Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, February 07, 1855, Image 1

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r* _ _ _o AD Or lutcrfir 3Luntp OwdeV tv. .50utiyrn Hi ts, Iflewo P.diticz,. &enerdt 3nhutloenucet ieftrfledt3 Juefne 1zc~ue "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the.Ruins." W. F. DURISOE & SON, Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C., FEBRUARY 7, 1855. - - * THE EDEFIELD ADVERTISER IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY W. F. D U RIS O E & SON, Proprietors. ARTHUR SIXKNS, Editor. Two DOLLARS per year, if paid in advance-Two DOLLARs and FIFTY CENTS if not paid within six months-and TnREE DOLLARS if not paid before the expiration of the year. All subscriptions not distinct lV limited at the time of subscribing, %%ill be consider ed as made for an indefinite period, and will he con tiniued until all arrearages are paid, or at the option of the Publisher. Subscriptions from other States. must INVARIABLY be accompanied with the cash or refer ence to some one known to us. ADvERTiSEMENTS will be conspicuously inserted at 75 cents per Square (12 lines or less) for the first in sertion, and 371 cents ror each subsequent insertion. Wlen only published Monthly or Quarterly $1 per square will be charged. All Advertisements nothaving the desired number of insertions marked on the mar gin, will be continued until forbid and charged ac eordingly. Those desiring to advertise by the year can doso on liberal terms-it being distinctly understood that con tracts for yearly advertising are confined to the imme diate, legitimate business of the firm or individual contracting. Transient Advertisements must be paid for in advance. For announcing a Candidate, Three Dollars, iN ADvANCE. For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be aid by the Magistrate advertising. Law Notice, 1r ESSRS. SPANN & MAGRATH, l in partner-hip, will practice in LA . AND EQUITY. Office opposite the residence of Mr. G. Addison. One or the other will always be in office. Jan 3 3m 51 Law Notice, T TIE Undlersigned have formed a Partnership. and will 'ItACTICE LAW in Edgefield, Ab bevilie and Lexingtnt. G EORGE W. LANDRUM, ABNER PERRIN. Edgefield C. IT., Sept 21, 1854. tf 36 DENTAL SURGERY! D R. H. PARK ENR, respectfully informs i ie eit zens of E.lgetiid 1)istrimt, that he may be found during sle day week at the Planter's Ilo tel, Edgetield C. H., and at his residence on the Anderson road, eighteen m les North-east of the V.1lae.-. on every Friday and Saturilay folliowitig. Specimens of his work, put up "a the latest and tn-st improved principles, can be seen at his tfice. His addr-ss, wh -n in the couotry, as heretofbre. Sleepy Creek, P. 0. Dec 27 tf 50 Practice of Surgery! R. JUREAH HARRIS Augusta, JGa., is prepared toaccomnimodate with I oduing and Nursing, sneih patients aF i may he directed to him for SURW ICA L OPER ATIONS or Treatment. 0 .lasters may be assured that their Servants will have every necessary attention. Augusta, May 26, ly 19 FRESH ARRIVALS, R. A. G. TE AGUE respectfuliy inf.rms L his friends and citizens of Edgetie!d generlly, that he hais ju-t re-!eved a L.\ lE A DDITION to his alrea-ly exte-sive Stock of fresh and genuine Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, &c. His Irugs are carefully examined by himself. and all th.it are found worthlh s, rije-eted: and thos that are approved may be rel.ed on as eflicient and of uniforin action. A LL of his Medicinal Compounds. Tinctures. Pills, Ointmnets. &c.. &c., are put up under his own sup.-rvision and in strict accordance with the Uniteti States Disp.-nsatory. From his log and extensive experience in the praece 'if Medicine, he has tnmde st-veral Com poutids f his own. n-it to he f-und in the I tispensa tory, viz:-A Preparation for the CROU P, which he hmas used1 extensively foir eighteen years, and re comnm.-nds with conidmence: a VEIRM I lUGEX sale and eflicient; amid many o-ther Compounds wvhichm he makes extemnporanteous'y to fulfil the indications in eamch pairticular case for which it is used. It would require ilmre space titan coutld be ob - taitned in a N..wspaper to give a Catal.-true of thme Drugrs, .\ledic-ines and Chemnic-ils kipt and sild by him--sutliee it to samy, he can fuirmisth a Phlysic;mn's Offiee CO.\PLETE, with Physiek antd Fuirnmitute. lie ha~s addled to his former Stock sonie of the moust reliable Vegetabie extrats, viz: PUtDOPIllL LIN, .STI LLINGINEK, LI-:TANIsllN, &c. 117' Planters atnd families cain be supplied with all M1edicines nectssary in a famiily-and when desir-ed, diretiotis put up with eachm article. All of the most re-potable NOSTR UMS may be foun~l in his Estamblishment. Also, Candies, Kisses, Sugar Plums and Si ads. ALSO, FINE WINES AND) BRANDY, for Medicinial piurposes. Perfunmery of his own and Northern make, hard tom beat. SOAPS-A large and extensive vairiety. CANDLES.-Wax, Sperm and A datnantine. Paints, Oils and Dye Stuffs, WINDOW GLASS, PUTTY, VARNISHES, &c. BRjUSHIES.-Miarking, Sash, Tooi, Paitit, Graitn ing, Tusith, Nail, Flesh, Crumb, Shoe, llorse and Tanners Brushes. P ENCILS-Camel's amid Sable IHair, large size. Amid last though not least, the linest 11 AI1R BRtistI. ES ever offe.red in the place, of various patrons and qualities. Dress5ng and extram fine COMBS, DUSTING BR USHIES,-A mm excellent article. PAPER-Fools Cap amid Letter Paper, conmmon and fine. NO TE PA P ER-Various sizes and fimecy styles. ENVELOPES-Cmmon Buff, Plain White and Fancy Noite Envelopes, INK, P ENS, PENCILS AND CRAYONS, Osbmrue's Americamn Water Cahmiums. Gum Elastic Bals-Solidi, 11ollow and Fine,-Parlor Bails for the Latdies, imnviting them to exercise within doors, when the weather is ton ineiemnment to be out. May 18 tf 18 For the Planters ! 