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.THE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER 1$ PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Et W. 1. DVEIBO & 1SON, Propriets. Two DOLLARS per year, if paid in advance-Two DOLLARS and Firry Curia if not paid within six months-and Tuaas DOLLARS if not paid before the expiration of the year. All subscriptions not distinct ly limited at the time of subscribing, will be consider ed as made for an indefinite period, and will be con tinued until all arrearaes 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 for each subsequent insertion. When only published Monthly or Quarterlf $1 per squarewillbecharged. AllAdvertisementsnothaving the desired number of insertions marked on the mar gin, will be continued until forbid and charged ac cordingly. Those desiring to advertse by the year can doso on liberal terms-it being distinctly understood that con tracts foryearly advertising are confined to the imme diate, legitimate business of the firm or individual contracting. Transient Advertisements must be paid for in advance. For a uncing a Candidate, Three Dollars,'ri ADVAN.E For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be paid bythe Magistrate advertising. - IN SEBASTOPOL. - A letter from a Russian in the besieged .city, published in an Austrian paper, gives an interesting and probably accurate view of the state of affairs in Sebastopol. The letter is dated May 31: In spite of all the efforts which the enemy -have made, our ,bulwarks stand as fast as ever. Long before the bombardment began, - the journals from the West informed as that our walls and forts were .speedily to be put to a new proof. . This made us redouble our precautions, and we bore firmly the tru ly murderous fire [hollische] -which threat. ened all with destruction. Nevertheless, thousands were devoted to death, and it made one shudder to see the Elborus [the steamboat] pass every two hours during the bombardment, from the south to the north, with so many wounded that she could scarce ly carry them. While standing in bastion No. 4-the bas tion whihh sufferedmost of all-I forgot the dangeir to which I was exposed in admira. tio'i of the cool and stolcal-conduct of our sailors. " They fell and expired without a cry, though racked with the most fearful agonies. The southern side of our town hss suffered most severely and is hardly to be recognized; 500 houses have been total. ly'destroyed, and grass is growing on their ruins. The beautiful theatre no longer ex ists. Though the - upper districts of the town are not so much damaged, yet there it not a-single house -to be seen which. does -not bear manifest traces of the bombardment. The streets are everywhere ploughed up by shot, and the pavement is totally destroyed;. whila at every corager statnd whole pyramids of 'the enemy's cannon balls and exploded shells, which were daily collected before the " rpening of the fire. In many streets five or six such pyramids are to be seen, each of. them from eight to ten feet high. Neverthe less, business is continued, and stores are opened for the sale- of goods. Prices, how ever, are enormously raised, and sugar costs -one -silver roublo (2s.) per pound. The supply of meat is more than abun dant, but bread is exceedingly scarce.Th streets are filled with people, and crowds of - - children run to and fro, assisting at the - construction of barricades, and pelting each other wvith balls of clay. Our life in Sebas topol is agreeable to us, for use is a second nature. The greatest activity prevails in the harbor of -Eztarin, where cannon balls, pow der, fatscines, sacks and provisions are landed in astounding quantities, as they are for. wvarded from the northern forts. In a word, neither the thunder of the enemy's cannon, nor the siege of Sebastopol is suffered to disturb us any longer; we mourn over our adversaries, who are . shedding their blood without result before our brazen walls. We read many absurb statem~ents about the con dition of the besieged; but the. absurdest of all is, undoubtedly. the news that 'we suffer from want of supplies, and that hundrcds and hundreds of us are daily cut off by *death-of all which no. trace is to be seen. - EXTRAORDINARY PLYING MACHINE. We find the following curious and inter esting statement in the Paris Petrie: " The Academy of- Science is a good deal interested by the invention- of a flying machine, by Don Diego de Salmanea. With this machine Don Diego's daughter, Rosaura, rose in the air some time ago at Madrid, to the great astonishment of the. Spaniards, wh~o are but little accustomed to this sort of miraale. Don Diego de Salamanca and his -daughter is about to arrive at Paris to show the effects of this marvellous invention. The niachine is very simple, it consists in a case -two feet long, and one foot wide, adapted to a band of leather round the waist buckled behind. The twvo iron rods fastened to the case support a small piece of wvood on which the feet repose. The case contains a simple -and ingenious mechanism, similar to that em ployed to set an autaumaton in motion. The inechanism is. worked by means of a handle. It sets in work two large wrings ten feet long, made of very thin caoutchouc, covered with feathers; and the - wings many be so wvorked to produce -vertical, perpendicular, or horizontal flying. . Trhe number of turns given to the handle letermines the height to which it is desired to go., *The handle has to be turned every quar ter of a league to regulate the distance: the operation of turning lasts asminute. Hori zontal fijing -is the most difficult. The wings beat the air like the cars of a boat, or rather lika the feet of-a swan when it swims. By means of this curious machine a man can go almost as. rapidly as a carrier-pigeon from the Hotel de Ville to the Are de Tri. omphe de l'Etoleo, in eight minutes, and in half-an hour to Versailles. .The experiments, wvhich will be made in Paris, wvill. be on a 'small scale, and the flights of Don Diego -will not extend beyond the Department of ithe Seine.; but at a later period he proposes to go- to Lyons, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marse. illes and Tours, and to take .the lines of railway. He pretends..that he can travel quicker than by raiL. Tie- price of each machine will not exceed 1200f. for men, and 1000f. for women. If,.the experiment succeeds Don Diego will take out a patent, and make the sale of the machines- a branbh of commerce, Although greatly astonished ist this new invention, several members-of the academay have pointed out the inconveniene of bringing it into general use. Itn point of f ait, there .iill be no security for any one, if by the aid of- such ma 'n all -onr usges and customs be overtbh and if ma - tons can Bly on the roofs of houses, Wr ai'rda-get-into apartments and commit all brti cof pepredations. It. will be very curi one fe'see policeman In Fr'ance or England pursuing theives in the air, in order to lock them up on..earth. It appears that 1855 I9 is all sorts of marvels," iT is apt wrel'that a muan should always labo. 