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EDIFEL ADVERTSER.M "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of'our berties, and if it naust fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFIELD, S. SEPTEMBER 22,O. . Gded PoTtn3. ALL'S FOR THE BEST. All's for the best! be sanguine and cheerful, Trouble and sorrow are friends in disguise, Nothing but folly goes faithless and fearful, Coursge forever is happy and wisre: All for the best,-if a main would but know it, Providence wishes us all to be blest; This is no dream of the pundit or poet, Heaven is gracious, and-all's fur the best All's for the best --aet this on your standard, Soldier of sadness, or pilgrim of love, Who to tie shores of despair may have wandered, A way-wear'ed swallow, or heart-stricken dove: All's for the best-be a man but confiding, Providence tenderly gloverns the rest, An.d the frail bark of Ils creature is guiding, Wiwly and warily, all for the best. All's for the best--then fling away terrors, Meet all your fears and your foes in a vain, And in the niidst of your dangers or .rrors, Trust like a child, while you strive like a man: All's for the be-st :-unbiised, unb.unded, Providence reigns fromn the cast to tle west; And, by bo-th wislom mid mlcrey surrounded, Hope, and be happy, that all's fur the best! A SONG. How sweet it is for us t-. know, That there are hearts that burn With love for us where'er we go, And sigh for our return. Then, though the wsorld is col1 and alrear Andi gives the bosoma pain, We've but to turn to scenes more dear, And all is bright again. But sal must be the homes of those, Condenned to live alone, With none to cheer amid life's woes, Aud none to call their own. No season SVeet of joy doth coie, To shedi its fragrance there. No sunshine to disperse the gloom That broods a dark despair. Tihe heart can ne'er he truly blest, (7nless it can reeline Upon sonie fund, congenial breast, Where love's sweet tendrils twine. Then we can brtNk life nianlls Of ssrrow and of woe, For love a soothing bainsa distile, To cbeer us while below. THE WARM YOUNG HEART. A beautiful fact-, and form of grace, Were a pleasant sight to see; And g..Jl, aml gems, and liadems, Right excellent they be ; But beauty and gold, though both untold, Are things of a wordly naart: The wealth that I prize, above ingot or eyes Is a henrt-a warn young heart. - face most fair, shall thy beauty compare With affiectison's glowing light i Or riches and pride, how pale ye beside L"ove's wealth serene and bright' I spurn thee away, as a cold thing of clay, Tli.ugh gilded anl carved thou art ; For all that I prize, in its s:ni!es and i:s sigh Is a heart-a warn young heart. -- Sergeant Jasper. A TALE OF THlE REVoLUTiON. At the commencemnent of the Rievulution ary wvar, Sergeant Jasper enlisted in the se cond Soutth Catrlinma regiment of infantry, cdommanttded by Colonel Motmitrie. Ile dlis titnguished himself in a patrticular manner at the attack which w~as emade upone Fort 3M0n1 trie, on Sullivan's Island, the 28th June, 1776. In the warmest part of the cotntest, the flag-staff was severed b~y a cannon balfl, and the flag fell to the bottom of the ditch onthe outside of the works. This atccident was considered bv the anxios inhabitants of Charrlestonm as putting an end to the con test, by striking the American flag" to the enm. T'he moment that Jasper made the discovery that the flag hatd fallen, he jumped from one of thte emnbrasures, and mounted the colors, which he tied to a sponge staff', and replanted them on the paerapet, where heo supported them until another flag staff was proctured. T1he sttbsequeent activity and enterprise of this patriot induced Col. Motd tric to give him a sort of roving commission, to go and come at pleaesure, confident that he wias always usefully employed, ie wtas privileged to select such meni from the regi ment as he should choose, to accompany him in his enterprises. Ilis patrties consisted generally of five or six ; and he oftened re turned with prisoners before Moumltrie wtas aipprised of his absence. Jasper was dis tinguished for his hnmane treatment wh-len an .enemy fell int o his power. His ambition apnears to have been limited to the charac *teristics of bravery, humanity and usefulness to the cause in which he was engaged. When it was in his power to kill, but not cap ture, it was hsis practice not to permit a sin gle prisoner to escape. Byt his sagacity andi enterprise he olten succeeded in thme capture of those wiho were lying in ambush for him. In one of these excursions, an instance of brav'ery and hummanity' is recorded by the biographer of Genieral M1arion, which wtould stagger credulity, if it was not wvell attested. While lhe wa-ts examining the British camp at Ebensezer, all the sympathy of his great heart was awaekened by the distresses of a Mrs. Jones, wthose husband, no American by birth, had taken the kinig's protection, and been confined in irons for deserting the rov'al cause after heo had takeni thme oath of tllegiancet. 