150,00 Lb eriaeen* Gamo and SA LTS. 70 Bbls. Kettlewedl's CIT EMI1CA L SA LTS, 30 " Pure ground PL AST ER. The above celebrated Manures for sale by ,J. SIBLEY & SON. Hlamburg, Nov 14, tf 44 trThe Laurensville Hlerald, Tndependent Press and Anderson Gazette will copy the above four time', and forward biils to J. S. & SON. Saddlery and Harness. A FINE assortment to be found, and at low pri - e, at ROBINSON& JACKSON'S. Hamburg, Dee 4, tf 47 Sell lour Cotton and Pay Your Debts ! AS Cotton is nowv bringing a good price, I think Ait is the proper tinme for alil persons indebted to me, to sell their Cotton and pay up promptly. What say you gentlemen ? M. W. CLARY. CLiarYTON. Nov 2 3m 5 fLisctanecus The Coquette. "I can hardly believe the story they tell, Ned. You, a strong, hearty, jovial flellow, always up to misciief and fun, dying for love ? Bah ! it's all, moonshine." Spite of his forged mirth, the voice of the speaker grew tremulous. The scornful glance of that dark eye unmanned him. Was this but the wreck of what had been so noble, so beautiful ? The sunken cheeks, the claw like hands, that flickering death. light, that uns:teady glance of the death bloom-could this be all that remained of so much manly beauty I You never knew me, Marshall." His voice was low ai:1 broken. " I never knew myself. I was an orphan; no one loved me-zister, brother, I had none-and when my heart first learned the meaning of that mighty liassion which makes earth a Paradise, or dries those living springs and greenness to deserts of barrenness, I feared for myself But I was not happy. Dying for love, you say ; it is not that. The bitter consciousness tiat where I looked for truth -for every divine virtue, I found duplicity, art, deception-a withered heart, buried in a whitened sepulchre-oh heaven !" and he hid his face in his wasted hands. Mv dear fellow, be a man ; bear up more bravely ; do not, I pray you, die for the love of a silly girl." "She was beautiful !" cuntinued the sick man, "and she taught me to hope-she turned every string of my heart till it would Vibrate at her touch ; she lead every pulse till they beat otily for her smiles. I know it was all wrong for me to love her so, and yet, isolated as I had been from iirancy, how could I help itI When the blot fell, it crushed me. May you never know what it is to be deceived-and by one so lovely as Helen Murray." .Again he had covered his face with his hand. lie had not seen the convuhmive start, the death-like palor of a friend Aiid when lie said " good night," twilight was falling, so that they parted, and neither knew how blighting were the words that fell on each other's heart. " I am beautiful!" said a queenly girl, as she stood before the mirior; " beautiful without all these,"-lifting a pearl spray and brightening with it the rich gloss of her brown ringlets; and circling her wrist and fiiger witi gems of untold value. I shall ie queen of the ball room to-night. Envied and courted, and not exactly h:it1py. How exquisitely rich this lace-poor Ned! heigho-somehow what lie said seemed so real. I wish lie had been rich, poor fellow! I half believe I love him better than I think, now !" "Miss lHelen, are you ready 1" Yes, coniing. Linda- hov do I look ? Is [harvey waiting? There, take my lion. net and shawl-carry them down-I'll he there. Poor Ned ! " hat makes me thiik of him to iiight, I wonder ? When I think of larvey's proposal, and my brilliant pros pects in the luture, I seem to see his ghost. Uan lie be dead? - Was it not very cruel in me to treat him so I I wish I could see him; will he lie at the ball, I wonder ?" Thus soliloqizing, the fir, proud girl hurried down to meet her lover. Resplen. dent as she looked, bewitching as she knew hersell, she was startled at his coldness. He caime foirward, took one white hand, gazed at her from head to foot, and with a smile that seenied even to tier mockery, lie said, in measured tone, " How beautif'ulyou are !" anid turned abruptly away. For a moment lhe seemed to have forgot. ten himsnelf, then hurriedly pet frinig the office of gallat,hle assisted her iinto the carri age, arnd they drove off'. It was not before the brilliantly lighted ball room that they stopped. No streams of aimber light checked the dim pavement-but all wais still, dark anid solitary. "For heaven's sake, where are we going ?" Helen exclaimed, as her lover made a motion to leave the carriage. "'ITo see a friend, my love," he answvered in the same freeziing toiies; " you, whose heart is so tenider that it bleeds at the sight of human miisery, will tnot, I am sure, deny me your company on the errand of mercy,' Through a long, dimrly lighted entry, the young mani led her siiently, hurriedly. " Pray to God it lie not too late," lie mnur iiured, as he stood hesitatiing bef'ore a half closed door. Suddenly it was opened to its utmiost, aiid a shadowy figure passed out startitig as it met the iintruders. They stood before the dinad. Hieletn shrieked, and falling beside the couch, hid hier face in her shiakitig hands. "Look on your wvork, wotmati !" exclaim ed tier lover. " Murdered by y'our cruelty, there lies onte of the noblest