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1 I w 4o -EE E D ER TIS R g "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple-of ourA *es, and ifit must fl, we will Perish amidst the Ruins. W. F. DURISOEI Proprieter. EDGEFIELD- AV MAY 22,1851. *. FOR TIE ADVERTISER. Celebration of the First of May. TiE First of May was celebrated by the young ladies of the Female Seminary, under the charge of Misses CoRNEUi. and ELIZA PEW?. A bower closely covered with cedar and other evergreens, was erected in the grove of the lMaie Academy at this place; Festoons .of cedar intermingled with flowers of rich and various hues, extended to every part of the bower, and gave it the appearance of a fairy palace. A stage or platform on which was placed a -throne covered with crimson, was built nearly in the centre of the bower. Carpets covered the stage and the whole en closure. Seats for spectators were arranged on the ground in front. In rear of the throne a ,piano was placed, and the singers were there stationed. Some gentlemen who kind ly volunteered on the occasion, were station ed at a place in view of the Herald of the Queen of May, as she approached. They then played a beautiful and enlivening air, and a". others, when the Floras and. the Queen and her Court made their appearance. It is but justice to them to say, that their music was well-timed and was duly appre -iated. A pretty air composed by one of the la dies of the Institute, was played upon the piano and was also sung by the teachers and others. . It is scarcely necessary at this time, to give a full description of the procession of the young ladies in the grove and of the ceremo ny of the coronation. These varied but slightly from those of the previous year. It is sufficient to say, that the ceremonies were conducted in a very becoming manner.and that the whole scene presented a tableau beau tifut and picturesque in a high degree. At the conclusion of the addresses, which are sulijoined, all present were invited to an ele gant supper. The Queen and her Court moved irst in a certain order, to the tables, and the company followed. Mirth ruled the hour,.andthe.speetators, composed in a great degree of the beauty. and fashion of the District, entered freely into the spirit of the n yeaausual.,aabright and ~t or young- M6de11Who-'took a, i eth ceremodies._ - Queen'oj fay. -iSArAH PELOT. Prime Minister. Mss MARY LYON. Maids of Honor. Mim TALLULAH BUTLER, Miss MINNA BURT, Miss SOPHIA LIPSCOMB, Miss SARAH A. MIMS, f Miss EMMA BUTLER, e Miss LUCINDA BRUNSON. 1 Seasons. - Spring.--Mss LEONTINE BUTLER, Summer.-MsCATHERINE LABORDE, P Autumn.-Mss MARY CHRISTIE, t - Winter.-Mss JULIA A. PELOT. Heral. Miss ELIZABETH JONES. Floras. Misszs EMELTINE BRYAN, MARY FRA ZIER,'SARAH CHRISTIE. The Addresses were delivered in the fol-I * owing order. H E RALD. . This is the bright and vernal day, On which is crown'd the Queen of May ; - To all, her presence I proclaim Let hills and vales repeat her name. FLOR A. Breathe soft ye winds! ye Blowrets bloom ! Be banish'd far dread Winter's gloom, *I, Flora, smiling Queen of Flowers, Once. more appear amid these bowers. PRIME MINISTER. Glad mortals mee t enchanting May, Is with youz on this happy day; Sweet Blowreta her fair brow enwreathe, Around her zephyrs gently breathe. The little insects sweetly hum, And warblers which were lately dumb, Now chaunt aloud their joyous songs, And echo the glad strains prolongs ! -The young and lovely Queen of May, -On this'her own peculiar day, Attended-by her loyal miaids, Appears amid these rural shades. Fair Sovereign! this rich crown receive, ghlioeh we, thy subjects, freely give; pt well lbecomes thy royal brow, And .weptJy .of .a throne art thou! -C- QUEEN OF MAY. '4enidenswho this throne surroid, '#id:Ipaennworthy, Queen have erown'd, 3UytdMiniseannot perform its part, WIlzflade'ergows my heart. Allisnulge'ish-.what shall I say, -To taens goiIITour gift this day ? . . Ui~It f:i1bidlydeniuy friends, * s~ld ~~bpns extends, Thnegiblia 6i6d a B my care. .Froisii mjiele Peisn-lfear. An ye fair mids, my ow~n loY' band,. Vposyoa idI andepend Each is a faithful well-tried friend. For me your Queen, I know your zeal, For you, this heart shall ever feel; Through all my realms, let gladness reign, O'er mountains high and lowly plain. Here the gay tenants of tho wood, May sing, and