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THE SLAVE TRADE. Cieapness of labor is essential to the material progress of every people. But this can .nly ob. tain with the abundance of supply. Now, slave ltbor is, and ought to be, the cheapest kind of labor. It will only become otherwise, wl n foreign and hostile influences are made to bear agalinst it. The aboliLion of' the Slave Tr.tde, by cutting off the supply, tends to. this result. Slaves were never so high before in the South. They have within the last few years advanced 50 per cent. in price, and in some instanees. even more. To what is thuis attributable ? Is it to an increase in the value of their productions? We think not. Taking the three great staples, cotton, rice aud suge r, as thg standards, we caus discover no such increase in the profits of their cul'ure as would w:irr:nit this advance. Indeed it my weil be doubted whether planting through out the South during the last ten years, has been as profitable as for the same preceding peri.d. I hascertainty not been more so, and the pur chaser now of slaves at rix hundred dollars each, has no promise of better returns for their labor, than when lie bought them at four hundred dol lars. The slave can neither cultivate nor pru. duce more now than formerly. Thus, so fiar as the planting interest is concerned, the anomaly is presented, of an advance inl the market value of the capital employed, without any c'rrespon ding increase in its prolits. We tust, therefore. seek elsewhere for the real cause of the present high price of slaves. The influx or gold from California, in swelling the cost of nhnost every si-eeies of' properly. necessarily affected that of slaves. But there is a reason deeper and beyond this. It is the scarcity of, as compared with the multiplying demands for, labor; demands, too, so imperative that they must be supplied at almost any cost. In the last flew years internal improvemnarts in the South have been prosecuted on a scale greater than ever before. With the conscious iness of her resources has come the determina tion to develop them. The surf ce of our own State has been traversed in many dirt-etions by tihe iron-horse, and soon his snort % ill awake in the gorges of the Blue Ridge eches which have been slumbernig since ue world be;r:n. Throughout our while section, the s:te actie enterprise is exhibited, and the result has been to create new fields anti greater demand for Southern labor. Under this state of things. there is no prospect whatever that Slaves will grow cheaper, but rather continue to advaice un til they reach the point where co,t exceeds re. ceipts, and the usual reaction takes place. This. happily, is still very reuote. But Slave labor is a necessity with the South, and the hardship of the present restrictions conists in redncing: the supply and increasing the price, while the demands are muhiplyinz, thereby repressing ler enterprise, and retarding her protgri'ss. We have, in a former article, shown how inadequate that supply is, either for home development ilr Coloniza tion, and we now approach the most impirtant and delicate point in the whole mattir. It is needless to disguise the fact that the inl stitution of slavery is threateIed by internal danger. Impe-rilled and assailed by a host of external enemies, its last and only hope is in a hearty and effective union witin. Nowhere can discord be more fatal-nowhere the maxim " di vide and conquer," more completely triumphant. Union of the South in defence of Slavery, has been for the last thirty years growing more and more urgetif, and the want of it, has emboildened every attack, and brought upoen us the crisis to which none but the most unthinking ean be in. different. In the final strugirle, which must come sooner or later, when Abolition. fluthied with past triumphss. and inspired by her submis sion, shall sweep on to its grand, diabolical c-n summation-the subjug.tion and ruin of thet' Souti, union, union. will be her only refuge. To secure this against the trials of that eventful day, should be the aigi of the statesminm aut patriot. I4t must be a union founded in the in terests of every man, woman and chiid-interes, so paramount and so universal, as to call fordi the ste nest energies. Now, the evident tendency of the high and in creasing price of slaves is, to concentrate thi psroperty iin the hanids of' the few. and weaokeni the t'elh ing of interest in its mu:iintecnanee amnd preservation. Tlhe poor will sell, and none but th moepop~gwl e able to buy. , The seek othier investmentts, anid transfer to theni that constant and watchful interest. whicht alone attaches to ownership. And with this state or things, there wilt grow a feelintg that slave'ryv a matter which eoncerns only slave-owner-; th r aggressions upon it imnjure, and are to be resis tedl, by them alone-antd that even its final abo lition, while overwhtelmning thseti, will leave the' non-owner unharmed. Such was the idea and spirit of that infanous pamphlet, " Bruttus," which wais scattered through our Statte a few years since ; tnt more infamous f'or time vile pa,. ins itoghit toexcite, than frthe falsehood, it uttered. Slavery is, and so long as the South preser yes her exue-nee, must continue fto he, the basis Rf all prope'rty-calues in thie South. EvWery ag gression which weaikens it, aflee:s all other kinds of property, and its abolition wvill intvolve the, ruin of every interest-evenl the most remote. The rich wvill be robbed of his abunidane, and the poor of his " little all." No ehbange sif in' vestment will tave. T1he owner, and the nont owner, with fasll side by side, beineath thiegenet ral ruin, which, like a vast c.onflaigration, devours the palace atnd thle hitst. The mieants oh' the hat ter, though not invested int slaves, are stamked upon that whiich derives all its valuie f'rom t hiem; and wvhen the foundration crumbles, the sulper structure must follow. Whten we spceak of' Abolition dest roying :te South. it is of a whtole' people-their civilizaition. property, hioples-tall siniking toge ter. H-ow false anid fatal, theni. the poilicy which excites the most delusive hopes. weaklents the Sounth in thme u ity and strength of its resistance to tabolitioin, antd nmakes metn luke warm in def'ence of tan inistituntison, in whose rain they inust be swallowed usp ? And h ow mi-era bly short-sighited tare thtey, whlo fancyv that there is no danger to them or their property, in sub-) misis andc conceessions which prepare thei way of fanasticisma?I Biut increase the supply of labor, and thus cheapen the cost of slaves. ansd tite South willI escape this interal peril. Thei numtberi slaive ownzers wvoul muttltiply, thme direct initerest. in its preservation wvsuld be more universaul y dir fused, and thsat greait necessity of the Sotuth uniont int defence of slavery, more readily ac'c'om plished. If it were possible. every matn ini her whoile limits should be a s!ave-ownier. 'There would then be nio chances, that "Brmuts," and like incendiary publientins, would tiuid rspnsme in any quarter oh' thme South, excitinug one elass agaiunst another, and deceivinmg ti part into betliee ing that their fate cast be different from that of the wvhole.--Charleston M ercuiry. THmE CoTToN CtoP.