of his kind. Ay! start at the falletn jawv, the livid temp~les, the dull staring eyes! You will never aglain, with lips, voice, or smile, beguile the great heart to its ruin. He died wvith the niantle of his pure, steadfast love wrapped aroutid him: lie laid him down with the miusic of that love breathing in blessings from those lips." " Ay ! sob and shudder ; wvell you may ; for you are as truly his murderer as if you had pierced his heart with cold steel, or poured the poison frotm the chalice of death upotn his lips. Miserabily coquette, I spurn you !" " And yet forgive me," lie added, passion ately, reletitly at the sight of' her agony. " Vengeance is mine," said a just God, atid the arrow of eternal remorse is lodged in your soul. I pity you-from my innermiost heart I pity you. Rather would I he yon. der poor senseless clod, than you-bright, beautiful, brilliant, as you are, n' ithn the mur der of a fellow-creature heavy on your con science." " Mr. Harvey, will you take me home I" she asked. Her face wvas as ghastly as the one before them, and the shining baubles, mockers of her sorrow', flashing and flickering like ataveling about a pall. Relenting, that pale face looked so imploringly in his fae, he would have supported her, but she sprang from him, and motioned him to lead the way. Turning only once, she uttered a smother ed cry, and passed both hands over her heart, followed Harvey as the criminal follows the executioner. " Take me home," she said, and once there, she tore off her glittering ornaments, never to wear them again. Two years afterwards she did become the wife of Harvey; but first a subdued, broken spirited woman, ever feeling that but for her a long life of usefulness might have been vouchsafed to one whose heart, being so tender, broke in striving to forget her. She has. four beautiful daughters, but not one of -them will he, in the remotest degree, that heartless being-a coquette.-Olive Branch. "Only a Teacher.)) As too splendidly dressed ladies stood in the midst of a gay and fashionable assem blage; the attention of one was suddenly ar iested by the appearance of a queenly beau ty-such beauty, as even in that crowd of loveliness, caused the eye to pause in its wanderings, and rest its gaze in delight on the initellectual brow that would well adorn the crown of a queen. She was evidently a stranger, for she stood apart from the throng of chattering belles and beau, and as her oright eyes followed the moving panorama, one might easily read in her pen..ive sadness, her heaving breast and flushed cheek, that the gay crowd had brought back to her memory, the lved scenes of a distant home, and with it, the forms of dear relatives-the kind faces of the friends of her happy child hood. The reverie she had falleni into even increased the interest of her lovely counte niamnce, and firned a strange but not un pleasing contrast to the gay merry laugh and giddy, thoughtless remarks of the happy gi Is around her. The lady, whose attention had been momentarily arrested, pointing to the pen*ive girl, who stood apart from the crowd, aAked of her fashionable companion. " % ho is that?" The latter, turning her eyes in the direction indicated, with an al. most imperceptible shrug of her shoulders and the slightest possible sneer on her beau. tiftul but haughty lip, carelessly replied, " Oh ! only a Teacher." 'T'lhe noble girl, from choice, not necessity, had left the com forts of an affluent home, with thousand sweet associations, through a warm devotion to the most useful of all professions accessi ble to woman-a profession which has for its special object and aim the elevation and refinement of the sex; and such was the kindly greeting she received fron a sister. It is true, the most sacred and responsible of all duties is hers, the development of im mortal iniid, but what of that, the doors of fashioiable societe must be slammed in her face, lor she is " only a teacher." She may be eminently qualified to mould the plastic mind of a dear daughter; but with the pa rent this shall profit her nothing, for she is "only a teacher." She may be capable of imparting even her own gentle manners and qneenly grace to a sweet sister ; but what of that, she is " only a teacher." She may be possessed of hit, beauty and intelligence; but even these shall not relieve her from the odium which a false and hollow-hearted cir cle would heap upon her, for alas! " she is on1v a teacher." The dashing belle, with a ieart as unnatural as her false curls, will turn up her pug-nose as she passes and sim per, " only a teacher." ''The brainless dlan iy, the joint work of the hatter, tailor antd bootmtaker, even while expressinig his admi ratiotn by h's rude and insohent gaze, will aip puend to thtis nmote of admiration, the suffix, "only a teacher." Thte whtole fashionabtle circle will catch the echo and contemptuous 13- exclaim, " why she is onmly a teacher.'' Siurdid pappas and fortune-huntin'g manmmais, will guard the carroty-buired, lymphatic "hope of thte family," by whtispering in his ear, -she is ontly a teaclher." But thanik Heaven, there are many with out that self-st3 led fashionable circle, com puosed of htollow-hearted belles, brainless dandies, sordid papas, fortune hunting ma mats, vimegar- faced old maids, and lymphtatic "hopes of thte famiily." 