11er well-f'otunded belief was ;hat~ nothing short of the l ife of her husband would atone for the offence with which lhe was charged. Anticipating thme awful scene of a beloved lwsband expiring upon a gib bet, had excited inexpressile emnotionsa of grief and distraction. -Jaspar secretly consulted with hist com. ~panion, Sergeant Newton, whose feelings for: da distensed female and her child wvero equally excited with his own, upon the prac ticability of releasing Jones from his im pending fate. Though they were unalile to suggest a plan of operation, they were de. termined to watch for the most favorable opportunaity, and make the effort. The de parture of Jonaes aid several others (all in irons) to Savannah, for trial, under a guard cOnlsisting of a sergeant, a corporal and eight men, was ordered upon the succeeding morning. , Within two miles from Savannah, about thirtv vards from the main road, is a spring of fine water, svrrounded hy a deep and thick underwood, where travellers often halt to refresh themselves with a cool draught from the pure fountain. Jasper and his companion considered this the most favora ble to their enterprise. They accordingly passed the guard, and concealed themselves near the spring. When the oncny camne up, they halted, and only two of the guard re mained with the prisoners, while the others leaned their guns against trees in a careless manner, and went to the spring. Jasper and Newton seized two muskets, and disabled the two sentinels. The possession of all the arms placed the enemy inl their power, and coniptelled them to surrender. The irons were takeni ofl, and arms put in the hanlds of those who had been prisoners, and the whole party arrived at Perrysburgh the next morning, and joined the American camp. There are few instances upon record where personal exertions, even for self-pre servation from certain prospects of death, would have induced resort to an act so des. perate of execution. How mnch more lau dable was this where the spring to actio:n was roused by the lamentations of a female unknown to the adventurers! Subsequent to the gallant defence at Sul. livan's Island, Col. Moultrie's regiment was presented with a stand of colors by Mis. Elliot. which she had richly embroidered with her own hands, and as a reward for Jasper's particular merit, Gov. Rutledge presented hii with a very handsome sword. During the assault against Savannah, two officers had been killed, and one wounded, endeavoring to plant these colors upon the - 'uranet unon the Springhill redoubt. s said, he matte t auwiowmga3 UUm,-AU -.. ion: ",I have got my furlough. That sword Lras presented to me by Gov. Ituildge, for nav services in the defenice of Fort Moultrie. jive it to my father, and tell him I have -orn it inl honor. If the old anil should veep, tell him his soni (lied in the hope of a wtter lire. Tell Mrs. Elliot thalt I lost my ife supporting the colors which she present :d to our regimaent. Should you ever see Fones, his wife and son, tell them that Jas per is gone, but that the remembrance of he hattile which lae fought for thet brought i secret of joy to his heart when death was about to stop its motion for ever." He expired shortly after closing this sean ence. A REMARK.tBLEil MAN.-At a temper ,nce meeting. held in Alabama, about isix rears ago, Col. Leman:nousky, who had beea Lwenty-tharee years in the armaies of Napo eona lona parte, addressed thec maeetinag. He ~rose before the audienace, tiall, erect :and -igorous, with a glow of health upon hais :heek, anad said: " You see b~efoare you, a man seventy veuars ohl. I have fought two hundred battles, have four teen wounds oan my body, have lived thairty days on haorse flesh, withI thae bark of trees for my bread, snow and ice for my drinak, the canpy of heaven for my covering, wvithaout stockings or shoes on may feet, amad only a few rags of clothing. Ina the deserts of E~gypat, I have marched for days wvith a buranig sun upomn my naaked head, feet blistered by the scorching saind, and with eyes, nostrils, and moutth filled with dust-and wvith a thirst so tormenting that I have opened the veinis of any arams, and sucked my own blood. Do you ask how 1 survived all these haorrors? I answer, thmat unader thae providence of God, I owe my preserv'ation, mny health aand vigor, to thais fact-that I never dranak a drpo spirituous liquor ian my life, and, conatinaued he, laroaa Murry, chief of the medical staff of the French arms, has~ stated as a fact, that the 6,000 survivors, who safely