'His temporal as well-as spiritual inter. est demand a cessation in the decline of life. Some yli sof quiet and reflection areneces sary M~rilf of. industry, and aclivity. cessant occupation and its product-wealth.. He who has been a drudge all his days to one monotonous- mechanical pursuit: can hardly be fit for another world; The release from. toil in old age most men have the pros pective pleasure of; and in the reality it is as pleasing as it is useful and salutary to the mind. Such advantages, however, can only be gained by prudence and economy in youth -we must save, like the ant, before we can hope to.have any rest in the winter of our days. ARTHUR SIMKIN8, EDITOR. EDGEPIELD, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1855. ' Wa are requested to state that Rev. Mr. ZiM MERMAN will preach at Jeter's Church on the 3d Sunday in this month, at 3 o'clock, P. M. FINE BEETS AND SEA CRABS. Mr. HiaAM ADAMs has our most polite thanks for those fine 'beets sent in a few days ago. They 'were superb and delicious. Our friend the Captain will also please receive our most humble-come-tumble-down acknowledgments for that specimun of sea-crab. We should be more eloquently grateful did not the animal lear so close a resemblance to one vyell known in these parts as the " bozterripin." PERSONAL. WE had clearly taken ground against. the Order of Know Nothings as a party of dangerous 'tendencies and especially useless to Southern interests. Disin. clined nevertheless to any regular discussion of that Party's politics, we had contented ourself with placing before our readers certain papers thereunto pertaining, which we regarded as covenng .the question com pletely. We adopted the argument as our own and so announced in a paragraph or two calling attention to the same. What then was our surprise upon finding in the' last number of the " Advertiser," at the head of "Relgious Department," a downright and I earty approval of a letter written in direct contraven tion of our main selection. The circumstance calls for an explanation. It is this: Some months ago a friend of ours suggested that a " Religious Department" would perhaps be a useful appendage, to our paper and that he would wil lingly take charge of it. The proposition was acce ded to, and under the style and title of 'It Nos Eris coros" the said person entered upon the duties thus marked out for himself. With Every one connected with the paper, we felt (and still feel) obliged to him for his trouble on our account; and we regret having now to objects to his Interfering with matters over which it was never intended to give him the dirdetion. We are forced to do this or leave our; paper liable to mis-construction. The political sentiments of the " Advertiser" have been uniform and consistent, and we desire they shall remain so. If any one has a communication to offer at any time adverse to our views and principles, we will gladly give him room as we have ever done. But for those concerned in the management of one and the same sheet to be at the same time Know Nothing and anti-Know Nothing is a ridiculous state of matters which we by no means relish. It is for this reason that 'we here distil ody disclaim the politics of " Neos Eriscoros" as not at present the politics of this paper. RAILR.OAD CONVENTION. Tna Stockholders in the Greenville & Columbia' 'Rail Road hold their'ann~ual meeting for 1855, during' the present week, at Abbevalle C. H. The delibera. tions of the body are anticipated with muchs anxiety by the citizeins of Western Carolina. To usof Edge. field, the question of building the long talked of con necting link, betweer. some point on the Greenville & Coludabia Road and Aihen, is one of decided Interest. We are glad to learnuthat several gentlemen from this vicinity have gone up to watch the progress of this discussion. It is to be -hoped that they will bring us glad tidings of great joy when they return ; which is to say, thatit shall have been resolved to build this lirnk forthwith. It has been in expectancy long enough.. The times are growing better. The bonds of the .Greenville & Columbia Company are rising in the-. market. The Rabun Gap Road is going forward steadi ly. And the hour is surely arrived in the which to begin this work. We suppose it is not to run by our Court House. So let it be. ~But it must pass through our District; and we " holler" for it on that ground. THlE SOUTHERN PATRIOT. Wa give place this week to a rather caustic com munication signed " BL.AC JACK," in which the Editor of the"Southern Patriot" is handled more unceremoniously than we could desire. While we agree with our correspondent that the " Patriot" at all times and on all occasions is too full of sneers and iguendos against its political opponents, we yet pre fer, as a general rule, to give all such provocations the go-by under the well-grounded motto of " NiL dispss tandum de gustibus." It is impossible though to avoid the conviction, that the paper in question has lost, in the estimation of some good men, much of its value and interest by a too frequent sprinkling of those un called-for taunts and invidious comparisons which render enemies bitter while they make no single friend. Confident, as ne are, of its Editor's worth and purity of character, of his information and editorial ability, we have been from time'to time half sorry and half mad so find the " Patriot" still bent upon interlarding otherwise admirable articles with flings of an unpleas ant character.' Still, we should never have fouad it in our heart to indite an attack like that of " BL.ACK JACK ;" and, in publishing this attack, we :nust take occasion to say that we do not consider Major Paa~Y justly chargeable with several offences therein laid at his door. With all its objectionable features (and what paper has not a list of such?) we have ever re garded the " Southern Patriot" an honest and fearless journal. Indeed, 'but for its Union monomania (to adopt the "Patriot's own style of epithet,) wve should ever welcome it as one of the best papers in the whsolo country. HEALTH OF VILLAGES. OF all the villages in South Carolina we verily he. lieve there are three in Edgefield District which fairly take rank with the foremost in point of real healthful. ness. We mean Edgefield Village, Hamburg arnd Graniteville. Greenville had In days past a high repu tation in this respect. But the Typhoid fever of 1853 and the Measles of -the present season have gone far towards frighstening people out of their confidence in hercomplete salubrity. Spartanburg too has suffered a similar decline in public estimation. Abbeville has chills and fevers as a matter of course every summer, while Newberry has every year or two a mixture of al the ills that flesh Is heir to. In'our Edgefield vil lage-on the contrary we scarcely have one sickly year in ten. We do not baast of