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Those desiring to advertise by the year can dosoon 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 paid by the Magistrate advertising. SLAVERY AT THE NORTH. The New York Times, in an article under the above caption, concindcs with the following language: The events, moreover, that are daily occurring on the field where this great contest must be decided-the armed invasion of free Kansas by a slaveholding crusade, and the forcible iinposi tion of Slavery upon its soil,-the mobs, mur ders, and wholesale violence by which the slave power seeks there to overbear the rights and to trample on the interests of the Free States, only prove still more clearly the absolute neces sity of a firm and resolute resistance. We re joiced at every day's indications that such a resis tance will be made-that the free States will demand and enforce the renewal of the prohibi tion of Slavery from Kansas and Nebraska, and that no Slave State will. ever.be admitted into the Union from within their' imits. And we ask those Southern journals which arm to dis cuss this subject upon its true grounds, to bear in mind that the object of such action is not the Abolition of Slavery in the Southern States, but the protection of our own political rights .under the Constitution and in the Union, from the aggressions and encroachments of the sl.tve holding -interest. This last sentence is decidedly cool. The North does not intend to abolish slavery in the Southern States; it only desires to protect its political rights from the aggressions of slavery. And Southern journals should, in their discus sions upon the subject, Itold up this mild and just demand to the consideration of the South. Now, when we cash our eyes back upon the history of Abolition, we are lost in wonder at the seeming simplicity and honesty with which the Times thus invokes the South to submit meekly and cheerfully to its threatened assaults. When Clarkson and Wilberforce, thoes first apostles of emancipation and woe, began their crusade, they distinctly told the people of Eng land that the abolition of the Slave Trade was theirjonly object, leaving slavery in the colnies intract. Urged on by the appeals of fanaticism, and trusting to their professions, Parliament in an evil hour passed laws abolishing the Slave Trade. The crevasse in the embarkment was thus made, the tide rushed in, and finally eman cipation swept over the British WVest Indies, leaving behind desolation, arnd misery, and bar barisnm, perpetual monuments to the triumphs of fanaticism on the one hand, and the folly of submitting to- its first encroachments on the other. In the United States, it has waged the same insidious war. Who, in 1835, of its foremost champions, dared promutlgate the doutrine wnich now rings through. the North, of "No more slave Stattes?1" It wvas then the simple right of petition that was claiimed. There were, even at that dayv, some Southern Statesman, who, in l.ineu:re which now seetms to have been clothed winh prophetic power, warned the South against the. danger of~ yielding. They were .not deceiv ed, either by the hypocritical assertions of Jhe North, nor the seeming insignificane of the point, into acquiescence. But, as in the British Parliament, so in the Congress of the United States-the crevasse was made when the Twen ty-first Rule was repealed, and the South sub mitted. Since then the game ha~s gone on. In 1846, for the first time in the history of the Government, ths right was claimed for Congress, as a step towvards abolition, to exclude slavery from the Territories, when Mr. Wilmotintrodu ced his famous proviso, and it passed the House of Representatives. It was a tremendous leap toward the end secretly nursed in the hearts of John Quincv Adams and his incendiaries in 1836. Indignation, deep and loud, echoed throughout the length and breadth of the ~South. But in spite of it all, California was atfmitted, and the WVilnot proviso was enforced. The crevasse was widening and deepening, and the demands of abolition growing more and more imperious. We stand nowv upon the eve of a struggle mor.e vital thtan ever. It involves not merely the right of Congress to. exclude slavery from the Territories, but to intermeddle with the in stitutions oif a sovereign State, and place her admission into the Union upon the alternative of her abolishing slavery, when the Constitution of the United States expressly fixes but one test republicanism-to the admission of new States. The North demands another-abolitionism! Nay, more, the restoration of the~ Missouri Compromise line, now a watchword all over the North, what does that involve, but the right to abolish slavery in a State ? Yet the Times tells us " that the object of such action is not the atb