returned from Egypt, w~ere all of those men who ub stained froma ardenat spirits." FROMTHE SPIRIT WORLD. The followinig is reported as a truec mes sage from :a certain inadividual now in the " Spirit W orld," as we have been told: Rapper-John Jones! Spairit of Johnm answers by two raps. Rappier-Are you hiappay Spirit-Yes, ina all buat onme tinmg. Rapper-What is tha. i Spirit-I left the wvorld without callbng on the Priter, as I promised. Oh, if I c-ould but return to the earth, I w-ould do Rapper-Do what? Spirit-Call on thae p)oor Printer and pay him thenm four dollars; btut it's too late. Rapper-No; semad a message to your once fonad dear w'ife to pay it for you, and then you will be happy. Spirit-Yes, y-es, tell her if she wvishes me to enjoy eternal happiness, to go at onaco anad discharge that debt, and everlas~ting~ bliss as imale. Rapper-I w-ill do as you bid me. A messenger is desp~atchaed to Widow Jones, informng her of the sufferings of thec spirit of her late husband on account of not making peace with the Printers. 5hae an swers that she will go at onaCe, pay the man of types, and ask him his forgiveness for her poor dear Jones. Rapper-I senat a message as you bid me to your wife, and she is, ere this, on bher way to tho friemnd you haad forgotten whilst ona Spirit-0, joy unspeakable. Rapper-She has seen the Printer and paid him ! Spirit-Ilappy! happy !.! am I !!! From the New York Herald. AUSTRALIA AND ITS GOLD MINES-A NEW JEEUSALE Five years have hardly elapsed since the gold yield in California became a fixed fact, and within that short period of time between a hundred and ninety and two hundred millions worth of gold dust Ias been added to the wealth of the world, and a trade has sprung ui between the Atlantic States and San Francisco of the greatness of which some idea may be indirectly formed, from the fact that the imports from all other parts of the world to (Nat port have increased from three and a half mim:ion-. in 1851, to ten and a half millioms, i 18:. The emi gration to California, within the l-- ve years, has been of a magnitude )s unp1aralleled in the world's history ; .1l it continues poming on in a continuous and increasing flood, such as will very soon make the population of that State number at least half a million. At present, besides fifty thousand that, during the year, have gone by sea to California, there is a vast train of over forty thousand persons tra versing the plains, and when this large item is added to the population, we may expect inem:eased energy in the working of the mines. We would not lie surprised, if, when the frtl rains come to enable the miners to resume operations on a large scale, the imports of gold, during the re. mainder of the year, would reach six mil lions a mo:,th. Te California movement has made its influence felt all over the world; but now even California itself seems to be eclipsed and outstrippe-d in its pro. ductiveness by the more recent and more imagnificent discoveiies of gold fields in Australia. In Australia we find an islanl continent, of about 2,400 miles from north to south, by 1,900 miles from e:a.t to west, surround. ed, on its eastern and southern sides, boy mountains of volcanic origin, of from 2000 to 6,000 feet above tihe level of the :outhern portion extends to about 39 de grees south latitude. The i-l.and of Australia is divided into lour principad colonies. The first, on the ?ast side, with fifty-six counties, is called New South Wales, with Sidney for its capi al; the second, called Victoria or Port Philip, with twenty-six counties, at the ex troie south, with Melliurne for its capital; ie third, New South Vales, to the west of Victoria, with nine coulties, and with Adelaide for its capital ; the fourth, Western Australia or Swan River, ont the western side of the island, with Perth or Swan River for its capital. Sidney was the earliest point settled. Wostern Australia next, and Victoria last, which was first inhabited by a few families, chiefly English, from Van Dieman's land, in 1836. The climate of Australia presents all the varieties common to tropical and temperate latitudes. Until the discovery of gol, the growing of sheep was the main pursnit of the colo nist ; and in 1850.51, the number of sheep on one island was estimatted at thirteen to fourteen millions, about five muillionis of which were in the colony of Victoria. Th~e climate and soil of this new and growing colony is representedl to be the finest in the world. At Melhourne, its capital, it is al most a perpetual spring. Ice never forms thicker than a shilling, and even a scutm of snow is but seldom seen. Sheep growv and multiply by merely turning them loose to graze, and ntever require the slightest use oft artificial food ; and such is the mildnuess