this. -Yet that it is entirely true cannot be denied. If :we only had the mountain 'breezes to fan us occasionally during the hotmonths of July and August, we should really re gard our climate as fine as'any on earth. Still, old prejudices and old notions are difficult of extinction. ears ago the low country people of -South Carolina took up an idea that our village was a perfect grave. yard; and to this day the few who travel this way in the summer will pnrthemselves to any amount of in onvsinience ratheir than stop here a night. These illy notion.to the contrary notwithstanding, we up oldur village to be as healthful as any in the State. -THE RAINS.' Ta rains of last week were the heaviest we have baf this year. Cotton is supposed to be considerably inijured andgcorn at least not benefited. Some of ir Streams overflowed their banks to the injury of the 4 growing crops. But we hear of no very serious dam-< ges. The grass has been growing apace in the mean rhile, and a splendid- pasturage is confidently antici ated.: Our. lands have been washed considerably ad our reads torn up' sadly in many places. The arvesting of the cats crop-has been impeded and the rop itself deteriorated. Still, the provision prospect u upon the whole a very fine one. Corn is .falling as wll as flour; and they must both continue to, fill. o say those who natch the markets. Without fAr ber disasters, the recent high hopeu'of the people will eLbe realised to the full. A few weeks more of sun hii ad showers, and all will be well. . 3W' Duarno the month .of June, about twenty overment employers in Washington City have been al ama da f"os moatieram-n- - - - . THE EIGHTIETI TEAR OF OUR UNDE* PENDENCE. - THE anniversary whicE has justushered In the-8Oth rear of American Independence seems.to have passed Dff with the usual manifestations of pride and re joicing. In our own Village, despite the shocking weather of the forenoon, a dinner was had and a re spectable round of cannon fired by our young men in honor of the day. - We observe that in. Columbia, Lexington and several other localities throughout the State,-preparations were made to celebrate the anni versary.in a style worthy of its hallowed associations. This is certainly as it should be. Whatever may be the divisions and, disputes whibh nova distract our country, it is ever.right to recall with lively gratitude and glowing pride the Day in which the American colonies threw off the Britisheyoke and asserted their Independence before.the world. Would that the spirit of 1776 were the-spirit of 1855! THE ALLIES DEFEATED. THE last intelligence from Europe, by the America, tells a fearful tale-for the Allied Armies- in the East. The Russians had again defeated them in an engage ment of unusual magnitude. The telegraphic. state ment is that the English loss alone was four thousand men and seventy-six officers, including Sir. COLIN CAPrsELL. Another such blow as this, and the hope of conquering Russia into terms may as well give up the ghost. Yet, fighting before the world as they-are with all their ancient prowess and'military renoivn at stake, England and France-will perhaps redouble their efforts with every defeat, until victory shall be forced to sit upon their babners. As Rome felt towards Car thage, so feel they towards Sebastopol. Delenda eat. " She must be destroyed" not only for Turkey's sake but for the sake of the glory of the. French and Eng lish arms. " It is not," said Lord PALMERSTON, for Turkey alone that we are now fighting, but for the position of the two great Western nations as first lass Powers in Europe." Such being the incentive to a prolonged and desperate struggle, who can tell when it shall terminate, or how it. will result.- One thing is certain, that by the time the Allies get out of this scrape with credit to themselves they will be sick mough of war and its incumbrances. * It may cure them of -all desire to interfere with American affairs; Ind, if so, their losses'in Russia will not haye been tliogether unprofitable to tbm. A REFLECTION. THE more sensible and genteel Know Nothings do, lot object to the Roman Catholics as Christians. rheir apprehension is that the perfect system of seen ar polity, which that Church pessesses, may become oo powerful and be converted in our Republic to vrong political purposes. This we understand to be he position of the Charleston Evening News, decided y the most high-toned exponent of this Order at the cnth. Now, if this be the only.objection and this the only ause of hostility to the Church of Rome,. why, we sk, may not the same apprehensions exist as to other enominations of Christians ? What security can the Iethodists for instance Jeave that they and their secu ar polity are not to be attacked next? It has been he remark of sagacious men held in high public esti nation,- that the Church -Government established by IoHN WESLEY is the most powerful organization ex istant, whether for spiritual or temporal purposes. And when we consider the subjection (so faithfully fielded in the main) of members to class-leaders, of lass-leaders to the itineracy, of ethe itineracy to presiding elders, and of elders to bishops, the opinion ippears ccrrectly founded. But who shall dare to. raise a voice, in free America, against the polity or privileges of this highly esteemed branch of the Chris tian Church ? A year ago the reply would have been, ' Not one." Smece that time however this New Order, with its banner of Proscription, has come upon the stage of American politics; and, if its princIples pre rail, thte friends of Religious -Liberty may well trem ble for the consequences.. RAILROAD MATTERS. Wultear nothin3l very lately of the Savrannah Valley Road. What does that Company intend doing? iThe Greenville & Columbia Direction -have had a survey made of the route from their Road. to Aiken. -The Company is to act upon the matter this week. In the mean time a proposition is being made by them to the Lauren.s Railroad company; Inviting the latter to come in and be absorbed. The Southern Patriot seriously Dbject-to this proposition on the ground that.the Green ille & Columbia Company would sustain a loss there by. The " Laurensville Herald" objects to the ar rangement. with equal stress, on the ground that the Laurens. ,Road would lose by the operation.' The " erald" maintains that the Greenville road is more in debt, proportionally, than the Laurens road, an8 that the latter is actually doing the better business of the two. The object of the Greenville & Columbia Company is supposed to be the extension of the Lau ren branch to Greenville to enable them to compete with the Spartanburg road for the trade and travel of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. What then is to become of the segment of their Road from Newerry (sia Greenwood, Williamstop &c,) to Greenville ! That part of it which connects Green wood and Beltun will probably be sold to the Rabun Gap Company. What then of the piece -from New berry C. Hi. to Greenwood, and again of that other piece rom Belton to Greenville? Will they be given up ? It would seem that our Railroad enterprises are get ting into something of a jumble. And we respectfully uggest the following improved chart as the one desi rable under the- circumstances: Let the Savannah Company build their Road connecting Anderson' and Hamburg. Let-them build too (with the help of Edge-, ield and Charleston) a branch from Dorn's to Aiken running by Edgefleld C. H. Let the Greenville & Columbia Company reniain as they are. Let the Laurens company continue their road to Greenville. Let the Rabun Gap Company build to Anderson and no fturther. Let them there make arrangements. witht the Columbia Company for the carrying of produce destined for Columbia and the Eastern .part of the State. Let thetm negotiate with the Savanns~h Com pany for the transportation of produce intended for Hamburg, Augusta, Ct:arleston &c.