none on them intrude The lambs may skip the live long day, Anad none molest-The Queen of May. Over them extends her watchful care, And whilst she rules they need not fear. Appear not here, hail, sleet and snow, Nor boistrous winds here rudely blow; Let roses, jasmines here abound, And throw their incense wide around; Let sweetest songs all tongues employ, And every heart be filwd with joy. FIRST MAID OF HONOR. Cold Winter's iron reign is past, No more is heard the howling blast Hark ! the sweetly soothing song, Of streamlets as they dance along; Now gently falls upon the ear, Our Queen, our beauteous Queen is here. At her approach, let all be gay Welcome! thriee welcome Queen of May! THE SEASONS.-SPRING. A robe of richest green I wear, The sweetest flowers adorn my hair; The gentle breezes round me blow; For me the gladsome streamlets flow. Ye mortals banish care away Spring o'er the earth now bears her sway. SUMYE R. Spring's gentle reign away has past, It was too gentle long to last; I come in all the pomp of power Now lightnings gleam and tempests lower; The thunder rolls-the flood descends, And Summer's rule o'er earth extends. AUTUMN. A crown of fading flowers I wear, But some are yet most rich and rare; Sweet-smelling buds were thine, Oh Spring, But richest fruits doth autumn bring. With my good gifts all lands are erown'd, And peace and plenty now abound. WINTER. Now dead is every lovely flower, Subdued by Winter's ley power; The withered leaves to earth'are east, O'er every land I reign.alone. SECOND MAID OF HONOR. The supper waits-you're welcome all, To join usin our banquet hall. From the Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser. South Carolina. Messrss. Editors: I feel disposed to con atulato the South that we have such a tate in our confederation. She now stands rth the proud and dignied example of what very Southern State should be. When I yok to other Southern States I feel shame, >rtification and humiliation; but when I rn to South Carolina, I feel an emotion of ride, which induces me to pay her this poor ribute. Show me her first infraction of the motitutions, or laws of the land. She as always been loyal. Yet, with that vigi nee and sagacity which has ever marked er course, she has taken the high and manly round of the Constitution and equal rights; d is not to be driven from her position by e threats of the General Government, nor duced by proffered benefits. Noble State! amples worthy of imitation. We hear it said by some of the foretellers 'f cowing events, and political wiseneres, at if South Carolina secedes she wvill lose me of her best citizens. Amazing ! won lrful! South Carolina would glaidly get id of some of her Glorious Union men1 lobless; and I will prediet that, if she se des, she will have no vacant farms or un cupied houses ;-there are many now in e South who would take pride in becoming >uth Carolinians. This noble State has r strong unwavering friends throughout this >uthern land, whose hearts bent responsive ohers, and whose hope and expectation is that is proud State will pursue the even tenor fher way in the discharge of duty, fearing oconsequences. SOUTHERN. MomILE, April 23, 1851. Msssswxrr.-"Liberty or Death!" was the ar cry of our brave old revolutionary fa hers when they resisted the tyranny and op. ression of the government under which hey were born and educated: and the war y which their patriotic sons, living in a less saguinary age, have been compelled to raise pinst a government which has denied the euality of right wvhich belongs to freemen, , "Liberty or Secession! Our rights in he Union, or our rights out of it !" Situated as we in the South are, our re olutionary fathers would have raised the ld cry of "Liberty or Death," and drawn a swvord; but we only propose a more eacefull, a bloodiess remedy-a stepping aside as the faithful Abdiel turned his back n the apostate angels, proudly waving the hand in farewell with the solemn words: You shall oppress us no longer. Seek hite slaves among those born to the distinc ons of'inequality! You touch no or' iiipnian.' A Striking Illustration. A company of individuals united them. selves together in a mutual. benefit asso. ciation. The blacksmith comesand says, " Gen. tleman, I wish to become a member of your association." "XWell, what can your do ?" "0 , I can shoe your horses, iron