ot the elimate that they lamb twice a year, in the months of April and October. Butch er's meat, before gold wvas discovered, sold1 as low as 2d. p'er lb. So plentiful are cattle that large boiling estalishmenmts exist, where they are boiled dlownl for their tallow, which is exported in large quantities to England. Much of the soil, in all of thme colonies, is exceedingly fertilo and prodtctive, on which can be grown the most luxuriant crop, of all kinds known to similar latitudes ini other parts of the world, and in great abundance and perfection. But the soil toun~d within fifty to one hundred miles of Melbourne, in Victoria, or Port Phillip, exceeds in fertility any other part of the world. It is of a dark, brightt chocolate color, resulting, it is supposed, from the dlecomnposition of ejected materials from extinct volcanoes. It pro. duces, wihen cultivated, one hundred bush i-Is of corn, or sixty bushels ol wheat to the acre, the latter weighing sixty-four pounds to the bushel. In the famine years of 1817 and '48 this wvheat wvas shipped to England, and commanded a premium over the best Etnglish grown article. Trho stalks of wheat in Victoria attain a height, in some places, of seven feet. The climate has moderate falls of rain every month in the year. The thermometer rarely goes above 75 or 80 degrees, or falls below 410 degrees. The tmean temperature is about 61 degrees the year round. It has the summer ol England or Ireland, and thte winter of the south of France or Italy. The growth ol Victoria has been, if we except some few~ p-arts ot the United States, without a par. allel. in 1836 and 1837, there wvere only about 274 sotuls in the colony. In l85tl and '51 the population of the townu of Mel. bourne alone amounted to about 23,000, while the colony numbered noar 77,000, Melbourne is distant about 600 miles south, wvest of Sidney. Thme handsome granite front's of some of the houses, it is said, would do credit to any European city. .A stone beridln of 150 feer: spn-m has beet erected over the ri r Yara, on which the town stands, at a xpense of $75,000. It, contains some six or seven churches; the principal of whiiceost from $10,000 to $15,000 each. It boasts a stone court house, jad, and. somhe half dozen newspapers, two or three of wich are daily, a college, mechanics' institut-, &c. In -1850 its im ports were 4744,25 and exports ?1,011,. 796; giving an exgss or exports of ?297,. 501. The fertility of the soil may be seen from the following statement: In 1850, in two counties only of getoria, (Burke and Eve. lvn) 11,807 acresown in wheat, produced 236,140 bnshels; 318 acres sown in barly produced 32,95g mhdels; 2,282 acres, so wn in oats, yielded ,338; 1,129 acres, in potatoes, yiel& d4693 tones ;6,641 acres, in hay, produced" 801 tons. thus see a _ony, 16,009 miles from England, in abol fouAteen or sixteen years -in the life time . a mere child-increase from 274 souls t1e ,000, and also increase its agriciltural rts from nothing to near $0,000,000. It 4uld be borno in mind, that Victoria has ne er been a convict colony to the extent of .9m South Wales, and at this time there N iot five hundred bound convicts in the col ny, and since 1843 none . have been sent tj51 any part of Australia. y are now sefio to Norfolk Island and Van Dieman's : .1. To the vast agricul. tural resources o ictoria and New South Wales, we have w to give the most as tounding accouc f gold discoveries ever made on the ha le globe. They coi pletely throw i.o e shade all the mines of Pe;u, Mexico, aliforni. So extensive F are the gold de" s distributed in Victoria, that te very. ts of Melbourne are found, in a mann to be paved with them. L The broken quart' rock which have been used to MacAd I se the streets are found to contain goid thus realizing a sort of New Jerusalem, 'ie streets of which are' paved with gol.L While .eb& is blessed, mines or imimenso value, been opened at Mount Ballaret and M .Alexander, about eighty to one hundlred Ies north of tho city.Ir Ti. tr-anre ta r , om these two deposits west Of malney. ino iocmmueo ...... were at Summerville Creek, Abererombie ri river, from whence further discoveries have e been made over a vast mountain region or si courtry, many of the localities being known ti as Bungonia, Shoal Haven diggimgs, Went- 1, worth diggings. Ophir, Bradwood, Major's ti creek, [langing Rock, &c ; one of the most prolific being Braidwood. F'rom May to I the 5th September the shipments reached $750,000, and on the 8th November about 81,000,000. Lumps were occasionally foutd weighing fron twenty to twenty- fi seven pounds. At an early period, Dr. Cerr found one lump which weighed one hundred pounds. In Diecember, 1852, thc parties at the diggings in Victoria were es timated at from eight to ten