'i es, there ist a world of generous spirits outside of this exclusive circle, full of noble genterosity, rich initellect and exalted mierit, ready to pay its tribute to worth wherever it is found. Wit, wisdom and beauty conmmantds the fealty of these loyal hearts, even when " only thte teacher," is the embodiment. They haive the discrti mination to see, and the feeling to appreciate thtat noble spirit which imipels the gifted teacher, instead of fluttering thte gay butter fly of an htour, amtid the deceitful aillurements and dissipations of the halls of fasnion, to go forth ito the world and leave hter im press up)on thte tablet of thte immortal nmind. Alt! who is it that is to fashtion thte future lives of our little sisters and daughterst "Only the teachter." Who is to impress the characeter of the future mothers of the repub lie " Only the teacher." Tlo whom. do the ey-es the whole country turn as the guardiamns of our most sacred trust-outr most precious jewels ? " Only the teacher." On whom, ntext to his own faithful ministers, int the last great day shall God himself look with approving smilei Why Ott thte faithtful teacher. Toil on, then, sisters, careless of the sneers of tho lfashiornable few. A thou sand warm htearts hid you God speed, and the stmiles of an atpproving conscience shall be your sweetest reward-Aberdeen Ex amimer. A clergyman in a Newv Hampshire pulpit, havinig, wvith earnest eloquence, urged his congregation to abstaitn, on Thanksgiving Day, from all labor and all business pursuits, and to attentd church in the forenoon, con cluded with this touching appeal: " If any of the brethren are at leisure in the afternooni, I should be pleased to see them at my house, as 1 intetnd to take that opportunity, should friends enoutvh assemble, to move my barn !" Own of the greatest luxuries of life is to pay a bill; and yet there are some people we know of who never indulge in the thing at all. Let such turn square round and en joy the luxury Bdedt Jting. MY MOTHER! Tus fount from which my being flowed The calm pure fount of life and love The star that o'er my cradle glowed, And beamed my boyhood's path above Have ceased from earth--and lonely now, Oh mother I o'er thy grave I bow! From childhood's dawn to manhood's hour, Thy tender love was still my guide; It nurtured first the opening flower, And all mine infant wants supplied: Yes, every life-pulse of my heait Drew from thy breast its vital part! What visions of mine early years, What scenes of love, what sounds of joy, What prayers, caresses, smiles and tears, What counsels to.the wayward boy, Now swim before my careworn eyes, While bending where Iny mother lies. Her high pale brow, her patient smile, Her lips where tendkrtst kisres hung, Her graceful form, though bent awhile, So queenly when hT life was young All pass athwart my throbbing brain, And bring her image back again! I see her by my father's side, In holiest love and union blest; I see them smiling in their pride, On happy children round them pressed, And now with fond parental care, They kneel in morn and evening prayer. Oh, she was all that's brightest-best So " pure in heart," so rich in mind Of every social worth possessed By every Christian grace refined Faultless she filled her part below, And passed where only such may go! She's passed to Heaven-but oh, how dark The sky from which her smile has gone! b o star now lives to guide my bark No fount to cheer my spirit on. Yet, till my life shall cease to be, IHer memory shall abide with me! A. B. MEEK. Irish Prosperity. An article in a late number of the Lon don Dnily News attempts to show that Ire ind has at last entered upon a career of prosperity. ''he main argument is based upon the great decrease in the cottier or pauper-farmer populalion since 1848. It says: Between the years 1851 and 1853 there has been a decreasesi -alh classes of holders occupying above 1 and not exceding 30 acres. That is to sny, there has been a diminution in the number of pauper tenants. Under ordinary circumstances, a farm con sisting of less than 30 acres cannot be cul tivated skilfully or profitably. The necessa ry outlay for cultivation would suffice for a farm of two or three hundred acres. It may be asuned, then, as almost self-evident, that the greater number of farm tenants holding 30 acres are poor men and had farmers. It is omething to show that this class had de cteased. According to official returns it appears that since 1849 the holding above one and uder five acres in extent have diminished y 18,761; those above five and under fif teen acres have diminished 35,196; those aove fifteen to thirty acres 11,256; and ose above thirty acres, 4,389. Thel total minution in the number of holdings within ie years has been 69,602. The Newvs goes on say: A great test of the condition of the coun y is the existence of a large middle class. he greatest extent of land in lrelnd is in e hands of farmers holding b~etween fifty d a hundred acres. Out of fifty millions facres of land, nearly four millions are in e hands of this class of farmers, holding tween one hundred and two hundred acres. h1is is a gratifyinig symptom. Farms of ore than 50 acres require a certain amount fcapital to insure their being worked prompjtly, and the fact of such- a large por ton of the latnds being in the bands of small pitalists is a proof of a general prospaerity hih forms a marked contrast with the ate of Ireland some years back. T1he increase of the value of stock be veen 1852 anid 1853 is remarkabmle. The mount of the increase is ?2,757,092. T his san average .increase of ?5, 8s. 9d. per holding. There can be no better index of e gradual rise in the prosperity of the ountry than thIs. The addition of stock o the farms is not only a proof of the in reased richness of the farmer, but is a gurantee for the improvement of the land. A CoMrLIMENT.