olition of slavery in the Southern States." We thank it for the assurance. But the story of the .past is too fresh before us, to permit it to swerve us from the course, or blind our eyes to truths which an experience, far better than words, holds up before us. Wec know well enough the ig. nificaince of the words, " the South must remem ber that thle slavery question has assumed a po litical aspect, and that its decision involves the entire charaeter and tendency of the Federatl Government." It is the announcement of the momentous results which are at stake in the euming conlest between the North and the South; a contest which will settle the question whether the latter will henceforth sink into ine ljuality, inferiority and final annihilation, or, ri sing to the full 'possession of her powers and her rights, shalrnmove onward in the high,hono rabla and glorious career to which God hath appointed her. We bold that emancipation is the grand object of' abolition, and that the same hypocrisy under which it marked its designs for the destruction of the WVest Indies has lurked in its professions to the South, waiting only for the power "to do unto us likewise." Thus judging, we reject the counsels of the Times. -Charleston Mercury. SoUTHranN MANUFATURE.-Th~e Eagle Man ufacturing Company at Columbus have proved, 'in their line, that the .bouth cannot be surpassed in whatever she undertakes. Their' agent, Gen. Edward Crofts, has shown us, says the Athens Banner, specimens of their work -in woollen goods-Georgia cassimeres, kerseys, Southern linseys, jeans, striped cottonads, shirting, etc., etc., which are as beautiful, as fine, and no doubt as durable as anly we ever saw. The Eagle Factory uses 1,500 to 2,000 bales of cotton a year, and 15,000 pounds of Georgia wooL When we have an articeo at our own door, equal to any ia the world, whmy carry our money from our midst. As htusTo.-The Corresponding Secretary of the Southern Baptist Publication Society, publishes that ho has been informed, on goo~d authority, that a person wh~o says his ne is Cook, was born in Scotland and has lived in Ireland, and whose accent is foreigni, has lately been paising himself off in the neighborhood of~ Gillisonville, in this Slato, as the agent of that Society. His agency is all a. pretene. The P'ublication SoehLty has had no commis S-I agenit in some, time past, fur raising funds :i:g whiere ini the counitry. Tu'ii Phliladelphia' Lediger calculates that it re quirs fifty million pounids of~ watler to cover twenty'-five aceres one inch, itn depthl, wh'ach is atbout the arnount of waler that falls in a " first rae rmin " LaEn EROM EUROP. NEW Yonx, July 11, 1855. The U. S. Mail steamship Pacific arrived hero to-day with later intelligence from Europe. The dates at Liverpool are to the 1st inst. FRoM THESEAT oF WAR.-The intelligence from the Crige leiits wholly of the details of the recent 'rep lse of the Allies. The posi tion of affairs is considered sufficiently satisfac tor . ' latest dates are to the 2d. Lord Raglan is dangerously ill and asks for his recall. The total loss of the Allies on the 18th was over 5,000. The army is nevertheless in good spirits, and preparing for anther assault. The English and French reciprocally blame each other for the late repulse. Pelissier states that Sebastopol will soon be completely invest ed. The Allies retain possession of the Round Tower, the Cemetery, also, the Mamelon. The cholera prevailed among the French troops. The allied troops which crossed the Tchernaya have returned. No further battles by land or sea. Austria continues to disband her army. THE LATEST.-Lord Palmerston denies that Lord Raglan has asked his recall; he has been sick, but is recovering. A despatch from the Baltic, dated the 5th, says that Sweaborg has been bombarded. Great movements are taking place among the allied squadron. A despatch from Varnastates that Generals Brown, Pennyfather and Coving ton were sick. Part of the foreign legion has arrived from England. The London Times, of Saturday, says that the Czar is dangerously ill. The King of Prus sia is probably near death. Co3IERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.-Dennistoun quotes Cotton for the first three days dull and consid erably lower, but on Thursday, without any ap parent cause, it became buoyant, and closed with an active demand and 1-16d. advance. The week's sales comprised 43,000 bales, of which speculators took 17,000, and exporters 2,000 bales. The sales on Friday amounted to 20,000 bales. The quotations were :-Orleans Fair, 71-8d.; Middling, 6 9-16d.; and Upland Fair, 5 7-8d. per lb. THxE KERTScH EXPEDITION.-PLUNDERS OF THE HioUsES, &c.