-The Jacksonville (Ala.) Repuiblic'an of' thme 7th inst. says: "'rThe fall has been exceedingly favorable thus far for the maturing and gaiherinig thme cottoni crop in this section. No froist yet to kill the weed, no destrnetive storms or heavy rainss, mior, indeed, any weather to interrupt the priicess of' gathering. TIhie favorable fall amid l'ate f'rost wili make thme uplanld crop of thsis part, of our State much better' than anticipated a few weeks sinice. This, though exceedingly fortunlate f'or our pro ple these hsard times, will have lit tle oir nio per ceptible effect upoin tile aggregate cotton crop of the country. The earily drought -anid des tructive stornm of a few weeka since in Texass, Louisiansa arid Missisippi, with other disasters, it is believed, will reduce time cotton crop of this year conmideraubly belowv an average." ELDEa CUMnss one oif the immediate Second Adventtists, lectutred ini Salem, on Tues day of Itist week, whsere and whsen he arrived at thte conclusion that Christ would certainly aske his appearance on the 13th or 14th of No emn ber. He said he should never meet with his hearers angain on earth, and'took an affectionate leave of them, a last farewell. The Blostoni Traveller knows of tan ingenious mechanic who has become infatuated by this seconid advent delusion, and who hais thrown aside his business and relinquished his property, and is awaiting, in full alssurantce of faith, the coming of Christ mind the end of the world, which he is sure will take place during the present moon. A famine unparalleled in the history of the country is said to be pervauilinig int the land of Jndea. ARTHUR S1MKINS, EDITOR, EDGEFIELD, S. C. TIIURSDA I NOVE1 UER 16, 1854. We Beg a Tavor. THE subscribers to the Advertiser must all he cnn vinced by this time that we are earniestly desirons of giving them full value received for their annual sub scription mocey. We have gone on, erep by step, for the last few years, until it woulJ seem that our sheet had gotten to be quite equal to the wants of a mere country circulation. But we are not yet satisfied. Our desire is to place the EDGEFIELD ADvERTIsER in a yet more advanced position amorng tie papers of Lour country. That we may be enabled to do this, wo rome once more to our subscribers, cacti one by him i-if, and ask them most respectfully, but earnest!y, tv assist us in extending the scope of our usefulness by mncreasirg our means of doing the handsome thing. Between this and Christn:as, cannot each one of you, kind readers, proctre us one or inore additional pay ing subscrihers ? We beg you to SLItGHT NOT this our special request. Fifteen hundred of yont. at least, are gentlemen whose bare recommendation witild lead others to jill themselves to the long list of our subscribers. Will you refutse us this? We know you will not. By Christnas, then, we look for a large in crease ; artd should it come, we'll give you a jolly Christmas numnber. N. B. If you mean to comply with our reqnest, !lease do so right of, wh ile you think <f it. Chango of Publication Day. Foa the purpose of accomodating our subscribers a little better thani can he done by our present arrange ment, we will, after this issue, change our lublicatiott day back to Wednesday. Big Potatoos. MR. B. W. IIATC1ER senids4s a fine sample of arn And Spanish potatoes. The largest Yam w-igLhs 6. ponnds-the largest %paniih t-asures 2 fret itn lenigth. We have not sre o: heard of anything inm the litte Laf putatows this seastn n hichi stirpasses this showing. The Weather. Ox Monday night last. the Thermometer in this vi. rintity stood at 600. By day-break the next utaorning it was down to 23. It is now again ab.ve -10' at :arly morn-stil higher at mid-day. On Tuesday norning. the 13.h1, we had a killing frost-vegetation :onpletely blasted. An Editcrial Change. Mr. E. H1. Buttr-ros has retired from the editorial :hair of the Sp.artanhutrg Express. Messrs. E. JoxNs HlaY, anld T. &Toao FARRow succeed him. Mr. B. goes into the Carolina '1"mucsalotng with Mr. GIL.Es. The Bachelor's Ball. IT will b. reieutmbered that the -- llgefied Bathe or's Ball" comes off this (Thursday) evening at the resideice of Mr. Abnter Bushnell, some two miles out >n the Plank Road. A larae assembly is anticipated, [ots of ladies atil a crowd of excellent bachelors 3eaux. Fine tim.s may be reckoned on by all who think of attending, a good suppe*r,a quantity of refresh uents, admirable music and dancing enough fur all. ,an we not etgage some very old bachelor, wlo has xassed that time of life when woman's eyes bewilder >ile so, to sit off itt a corner, take notes and give us a lining description of the occasion. We would do o trself; but (although a married tant) we are a lit .le to" yuntg to keep our head in a plight to play re orier, where every thing will be going forward so nerrily as there. E 'o the ludies we would add, that we under. tand the m st complete arratngemuents have been made ii etnahle them to pass fhe evening delightfully. The trictebt order will be preserved in every particular. Cur Advertising Columns. We ask the special consideration of llambturg and Xuustx merchants to the advantages they might se !ure to themselves by libe-rally advertisitng it our !olumtns. We have a long attd rapidly growing list of .,bscribers, a large prdotn tof whlotn already trade ini llamnburg anid Augusta; so that our paper woul sem .o be one of the very best mediums to be htad, throught xhich the husintess-mnen of either of these places taug lit nake known to a most respectable array of planters, n Edgefield and the adjoinming Districts, the qjuatntity ttti qutality of th,-ir various stocks. Just at this dune 2artncularly, while thme Fair is p,:tditng an~d hutndreds ure thitnkintg of going t'o town, would it niot he well for .ose merchants (onte and all) to strike ? Send up tour favors, gentlemnen ; and we will place thtem be 'ore the people cotnspicutously and htatndsomely. You -attnot be injitred ; for outr own concern, onie way and tnother, wuould see that this shoiul nut be so. Ent itdepetndently of this, we feel morally certaitn that, by his course on the part of outr nmercanitile frietnds in latmhurg and Augus~a, their best itnterests isould be argely subserved. Our Augusta Friends. 'rTu city of Antgttsa is just getting through her pe -iodl of adversity. Thme Winter's breath has blown tway the pestilence that recently stalked abroadl at tomoday and made mid-tigeht hideous. Thue absenute.-s, a ho have bieen otn a long and painifob ojoumtia itn di.tanit ocalities, are hturryinig hack to their homnes wih re nkintdled hopes and reviving energy. And soon, the treets, wvhich were but yesterday so glootny and leserted, wvill beC full of life attd vivacity and beauty mid businiess. Our symnpathuies Ilow n ith the returning 'mys of our Augusta frietids as they htave donie with heir grievonts sorrows. As we have wept with those ulho weep, so do we now rejoice with those who re oicie. May te approaching winter be to thtem all a 'gloriotns sulmmer"~ of prosperity, heailth anud happi ess ! It is ant" ill wintd that blows tno good," andI ye trust the cosuntry rounid abonzt this favormite htte eiy of the Savanahl will now shionosr its custom into ier lap utitil all her good peiple shall be filledl and tave to spare. Sii shall blessings atnd abiutndantce fs! isv in the traina of afilietiotn and losses. And the vonnjis if the distressed shahll he gradnli:ully healed, vhile the means iif co:iifurt and enjoymtent shall be loubled on all bides. L~ook out, Sportsrnen I WPi. have received the following front Mr. W. C. ~owsEa, of Anderson C. I!. So Cta: "The thiorough-bred and beauiftul race mare, 'Oranige Girl,"~ will be at Edg~efild Court 11in-e otn saleday ini Lheembter, en route for Augusta. All who ire food of loikinig at fine stock can thent feast their Pretty good that, Mr. PowEna! The natme of your inimal, Orange Girl," is a preciotts tit-bit of itself. mNhether the mare "by any other niame would ruxn as ast" will be better decided after we have seeti her tarts. The Augusta Fair. By a notice which we publish to-day, it will be een that this gala week has been