- And let us then call a halt in Railroading until we shall have had full time to see how the whole business works. Condensed Items. gg' Gen. WILSON, of Mass., whose .conscience is sorely troubled on the question of slavery makes his living by selling brogans to our Southern slaves. gg TUE robes worn by Archbishop HUGHus'at the late dedication of St. Paul's Cathedral, Pittsburg, cost $3,000.. fly A NAN has been sentenced to the Penitentilary for two years, in.Mississippi, for stealing thirty cents worth of goods. g'g Mr. S. TI.:.Ev, of Middletown, I. L., has a flock of twenty-seven South Down ewes, fronm which he raised last year fifty-flve lambs. Twenty-six of the ewes had twins, and the twenty-seventh had three~ They all lived and were sold for five dollars. .. W" Mr. RI. HAnxomN, of Ann Arundel county, ld., has 100 acres planted in sitrawberties and em ploys about 200 pickers, men, women and Ehildren. His largest day's picking amounted to 14,000 quarts, worth about $3,500. The yield of the land is 150,000 bushels; pickers work at one and a half cents per lart, and some make $3 per day. 8w' A colore'd volunteer company, called the attack Blues, made their first parade in .Cincinnati, hio, on Wedneadaylast. They are said to be well niformed, well drilled and well officered. They were >e'eded by a colored brass band. gg' WH EN you hear-an old bachelor inveighing Igint the extravagance of women, Infer that he has eer calculated the hundreds of dollars he has spent or wines and segars. -- gg'"ONE of the oldest and most distinguished 'Heads" at Oxford, Dr. Gaisford, -Dean of Christ hurch, Regins Professor of Greek, and a philologist f world wide celebrity, died ~on the 2d uIt., after a hort but painful illness, in the 75th year of his age. ~Mys. PARTINGoN expresses great apprehen ion that the people of California will, bleed to death, every paper she picnks up announces " another vein pened." fly" ANNETTE, what country is opposite to us on e globe 1" " Don't knlow, slr " " Well, now," ontinued the perplexed teacher, "4if I were to bore a ole through the-earth, and yott were to go In at this nd, where-would you come out ?I' "Out of the-hole, r," replied the pupil,-with an air of triumph at hay ig solved the great question., - 3g' IT is a law which God himself has made, that e arrow which is shot from the persecutor's bow g' Tas salary of.the Governor of Rhode Island bas rieently been raised'from 6400t.o $1000 per an bum, and that of tbe' aoyor of' Boston- reduced from $4000 t6'93000. -. 9V Tue Hon. A. C!3Dodge, U. S. Envoy to the Spanish Court, has arrived in Spain, and been recei ved with every mark of respect in the cities through which he passed to ths ital In Barges and Vic. ton, he was furnished th a military ;escort to pro sect him from the Carlistnsurgents. g2 Tut liquor dealers of New Ygrk city are en deavoring to raise a frnd 6f $100,000 to start a news paper to be devoted to- their interests. - C OMmUNIGATIONS. FOIR TBUeDYERTISER. . THE SOTHERNPATBIQIT-ITS GOOD TASTE AND PUBLI9 VIRTUE. ALL are ready to -eo;eede to the Editor of this Journal, elegance, conresy, and manly propriety in private life ; but any one who has watched his public course,. is for the conviction that he is politically, " the chi ' sinners." Let. him but touch on a single law, a solitary measure, or institu tion of the country, and all his judgment, his dig nity,and hii excellent eommon sense, as well as his amiable disposition, seem' at once to forsake him. He is in every respect tiansformed on the instant, and becomes as unseecjy and repulsive in contro versy, as he is refined andfaseinating in the polished circles of his.neighbora and intimate companions. He to pretend to d patriotism or to talk about a patriot I .-If to disa with his native State in all her mdst cherished schemes of improvement constitutes a patriot, thea 'is the "Southern Pa triot" a loverof his country ! If to be at variance with his immediate.fellow-citizens in all their notions of Constitutional Government, is calculated to in spire confidence in one who is bidding for the pub lic regard, then is the !Patriot" a fit -depository of our trusts, and a suitable representative of the in terests of 'our people 1 If 'Men are most easily and willingly taught by onewboseornstheir understand ings, laughs at their pidileetions, and treats their tenderest sensibilities with contempt, then is the "Patriot" a proper 'inhtructor of the youth, the manhood, and the ge of South Carolina1 I a man who habitually derl his own section of the Union, holds. it 'up' to .dicule whilst injuriously contrasting it with another hostile section, and in every way appears to depreciate his own domicil, can havesa right appreciation of patriotism and true loyalty to one's country, then is the " Patriot" able to apprehend the duties which devolve upon the subjects of a free govednent.. If the man who professes on all occasions to love the enemies of his State, who vindicates them by the greatest. efforts of his intellect, and at the Jame time applies deroga tory, epithets to the Iand of his fathers, and terms of detraction to the associates and friends of his youth and meridian prime, can.catch or feel a single spark of that noble generous fire that anima ted the Spartan to offer himself up for Greece, that induced the Athenians to betake themselves to their ships, and abandon their houses and wealth to the flaming brands of their enemies, and that sustained our revolutionary fathers, when. cold, and naked, and perishing, they- struggled seven dreadful but glorious years for the reldemption and salvation of American liberty, then li the " Patriot" the model of heroic virtue, and all love and devotion to the land that nurtured hishifjade, thiat has joyed in his igrowing fame; and .thai now claims his liveliest sympathy, his full allegiance, and the homage of a dutiful honest heart. - . In the issue of' the "?airjot" of the 28th June, under the caption of "Ilhe Forgeries," is one of the most unprovoked, '(and one would almost be justified in saying, did