ayle,!zo whom Mr. J.:W. Childers de r.line~d his claims to distinction, was also subject of the temperance reformation in Mobile. Hie had been eminent among lie public me'n in the State of Alabama, und held high rank in time lcgal profes ;ion ; but for seveeal years he had been-, n the downward paOth of inmemperance. At one of the temnperan cel'meetings which were held ahinost every night in . one of the i.hurchecs, and were attended by very respectable auditories-Mr.. Gayle was the first to set the example nI signing the-pledge. His enlistmensts in the cold water army occasioned a.,en.. eral shout of exuhra.ion in the midst of. whlich the tenderer joy that was mani tested by his initeresting family, who were present, did not escape notice. .A Washingtonian Society was subsequent. ly foirmed, and Mr. Gayle was chosen its President-a more honorable station, in some respects, than that which he had once held as Governor of the State. He is the present Representative in Congress of thec Mobile district. [ Boston Travelor. HUDsoNe BaY CoMAtor-A letter from Washiington snys: "It is reported that Mr. Buchanan has declined to resume the negotiatIon with the agents of the Hudson's Hay Company. for the purchase of their sciual possessory rights, and their for more extensive claims in Oregon. It wouldi appear that the Britiah Govern, ment has interposed with an injuetion up on the officers of the company. restrain ing them from tratnsferriug to the United States any or the right seenred to it by the treaty. Thte principal of these is the rights to the free navigation of the Colm bia This looks as if the British Govern ment intended to assert some nationlat rights in inat Territory. It is not at all unlikely that serions troubles will grow out of the British pretensions in that guar ter under the treaty. Trho Idea of g'lving up the point of an exclusive navigation of I the Columbia. is no more to be entertain edt than a propositior, to open the Mis sissippi to the unrestricted commerce of te world." A quiet consiepce sleeps ip thunder.