your carrages, and make all kinds of iron in plements." " Very well, come in Mr. Blacksmith." The Mason applies for admission into the society. " And what can you do, Mr. Mason ?" "0, 1 can build your barnes, stables and bridges." " Very well, come in, we can't do with out you. Along comes the Shoemaker, and says, " I wish to become a member of your so ciety." " Well, what can you do I" "I can make boots and shoes for you." "Come in, Mr. Shoemaker, we must have you." So, in turn, applied the different trades; till lastly, an individual comes and wants to become a member. "And what are you ?" "I am a rum-seller," "A rum-seller! and what ctn you do?" I can build jails and prisons, and poor houses." " And is that all !" "No, I can fill them; I can fill your jails and prisons with criminals and con victs, and your poor houses with paupers." -'And what else can you do 1" . "I can bring the grey hairs of the aged with sorrow to the grave; I can break the heart of the wife, blast the prospects of the friends of talent, and fill your land with more than the plagues of Egypt !" " Is that all you can do ?" "Good Heavens !" cries the rum-seller, " is not that enough 1"-City Item. A WEDDING INIDENT.-The follow ing beautiful incident is told of a temper ance man, who, being at a wedding, was asked to drink the bride's health in a a glass of wine which was offered him. iiient he hadjuL. ... d--. - it was resolved that all intoxicating drinks should be banished from the room. We Wish a temperance man of this kind could be found at all wedding par ties, ready to condemn the use of wine. Much suffering and wretchedness might be prevented. A PETRIFIED CoarsE In WIscoNsiN. -The Foud du Lac Journal relates the following very extraordinary case of rapid petrification. "On the 20th of August, 1847, Mrs. Phelps, died and was buried at Oak Grove, in Dodge Co. On the 11th of April last, she was taken up to be re moved to Strong's landing. The coffin was found to be very heavy, and the body to retain its features and proportions. After its removal to Strong's landing, a distance of forty-five miles the body wvas examincd and found to be wholly petrified -converted to a substance resembling a light colored stone. Upon trial, edged tools made no more impression upon it than upon marble. In striking upon the body with a metal, a hollow ringing sound wvas produced. The disease by which she came to her death, was chill, fever and dropsy, and when the body was bur - it wvas very much swvollen. The ground in wvhich she had been buried wvas a yellowish loam, and the body lay about three feet above the lime rocks. ToBAcco S3IoKElls ANDCEEs. Here are twvo or three hints for juvenile tobacco smokers and chewers, wvhich we extract from the Boston Olive Branch they are worth being treasured up :-To bacco has spoiled and utterly ruined thou sands of boys inducing a dangerous precocity, developing the passions, soft ening and wveakening the bones and greatly injuring the spinal marrow, the brain and the whole nervous fluids. A boy who early and freely smokes, or otherwise largely uses tobacco, never is known to make a man of much energy of character, and generally lacks physical and muscu lar, as well as mental energy. To people older, who are not naturally nervous, and particularly to the phlegmatic, to those of a cold and more than a Dutch tempera. ment, tobacco may be comparatively harmless; but even to those it is worse than useless. We would particularly warn boys who wish to be " anybody" in the world, to avoid tobacco as a deadly poison. THE MAN who never loved a pretty woman, was lately seen by some Green landers, going round the N. Polo, and an icicle a yard long banging to his nasal or gan, arid a sharp nor'-easter after hin whistling, "0O never fall in love." NzEE say *"coat tail," Ibut " tbq Oon alusion of a gentleman's onter vestment. From te RieLonRxaminer. UOdth~Qailina. The Convrtli6f the Southern Rights Associations of Suth Carolina, now. i session in lQarl , is- an evpnt whicL attracts the atteti of the whole nation, Thirty-six. Assoc ons are represented, and four hundrh Id fifty delegates were present.' An ass ly so constituted is naturally respec as a fair representa. tion of the peopleTSouth Carolina; and naturally looked or a definite and al most official exreIFon of their determi nations in regr ti