ave-not prize the character and boldness of' the autlior,')npudent) attacks upon a iange.and respectable- ptton 'of the inhabitants of South Carolina, that'was'eerwritten by the hand, or uttered by the~aof the tost, 'vindictive spirit. Ihave the.Co-operationists-or Unionists not gained the victory?7. Who insults 'a fal~en foe, but a pre cipit'ate ill-natured man,' a barbarinn or-satvage,.or one destitute of courage, a quality no person denies to the Editor of the " Patriot 7" It is excusnble, perhtaps, in a heated cositroversy, or' it is at least, tolerable, from the frailty of our species, to ripply harsh and nudeserved epithets to our opponents; but when the dispute' ends, a high-toned victor ceases htis opposition, calms his preturbed temper, and actually endeavors to soothe the man who was but yesterday his'active'und determined antagonist. I have seen the bravest'and best soldiers on earth, after a desperate cnSet, offering bread and water to their wourided enemies, whilst those who skulked from the fight, or were implaeableby nature, delight. ed-to increase their tormert, aind make their anguish ad misery more intolerable than it had already been rendered by the fortune of war. Every one acquaintedwith the strife. between the ctessionists and theth'dversaries supposed it to be terminated, and artioliefr peace ratified by the con testants. One side was ii.ling to believe, or at any rate took it for granted ilat the other was .honesl as well as patriotie Why mention-the .late forgeries as the cts of a " distinguished Secessionist 1" Why not have said that they were the deeds likewise of a zealous metho dist exhorter ? The gentleman allakded to, was not a very important member of the State Rights party. Even if he had been, that party should not, be blamed for his transgressions. Of the twelve chosen followers of Christ, one was a Devil I have known more than one Co-operationist tried' for stealing, hut that did n~ot lessen th4 great body of Unionists in my esteem,- or ilthe- good -opinion of any well regulated mind.' The " Patriot" too, has felt moved to repent the stale stuff about patriotism, and the hacknied charge that professed patriots and revolutionis ts are often, or generally., men bankrupt in character and for tune. Such allegations have been rnade by the un resisting and by tories against the true men who would revolt from tyranny, and vindicate the free dom of man, ever since the beginning of govern, ment. * It is not. the fact, that the poor are less patriotic than the rich,' or is the more erudite phras~e of the " Patriot," ''than those~ who hold the -stakes." It is true though, that the 'most' resolufe defenders 'of their country, at every period;ihave as frequently been found among the poor as ste rich. There may be something in the 'argument. of the " Patriot" which would greatly militate against his own posi tion-that the rich and prdsperous are indisposed to risk their property to the hazards of war, and hene they hug despotism to .their bosoms-avid swallow it down as a sweet morsl.. The views though, of thiis greatman of~the moun tains, (I.will not retort upon him, and say " the old man," since he has' eltaried a: considerable patt of our inhabitants as being very youthful,) are in this case highly inapp'osite. For it happens that in all the great efforts of South' Catrolna to free herself from.Northern rule, she has been supported by at least half the wvealthy, besides by Incomparably the larger share 'of the learning and'tslent of the State. If the " Patriot" will henceforth ease his vitu peration, I am' sure that he will he allowed for many years to come to repose in that sweet oblivion from pecuniary, personal and political risks, which he laims as his birth-right ; and it 'might be added, that the people of South Crlina, will possibly rest in utter forgetfulness, b'oth of 'himself and his im mortal achievements in Legislation as well as Lite rature, and in hitter political and netspsper wrang ling. "'BLACK JACK. ANOTHER R~v0LU.1ONARY PArdIT GoN. We have received.intelligenico of the death of Joshua Hill, esq., of thisudistrict, agecd ninetya woa yae..-Abkasille'Tndanandant PIress. ARRIVAL O THE wflXAN A well authenticated report has been-received at Liverpool of a great battle having been fought in the Crimea, in which the Allies were defeated with great loss. The particulars are expected by the America, which has arrived at Halifax, and the news by her is momentarily expected. There was a rumor afloat that the French Emperor. was suffering from the effects of a fit of appoplexy. ARRIVAL OF TE AMBRTCA HALIFAX, July 4. The royal mail steamer America arrived here this morning, bringing dates from Liverpool to the 23d uIt. The news is not in very .great detail, but is quite important. Dispatches have been received by government announcing that the French and English made a combined attack; in' force, on the Redan Bat tery and the Malakoff Tower on the 18th of June, and were repulsed by the Russians with great slaughter. The government had given no details of their great repulse, but fragmentary intelligence and private advices say that-the English lost no few er than 4000 men, including Lord Campbell and 76 officers. Rumors of other disasters are pre. Talent. - A large French loan is immediately called for. In the English Parliament. Mr. Roebuck has moved a vote of censure on the conduct of. the war. Breadatuffs unchanged except corn, which has declined-Is. 6d.; white 51s. a51s. 6d.! yellow 49s. 6d.a50s. Flour Philadelphia and Baltimore 41sa43s. Wheat lie 9dal2s 3d; red Ilsal1s 64. Money and Stocks-State securities better supply short. U. S. bonds of 1868,- 107a108. Money is easier-Consols have declined, clos iog at 901 LOUIsVILLE, Ky., July 2. STEAMBOAT EXPLosION.-The steamer Lex ington, running between'- Louisville and St. Louis, was blown to atoms near Stephensfort, Kentucky, by an explosion of her boiler on the upper trip. The .packet Baltimore, has just arrived from the scene of disaster with 20 of the-officers, and passengers of the Lexington, including the Captain and first clerk, Mr. David. son, both of whom are wounded. The captain thinks that 35 were wounded out of one hun dred on board. The ladies wore all unharmed. The accident occurred at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning. The boat and cargo are-a'total loss. - SPRINGFIELD, July 3. DESTRUCTION OF THE GLASGOW MILLS BY FIRE.-The gingham establishment known as the Glasgow Mills, at South Hadley Falls, was burned this afternoon. The fire originated in a pile of yarn in the attic, and is supposed' to have been the result of spontaneous combustion. The machinery and building, with much of the stock, was destroyed. Most of the manufactur ed goods were saved. The loss is estimated at 8250,000. Two men wero injured by falling from ladders and one man killed by the falling of a wall. EURGLARY.