thousand, and niear Bathrust, at four thousand. The whole amount sent to England Aince the discovery, only a year ago, anouits to twenty millions of dollars already. Th'le gold region alreadly discovered Ins Australia promises to yield double and trible the quantity of gold, by tihe samne numnber ofb lab~ore~rs, over that obtained in Calfrniai. The extent of the gold fields in V'ictoriaI, or New South Wales, exceeds that of C'ali fornia. Hence they already possess twoI Califorinias in Australia; atnd are likely to I find two or three more, for the mounit:in chain in which they are found runs a dis. tance over fronm 1,000 to 1,500 miiles, with various spurs and offshoots at right aingles, to the main chain. The .gold fields, it is likely, are spread over not loss than 15 to 20,000 square miles, seeing that the area of; the wvholo island is about three millions square miles. The wholo population of the; island in 1851 (lid not exceed 350,000. It will, however, soon containi several muillionis' Th le Enuglish government hiave organized I a system for the working of tihe mines, andi a sinadl tribute is exacted from the earmnilgs of the diggers, whso must procure licenses I to di. Cmmissioners are stationed in the diggings to regulate matters, and whose duty it is to prohibit the establishment of all grog sihps and gambling houses. They burn dowvn grog shops wherever they can flid them. Trhree grog shops were burnt in the diggings last winter, in Victorial. Here we have a Maine Liquor law in full force. Bunt the Australians will soon1 bor row miore from us than teetotal laws. The principle of republicanismi has taken root in the country. The emigrants from Europe, and those from California, will give new force and vigor to that idea, so thait we believe the day not far distaint when Ameri ca will have tho pleasure of hailing Austra liai as the latest born, and, next to herself, the greatest of republics. In the meanti me there are no mob lawv-no trials and hang ings by the Cede Lynch. The judicial au thorities will be sebtained by the strong arm of both the naval and military power. Of this those loving security of life and property may feel satisflsd,,while the lawvless will lie governe-d or hangedl. What is to be the end of all this!? What are to be the results to the wvorld of this illimitable supply of the precious metal I When California, in four years, produced t wo hundred millions of dollars, what will 1)e the eff'ect of its continmued yield, when that of Australia, wvith three times the extent of gold fields, will be added to iti It must inevitably revolutionize the social conidition of the ceivilized world, and produce the grandest and most momentous consequences on all that appertains to the trade and comn morce of Euirope and America, that have taken place since the first discovery of this cnnent by the Genoese navigator. TO THE FRIENDS OF THE FA1)XER AND PLANTER. It will be seen by the subjoined article rrom the Editors of this vailuable journal that but three more numbers will complete th< -urrent volume, and it will depend on thi ncrease of the subscribers, durinfg the neri 'iree months, whether it will he continued as it independent journal or not. Farmers md planters of the South, will you let it die by your negleet? Shall it be said that 5,. )00 ont of 18,000 farmers in South Carolina, rould not support the only journ:al devoted, ,xclusirely, to their interests? What! the )altry sum of $5,000 refused to (lie most )otent vehicle for sustaining the paramount terest of the State, when that suim could >e raised from 20,000 persons who are di eeily dependent on its propriety and ad. -uneement, and who are composed of the vealthiest and most intelligent of our ciii ens? We cannot believe you will let it fall. Cou State pride, your good sense, and, bove all, your pecuniary interest demands f you to step forward and sustain it. Give t die proper amount of support, and, from nr knowledge of the proprietors, we will uarantee you a paper next year that will epay you ten-fold.-Laurensville Herald. " Three numbers more will complete onr bird volume. Are we to publish a fourth, r not? Give us due notice, friends that we My govern ourselves accordingly. We 11st have a larger list of subscribers than e have at present, or we shall be compelled > abandon the enecrprise. We do not be. eve in the propriety of amalgamation with political paper. This we might have done )ng since, and instead of the Farmer and 'lanter, you might have had the Farmer and 'lanter and Pendleton Messenger. But we ave preferred a separate existentce, and be eve that most of you prefer the same. It for you to determine our future course. you say go on with the Farmer and Plait. r, and " back yourfriends," we li:ll do so, nd endeavor to make yon a better paper an we have heretofore given you, as we xpect more aid in carrying on the work inn we have had the present year. The resent size and form of the paper will be tained, with the addition of a colored sheet a cover, which will be devoted exclusive. icoived. 