-The Montgomery Mail, peaking of South Carolina and of the se ection of her public men, pays her the fol owing comiplimnent: No State int the Union has been so uni orly jealous of her character in this par iular. Virgitnia has been famted for her egard for men of stantdintg and ability, and asschusetts has been always disposed to put hter best talent forward. But of late years they have fallen below their old stand ard, whtile Southt Carolina has continued to use her fittest mind, so far as it was available or her service. We imagine that in no 8tate has demtagogueism lkss sway and gen uine ability a readier chance for success. Politics still retain some dignity in South Carolia; but in motst of the States a man 'a advancetent in public life depends ott a goodly number of outside accompaniments. The -natural resnlt is begintning to be suf fiiently apparent. Our best men, itt many sections of the Unlotn, are seeking other felds and othter harvests, A wonderful change has certaitnly takent place alreadijr; and hene the marked decline in odr statesman ship, and in Congressional and Executive talent. Time may bring about a reform. '1he old patriarch has done many good things it his day, and be is not yet too old to right up matters in this portion of hi. dotminion. Withot any sort of doubt, the American people see the error of allowintg their best men to ., from public life, and dedicate their intellectual worth to other pursaits. It genius could once more grace our. Legisla tive H alls, and the power of mature years, profound study and liberal culture, reach the public heart of the land, we should enter on a new era in our history. CONVICTION FOR REsIsTING THE FUGI TIVE SLAVE LAw.-We mentioned a few days ago that S. M. Booth, an editor, had been convicted at Milwaukie of participa ting in the rescue of a fugitive slave. The veidict subjects the defendant to imprison. ment not exceeding six months, and a fine not exceeding one thourand dollars. The News of that city says: s We rejoice at this virdict, not because this defendant is made to suffer, but because it is calculated to teach men a fact which they have been too prone to forget, that we live under a government of law ; that our institutions of freedom rest upon the observ ance of law; that the rampant spirit of mob law shall not be tolerated with impunity in the free State of Wisconsin; that the doc trine of a higher law, to justify a disregard of the allegiance which every citizen owes to his country, is a false doctrine, and that he who attempts to put it into practical op. eration is taking a straight road and a short one to the penitentiary." THE AFRICANIZATION OF CUBA.-The Preusa, an organ of the old Spaniards of the Island, has the following in regard to the Africanizatioi of Cuba: "That the Spanish Government has or ganized companies of colored people is a fact; that it will increase them indefinitely, as circumstances require, is also a fa-t; be. cause, on the one part, there are power and confidence, and on the other, desire and fidelity, and when necessary, they will rival with our troops in valor and endurance, as Spain will not be sparing of recompense to then, and arms put in their hands will al ways be employed without risk to the gene. rous nation that places them amongst the ranks of its own children, almost treating them the same. History guaranties this, which accords with our sentiments. "But we now ask, Is this Africanization possible? Is it probable in the future It is with determination we say so. s-ut in no case, upon no event, will the Spanish gov ernment suggest so bloody.a deluge. No, never. If the civilized world should witness such a horror, fillibusterism from the Anglo. American cities will havo to produce it." FLOGGING AN ENGLISH SOLDIFR.-A pri vate in the Twenty-sixth Camneronians re ceived 40 lashes at New Castle Barracks, England, recently, for desertion, using dis respectful and threatening langirage-to his sergeant, and for two several cases of theft. An observer of the scene that ensued thus describes it: "I had expected a loody scene, but the reality far exceeded all I had even dreamed of in human torture. At the fifth stroke of the lash the flesh rose up on the sufferer's back, the welts thicker than my wrist, and the writhing of the body showed the agony he endured. 4s each successive lash fell on the lacerated and bleeding back, the blood flowed about all around. After the fortieth lash had been inflicted, he was united, and, after staggering a few paces, fell fainting, when lie was removed to the hospital and placed under the charge of the medical offi cer. ie has yet to receive the remainder of his puiishment-namely, one hundred and four days, solitary confinement." THE GIBSON CLAIM.-We have nio rea son to believe that Congress wlill do any. thing effectually at the present session with reference to this claim, as there is not time suticient left of the session in which to go into it properly. There never was a claim against a foreign government in the hands of the executive of the United States which received more attention than this same Gib son case'. The State Department certainly exhausted all the expedients at its commiand to obta-in a favorable conclusion to its de mands for Gibson on the Dutch Government. All proving unavailing, however, it now rests with Congress to say wvhat next shall be done in the premises.