-The store of Gray Brothers was entered on Thursday night, by means of two large holes made with. an auger, in the back door, by which the thieves could unlock the door and praise the iron bar. After entering, they forced open the desk and two drawers, but only got two dollars for their trouble, as that was all the money. that was in the drawers, and there appears to be no goods missing. Augusta Constitutionalist... A SLAVE CASE IN PaussrA.-In the interest ing column of the .Washington Union, devoted to information of gepneral value derived from the several' Departments of the Government, wec find the following account of the decision, by the highest Court (if Prussia, of a question in which our readers will fee 'an interest.. British Conrts have decided that the law of nations melts into municipal lawv, whert-it touches their soil. The Prussian Courts, with a juster and larger view, have determined that the laws of other naitirns are to be respected even when they conflict with their own. The informatIon i.< derived from a letter da ted Dresden, June 12. "I have taken the liberty, to -acquaint you with a most singular~ decision, which was given yesterday, and particularly confirms our fugitive slave law. As the decision emanates from the highest tribunal of the kingdom of Prussia, it. is certainly an authority which may be suecessfully quoted hereafter. it appears that a Dr Ritter brought with him to Berlin, (Prussia,) a negro slave which he had purchased in Brazil. All the proceedings which are so often and success fully had in the free States 'were immediately instituted by the European abolitionists, and, although the slave was first declared to be free, or rather the owner prevented from taking pos session of him, it has' been decided, after full Investigation, that the case has to be adjudged acc'rdimg io the lex loci, and the application of the slave has been refused, and he 'has been rmanded to his owner. As far as my informa tion on the subject, after diligent inquiry, goes, this is the first case ever decided in Prussia; and it is, therefore, fully conceded that the owner of a slave may bring hsim with him to Prussia, and there retain him, and agaiti extract him as a slave." STRAWBERR..-Nearly everybody having a spot of ground sufficiently large to accomodate a dozen 'strawberry plants, has turned his atten tier, to cultivating them, and in accordance with the attention and cultivation given them, they are astonished at. he results. The straw berries of the present day, in these 'parts, are almost entirely a different fruit from those of but a few years back. . They are from three to four times as large; and as rich and luscious in pro portion..-?lbany Atlas. THE Journal 'of Commerce 'says :-A contem porary publishes this morning a .weak letter from iRobert Schuyler, denying certain small speculations or misappropriation of funds charg ed against hini in thes official report of the N. Y. & N. HI. R. R. This Jetter, it is said, was received by the last steamer; it'may be so, but there are those who think that Mr. dehtoyler has never left the city sifice his fraud was distovered. We have heard that his signature was furnished some time since to a document, which never made the voyage to'FEdrope. THE St. Louis, Intelligencer of June 25 gives the prospective price of wheat at $1 a bushel: " We advise the Eastern States to rest easy there, is wheat in the great West. The great wheat surplus of the Mlississippi Valley must bring us some millions of' dollars in the next twelve months." T.hat paper is satifled that the crop is safe iid that great wheat-growing region of the world. GaN. SmELDS' SuceEssoR.--Mr. Trunbull, ohosen by the last session of the llinois Legis lature to succeed Gen. Shields in the- United States Senate, has been generally supposed? to be a Know Nothing. The question being asked whether he goes the Northern or Southern Know Nothing platform? two of his friends reply, over thieir own signatuires, " Judge Trum bull is a Democrat, who stands upon the. Balti more platform, and theref'ore does not go either of the Know Nothing pilatforms." KENTUeKY.-The Louisville Courier has in formation from all sections of. the State, to the effect that there is every reasonable prospect of a hirvest unparalleled in the' history of Kbn tcky. Every species of- grain has grown with the greatest luxuriance..' The, orchards are bowed down with their fruitful loads. Hemp promises to be a fine yield, and the tobacco will be far better than last year. No PLACE LIKE HOME.-A negro boy belong ing to Judge Summers, of Xanawha, (Vs.,) re 'ently absconded from his home and went to Canada, but was'io diegusted with the appear. ance of things there that- he turned about and came back again, lie says ho has .seen the ,elephant," and .is satisfied,-Richmond Whiig. -Edwin Forrest-has purchased a splendid brown stone building, corner, of Broad and Msters streets, in Philadelphia, for 630,000, and intnds making it his residence. - The Charleston Mercury, in commenting on a strong article from a Boston paper on the Union of-the North, appeals to the peopleand states men of the Southern States in the following language: ".I it not high time for the statesmen of the South to turn to the defence of their own seec tion of the Union, and to lend all their energies to the one great object of effecting a Union of the South. for her protection against the hostile and deadly combination of the free States? Will they stand divided and biekering against each other, concerning party. associations; with them, which every piinciple of self-respect, dig. nity or safety forbids? To stand apart and be united amongst themselves- -to meet the Union of. the. North for their overthrow-is the course which the North teaches them, and the only course left them short of a flat surrender of their rights and institutions. We -.thank the North for her. lessons. Although slow to profit .by them, we do not despair of the South yet winning her way to independence and .honor, under her memorable teachings. A united North, and then a united South on the institu tion of slavery. The day of our deliverance will then come, never more to be darkened by perfidious and implacable associates. " When we-think how easily the South might vindicate her charaeter, and rescue -her institu tions from the assults of abolition, were she only united, and what a multitude of natural. sympathies and intei'ests would be blended in such a Union, in contrast' with the. discordant elements which exist in the Union'of North and South, it is indeed surprising that they should so long be the victims of a blind fatuity. , The prayer of the venerable Cheves, so eloquently uttered at the Nashville Convention, 'Oh, God-I unite us, and a tale of submission shall never be told'-was as prophetic of the blessings of Southern Union,. as of the base ruinous conse. quences which will surely follow the absence of it." - TAE Wows CASE-We understand that E. Bellinger, jr., esq., of this city, has been retained to sustain the validity of Mr. Willis, who recent ly died in Ohio, leaving his property to one of his slaves and her children, whom he had taken with him, for the purpose, we believe, of eman ipating them.' He appointed a Mr. JoliS'e, of Cincinnati, an abolitionist, we understand,'his executor, and that gentleman has. arrived in Barnwell upon this. business.