'This win save us the trouble and xpense of refunding, in case tihe number of ibscribers will not justify a continuance of ic paper. The amount that is yet due us )r the present and past volumes will lie iankfully received at any thne. In concli.. on, enie out friends of the Farmer and lanter and let's hear from you." SOMETHING GOOD. We are no admirers of Col. Denton's olitics, but we must give our readers tile Ilowing beautiful paragraph from a recent 'eech delivered by him at St. Louis, on the -iumplh of himself and party. It touches ie chords of affection so feelingly, that ur only wonder is how it came into a po lical speech at all: " I have gone through a contest to which had no heart, and into which I was forced v combinations against life and honor, and -om which I gladly escape. \\ hat is a eat in Congress to me? I have sat thirty ears in the highest branch of Congress ave made a nan e to whlichi I cain expect to dd nothing-and I should only be anixious u save what has beeni gained. I have do estic affections sorely lacerated in these tter times ; a wife whom I have niever neg sted, anid who needs my attention now lore thtan ever ; chiildrun, sne separated ro me by the wide expanse of oceans and ontinents, (others by the slender bounds rhich separate time from eternity. I touch le age which the Psalmist assigns for the imit of manly life, and must he thoughtless ndeed if I do not think of something be -ond the fleeting and shadowvy pursuits of his life, of all whlich I have seen the vanity. Vhtat is my occupiation ! Ask the under aker, that good Mr. Lynch, whose faice, resent on so many mournful occasions, has >ecomne pleasanit to me. lHe kniows whlat cnpies my thoughts and cares; gathering lie bones of the dead-a mother, sister, wo) sons, a grandIchild-plaintinig the ey iress over assemibldd graves, and making he spot wshere I and those who are dear to no are soon to be laid ; all on the sunset ide of the Father of Floods, the towering ity of St. Louis on one hanid, the rolling tream of the Missouri on the other ; and vhere a cemetery of large dinmensions is to > the future necropolis of unnumbered enerations. These are my thoughts and :ares, and the undertaker knows them." FLOaRIA COTro'.- We have hasd placed n our hands a sample of Cotton (long sta. le,) produced on the plantatiou of John 1. Feaster, Esq., near Micanopy, Flan. vhich competent judges have decided to be irst quality, and worth 35 cents. The jolls, blooms and squaros upon one stalli i the field, upon which this cotton wn:t growsn, attained the figures 552. Great country that. We wonder if the production abovo recorded, can be beat i: Fairfield. The health of the country in the neigh borood of Micanopy is said to be pretty good, although there are fewv cases of chil and fever. The crops are reported as bem;i very flne.-Fairfield Ilerald. PR EPAYING PosTAGE. -The man whto un der the piresent rates writes without paying postage, is not entitled to the courtesy of reply. To save three cenits, lie makes yoi pay five; and frequently in relationi to mt ters entirely personal to himself. Therei no excuse for this, as every man can carr a fewv stamps in his pocket. Every psaan should prepay all letters, an and whch on lis owni business, a stamp ti neayethe reply. WEJ SAID. The following remarks from the Richmond Enquirer are applicable here, as they are throughout all the South. We rear that the oft-repeated lectures on this subject are be. ginning to pall on the Southern appetite; that the Southern people, instead of taxing their energies to throw off this incubus on their prosperity and independence, have come within the circle of Araction of the federal loadstone at Washington, and, for. getting all else, are exclusively intent on the rewards of party victory. For years have the Southern newspapers been incessant in their solicitous warning on this theme, but they are still unheeded, and we fear will re main so until some future and more mon strous outrages arouse the South from her guilty lethargy: It has been satisfactorily estalished by a correspondent of this paper, that the pro. fits made by manufacturers, merchants, job. bers &c., in the Northern States, upon the goods manufactured in those States, uad imported and brought through said States for consumption in Virginia, amount to a sum ranging from four and a half to five millions of dollars annually. An enormous tribute to be paid by a single slave State to the intermeddling free State of the North. While