-Washington Star. A great andl good man, once speaking of politeness, said, " I make it a point of mnor ality nevr to find fault with another for his manners; they may be awk ward or grace ful, blunt or polite, polished or rustic. I care not what they are, if the man means wvell and acts from honest intentions, with out eccentricity or affection. All men have not the advantages of 'good society,' as it is called, to school themselves ini all its fan tastic rules and ceremonies and if there is any standard of manners, it is only founded in reason and good sense, anid not upon the artificial regulations. Manners, like con versation, should be extemporaneous and. not studied. I always suspect a man wvho meets me with the same perpetual smile upon his face, the same congeering of his body, and the same pretmeditated shake of the hand. Give me the (it may he rough) grip of the band, and the careless nod of recognition, and wvhen occasion requires, the homely salutation, " How are you my old friend I" ANECDOTE OF THlE CzAR.-Nisholas, it seems, in spite of the anxiety incident to his present position, maintains his old habit of walking the streets of St. Petersburg un attended. He was lately informed that a tradesman in alarge wvay of business had insulted a Frenchman without provocation, and he immediately sent for him. When asked why lie had insulted the man, he re plied, " because I hate his nation." " Is that, your only motivei" " Yes, sire." "'lThen you shall have an opportunity to gratify your hatred. I shall send you to join rmy army in the Crimea." GovERNo.-Gardner, of Massachusetts, boasts that be took the inaugural oathin a auit of home made clothing; but it is said his shirt bosom and collar were of genuine Irish linen, imported ! GEN. Sam Houston,'of Texas, and Gen. Law, of New York city, are talked of as candidates for President and Vice President, on tho Knw Nothing ticket. COLUMIA AND HAIrnRG AILOAD. At the late session of the Legislature, the ap. plication of the Charlotte Railroad Company for pow*er to issue bonds to subscribe to this road was unfortunately left with the large amount of unfinished business which remained. Columbia was nuthorized, and so was Hamburg, to issue bonds for the purpose, and we regret the delay consequent on the above non-action. Lt is hoped, at the next session, by bringing in the bill at an early day, to get it settled in time to save the charter; but we trust this proposal will not be suffered to supersele more active measures. Columbia has subscribed $300,000, the Ridge line, or the lower line, will certainly take at least $100,000, Hamburg $30,000; and this leaves $70,000 wanted to secure the charter. Augusta will surely subscribe. and North Carolina is deeply interested in this road; and the Danville road will, do doubt, make an effort to aid an en. terprise so vital to its interests. The North Carolina roads connected with the Wilmington and Manchester road are now sur veying a route from Kingsville to Hamburg. Our friends mut be up and doing to build our road at o'ce to compete with that proposed rotute. We have no fiars of it,if we build ours. The advaninges of a high and dry road, at all seasons, over the rwamp roads, will alwavs give ours the travel, and the middle route will be that uf the through. Besides, the Machester road and the other roads connected with it in the Kingsville and Hamburg scheme, can build a road to Columbia from Manchester, 26 wiles, to L-ffect all thetir purposes, and 43 miles to the North E.stern road will give them and us ann. ther road to Charleston. This will not require is much money-as they will have to expend be tween Kingaville and Hamburg. Our citizens ire deeply interested in this road, ind certainly will not neglect an important op portunity, as they did when the Canide'n branch was built. Kihgsville will be the central radia ing of travel jf we do not build our road ; and wnrely Columbia will come forward and save o herself the advantages which will otherwise )e transferred to that lucality. Let her take the 3alance needed and secure the charter, and all ill be well. We hope the Charlotte stockholders, at their neeringa next week, will devise some means to nake theiir subseription available in soUe way to enable the coinpany to be organized, and go thead speedily. As soon as that meeting is iver our committees must stir themselves. South Carolinian. S PROPOSITION TO ESTABLISE SLAVERY ni NEW YORK. The Day Book, of New York, a reference to wish is wade in our local column, advances what, ipplied to any other than white people, would be a strange and Atartling propusition for that ocality. We believe, however, that for men of 1heir own color the philantlropists of New York and einewhere have no great sympathy; mid from their recent experience, it is not, in act, surprising that it should be urged to bring uder tie salutary restraints of slavery those vho will not work without and we are much inlined to the belief that our esteemed cotem porary has at last hit the right nail on the head. In relation to the popfitation, that those who will not shall he allowed to starve, the Day ook .ays: No, no, gentlemen, that won't do. A bird hat, can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing. These inen have wives and children, and