- We learn that Messrs. Aldrich- & Aldrich represent what is called the Carolina party. This is a case about which we have said noth ing, being 'of that class we have no desire to give publicity to; but, as a.newspaper, we feel justified in publishing the above intelligence, that our readers may know who is independent enough to take the unpopular side or the cause, and who are the counsel opposed to the Ohio executor. Mr. Jolifl'e may be an honest and straight forward business man, and in all the confidence of the respect which the people-of South Caro lina have always exhibited to the laws of the land, he has come among us to .execute a Trust. It does not manifest any extraordinary. courage that he should come all the way from Cincinnati to Barnwell, alone and unarmed, for Cardliniar.a are not fanatics nor freebooters. But if he be, as he is alleged to be, an abolitionist, he has_ been foolhardy in risking his person among a population who have good cause to be wary of entertaining such arch-agitators among them. We understand that'he has lodged with the Commissioner of Barnwell, bonds and notes to the amount or 822,000, which were found on Mr. Willis's person after his death, to wait the final decision of the ease.-South.. Carolinian. Mr. JoLIFFE.-We referred to this gentleman yesterday. We' learn .from the .Ora ngebur Clarion that he was advised by the &itizens of Williston to leave that place in short -ordei. Being indisposed to bide the consequences, he left on the down train ears, Monday morning last, taking back .tracks for Cincinnati.-Caro linian. -- TEE WASHINGTON SENTINEL.-e admire the common sense and able manner in which the &etpel diseusses the slavery question. If 'the Southern newspapers would All take out and expose the arrant absurdity of the intermedling of the.North. and prove to'them,'as the Sentinel does, that justice to the South and her peace and welf'are takes nothing from Northern rights, the North would-be silenced, or the South-so uiited; in intelligent defense of her rights, as to carry every just and. constitutional measure. 'The Sentinel also gives the North some lessons in favor of the practical morality of African slavery, and its practical good to the race. As to the abstract morality, of slavery, the North should. be referred to the Bible, history,' sacred and profane, tIie phiysical and intellectual difl'er enees of' races, and the prophetic announcement Noath after the flood. As to the christian duty of all. parties in the premises, let the North be referred to the New Testament. As to the tfu gitive slave law; tre hope they will be referred to the r ample and teachinig of the Apostle Paul, ranher than Horace Greely and Garrison. [Greenv'ille Mfountaineer.] A SAn AFFAIR AT CHasTER.-The annexed letter from an esteemed correspondent says the Ciitumbia Times, gives an account of a stabbing afflair, which occurred on the evening of the 4th inst., at Chestervillo. - CHEsTERvILLE, S. C., July 4, '55. Ediiors Times: The celebration of to-day, 4th July, passed off quietly until about 8 o'clock. P. M., when an altercation- took place between James Huggins and a Mr. Culp, of this place, which resulted in the stabbing ofCulp. Sev eral wpunds were inficted, two. of which are thought to be mortal---one in the lower part of the abdomean, the other in the back. One of the physicians called in told me, a few minutes ago, lie did not think he would live until mid night. The diffieulty occurred at the bar-room of Seely. Huggins is in jail, as the party pres ent arrested him on the spot. . NEW -HAxrsIR.E.-In the New Hampshire Legislature, Mr. Tappan, Representative elect to Congress, Chairman of the Coimuiittee to whom was referred .the resolutions of the State of Maine on -the subject of slavery, reported a series of resolutions to the effect that in consid ration of the exigencies of the times, it is the duty of the free States to postpone all differ ences of opinion upon mninor questions, and unite in denlandin'g the immediate restoration of the Missouri compromise, 'and in resisting the admissiion of slave States formned out-of territo ry covered by- that compromise; thht standing upon an issue so clearly right,' no threats of a dissolution of the Union shall deter New Hamp-. shire from doing all, in her power t6 restore Kansas and liebraska to freedom. To this end the following demands arc made': -1. That no more slave States'or territory shal ever be added to this Union. *.- - 2. The abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.. 3. Thq unconditional repeal of the Fugitive. Slave bill, and 4. The. protection of the.people of the territo ries, from the unlawful invasion of' slavery pro pagandists. - As OLD M~as.-We had the pleasure of ,a visit yesterday from one, perhsps, of the oldest meiin Maryland, Mr. -Richard Crandell, who was born In this county on the -16th of July, 1747, and, therefore,'will .be one hundfed and eight years of~age the 16th of this month. He has note the appearance of a man of more than 'eighty, and even last fall he sowed-nearly all the grain on his.firm. He is in the einjoyment of most'exbellent health and spirits, and at the age of one hundred lhe saya he had net; 'a gray hair in his head. IJe seaved .as a privateorstuan during the Revolution,- and relates -many.lnthir eting facts connected with the str'uggle for' American independence. May he long continue to enjoy.- the blessings of health and'itappi ness i-Annapolis Repeblicmn. - ' A Cow WORTH KEPI .-Peter Lawson,'of Draut, Massachusetts, has' just sold -an Alder nep cow and calf: for p325. ~ Last year the ow produced 17 pounds or" better per week of such quality that it sold ait fifty cents a pound; 600 pounds per year is considered her average. Mr. Lawson sold at the same time an Alderniey.helfer el~iananotha old for 6126. - A sorrey endint"q the St. Demoortat Paolf Kansas Te seitory, ives upthe following .dish of horrors:" "On last Sunday evening the air, was asber witchiglybalmy, and.tbe sky i soofl veiled byhadowy clouds, that 1 was, sedu Into a lengthened strol alon the 1'if, which. aprod ly aspire to overlook te mbrassiia u oodlaedi en the one side, and the su-l plains upou the other, until I reached an elevated ps e so tall as to. commanda pagorsmeivlew,<lose - picturesque and'varied beauties raisbbd alt my senses .and lost me in most d ar s "I reelined upon theugia j t .rocb. my head upon my hand, until presently it tired away upon'the cshibn of springy mcis whilr grew there like an-emerald diadem, and; Fes locked in that strange slumber which leaves you semi-conscious; and yet restraine volitiond . hadlain thus several mintues, Iaffuy left r. stretched t. its