their future conduct. The Convention iiich is to meet next year, to proclaim ie secession of that State, or its acquiescence in the existing conditioioif tlerMison, thus "casts its shadow befoie- .' nd if the coming sub stance is likedfitoits-effigy, theie is little doubt about thedeinihy of the old Union of Thirtedn Stati-s.' All things in heaven and on earth proalinm that the end draws nigh. Tf ever mbnhad reason to expect with certainty an-eyent *1hich depends on moral causes, weha . cause to believe that South Carolina: wllteave the Union. The people of'ihat Stdtspear to have weigh ed all coisquefc all the dangers, and all the benefitswhi i may result from se cession, andiully 4 e their resolution to stand the' dt o-he dice. They may not, after all, effe their determination; but if prevented it '11 be by causes which are not foreieen. -that in the present condition of thin3 does not anticipate their secession ds not reason with common sen'se.: "(he party oft olidation and their leaders, threaten" var. They declare that the powersio h-,.e Federal Govern ment shall be. ktested when South Carolina shall dec her separation from the rest of the U They promise to send thither armi ravage and despoil those fair lands erminate that brave people, to mak a wilderness that garden of the, t the fleets which guard our shores e work of bombar ding, burning, n ing her city. They vaunt the vastV s and myriads of men which the t of the United States can co business of o extaiduct. bui ulkts IM: qMiStIuah jiaco, whether such an effort of the Federal Government, in a cpuse so iniquitous, is a possible thing? N6 characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race uis so indelible and so strongly marked; as its love-of fair play. It-is not one of those who side with the strongest.. The sympathies of this race will everbe with thc weaker side. In our revolutionaiy war.the colonies were not more unequal to acontest with the whole British Empire, thin South Carolina will be to a war with the rest of the United States; but the powers of the British Empire, even in .he hands of a prince nearly absolute, c ld not be, and were not, brought to beai upon us, because the sympathy of the na on was always with us. The same caile would deaden the arm of Federal auth 'ity in a contest with South Carolina. ~ sympathy of all the American people wedd be with a brave State, contending' liantly for its inde pendence. Then the cost all nature of such a contest must be take~ into account. End as the war might, ifwould cost millions of money and -oce s of blood. What portion of the Ame an people are wil ling to be taxed for t~dstruction of their fellow-countrymnen' ~rhat portion of the American people "Il volunteer to go there and be shot don by, or themselves shoot, a people hon geneous with them selves speaking. -tht same language, ac customed to the samt ife and occupations? Can the political qu vrelsa of the United States carry themto lese terrible lengths? If South Carolina is ially beaten in such a battle, she will be hten as Poland was. All the harrowing ones which darken the pages of Europe history must be renewed in this virg hemisphere before she can be subjugall. Are the people of the United.States ady to be the actors of that tragedy? ' ~ill they be satisfied and rejoiced to hear i victories in which thousands of their felle citizens have been cut down at the rout Of cities pillaged and burning, in whic nan~y of them have traded-lived--and fold endearing friend shipsi Of lands 2id waste whence came the riches and lbglory of the whole continent. And for whati 1 what are wve to undergo all these hors, bear all these expenses, send dowr ur name to posteri ty spotted with civiblood, and harrowv the sympathy of all b present world by tales of our butchest - Suppose the triumph of Federal jper to be complete; and that South Caias shall be perfect ly broken down; 4 isrgainedi How are we better .offth -fifshe was out of the Uniont .Whyat ~dwillit do to keep a ruined, oppressd#yd'zasperated peo ple inhsuch afl.tP' tnaasnrs i The very key-sto.'ofal organization is the ennality of the sov enr Stea. They have equal powers and rights, meet in a common parliament, and decide all things by the majority of voices. They have no sovereign ruler above them all, who shall decide their disputes, chastise their faults, and