they must be made to work for them. This ountry is begin ing to be what all countries ave been, and are tilled with what m:y be justly termed a stupid or thick headed class, and they ire getting so numerous, that it has become ne :esary in large cities to devise some plan to ave them taken care of If nine-tenths of these indolent and profligate )r stupid beings who obey their inclinationts lone, and do not seem to bare sense enough to ay up food in summer or winter, had blur' ears r red hair. or two thumbs, or were in any other vay marked by God so that we could judge and fiserimninate properly between them and those xhiose incl.nations and passions are not so strong md who have serse to see far enongh into the uture to" lay up foo enioughi for winter or a et day," we should say, '-sell them straight ut," to meni who would obligate themselves to ake care of' therm, threir wives and their little nes for their services. And we would go far her, and give their owners suflicient power and uthority over them to compel thetm to wvork. This leaving women and children to starve ~ecause stout, able bodied mten, whom the Crea or of the universe has seen fit to senid into this world wvithr passions and desire so strong as to vercome their weak judgments, is cruel and njust. That a portion of the created humanity s thus sent into the world, we are receiving laily proof, and it is our duty to look the fact 'lumpiuy in the face, and do our duty to that >~rionr as becomes rational arnd intelligent ca ,res. MEDiCAL.-Since 1849, a prize of one hun red tho~usand f'rncs has beeni offered by the French Academy of' Sciences for a prescription which would cure the Asiatic cholera in the rnajrity of cases. At a late bitting of the Aademy, the comgiittee appointed to examine he numerous coumunic'ations upo.n the subiject, reprted that not one of this many sugges.tins thfered was worth a f'arthing. It has now been deided that any person wh. shlrl discover a positive ipidienrtion of the causes of the disease, mo that by the removal of' them it will disappear, ur who shall discover a sure preventive, such as vaccination is for the small pox, sharl be enti Ied to recive the prize. There is likewise a standing offer of five throusanid francs for a de morstration of the existence, in thte terrestria' atmosphiere, of any matter or arnimnalcule, opera Live ini the propagation of epidemic diseases, DEATH OF BrstioP C~AEs.-A good man has fallein ! Rev. Win. Capers, D. D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,.died on Moday last, at his residenice in Anderson, from disease of' the heart. Bishop Capers was one of the most eminent divites in the denomination of the Christian Church to which he belonged ; and was moat universally esteemed for his picty, unbanity of manners, and Christian virtnes. Few men have occupied so enviable a position both in Chturch and society, ini this State, as has Dr. Capers. Trho deceased, we unrderstand, was in his sixty-fourth year at tire time of his death. He entered the nrinistry when hre was 19 years of age, thus exhibititng a -long lif'e of devotion to the holy cause in which lie was engaged. His loss to the Church and to South,-rn Methodism will be keetnly felt, not only by the membership of' his own Church, but by all who knew him. South Carolinian, 31st inst. CmwLISII SIMPticiT.-A little girl had a beautiful head oh hair, which hung in -"cluster iig curls" down her neck. One hot sum'ier's day she went up stairs, and cut off all her curls. Cominig down she met her mother who exclaim ed with surprise " Why, Mary ! what have you been doing to your hair?" TCo wnich she re sponded that she had cut it off, and laid it in her box; but she intended to put it on to-mor row, as Aunt Nancy did. "Did you pull my nose on purpose, sir:" "Certainly, I did, sir." " It is well you did, for I don't allow people " I HAVNT SOLD NY COTTON." The above is become a most familiar phrase among our people, and is considered ia sufficient reply to all demapds for a settlement of exis. ting liabilities between the planter and those to whom he may be indebted; and organized as the business of this country is, in relation to the subject of credit, which looks to an adjust. ment of the affairs of the current year at or about Christmas, or during the cotton "elling season, the sale of cotton is-the great lever upon which .the whole matter turtg; and as long as the planter's crop remains in his gin. house or stored in the warehouse, it is not to be expected that the owner can respond to the demands of his creditors. Very grave ques. tions may however arise as to what extent the planter is justified-on the score of policy, or in view of his liabilities incurred on the strength of the anticipated sale of his crop and realiza tion of the proceeds at the usual time-in in. definitely posiponing, from month to month. the conversion of his cotton into available means to discharge the debts for which it is impliedly pledged; how far he ought to or can consi*. tently speculate upon the uncertaintiea of the coutton market. So fir as the risk ,-ncerns himself only, the question is without lculty lbeyond more considerat ions of policy; but when the interest, the credit, and the solveney of others are ir-.olved with them, and all the loss with none of the gain falls to the share of the latter, the case in its moral aspect becomes more complicated. We are at this time in the midst of a trying erisis. The great "carcity of money is a sub. ect of univer..al complaint. Copllectis are said to amount to little or nothing, and preu. iiary distress prevLils throughout the country. T'he eotton statements from the various cities show large stocks on hand, of which, in the in. and towns particularly, a large proper!ion is stored for nerount of planters-thus locked up ,n the warehouses is a vast amount of means whien would otherwise have been in circulation. M ch of this cot [on has been :tored at 8 cents, some at more and some at less; but it is con :eded on i hands that the proceeds. even st .he present prices, would materially relieve the lifiuhies under which we at pre.