extent, -when at etremitlt of.the fingers-of tha" haind there w .a ensas tion new and peruliar that sent a thll of .pleas are to the., mind',andtheart ' it;wigsoothing, drawing, and agreeably thil as lin-r . gers were d.issolving, away id a dcl e J l &l4r absorption. - - . "Just. then,'fiimt this aorfblh a I was startled by the pe h o thlw a few paces .of pIg itJ setantwl l, astonishmedtsarmy- 1friend ltehell aiUar near and gazing at me withi a. Uzed 0ook- -/ gbastly horrbf. - Before I coild'inqure htoe-. meant, my attention was can Y ons of the most shrill, keedoant ratte that e penetrated human ear; adonrobkln o discovered a huge ' ttJesak Ewith. go. guivering and 'ri .hginf theagpnies ds and henein ftite bhierect til e toesin that heard. "Prom his fearful propinquit ', began'to.re. - alizo my position, but not unti I heard an:ei" planation froni M. tould. f fuily un'erstand anid appreciate Its horrors. . " He told me .that my reting plac.was.. t top.of. a rattlesnakE den, "nandpointsd on uth orifices through which the q sei thste uas. in the habit ofcominthrson Suubyeveni s'" to shoot'rattlesnakeyitbat *~spero>el that evening and law enelying npou .the del, he supposed I-,bad been bitten aud wan' ead ; tbt he crept nearer and 'mv- my' resption,: and' knew I was alive, but discover d a 'moil tr snake licking my hand and. coveringit wta.. slimy coating, preparatory to deglutition;' blit he made.a alight, involuntary shudderingexe . mation of " iry God I" which drew the sn.k, attention, and caused him to tarn'his bead.*beu he discharged a load or buckshot Ito his fife and neck; mangling and. tearing them to piemo. and thus save my life.. "He had scarcely told me this, 'ivlch took - but a moment, when -.rattles all ardundbroaght us to a recollection. that we were :not yet free from.danger. We saw ten or fifteed, l gi tlesnakes approaching us fr" every' quar ter, with eyes glaring rotengefullf; barbed tongues thrusting tbreafenigly, na ';rattle sounding alarmingly. They are-bravead'caim not be intimidated, and. will die over the: dead body of their companion .soo'ner. that.dee4 it.. We knew the indomitable cbaracterof' .our ene. my, and Mitchell and I with his doubiesbrreltet gun, and-my sticks-and stones, fought-our way out as best we could. -You may imagine that. my nerves were- slightly agitated that evening,. and that I. dreamed of snake,. that night. Mitchell his killed one hundred and seven of thein, thie largest of which had twenty-six rattles.. He says.the Indians who have been in the hibit of hunting them for. many yiara,'-have kiedi inuch older ones,1mnd have mli~ thousanids.", -A MAGUImeEIT WEDDINe a PRusPEST.-The Richmond Dlispatch trsatp'ite readers to the fol laig-wonderful plede'of gossip: - - We make no exense' for refecring to a grand nuptIal occaalon -which -Iast 'pyl~ee next month in New York. Its ip n a ieale of ostentation and muni ~iarily -gi#. lug it a publicity that will force the-reporters in spite of their - well known stepugnance for such things-to notice it as a part of the chroni les not to be -withbeld-from. the public.: ~ e parties are wealthy. The bridegro~nal.~ 'n isana planter (augr and the bi isli)in ter or a New Yor Judge.-- The :r * -it are of the amplest kind. No Preietiai:6jr waus ever so ma'gnificently provided for, evensin the hey day of Old Hiekory. There are 2,000G guesta invited,-all of whose expenses are to be borne by the invitors. The bridegroom, isto be accompanied by 200 pairs or young ladies and gentlemen from, the Sou~th,. and will ~as through this city, about, the 12th duly (Tat's something to watch the-ea~rs for!] Inhia route he will be joined by. recruit. I'n every city'; for the attractions will utterly throw in the -shaide the fleahpots of the ."wealthy Camiacho." There being -no possibility of accommeodatng the multitude at a private mansion "the St. Nicholas Hotel has been rented at,62,000 ada for four days, during which there will berol feasting. The- most distinguished caterer in 'New York has been enga~ged to fill thme port of purveyor for the vast ass.emblage of. guests. Evecry art, and every expenditure that can addi to the pomp anid circumstance of' thes event, wel be etnployed. Wealth -there .1. id abundance, and the parties are determined that.the ceremo ny and'attending circumstances shall exceed in grandeur anything that has ever peded-itt We will not for the present let- ourfa'creaders into the secret of who these p"ople are.who are about to, become so notable; it would laiinish the interest of. the-affair to tell them all sboss it at once. So we will drop the subject-for to day. HEALTH OF SAvANNAR.-Tne Reptbliest of' the 6th inst., says: We took-ocession last week.. to congratulate, our readers on.'the healthfplness of Savannah at this -season. This' week we have a still more Blattering accolt, ats represen ted in the bill of mortality, and may. safely. challenge a comparison with that af' any ecity of'. our pulaion im the Union.' T~ report of the Board of' Health, shows but el'een deaths for the week ending the 3d:inst., and of these nine were children, the oldest but threyears and four months;- but two adults are reported. iay-we not, in view of' such an exhibit, pr4c that the present summer will be as heatlh a a .ny Savannah ever enjoyed?. How TO.ADDRESS''THE PosT OrscdsDarAIT-. ET.-We understand that the department is' frequently embarraised bythe negledt of' r sons to give the niame of' teir office und of -~ ounty and State in their liommunieatiol~ The inii name of'the oflicE, and not~the na of the-towni where (tie loeated, should begiven. .ometimes persons.writerfor the estabahmntitt of an offie, and neglect to give iier State or county and do :not eyen mention the.. name of' an-ofe through which. a reply ay be'seut them. It Is not a .matter of ;wonde lf-thq ah'uld sometimes fanil to~get replie.-Waahig, ton U~nion. - Thz Caors IN YIRGIm-It: Is stated that from'present appearances there will-he immesse crps of corn and tobacco ia Halifax county, Virginia. .In B~otetourt,oonety the. wheat isun, usuall fine, anid one farm, it is retd,'wNl yi tween ej,000 and 8%000 ' sh. Ia some places the cern is sizeet high. On- the line of the SouthaidE Railroad, howrever, them.' counts are..-not- so Battetinkthe wheat' being represented as thin and the corn and oats rather unpromising. - OUTRAGE BT AnoTATbomssI U W a --Th Kasas Herald of the 15th instant containst. pticulars of an outrage by shllitionisth os'th asas River, whick shows the justice of 2b0. cof persecution which their- friends a t il Nrth have' raised.' W. 3. (tsborne, a. 'ou man from New York, was quietly'wor~kl .laim on Kansas Bivet, when aband~ tuh nati abolitionists,-oonssing of f~~e~o ~* men, armed with guns, came upo ba tako~ dered him to leave the neIghoho .tfsl they foeuld drown him in the river. and after time enouq b ad plp4~ posed, to let the exiteentgoo3 to Manhattan to -esk the sdttI eause of uuch treatment~ lkwea b h prand eppre rdtIR tise ours, alii .