the figures of our correspondent on the subject of taxation and its consequences are satisfactory, without inquiring how this degraded condition of things may be cor rected, we should with some confidence call upon all parties to look to the articles below from abolition prints in New York and Penn. sylvania, and expect Whigs as well as Dem ocrats to prepare their minds for coming events. What will be the condition of the South if the underground railroad party should triumph in the next presidential elec tion I In vain may we plead the obligations of the Compromise when the government of the country shall be in. the hands of the un. derground stock jobbers. When they now violate the law with impemity and advertise increasing movements :gninst the South, will they not abolish all law and constitutional obligations I Can any sane main dobt 'the extremities to which these fanaties will go? " And vet, what better can we expect ? We have thrown into their hand. the -- by selling them boack to our merchants with tihe mystical Northern stamps upon them. Goods imported from Europe, Asia, Africa, South A merica or the West Indies, cannot be sold uiiless they come through Northern hands. If we ever expect to place ourselves upon an equality with the Northern States inl procuring goods :.t low prices, and in ma. king sale of our own prodnetions at fair pri ces, we must place the manufacturer and the agriculturist side by side, as they are in the Northern States. To effect this object we imust restore our foreign trade, support our own manuficturers, and diminish the pur chases of Northern goods as rapidly as pos sible. "Bv this course we shall strengthen our own State and people, and waken those of the North. Te time has now come when the security of the Southern States must be estimated ini proportion to their physical and mioral power. When the constitution and laws of thme United States are no longer available for our protection, what can we look to I Is it not clear that we must look ton the physical power of our own people I And what is that power worth when we have Ivoluntarily given upi our trade with foreign nations, manufacture almost nothing at home, aiid have thrown ourselves, soul and body, Imasters and slaves, into the hands of a fanati cal leamgue, and depend upon them for cloth ing of our own families, and of the very ne groes they steal? Iin this miserable depen denit condition, without unity, energy or sa gacity to right ourselves, what hopes lies before usi The State divided in piolitics all ov-er, torn in sectional feuds on local ques tions, without unity upon any great sysStem of policy for our common protection, it is Ieiiough to sicken every heart at the prospect hefore us? The safety or our people and property has been sunk into the insignificant of an idle dream of the last moon; and gentlemen heretofore bearing the im press of~ of statesmen, have assumed the attitude of Idrill sergeants to petty factions, seeking lo cal advantages for the purpose of embitter ing still more, the dirty pool of strife, and of poisoning the remaining ligaments of social strength which are not already gangrenous. Where, then, is our moral infuence."~ MErnoms-r Cnmuncit Souc-rn-rom thie Seventh Annual report of this Society it apasthat thme Methodist Church, South, has a pronminet mnission, supported at con siderable expense. T'hey have also ten .missions amnong the Germans, seven mis sionaries, 332 members and 136 Sabbath School scholars. In their Indian work they have 31 missions, 27 missionaries, 4447 mmembers, 1261 scholars in schools, and 489 Sabbath School scholars. There are twenty Imissions in California, thus forming a con ference. Thbe followiing is the annual con tributions from 1841 to the year 1852, in clusive : 1846, $58,5209; 1847, 873,697; 1848, $623 ; 18410, $05,495; 1850, $85, 973; 1851, $113,801; 1852, $120,000. Fiom the foregoing it wvill be seemn that the contributions, in thme space of seven years, have nearly doubled. In the destitute por tions of thie regular work, there are 136 missions ; 106 missionaries, 22,57'S white iiemibers; 19)22 colored imembers ; and 3089 Sunday School scholars. Mu. G. 'was a most inveterate punster. SLying very ill of the cholera, his nurse pro -posed to prepaIre a young tender chicken. "Had~n't y-on better have an old hen 1" said I G., in a l'ow whIsper, (he was too ill tc >s~eak louder,) " for she would be more apt to hyon m stomch t TnE CAsE oF DR. GARDoN.