postpotied utntil December. This is a good idlea. By thait time confi lence in the heaith of the place will tie fully restoretd, md all will flsck to Ee the sights. We Iear of iianiy n Edgerield whlo propose attentdiiig. The Mails! The Mails! The Mails! WHlEN shall we ever get them right againti ?Shnde >f Amos K'-tdall!I visit now the Departmtent over ,vbiichi thou didst once so famously presiade! Call urounid thee thes ghosts of thy tdemolished stage-coach-. is andl, sweeping across the skies of this ra.ilro'ad age, jid ord'.r spring out of disorder, precision out of~ jum dification, regutlarity ottt of irregularity. aerimtnotda ion out of obstinacy, and so forthi. In short, enable is once more to get our papers as we have dine ini time >ast. It has now been two or three months sinice we myce had tany mails worth speaking of. We have in Iced ceased to look to the arrival oif oiur post with any nterest whatever. Can it he that every othter ssetion las felt this grievantce as we have, an I have endured t too with the mteek submissioin inuto wicih we have modeavored to resien us ? W hat a patiettt set of sove -eigns wue are! But nuo. We catn hold otut no longer. We have borne onir quasi exclusion from time world atnd .he world's wagginig long enough. ' AndI ntow we raise wr tones of complaint. A plague upon the Depart nent. andi all its funtctionairiems, if it cainnot aichieve, .egularly, withont undignified fussinmg or provoking lelays, the simple object for whticht it was created. Better abolish the whole mail service at onice. A Knew Nothing of the Wirst Water. THE Galveston News informs its readers that Gen. BEss Hous-roN is really and truly a Know Nothing. ~Ianmy Tesians regard this fact an "evidence of his tuperior foresight." Otheuru will doubtless put it down To the Indebted. LAST winter, property wassold in Edgefild District to the amount of six or seven hundred thonsand dol lars. One half of this amount at least falls due within the neit month or two. Pay-day is at hand and mno ney is sei rce. We recommend, to one and ill, the pro priety of being as active as po-sible in selling produce or m:king somme other arrangement to meet payments prompily. It is prophesi.ud by tho knowing ones that the press will be an unsually severe one. But if every one ntill strive to pay what he cnn as early aspossible the "knaming ones" may be mistaken. When a crash really thicatens the country, we hold it to be unwise in plante-rs to hold back cot ton at 91 cents per pound. Let every thiing, cotton, corn, negroes, or whatever ele is to come into market to pay debts, be sold as as speedily as possible. Money will thus be come comparatively abundant-men %till be relieved in part-a panic will be avoided-and all may go well witti our peopte. But that ihis may certainly he so, let us all rermember to sell and pay schat we can. In this conrection we . beg leave (as Commissioner in Equity for Edgficld) to notify all pe-sons concerned, that we will he forced by the parties in interest to collect tll dues in that office promptly. Should we, in doing so, take any abrupt measures, the blame (if any) must attach to the public of whotn we are only the servant. Deceptive Pills. WV. copied last week a suggestion thrown out by the Charleston Courier, in reference to certain mercantile bills now afloat in the country very nearly resembling Bank bills. The stggestion was that the practice of printing circulars in this form should be prohibited by Legislative enactment. We now s-ecoind the Courier's recommendation morst heartily, having just had hand ed to us one of these specimens, of singularly strong resemblance to a genuine one hundred dollar bill. We have tested it on several gentlemen of business skill and could easily have passed it upon them, had we so desired. The person who gave it to ts avers his belief that it was passed ufy in this village, to a negro man who was known to have had a large number of small I bills iim posession, by an individual then trading here hu now gone to distant parts if not parts unkniown. Time subject, however small it may seemm, commends itself to our Legislators. More Gold. Da. Lrwis AsnILL of the Ridge has been good enotugh to haid us a very handsome specimueni of gold rock taken from a nim on Clouds creek in this Dis trict. This mine is about to be worked by Messrs Cameron & Co. As is usual with miners, the company are in high spirits.-We shall take pleasure, as a Dis trict chronicler, in recording the discovery of all such prospects of wealth and afilurec ; and we shall al ways couple the record with the earnest hope that an ticilpation may run into fruition. But we very much fear when ne come to note the failures in this itie of business (as we shall certainly do wherever we hear of them) that they will be, to the successes, as 100 is to I. But let all search on with undisnmayed hearts. That ihere are rich mines yet to be discovered iri Edge field District caninot be doubted. Who will find them, is a diliirent proposition altogether. Fortunate they, wh shall have any such Doux ~good luck! Speaking of gold, here is a singular specimen of continotts rhyming on the subject, bv the celebrated To. flooti, which will fit ini nicely hero Gold! gold! gold! gold! Binght aid )ellon, lard and cold, illtten, gra% en, hunmmeretd, rolled, Dleavy to get and light to lmr'd, ll'arded, bartered, bought and sold. Sio!etm, borrowed, squansdered, doled, Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old, To the very verge of tie churelh yard mould; Gold! gold ! gold ! gold ! Good or bad, a thomusand fold, How widely its agencies vary: To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless; As even its minted coin express Now stamped nithm the image of Good Queen Bets, Anid now of bloody 'Jary! - "Tho E3erald of 1'reedom." Stcit is the name of a Kansas Abolition newspaper whichm has just tainted the air of our sanctum. Its rabid tone may be gathered fromi the annexed stanzas w hich we find prominently located on its first page: From our mountains in thie North, Fredom'm legimotm saliy fmrthm, Shmotitng O'er mthe trembhnmg earthm, D~eathm to Slavery ! Raise time standard in thte van, Sacredm toi time rights of ranm; Tyramnts ! meect us if you cami; We are rtady now. Ere a score oif years be past, Slavery shall breathe lier last; Spike tihe colors to time mrast, . Hurrahm for Liberty ! .JAKCE, take thme dirty shmeet out of time office wjth a pair of tongs. "Blowing Bot and Cold." Tots old s-ayinmg is very otten illuistrated in thmis day of conmtradictionis. Thme instanrce whmich occurs- to tus at this timne is that in regard to mold amnd hmot vicituals. 