receive their fealty. Their ex. istence as a whole is simply the concert of equal parts. How then will the ex istence of the Union be conserved by the degradation and enslavement of one of those States I The Union is not more complete when one of the States has be. come a slave and captive of the rest, than when one of the States has withdrawn from the Union. The result is the same. A limb that is paralyzed is not more valu able than a limb that is cut off. Thus the Federal Union can gain no thing by the most complete triumph which can be conceived. But let us now look at the reverse of the medal-let us see what the Federal Union has to lose. It has everything to lose-honor-power existence itself. These are her stakes in the game. Can it be supposed that the Southern States will either aid or abet the Federal Union in the destruction of one of themselves-in a contest over rights and injuries which are the rights and in juries of them all-or bring down on Carolina a doom which they must see in store for them all in succession I They would not, while one grain of common sense, one spark of manly sympathy, or one relic of independent character re mained among their people. They would strive in the beginning to be mediators between the contending powers ;,their Legislatures might vote the regular quo. tas demanded by Congress; but the first tale of horror which would shudder along the electric wires to mountain an savan na, would rouse the passions of the Southern people to madness. No man would fail to feel the cause of Carolina the cause of himself and his posterity. None could fail to. see that what was then war upon one State, would be war upon each other Southern State undethe same circumstances, at some future time. Armies of volunteers would pour into her ranks, and in the end every Stata cannon wmich snaii ue nrea in that great battl It will disappear like the gorgeous battlements of clouds and' mist which curtain the setting of the sun. Pushed from its broad, ambitious base, the giant statne will be shattered into uncouth and us--' %Ocks of disjointed masonry .. ' the blended work of strength and With ay a rude repeated stroke, [grace, And many a barbarous yell, To thousand fragments broke. Such would be the most deplorable event that has ever befallan mankind. It would put back nine degrees the dial of human progress. It would blot from the record of time the only page that began with justice and common sense. It would close the portals of the most splendid fu ture upon which the eye of man has been permitted to gaze. Nevertheless, it is by far the most probable result of an attempt to conquer the State of South Carolina by the fleets and armies of the Federal Government. It is a result so probable, that it may be called inevitable. It would seem dependent on the necessary connec tion of cause and effect. So manifestly probable is it, that we cannot believe the threats of coercion, wvhich we hear fromI Yankee lips and read in Federal newspa pers. We cannot believe that any Con gress, any Cabinet, any President, will bei round so mad in folly, so drunk with miur-i derous stupidity, as to attempt the exe eution of those threats. It is the language< of cowardly braggadocia, signifying'less than nothing, so far as it concerns thet threatening party. Empty as it thus is, 3 however, its natural effect is the furtherE exasperation of the party threatened ; and in this view, we denounce it wicked asi well as cowardly. Congress and the Federal Executive rnay fold its arms and do nothing ; but that will be the uttermost extent of con ieivable stupidity. They may refuse justice to the angry State, but they will< aever be lunatic enough to make war up nit. The only means in the power of 4 man to prevent these people from accom-< plishing their design, are concessions andi rair promises. If these fail, or are nott used, the rest of the Union has nothing to do but to let them alone. War will only convert an untowvard event into uni-i versal ruin. If South Carolina be per- I rnitted to secede peaceably, events may< induce her one day to return. If she never does, our galaxy gr-ows fast enough to permit the fall of a single star. MELAYCHOLY SUICID.