-A Cor respondent in Washington inibrims.us that the investigation in the case of Dr. Gardiner has been in progress sometimi, under -the auspices of the committee of ongrss. The examination is conducted privately. Sixteen days have been occupied in the ex amination of a single witness, Senor Bar ragan, Comptroller of the State of San Luis Potosi. It is averred, that If Dr. Gardiner. had ever been engaged successfully in min ing, the duties due to the Mexican govern. ment should have passed through the hands of Senor Barragan ;. but on this point it is alleged that no duties were ever paid by Dr. Gardiner on the proceeds of mining operations. It is still further declared, that the location of the silver mine, as stated by Dr. Gardiner, is in a district of country in which the witness disavows the knowledge on the part of the Mexican authorities, that a silver mine ever existed there. There are five more witnesses to be examined, whose testimony it is said will be corroborative of that of Senor Barragan. Mn. WxsT FR'.9 FEE IN TnE GAINEs CAs.-'The New Orleans Delta, states that Mr. Roselins, a member of the New 'Orleans bar, has filed in the District Court for Louis. ian.t, a petition in behalf of Mr. Webster, of Massachusetts, and Greer B, Duncan, of New Orleans to recover of the corpora. tion of New Orleans fifty thousand dollars for their services in the Gaines case. The cause of this action is thus set forth in the plaintiffs petition: " T:. said suit presented many difficult questions, both of law and fact, all of which were discussed with great care; that the property and claims involved in said suit were very large; that the exertions of the petitioners, as counsel for Municipality Number One, of the city of New Orleans, were crowned m ith success, and a final judgment was rendered in favor of said de. iendant by the Supreme Court of the United States; that the services thus rendered by the petitioners, as aforesaid, are well worth the sum of $50,000 ; that is to say, $25,000 to each of the petitioners." cetted by the government on the 29th July. The Hazard brought no papers for the press, and Captain B. did not learn the particulars of the revolution. These statements correspond exactly with the last news received by the way of Eng land. That news was only to the 9th, while the above is reported to be to the 27 (of July. This apparent late date would lead its to suppose that some movement, separate from the coup d'etat of Urquiza, had taken place, but one opinion is, that tho revolution of the 26th of July is nothing more than the coup d'etat of the 26th of June. A PLEAWLRE PARTY DROWNE.-A de. plorable accident occurred on Casadaga Lake. New York, on the 2d instant. A scow in which a pleasure party were making an excursion was upset, and five young Ia. dies, all from 10 to 20 years of age were drowned. Th'le boatman, in attempting to rescue the females, also perished, Dn. VAuLNTINu MoTT, of New York, has been elected an Hlonorary Fellow of Kings and Queens College of Physicians in Ire land. He is the first American who has re ceived this distinction. TuxE number of persons apprehended for political offences in Cuba amounts to 400, nmany of whom were to be garoted. WVANT 0F Foon IN Tna UNITED STATES. -The Rev. Mr. Thompson, of New York, now in Europe, in a letter from Liverpool, speaking of his fellow passengers, says: "Others still were returning to England disappointed wvithi their experience in "the States"-one because lhe could not get enough to cat and dIrink in America; ini England he always had good wvages, five mealis a day and plenty of beer, whereas a farmer in Western New York gave him only porln and water three times a day. 'As extra session of the North Carolina Legislature has been called to meet on the 4th of October, to re-arrange the electoral districts of the Stated TuEREa is a town in Ohio \vhere the pen ~e have lived so long on perk, that they be gin to contract its habits, Whenever a neighbor dies, they lay him out as they would a hog, with a corn cob in his mouth. Nowv if hoggish habits are only produced by hog diet, we should judge that pork was the staple food in manty of' our neighboring towns not a thousand miles from here. A Swiss Rartt.-A French officer, quarrelling with a Swiss, reproached hieni with his country's vice of fighting on either aide for maney, " while we Frenchmen," said lie, "ftight for honor." " Yes, sir," replied the Swiss, "every one fights for that he most wants." SrtUIT RAPI'rIN.--The main fallacy, through which the dupes of the spirit rap pers are taken In, consists in the assumption, that the phenomena must be supernatural, or the real wyork of spirits of the dead,. if the spectators cannot detect the cheat, an~d explain the process by which the aeeming results are produced. This method of rea soninig, if sound, would apply as waell to professed jugglers. These miserable "wme. diums" have not begun to equal the wonders wrought by Signor Blitz. And whjAbouBM their unaccountable freaks.-saps ~tI~. I to be unaccountable-be dig name of miracles, aooner tbahan