'Tie opimmioni has heretofore obtained, in Yankee land at all events, that cmld breadis, cold driniks, cold meats &c. were far mnore wholesome than hot breads, lint driniks, hot meats &ct T1hosanmds of dyspeptics have beetm put utponm this regime for life to thmeir areat dis comifort. But latterly, the iea has been started, armd is srenuottsly pushmed by one Dr. 1hALL, thtat the old theonry is erromeous--mhat thme stomachm acts better impnm warm food and warm potatioto-:ihat, in shoirt, warm v ie'mals are time hst all thme way throutght. "mWhetn doctorgisamgree, disciples are set free." Thme new theoriets harve time pompular side, amnd their prescripttions' will domubtlce prevail, esp'ciamlly as regards hout rolls. hmot cuomhe and hmot stakes, tnot ton menition hout whiskey punchl ammd hot apple-todies. ZLnte Neows 2temxs. .... DrGAaM~, who killed Col. LotsaG in New York, has been sentetnced to seven years itmprisonm metnt. ...3rs. IIA~ttLToN, the venerable widow of thme illustrius A LEXANDER IIAaIItLToN, died recently itt Wa5;singtonf City. ...A duel took place 14 miles from Colmbia, S. C. "tn time 9thm ist., hetsweent PETER (GA;'vmEY and Dr. DuNcAN W. RAr. GarFNIr was killed at thmesecond fire-llay wa~s amtmoiched. *....Thme Mleagher Guards, of Chnarlestonm, have in vited Tumos. FaAscns MIEAGitEn, E-q., to deliver a lecture iih that ciyteproceeds to be devoted to thme Calhouno lonument. MIEAGnECR has accepted thme in vitation. ... Secretary Donts hmas written a letter to North Carolina, declinitmg a nominatioin for time United States Senate. ... Thme Know Nothings have thus famr coalesced in every part of tihe North withm the F'reesnilers, tihus staininmg them forever for all SoothIerm purposes. -li Te Georgetmown Pce Dee Times says tlmat they are withmout a sherify' in those parts and hmave beenr for some timne. -l.iTe Chmareston Courmier- contains an obituary nomtice of onie liomnat Caoucmt, said to be a native of Edgefield District. ...lonmnT F. Por., an old and well known citi zen of Autgusta, died recently at his residence on the Samnd Hills mnear thmat city. lIe was a victim of time Yellowv Fever. ... A terrible type of Yellow Fever hasbroken out in Selma, Alabsama. -.u.. u, our minister to Spain, has been pro hibmited from entering France by Emperor NAI'OLEON ... 3tssJu.t A DE EN is aCting otn the Boston boards n ithi still increasing success. ....- Thme Charleston Standard says that time new Custom Ihouse itn that city is progressinmg simowly bit surely. It is now about seven feet above thne ground. ....- Thcre were eighty-two vessels in the port of Chmarlesonm on thme 9th inst., as fmlows: Twvo steam shmips, twent y-sevenm ships, twenty-one barks, fourteen brigs, andi eightteen schmooners, exclusive of schtooners under I10mon hurhmen. ... The Kansas Herald of Freedom exhorts its friends ini the East to hasten enmigrants on, for thiat the Missourians are crowding around Fort Leavenaworth itt consinderable numbers. ... . It is stated somewhere that a ne w drill for int fantiry is about being introduced into the system of W~est Point tactics, idebtical with thes one which originated many years ago inlalbeleFrance for tihe use of time Chacsseusrs de Vincemnnes. . ... Thme Yorkville Miscellany tells how that two gentlemen (e'heus!) were sentenced at time last Court in that District to rec 'e thirty-and-nine stripes for the crime of petit-larce . Their names were CuaAR.ES W. Lross and GEORGE W. BaowN. We presuime thme win sitmhaname may stand for "Whtipning-post." American Wines." Urox this suliject, we find a highly interesting ar. ticle in the last number of a prominent American pub. lication. It is in advocacy of the eultivation of Ihe vine and the making of wine on our own side of the Atlantic. Among olier positions, thie writer tacs the ground that the Grape-culture of Europe is running out from a di'ea.se of the vine-diat it may not be Iong before the nations of the earth must look elsewhere than to France, Portigal, the Rhine anti illadeira for their supply of wines-that the United States present the most renmarkable advyintaes and facilities far the con tinned supply of this great article of human traffic and that it is the manifest duty of the ngriet:ltrists or this country to seize at once upon this splendid oppor tunity. Ie argues further hat it would be a source of al must unbounded wealth to oor people, shoowing by ae curate statisteal facts that one mian with fre acres (which lie could manage himself) cnild naike more than Iour men upon a Southern or Western firm 'of ordinary size and_ qality. " As a source of nationanl prosperity," says he'the-cultivation of tle vioe can have no rival. By its wonderful proniictiveiess in the moat sterile soils, the ease with which it is attended, its not requirin'g the use of fertilizers or manure' andl its suitability to nearly every climate, it super-des in value the must profitable staples in the vegetable king. dom." le then points to the ainnal inacorne which France has been of late years deriving (by means of her grape-ettuire) from the poorest and (for other pur poses) the most wortless of her lands-the nut amount of which, until perh*a thae last season, reached the extraordinary sum of one hundred and thirty-eight millions of dollars. "And this,"rays lie," from wi:ne tat flee cents a bottle ! " But not alone in the production (if wine is this cul. lure profiiable. " Thesseeds of grapes," he adds, "are eaten by hirds; and a fine fixed oil, -imilar to Oliver oil is made fricin them, suitable either for cook. ing or burning in lamps. The leaves can he :sed to feed cattle and they are fond of them. The finest printer's iink is made from the carbon of the charred stalks of old vines; and from the lees of wine weget Cream of Tartar, whieth no fanily should be without." AND THF.N Tilt RAISINS! Whether it he from the enormous crop of children raised annually in our States or fram something else, we import more raiAns than all the rest of the world put together-3 tines am many as England, 71 times as many as France, 13 tnies as many as Germany and 250 times as many as his majesty, the Czar. Of ihie cultivation our essayist asserts,ithat the til lage of the vineyard, and the making of wine there from, is not sn laborious, nor near %o expensive per acre, as the work required to make and save corn. We should like to give the article before us entire to our readers; but this our limits and the public de mand for varieties forbid. Whoever the writer may le, he certainly wields a beautiful pen anad a forrible one withal. Ilear him upon the liappiness of a vine clad country: " W herever the vine flonrishes, there, otao, is a hp py peaple. The vittage ! What pictures rise upon the miid at the mere mention of it! Wlaat nienoriets cluster around it ; what skies and scenes; what lapajpy soles; %% hat fetive dances ; what images of gay Pro v-acce.sntinity Andah ia, and the castellated Ithine! What nuanes of poets and orators ; of archit.-ca id seniptors ; of enaituons. vases. urns, friezes; of .-atvrs, nynphes, and dryads; of cymbols, trumpets, iarls ; taf 'bratliless cu.ps and chirping mirth ;' of graceful yout hI, adt] hinppy age; of heraes, prollaets, gods ; of all that makes the antique world ' it thing of beauty, and a.joy forever ;' ani, uiited with il that is itobie ad sacred ina the listury of man!". A week or two ago, ie recommended to our Ten perance friends a sensible article in a Briti-h Review. We nsotild now buggest to them, as one of tie very means of bringing about the reform they so earnestly desire, the encourageuient, by example and pecuniary nasistanace, of grape-culture throughout the United Sta:es. The fullowing extract from the essiy before us bears down very handsomely and wei.;htily upon this pait: '' Tia Iiacchus, more than to any other god. do the ancienas aserihe lthe greate.t achievements ; * e-pecial ly was tie celebratei for him adviancenent of moirals, legislation anid commerce, f'r the culturt of the vitae atnd the rearing of bees.' There are mysterious truths i that old heathen ry. thiolotgy ; trut hs well niorah the aittentioni of thie n ine ini thease blatant utm-triumpet duys, whten the miost bril liant aissortmneutof pouhke virtues is kept on hianad ctn stantly by eve~ry threadbare piotith-ian, nd exposedl to the cr'owd, like gold w:anthes in a macak-anuction shop. "Far every waint there is a compaenatioia ;" aind tnow, while large tbodies oaf men are inoved lby the temper atace qutestion, at the very oulhtari, it is iimpaarianit to conisiader this, anad tat esimate wvhat effect the culture oaf the vitce will have nplona the American peoaple. If we coaare the vine gruninig njilh th: neon-vitae grow ing coutirie.4 tar Eutrop~e, we find I hat d rutakennies., wfth its