-On the 9th inst., Mrs. Mary Gaines, an aged widow,i and for many years a member of the< Methodist Church, committed suicide by hanging herself with a hank of thread to: the beam of a loom. Mrs. G. had beeni for some time partially deranged in mind. 1 ..Pickens Courier. Southern Opinion. The Columbus, Ga. Times strikes the chord that has been strung by the recent movements in South Carolina, in the fol lowing eloquent strain. No true South Carolinian will read it without a quicken ing of the pulse and a proud exultation of the heart : SOUTH CAROLINA. "We find in the Richmond (Va.) Ex. aminer, an address to the People of South Carolina under the signature of " Citizen of Virginia." Would to God, Virginia had more such citizens. He views the case as we do, that -the liberties of the South are suspended on the action of the People of South Carolina. Their heroism is the last plank to which they can cling for salvation. If they quail now, in the language of the London Times, the "in stitutions of the South are doomed." Shame on the other Southern States, that one gallant sister should be left, un defended, unsupported and without sym pathy in the deadly breach, baring her breast to the assaults of their common enemies! Shame that in Georgia, and Virginia and Alabama should be found public men and presses, joining in the abolition bowl that transmutes her self. Eacrificing devotion to their common liberties, into rebellious treason ! There stands South Carolina alone-like a lion at bay, heroically confronting her world of enemies and preparing to execute those resolves which Virginia and Georgia have made but to abandon. The eyes of the world are on that State. Her enemies are straining to catch at every symptom of relaxation in the energy of her high purposes, and her friends in the South, with burning hopes that she may prove equal to the high enterprise, courageous in the crisis, and bravely throw down the wager of battle which is to decide wheth er the South is to be the home of a free, or an enslaved people. Carolina must make the issue-the practical issue, and draw the line boldly and distinctly be tween the enemies and the friends of State Rights, SoverPint - iat, is sound at heart and true to her principles and her destinies, if that heart could be reached through the thick coat of deception and ralsehood wvith which the trained bands t >f party politicians have conspired to >verlay it. There are thousands even in the Union party, who are restivo under their wrongs, and whose consciences up. braid them as disloyal to their instincts >f patriotism. Let Carolina unfurl the anner of resistance ; not in words to be t aten-not in resolutions to be retracted f -but in deeds, and then, and then only I vill the direct appeal be made to the eople of the South to take sides in the ,reat sectional battle, whose forces have een mustering, and whose antagonisms iave been coming to a head for twenty r rears past. Let the signal be given-let t' he battle begin. It were better to be ~ ~onquered in a manly struggle for free- I omn, and die free, than live the minions ' if power and the slaves of a despotism, onsolidated of fanaticism and cupidity. Ve have striven hard to repress these entimnents, when speaking of South Car lina. As a Georgian, we have blushed ~ or the degrading position in wvhich her a oliticians have placed our Stat3, when- t ver we have thought of counselling our I rave friends beyond the Savannah. But P a the name of the People of Georgia a the name at least of a large, able, true- ~ earted, ardent and patriotic minority, we n ppeal from the decision of party politi- ' ians garbed in the voices of the people roughi the November Convention, to the ecople themselves; and in their name we - ay to Carolina, lead us on to freedom! I laze the path, and the people will follow through weal and through woe, to es ape from the degradation of submission." Z'rom Alabama. We are permitted to publish, says the auoth Carolinian, the following extract fa letter from a distinguished citizen of labama to a gentleman in Columbia, S. ., dated May 1, 1851. We have no oubt many of the friends of the South a our co-States entertain the same sen iments: " We are looking with intense anxiety o the course of South Carolina. Thosen ho under any and all circumstances will e faithful to the South, believe that your iwn honor, as well as the honor and safe y of the entire South, is involved in your ecession from the Union. That a more ivorable juncture for