-ent labor. rhe questions we now make are tlee: Are lot our planters wrong in all cases in failing to ,ell when their cottion will bring a reinuioera. ing price and the praceeds are due tw their :reditors? And secondly, havinog failed to do o, are they not non% called upon by the exi. rencies of the time to sell a lortien of their ,reps at lea.st even at present prices, that ihe >ruceeds may to some extent relieve the plres. ng necessities which have in a great deL'ree >wen consequent upon their failu.:e to do so ieretofore? Is it right that our imerchants and >thers, who have- looked to tle proce -ds of nis cotton to protect their liabiliies, abotld le 'oreed to the necessisy of raiing mnmev rur ,his purpose from out .ide menrees, at ruinous -atess of interest-or in default of this, t sur. 'er in credit or end in bankruptcy. becanse for. 1o4th1, the planter considers Sc. or 7c. or 6c. top ittle for his cotton, or in his opinion prices -glpo ae better in the spring? We are ever dispo*rd o counsel 'rbearftc n dece -n - art'of crehist'rs; but sometlhing is duo from iebtesr, that forbenrance may not cease to be a -irtue, or patience become a fault. . We speak it unto wise men; judge ye."-Columbus (Ga.) Bnquirer. HoRSE SToRIES.-We give it up. We have aold some horse stories ourselves, but out f leference to trnth, we kept close alotig shore. Here is one that throws all horse story-teller )nt of sight and out of hearing. It in from the Editor's Table of the California - ioneer: We have heard the matter di-ccusseed as to vhich of three or four gentlemen living, or. as he deeds have it, lying and being in Califirnia, ould tell the most inciredible story. It has been 3reposed to test the rela.ive merits by a trial on hoe race track at the Mission Dolores. Lie and epenit-best three in live-for a purse f tine houstnd tickets in Duncan's last raffle. Wit ye have a friend-a gootid natural liar, as Bald. win ays--not much known just at present, vhom we should enter on that struggle with :onsideratble reliance on his native talent. Hie ,va~s describitsg to us the other day the wonder 'ul qualities of a horse that ihe had trained, as he expressed it, to do everything. Said he, "I taught him to sit at a benach by a table, and eat boiled rice with a silver fork" "Imposible," <aid we, " how could a horse eat with a silver rerk 1" " Well," replied P'into, e" hem ! I dtmn't mecan exactly a silver ftork-it was one eof those plated ones, you know, cost about 88 a'dozen." We said no more. HYPERUOLE.-A Vermont horse jockey boast. ng the othter day of the speed oif his hoarse, ravely asserted that he could trot seventeen miles an hour.-" Seventeen miles an hourd" says a bystander, " J guess as hesw that's a thum-. er." "My dear felltow," replied he oaf the Green Mountain, "seventeen mdles is no great listance for the creature now; foer when he was but two years old, the lightning killed the oald Dare, anal chased the colt all around the pasture, sithout getting woithin ten rods of him." LTFE INSURANE.Moere than h dlf a million af dollars was paid last year bay the life itnan rance~ companies doinag husinaess in the city of New Yosrk to the families osr raepresemsativea taf :eceased members. The average osf deaths will. :all for an eqnal amount everyv year. sea great is the number of inisurances. Of the above stun Svery large proeportionl was paid ts families wito wuld have had little or nso property without it.-insurance Reporter. Tua UNIDERGROUND RAIROAD IN DANGE. A bill was presented in the Illinotis Leui4l.ttire, on the 16th inst., to p-event the carryinig esf ceal. red people on the railrads of that State wilkei out the production of certifieates of freedeem. Any railroad csmpany conveyinig a slave, with. rut such certificate, to be liable to the owner rr double the value of the slave.. SAD END TO AN ENGAGEMENT.--A cor respondetnt of the Baltimore Sun wvrites: "You have already atnonneed the mel. anehonly death of youang Alexanider Bswnman sf H-agerstoswn, Maryland, by fire at Phila. delphiia. He was ant onaly son. lHe was en gaged to he married to a yosung lady, resid ing tnear Philadelphia, ott the 4th oif March next, on which day he woeuld arrive at his twenty-first, and the youtng lady in her sey enteetnth birthday. Stratnge to tell, that fair one was run over by the Germantown cara a fewv weeks sinice, and was compelled to suffer the amputation of a leg. Now they are forever separated." SPINmNG WoMEN.-Among our forefathers, it was a maxim that a yountg woman sh~uld never marry until she had spun enougn linen to furnish her house; and f om this. cnstom all unmarried women were called "8~pinners.w tiNo man can do anything against his will, said a metaphysician. " Faith," sald PIM-J bad a brother who went to Bottany Bagaginbt hiis w=ll fiths and ho did."