ctar-loads of evil,. traverses the tnon-iproducaitag nuortht only, whlile the socth lurnishaes a pareviailing ex atnle taf ntioniial soanriety. Let uis tirit our eyes, theta, to thes~e great facts, and proafit lay tein, intstead oaf wattchiing the efforts of political pahianthropists, .who seemi obastitiateiy beint tuon drivinag huimatn nat ore tatndom thuroungh every state, with ai haarse-n~ hip. Anda in thlis relatiotn it is well to aabser.e, t hat by the tab at rail of the sevenith cetnsuts, we are infaormedl thnt thec impoarts ofr foreigni wines ini the Uitmed States. lor the year 13>1, aiaiautnt to little over six ilians of galtloans, whaile our homaie mitaufaciur'.s of ns bi-key, ale, and spairiteuus ligors. reached the enocrmous tumo of e.ighlty six millitans oaf gtlloans; one gnarier of a gallon fiar eacha p,-rsian, aond mn valute only teii cetnis per year, in the fearfial n.inec score of this iniebriatead tntiona, while tempierate France conasumets ninte haunidread uailhons of gallonms of ineia, eqnal toa :M gtalhnas tat every tiuin, womauan, andai chilit (of eit her aex) int her paitpnlatian. l'lare six maiillionas oaf Amoericnan consumpaion i utaaiinst ninc undialredl mlionst~a of Frenich consumpiht tioad let the balanace stanad in faivor of the soblerest natiota." In addition to this, we might quote from the article Ott our table stindry r.tatemuents as to the vasat superi irity, in point of schriety, or thoe coauntries whaere wittes are pradnceed abunantly anda dranok freely. lBut tall of us haave heard thais fact from traveller after trav eller, uttil it needs no further evidence to comnmanad foar it our impalicit credlence. Andl mtay it noat be htoped that this very cultivaeion of thie grape is the systemn, after all, which is to expel iattemperanuce from our laind? There is something practical abut: it, anad somaething pleasanit to bout! It is naot ati achievemtet th~at requires fair ita support a set oaf naoua-constumnag resolutions, as do the Maine Law eflorms of ouir damy anal cuntry. It has a tmuch inure ehegiant basis, inadle up of pleasant assurances of happy chtangesa caupled with a via-ion of spilendidh incomes andt unaprecedheated revenues. a" ?lace winec within the retach of all claws es of your people'and King Airaohoil wvill have tot butt. dIe off wvith thec Focal amid ilad Tuim." We may add, make ine etnough foar youtreelves andc all time wvorld (as ye can, if ye wsill.) anad thme wealth of Golcoanda would seem a poor story by thae niche of Amuerican mag. ntificenice. Where is Mr. Tocyol What has become of that Abbeville vineyard wihich was about no haeestablished undaer hain care ? Go ahead, gentlemen of Afabeville, and set to its all a good exanmple. You have a Frenc~h name anal you miay yet have a French fame. All twe maced is suo well-directed pioneer exertion. That Dredge Boat. Otua readers are most of thiem awtare that a boat, decnminated a "Dredge boat," has been experimenat iag of hate ini the harbor of Chiarlestoan, the immtiediate object beinag thme deepening of thme .Mallit chtantnel, lIopaes were fur ia good nahihe enatertaineud thiat its ope ratioans wvould prove successfual. These holpes seem o hiave fled. Otie of thec last nucmbersuof thme Charlestoan Stanidard infornms the public that the afluair has paroved a titter failure. The hoat nowlies, to use thte Stanid ard's lacngutage, "in meekt submaissiuin to whtonoever may iake conceern about hter." From thae desocripation of itsniworkinig givena to us by a genitheimen wvho hams seent inii action, wve judge its main deficiency to have been that of time pirney woodsahmoat, whouse riaoting pow ers in thte friant wvere so feebly balanced lay his cenitri of gravity ini thec rear, uthat every time lie mache anmy tuninual etertiota of his~ proboscis, lie was sure to dhe feat hais ends by kicking up behindic, thereby losinag both his bolt and his grub at the self-same time. Quarreling. OE of thec very hesat short extracts we see passing around latterly is tuder this heaid. WVe copy ituntder neath atad cuammend its careful pertsal to all n hao are apt to'let " their angry passionts rise:" "Tf anything itn the wourld will make a man feel hadlly. except poinudail fingers itt time crack of a door, it is unqgnestionahiy a quarrel. No tian ever fails to thinik hews of himself after, tha lie did befor. It degradhes him in the eyes of others, and what is worse, blunts his sensibilities on onte hantd, andl incerea sun their powver and panaijonata irritability on theoilier. The trtuth is, thme more peaceably imd quietly we get on, te better foar our tneighbhors. In niine cases out of ten. the better conirse is, if a man cheats you, quit dealing wvith lam ; if lie is abiasivc, quit hs company: Ianal if he slanders you, take care tea live so that no body will helieve him. No matter who lie is, or how lie mtis-tiss you, the wisest way is to let him aone ; for there is nothing better thian this cuool, calm, anml ...i.. w.,. of dalng..ths he wrngs we meet with. Our militia' System. 14 it, or is it not, a useless part of our Police Ma chinery ? We incline to think that it is. Will an] one he good etnangh to inrfurm us what benefit we de rive from the quarterly musterings of our beats, whici we coll not compass without those farsical exhibi Lions. Do they adhd to thu military prile or our peoph one jot or one tittle ? Do they increase tie miliar know% lrdge of those nl hoin we call Captains, Lieten ants, Sergeants and Corporals ? Do they enable com patties to pass around in review, ott Battalion or Regi mental parades, in any better order than they nsoulk otherwise do ? Do they effect antything, for the carry, in.: out of certain (almo.4t oboleie) patrol regulations which conld not be easily attained in a hess cunbrou and less troublesome manner ? Common setse, b.ck ed by every-iay observation, gives a stott t nay" it each of these qteries. Btt, besides the negative rea. sons that naight Ie urged by tae frieoris of a alilitir change, there are someiositive evils connected niti tihe system as it now stands. 3itnter grounds, thit coutry over, are. famous, or rather we would say in f&nos, as the places n here old grudges are founght ott and fresh quarrels engendered. They are often the scenes of dissipation, and no: unfreqently (if the low. est delauebtery. While they are exactly adapted t tI le wishes of loafers and idlers, tatler.atnd brawlers they take the laboring man from the toil n hich sup. ports his fatnily to a scene of silly idleness, the peace, ful and retirinig citizen fr.om his quiet home to a plact of wrangling and strife, the business mal (in whatevei avocatiuo frcm labors that arc really useful to a runnt or stumbling evolutions, a living caricature upon ever' known system of Military Tutics. Moreover, ariono these same muster-grounds the chosen fields of tha class of low deinagogutes, who delight in villifying true worth and pandering to the meanesi passions 41 their weak fellow-men ?-There ars other reasons tha might be -uggested why our Militia systen should lib either materially modified or else altogether abolisle.I hut it is unnecessary to give them here. An insiance of the uneqnal and unjust operation (of tle presen regulations occurs to ns however at this moment, at we note it briefly. Men wsho have held a commissio seven years are by law exempt from further militar duty. Now it so happens that many of otr best peo pie have an invincible repngnance to taking these com missions. They have no earthly turn for the military 3any other very worthy persons, who have no snel reptigiaitce, are yet so diffident, so little calcoilated tI succeed in at mixed crowd as to be barred out by tl very force of these cirrumstances from benefiting them selves by this iontniission-privilege. h'lie consequenc is that our military duty is lone in a large part now a-days by respectable men of middle age, men of sub stance and character, while the exempt are often muel younger men who, because of a little periness or bra-es get a commissiott of some sort early in life and hold or tntil cleared by law. Here then are our really esti mable and nseful ien, - toting" their muskets in the old field at the age of forty-five, while many a ont twenty years yo-'ger stands smoking his cigar in tlt shade of a tree and finding fun in the pitiable awk wardtess of the squad which ie used to command. 