a dissolution of the arful bond that binds us to our enemies ever will occur, and that if it.passes un nproved, the last hope of the SoutE7 will * isappear. Such is my own yieo o. ubject. The faithful everywhereAwRIt. our action. If you succumb, they will etire in disgqat.from a staiggI. that ofers. b o0 prospeet but continiued humiliation and ti "It is a great responsibilityidmi But your course, which 4'been h has brought it upon you, and to sbrip from it will involve an -utter loss of hal actor and irretrievable ruin toyour outh, ern confederates "Believing that you have the tight to secede, and that circumstandesveiuire its exercise, I have no fear for results. Pr, vidence never fals a brave peple strug gling for their freedom. Milan -beld at Germay at bay for nearly half acentury, and finally obtained a concession for alt Italy of the rights which Frederic-Barba, rossa endeavored to trample under-foot; and she commenced the struggle with les. countenance from her sster republis than you now enjoy."' TkE MAGAZINZ ExPLosIoN IN Hz-r GARY.-A letter from Temesvar of the3d of April gives the following details of this terrible catastrophe: " This morning, ft. seven o'clock, a noise like thunder was. heard over the city, followed by-a -sound: like a heavy fall of rain ; every window in the city was smashed to. atoms; the doors in all the houses, even those which were locked, were burst open; masses of masonry strewed the streets, and a dense mass of smoke darkened the atmosphere.. The powder magazine had explode. In a few minutes the noise of the explosii ceased, and the cause was ascertained the powder magazine near Transylvania. barracks had blown up. People hastened. to the barracks as sooji as the smoke had cleared away. Of the magazine itself, a large building with substantial walls, no thing remained bit a heap of smoking ruins, from which occasionally a shell ex ploded. The whole roof of the barracks was blown away, the walls riddled with shells, and other materials, which had been thrown likewise into every part of the town, committing havoc where they exploded. Legs, arms and corpses, hor ribly mutilated, - were scattered in all firections. The exact -number killed ha* lot ye bnertaine' Two ' 4ttt-h*F * i?*nit hu1jU. :te1' ;i %Awl u ri Ichmn ty ri* h ers of some of the unhappy victmsitere oundfifteen hundredards'-from the spot. iearly all the inhabitants have led'from he city for safety. No clue to thedisas er has yet been found." BosToN, May 8-4 P. M. NEGRO EXCITEXENT IN BosToN. 'here has been considerable excitement ere among the negro. population for the Lst few days, in consequence of one of ieir number, T. B.. Smith, opposing be )re a committee of the Legislature, the roject for a separate school for-blacks. aast night he was violently assaulted by 3ree negroes and badly injured., Upon ie approach of the watch two of the egroes escaped in a carriage, but the imaining one was captuied. The-other wo were arrested this morning on the in >rmation obtainedl from the one taken Lst night. Their names are NcKea and rown. A SLAVE REFUSING MIs LBR - outhern gentleman has recently been .opping at a Revere House, with a-slave ho was his personal attendant. This ave upon being informed by personshere iat his master had no right to restrain im, but that he was under the-laws at erfect liberty to go where he pleased, ifused to be liberated in this way, and ~turned yesterday afternoon with' his aster to the South.-Boston Traveller, thi inst. Veetzy of comzmerce. The following epitaph on alinen-draper copied from Hunt's Merchant's Mtaga ne. There may be poetry in the yard. ick after all: " Cottons and Cambrist all adieu, And Muslins, too, farewell!. -Plain, striped snd figured, old snd new ; Byvanmesmriye, Au oustomeru inc~le The churoh-yai now has'measured me, And nail. my coffin bind. So now my kind and worthy frends,. Who dealt with me below P'n gne to measure Time'salong end Yo'll follow me, Iknow DESTRUCTION OF MoLEs.-Al caipangv 'as some time since organised iislianse iond county for the destuinition-of this pecies of eriazid on tlie 26th they roduced upad f this-t' imdred 3alps of noid taain tps,ithiathe eriod of two months.. ymn aVpiaied lie 1fessachuats et rai thpmtotslin 4 en stion' of the fugitive lsle. .RussruJ'IEprs --- intton af yop vistha ist belong..tbs'k nd alow eck spencer.