1 this an eqtal or a just system I We hope otir Legisluture will at least abolish thes abominable Beat Company musters. pompoytown-ish. W wot of a very neat loaking htise (in the main, not a hundred miles from this prting office, which : abomiIably spoiled in its tout-cusremble by a fancy o the painter for pea-green colimns. We know of hul one place where this style of architectnral beauty il tn tlt ascendant ; the name of that place is sufh-ien, ly indicated bly orr captiun. TEE NEWS FRO21 EUROPE. we suilbjaint soic addirional details of' tht ire.w.s by the America: Th:e London Times sars: "1 We are infoirmint V-mt Mr. Soule. Amierican1 .\linister a;t .\adrid was on Tuesday. the 24th, reian-f d permissii to, jiss throuhtig France, t hi, returt frow Eing' lnd to Spait." 'lriE WAR.-Sebasti-pol is not taken. The la:tet. adieu siow ta.t swenty days elapeet betweeL tle de p-* ra of the bt-.iegiY( armtttie froi lBahilarva atid their openitg fire upor Sebarstopoil. Beoth the French anid Eiigli-h ha their battteries readly on thle l5th. Ont the 17th lire wats opented ont thre pieeL - rum-latd and sea TIhe bowmbardmrentt conitinuetd till nightt. TI Russiants lost live htutrdred killed atnd wotuded Admtiraul Karrnilt-f wvat killed. The Russir~r furtiticatiorus sut1ereda very little. Ott thme next da~y (18th) the bombnlardmnent w:n reisumred from thie allied b itte-rist only. Rnaesiant de~patches say thtat the garrison mnaku freqttnttt srrie.. Ott te teuidag of the 5th a convoy of fntu thotusiand Rusaans suc-eeedt itt enterittg Se-bas 'The allies now ntumber 110.000 me-n. atnd 8, 000 addllitioined Frenchl were ready nt-tembatrl fromi Marsemilles on th. 21st, andti 8.000 Tturk: fromut Varna. Le-tters of the 12tht say that thec natunre tl the groundt-a fitot of earth iton solid rock retrde.rs scientific appronebie- imtprossible-; thtal thre allies harve, however, S00 guns itt battery atnd after a fewi datys tire will attemnpt to storit thte garrisotn, whtichI is estimtated art 40,000 tmen wvitht plety of attmmtuntitiat orn and apl ies, it is surposed thart, abhm ough thIre allia-s sl~ottd carr) the~ town, thre Ru.sianis earn airmke a prot rarct re-shstante trt F-rt Conitstatinc. It is trne thtat-the Rutssians- htave stnAk eight ships atcross thte eit.mnetl, whitir is 700 yatrds witd antd line tit battle sh~ipsr ancihored eloae to thn shtote cotmplete thte barricade. Altogthrt the rorspect of thte speetdy fall o1 Schlattopoul i- trot so favotr:b!e to Ihe allies, buo ne-etr-hles~s itiellige-nce of t he iet ory is ex preitd by thre peopuhle inl Enrglrttd antd Frantu fromt hotur tor hour-. Admitra! .\l~-eik ofl, who coummandedl at Si. mile is coantlrdant of Seb:rstopoul. Hie Ira, pu~blishetd an addrcsa., ,etyiig that Ihe will defendt it to the- lat, antd atty otne ii weome to shtool htim if lie dton't. Atn llied frce is sent titdear Gene-ral flosquel anad Achmtt, Pachma to Pert-kop to preventt thli advairen of thie Riusiants. Hetavy rains htad tretarded the radvrace, bt the weatthter was atgait hue. TIEALTH OF Naw flLtiANs.-In speatking o1 the hante -pidemie itt tha It ily, thIe New Orleatnt Picuytun. of Sirntday last, says: It give-s us plteat-ure to lbe able to p'oint to tii wee-k's repor of the henhtlth of' outr etty, so farr as5 the fever i1 coacernte'd, as :.fforing the best refutation of the exag~gerat~ed -st oraies thrat htave beeni eireolbted :abroad ont t bis subhject. It will b e sen-i that lthe ntmber oaf cases in thea lhIa;h Ho Imspiltal, durting~ the wee-ks is jut nrte halhf thtat of thre week previouts, antd t hgt it is ve-ry sall I. WYe ar advised by goa od aur hority that thaire is no exNistirag ti anty foarmidable ex ttttatetthin" itn the waao-pedemtie fe-ver here, an~d the-re cnh tno donibt, we- tink. fromai present arhpeatranea thtat. by thte -lia-e af thte wee-k utpott which we tnuw etetr, we sit ut have trot evenu a vigeiui o. hI-f f tag uts. Thet levee, buisiness~ streets, the htetls, anre a. I put tinag ott the appearance 01 the rceaomncaemnltt of thle btusy sea.,ont ontce tmore- Ships fr-m arbrosd. steamtbtlatts fr-om thet iteiri'or. -ictamiships frotn aI I alongat thre coast, are thtiei.e ritng arlotg thae water froit af the city, and til'he ladings are rapaidly lillitig up with m~er ethrndie. I',ery thuing betokens ra bri.,k season beginnintg. rTHE Macotn Joaurnal & Me.,.in:,rer satys: Weie are atut horized to state, that the Marine Batik of' Saivanttnh will give $1,000 for the ap prtehe-ntiona rad dehiv'ery to anry oa hit,' fli-ens, o1 Samuel tihD. &icovill, whao abhscondedJ from thli pilace oun the 20th ut., with $1 0.000 of thre funda of Ithat institui on. We~ give- below a descrip (ion oh' thei pe-rsont of u the fri tivie whuich hams beent firrri.,hed tis by the i-eel rs~ of thle Agency of the alatritte Batrk irt tthis city: "Scoiil is 26 years obal, 5 feaet 4 itnchems high, has briowtt haur, light lhh-ta r grey eyes, a lonr. flat Itead anid goeoda forhetad anad weighus I 35 pounds. Hc hars lost a tonthb friom htis uppre jauw, anid all of his tipper fronit teetht mire dr~ tive. Hec speaks anrd walks qutic.kly. and when be left was dressed itn black paints and datk over coait. T1hte sum of 10,000 which he lhad it his possession, wias princripatlly in 810 bills ii the Mairine atnd Fire lttsurante .Batik of' the dhatre of Geaorgia. "Oc~r exchantues in this :tnd other Stains of the Sot h antd West, if t hcy eopy thris paraigraph, tmay enable stome worthy pe-rsont to detect the rieal, and ho secure the liberal reward whiell h,. bhetn ofned by the Bank." A (CAUTr1o TO ENTERERS (IF PUBLIC-1ANDS. It having been stated ti the Generni Litid Office ihat " soire personis have obtained 12.000 :cres or the pubie konnin. under guise of the gradun tioli law. pass4ea it the Iast siession of Congress, neknowledgiing tiat they have evnded the ltw on the gronid thtt it does not require them to stale when they design naking the settlement tinder it." it is proper to snte that, tnder the colnstruetion which the Secretwry of the Interbr atnd the Commissioner of the General Land Ofice put upon the ltw in qnestion, no such awindling entries will lie patented. The con struction of the act which these authorities nit. nonneiCe is, that the reduction of prices is to operate only in favor or three cisses of persons: 1st, to persons who were ictual settlers :tnd oectpan'tts at tie time or the enteitment of the law, or such a. may here.ifter become such set. tiers, and who may bo entitled to pre-emption; I 2d, to persons wh., desire the same "for iis or her own use, and for the purposes of intal settlemenit and cihiv:nlion"-th:at is, where the lind is de-ired for tie immediite use of tiit particular person :s a fttIan fr himielt or 1amily aid for no other use or purpose; and 3J. tit persons who ailre:tdy occupy or owin land previ ousty acquired who niay be desirons of secur ing public land adjoining that so ocenpied or owtined. with a view to the extension of their present -- ftri or plttiatiOnt." No other person can righhhfuly ar;tih himtseir of the provisions of the graduation htw in this respect. All entries tta3de under other circumstatnces will be regard eit by the Ginent L-and Ofice is illegatt find void, and tho-e attimtinig to ma ke them may also subject themselves to the penalty of the net, which prescribes -' ll the lains aid peni. ties" meted out for ptrjury.-Mootgomery Ad vertiser. ----- .---- ------ POLTIS IN TiE PLPr.-The New York pa tets of Sattirday were filled with tnoitices of ser mons (in poilitiei :ubijects to be pren:cibd on Slidity, in ditferent seclons of the city, in view oit tile e:ection ill he hetd to-diy. The- Chureh .lJotrnal,"'.(f~hEico.dhiain.) commstenling uposn tthis extraordintry fexuure of the Iimtes, pieriniently inquires: - Wit. is the renson of Alt this? Has the old f:shionted Gospel--which we iave beei i Acctttoined it) believe was the Eierliiting Gos i pel--been at lentwh xhusted ni.l worn ihrend. :tri? Is ito text -resh enouigh naw for pre:wh vr.s and peoiple except. it he taken friom the Gos pel nccurding toi the diily paiperN? Is it that the ministeri are tired of the told to-pies (it grace and satvation, and no longer belinpe that --Gos pet" of wiicti tithy pretetid to be " pre:iebers?" The point we now wish to make, however, is, that in lie cotintry, where. its we had findlv hoped. Citirei :tnl Stite-Relirioni atd Politics were thorongttlv aid toorever divided. papiltr preachers are rapidly ri..iig to be ile lentivrs of poliiieal partie: aid pulpits :ars found to be aI. in tiies ot old-ilie bes: r-ernitfing drums to beat tip volirs for ptie i parisatisa. Aid a cirresponding cluoa ias tken plce inl polities, too, as well as in religion-boith of them riing a ndu( falling uiont one Dernseratie. piv~t-ro~ 1x) mli. As tlie pnlpit, tiera-il-re, 11:1s gruwo io litiea, the tunip has waxed pie us; and i-- Ne braiska" rings out i,tily frout the niecting-Ifuse! it is only in sonorous unison with the --higher law," resouiding trm the thlls ol Congress." THE American Bible Soeiety, at its rcgul:tr imontly mling in New York city, n ithe 2d in.,t.. recogn1ized five new iuxili..ry societies in North aid -South Caroiinta. M isso,ippi. Wkietn sin ;il Iowa; n alipritopriitiin of 82000 wns tn;de to the Areot mis-inl. nniithr apprpriation aliso, to itie Protestant Epi-copal 3lissioniry Society, for the tmi.sion atitong the Chines.e in Cilatitritoria aid granits were m:tule of Germ:tn Testamenlitsl tile Children's Aid Societ v, Welsh Bibles and Testaments lo the Melitlist. mii - sionary Society for distribiion at CnrbonId:le, eitnn; nlso Geranti and nglish Bibles :td Tet. tamets Fur distribto:iin in Atlegh:niy Ciunty Bibles were granted to thet Methidist Sunliday Selhol:1t the Qtinrantite, S. I.; aiso, Spaiish Ifibles for Vallparaisoi; lortugtiese Bible ftr rea niii; to the Atnerican and Foreign Christnin Untion, .P,'lih Bibules and Testaments; to the Mlethodist Mlissioniary Society books itn Spanish for Buentos Ay rits. TJHANKSctvlNG iN GEORtGIA.-Gov. JothnSon, or Georgia,. htas appin~lted 'rThnr~dny3, the 23d1 itist., as a day of' thiat.kgivinig, hiutiniiatioin and tinsu'er. Condensed Items. gg .Montgomery, Alaamat, must certainly be a pretty hiardt place fitr Editors, as we see in thte last is.-ue of the Journal, the following antnonineement: -"We wish it dlistintlty understood thtat we are noat the fighttintg-editor of the Journul. P'ersons having anythting toi do in thtat line n~ itt ptease keep cuol until ttte seiir antd juiotar returns." 7 yoiung laity, n hioge name was Patty, being addressed biy a Mr. Cake, aecepted him nn coinditioin ttat the wosuld change htis nime, dleclariiig that she could never consenit to be catted " Patty-Cuke." , 2 The Auminsta pnpers notice ihe deuath, by yet .tow fever, of Mr. Itotbert F. Poe, tate Cashiier iandi President of the Batik tof Aiigiita. $3" A writer in an lri.-h newspaper, after mention ing fte wreck of a vesesel near Skerries, rejoiced thtat alt tthe crew were savedt, except four ltugbhteads of Miolasses! - 2 Casar, what am become of dat darkey wtho stile the tallow 1'' "lie is tak en upon an affidavid and curried to the supreme court to thave it tried." "Oin an affldaval !" "Yes, this nigger seed the hiandle, hec did'." 7' The last linicever set by Mr. Chtariton, a Piuts burg printer, whose dealth iicturredl re'eintly, was this "And even at last thei solem thotur shall come!" H;aving do ne this, he stn'ggered tromt his case, uider a seuddhen ttack if diseaie, antd ini a few days died andt was buried. The solemn hotur had come. 871n ihe cityof San Franciswo,of whichsomaniy hard things htave been said, there are twety chnrch congregations, embrucing nine ithoutsnnd miembers. As religion is attended to, vice gradually dimuinishies. 87 There are said to he abiout thtree thtousandt.ne groes entitled to votte in New York under the provi.in of the State consiiiution, which requires aecoloredl man. to have been three years a citizen, aitd pio-ess a free hold esiate of the value of 3L50 over and above all debts and inenumhrances icharged thereont, antd upon whtich a tax shahl heave been paid. gg A merchiant in this city suiddenl-y entering his coutnting-hiouse the othter day, fountd one of his clerks retaring a large book in the sair, with the end restinug upon hits 'hin. "Why ain't you at work, Johln?" hte inqiuireid. " I am sir," repltied tihe clerk-" You are !--atwhtat work!?" 'Balancing the Led;;er, sir !" gg The Peterzdiurg lInteligencer casti onus thtepub. hie against counterfeit notes oin the Bank of the State of Niorth Ctarolina, and the Bankh of Cape Fear. 'These couniterfeits are mostly $10 and $50) notes, very welh exe~uted, and very diflicult to heteet. 'rThe editor has seen recently two $10 nostes on the bank of Cape Fear which were cotnterfehts. " 'rThe rec'ent session of the Grandi Lodges of Ohio granted chiartersu for fifteen new Lodges. 27 The New Jersey Staundard, of the- 4th inst., contains the foillowinag adlvertisemnent: WCaNTED. A IIosTL.Fn.-Thie subhscriber wishes to employ, at his plaice at Gowanus, Lumg JIland, a first rate hustler, who hia gossd experience int managinig runaway hiorses. 1us onie need apply who hass ever been isi ise State Prison or a. metmber of the New Jersey Legislature. GARRET HI. IIENDaCKsON. 87 A genius has Invented an India rubberladider. The only obijection tot lie arrangement isi,that yost climb all day withtout getting up any. But whiinf that? The same objection will apply to a thousand oilier things. g: An extensive movement is now on foot in Catnada to procure the passage of a bill by parliament, now in session, similar to thuat proposed for the United States by thte homestead bill. This woiuld at once; as the Cattadians think, attract emigration to that coun try. gg A rogue asked charity on pretence of being dumb. A lndy hiavinug asked him, with egnali simplici ty and humantity, howii long lie tied been dunmb,he was throw~n oil- hm guard, and answered: "a From my birth ma'am.'' " Poor fellow," said the lady, adshe gave him a dollar. REVOLUTIONARY ANECDoTE.-A :correstpott dent of the-N. H. Patriot furni-hes the following: When the British were at Bost on in 1776 my father Was in a barber'rl shop waiting to b-haved. A British offleer came in and wanted to beaha. ved if the, harber could do it' without drawing blood. and saying if he did not 'dii it he would rnn his sword through, him. Thu .b:trber was fri.btenel and dare not undertake the talk. A little boy 0i1ting there spoke up and said he would do it. He. looked at th- boy wiih'nstonish ment but the boy stripped off hit cont'and told hin to take a se:tt. He took off the officer's beard without drawing blo..d and was paid a guinea foir hi, trouble. The officer th~n asked him how ie ventired to do it as he had'beeti to every barber's shop in town innd no one before d:ar,-d to do it. The boy replied i- thought I W611uld. see the blood as soon ns you would nod if' I hadl I would have cut foiur tltroat'to the beek bone. in a moment. The British offiLer iung down "his head and left amid shouts of atpplatse lir the boy.. THE LATE GOVER5oR BuRT.-The remains of the late Gverneir Burt, aecomwpantied by the committee appointed for the purpoese, arrived here yesterday. *l he Town Council and a niim ber of our ci:izensunibed in an. escort, and the remAins were conveyed to the Council Chamber, where they were depoited until tis morning, when they are to be conveyed to thi :depot, of the Greenvile Railrond, to be taken toA iderson. It is but a few weeks ,inve Govertor Burt passed tirough our town to take-charge.of his trust. We little expected to be so s4onsum. mtoned to atten I his funeral escort.-Carolinian. THE MAIL DIFFICULTY SETTLED.-The Presi. dent or the South Carolina R::itroad tclegrayhls us that the ditlienlty about the transportation of thte mails is delinitely arratnged. We connot permit this annotncnement to pass witi01ut sincerely anl earnest ly commending the ceourse or President Caldwell throughout the wile controvery. lie deserves lie co.nman dation ot the entire Solutiern community for his lirn but ceiicitiaing coiduet.-South Car M1Iss MARTIS PARKEt, of Westmoreland, New York, recovered a verdict for two thousand five hiired dothirs aigaitanst a fellow- who. had slandered her.and thu young men of Rome gave her a gold watch. Illcs.-At Cincinnati there are.'now some ten th ote hegs in pens. The feeling on the part ot packers is dull aend .heavy. I6. that city ttiere are some few oirders to coitract 'ap8425, but sales could not be made to any great axtent it is said at that figure. BoSTeN, Nov. 4.-A correspondent Ofthe A;las, writiing froem Marst-illes, states that th'e Eniglih Coinsutl at that phce had received relia ble ii'ornation that the must fearful ravages of cholera were devastating Messia-no less-than sixteen tihou4and persons having fallen victims out of a poputation of 40.000-a mortality hairdly less thai during the prevalence of the great plague in 1748. A PArInCIDE SENTENCED.-The Allegatn (Mich.) Recotd says 1.ta ont Saturday last J. R. Clerents was rouid guilty of the wilful murder of' his fhther oi the 2d day of March, in the townt of Heath. in Allegan connty. and wits sentenced to the Staie prnon for life. There is no capital punishment in that State. Nrw CASE FOR CIHALLENGING A yURoR.--I the court of Oyer and Termniner, in New York citv, on Ttuesd:av. a !eitleman in:.med Wi.Har ris'ei was. alled" as a juror in the case of Ch.arles Jiger, charged with the murder of John Moran. Mr. Spenet-r. counsel for the prisoner,after find ing out that th - juror w..s an undertaker, said he should challenige him peremp:orily bec:iu-e of lis ovelpationi, which was a too great familiarity wi h death. The juror was rejected. BY MENIAL. MIAAateKD, on-the 24it ult., 'by the -ilre, Mles Pucket, Capt. EDwAanDIL. Moienis,..of 1Iussior Pa;rish, L..., and Miss .\ArTuA P. COCHAN, of this District. -OBITUARY. Di-:D, at the residenuce o.f Mnjor Thons Bacon, in this 1)istriet, nu tie 28th daty of September, A. 1). 1854. Mrs. SlanY GALLNA, wife efiHarion. Gallitan. in the 61st year oif her age.. The dteensecd was a str.kingesitodiment of those enntobling virtue's at hieh niever fail to comnmanm re spect, a nd to engage the esteem and airLeet.on of iiit. the virtues of dniy life, gent'e nnd bland in temper and iceean.r, oi'geni .I spirits tand modest wvo:6h, shte softiened the a-pentties of life by a clhcer uuupi elf its burthens,and a faithful di ea ge of isnte.Charity was everr tier ceinpnien. A a a mo'thier. fae th-ulan:teeonesa.wf.kd andi deveoted, evrtender and ductitul. Of her it may be truy sa'd--' Th-- eeed die first." Trhe write'r un..ihinaty aiftedst to eulogize a charae ter so d.-servinmg, oef whe..n the ha~lhest- praise wieukl be but styrling truth. Through life, "She kept the whiteness of her soul,. A n.l thtus ii wept o'er her." In death. h. r heart trite to its original impetus, ande unrut1ued by the lutking, fear or fluttering throb Sof seithing after d. at h.'' retined to -the la-t, its natuetal imnpulses, its earliest inspirations and its sweetest inftluencees. tier -virtues were trom lenven''--Iu it not un- - ntatural to stay -they tend not thither?" DmeD, ini EdeieldI D.istr:et, on the 14th of Oct 185i4, Tuomts AL.1ex, .-on of d. W. and Elizabetht C. Teenitpkins. The deceased1 was one year and six months old|. lavying' jat react. ed that gewhkith rendered him an oheject otf great imiercest to his patrents. They aso consok-d tby thte woerds elf the Siaviour, who said, "Ster little children to toome untio me m:i~ forbid' thtem noi, foir of such is the~ kingdom of flae. DiED, in De~eto coaunty, Miss., on the27th'Sept. 18a4, .'ctrs. EI~Li.D. Statixs, wife of ltr .lames L.' S.rokmsat anid agahtter of alrs. J. Hi. Unariis, in the 3 ts: year sof her twe. ilaving been taught the precepts of the Bible in' infancyi, she at an early atre professed a hope in the lIedle-mer ande uttachted herself to ths Methodist E.. Chmureh, anid coniatined a ze::leeus member throujth life. In e-very relion eof life those virtues were exempu:tied ti'at a e paes sseed alone, by thte'ollower of0 LUhrsr. As a dlaughter, she was duttifuil; as a sister. kinda, aned obligintg ; as a wife, affee~tioittelindl te:gi' in-zi :'i a imisress.hunmaue and forbeS iie. ht r mo~aiab.lity niamt kindtt,-'ss, she~ hed "gai~tijbe' ntIfeioin eo a inrige etrele eef indus, that goulaif' po~eeibue, hy thi. itr assiduous attetiont shave~tuzrned aside the iat eof death. She sufferted long and tmuch, tliaaugh all berne with -Chr silan '-esi ntation anid fourutde, " knowing thatithes lgbtsfisids which tre but menitary shahl work out for her a itr moure exceeding and et'ernal weight of glory.'? When leath-appro..chied to lhen, he had ni> terrors, the grave no victory ; but w iti hians extendedl heaventward, and witht a countenanee tadiant with joy, shte exctlaimed,o "I am dying, but I fear not. foe I see miy way so cleaurly. I am htappy, I ain hnppy!" She is goine, but we will tnet deplore thee,.-out los but her eternatl gain-rest thee a e~l-~ - " The storm that wieeks the-wintry sky,. - -.Net imore disturbs tier sweet repose,. Thant summer's evening latest sigb' That shuts the rose." .- ~~ A-4 trutr. Drsu. at her father's residence, in this.Iaistict% eon..22dt October. eef consumptiotn, Mirs. Si.vuerA Ms. [tourra. consort of W. D. Itoutitree anmt datugh ter or eleunu and Elizabeth Harris, age 19 years.? miouths and 8 days. Ttie sutbject of this obituary was a mecmber oef the Baptiet Chturch. She became htopefully converted at a prettracted. meeting beldh at Mountain Creek ; was received inueo the Meountain Creek Church~ in thte month of September, 1852, antd uap'to the very hat moments of hter existance. exhtibited in her-ehiarge ter, those peulear traits ltt'conist.t'ueatrue fadio@ er of the mewek and loway .Iesus. Yes. whate was called to pa through the trying oideal.'ofbodily' aflliotioii, ntie a murmui- teee her ih~usfie was perfectly resignted to tlie will of heur linl ditlet. Some few days prior to her death shte r~eile to her devoted husband as lie sat weeping'lidb hi bed, "c I anm sotrry to leave y et, but do nQoioirs'ta me;" for she knew that hts las wiiud is ha eter~ tnt gain. Although the husbandeb itaste~~~ affectionate anu lovitng comtpanointhe tt*E~ loved and dutiful daiughter,-flue brgih a'~Iltu conniexieons have saatainoud aun lreah es.t they do not mopurneas 'ose suiol teto hb - has fallen asleep in Jec 8,-'