-The London Times corres pondent, who accompanied the Kertsch expedi tion, records many instances of barbarous vio lence and destruction of the property of the un fortunate inhabitants of the town, protesting, however, that the outrages are not so much as cribable to the French and English soldiery, as to the Tartai ruffians, who remained, and to the Turks: "In the afternoon of the day on which we occupied Yenikale, the crews of some merchant ships from Ambalaki landed and began to break into three or four houses which had been closed and fastened up, and to pillage the contents. As they could not remove the heavy furniture, they smashed it to atoms. Towards evening Turkish stragglers from the camp and others who had fallen out of the line of march, flocked into the town and perpetrated the most atrocious crimes. To pillage and wanton devastation, they added violation and murder. "The Tartars who were in the town hailed the arrival of the Osmanli with delight, aid re ceived them as liberators, and as brethren to whom they were bound by the ties of religion, of language, and of hatred to the Russians. It was with difficulty that the French controlled the excesses of the Turks, and of some.of their own countrymen. Some English merchant sailors next day aided in the work of pillage and de struction. NEW INYENTIoN.-From an article in the Al bany (N. Y.) Argus we learn that a Yankee has discovered an invention by which to drive a steamboat through the Maine Liquor Law, or a coach-and-f our, if you will. The style of the new liquor, as filed in the. Patent Ofieie at Washington, is: " A new and useful improvemenlt on manufac tured malt liquor beverages, whereby a newv composition of matter is produced, which may be denominated gastricized ale, beer, porter, &c., as the case may be." The specifications particularly deseribe the process of manufacture of this liquor beverage, which, howoier, we will not repeat hero, as they might be tedious to the' reatder, and it pecrha~ps woild not, in the present state otf the matter, be just to the inventor to give them publicity. Trhe idea, however, is that by the introduction of cer tain chemical principles and substances, a beve rage is produced which greatly laids digestion. it appears from the papers on which the pa tent has been issued, that th~is discovery can be applied in connection with the present process of mainufacturing beer, ale, porter, &c., without the slightest difficulty or additional expense. It is obvious enough that a question may at once arise as to the application of' prohibitory liquor laws to this new "gastricized malt liquor." Under the Jaws of the United States, the patent secures"a the inventor, his heirs, administrators, executors, or assigns" " the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, using, and vending to others to be used, the said invention or dis covery," and it is supposed that no State laws can restrict or interfere 'vith this right thuq given by the law~s of the Un~ion. Great country this--'tis, sure as you're born ! IMroRTANT Ruaion.-A London letter states that there is a serious split in the English Cabi net. Lord John Russell, the great upsetter of Governments, wishes to overthrow Lord Palmer. ston and to form a Cabinet himself, and the op. portunity is now at hand, the Premier having prepared the Cabinet council for a rousing of the naitionalities, that is to say, for trying to do something for Poland. Lord John disapproves of such revolutionary measures, not because in the long run the Poles might be left in the lurch, in spite of thme high-sounding promises of Lord Palmerston, but because he hates contemporary revolution. He likes it in the past, but fears it in thme present, since it seems to him too dange rous an experiment. It can scarcely be doubted that the Queen, and Prince Albert still more, fully agree with Lord John, but Napoleon is rather favorable to the scheme. Tows WITaour A Couxen..-The .members of the Council, elected this spring, having de. termined to pursue a "no license" policy, were applied to by the present keeper of the Winns boro Hotel fur a tavern license, and consistently with their preceding acts and declarations, re fused to grant it. Whereupon a petition was presented to thema, signed by a very large and respectable body of citizens, praying that license should be granted. The Council, very properly respecting a petition so largely signed, and feel. ing at the same time incompetent to comply with the tietition, without violating their consciences, have resigned. We regret that circumstances should have so transpired as to induce -them to pursue this course. It is as respectable and intelligent a Council as the town - has ever had. We have not learned whether a direct issue of "license" or " no license" will be made. It is thought by some that it will not. A few days, however, will determine.-Winnsboro Register. THE BONAPARTE Fiuvt.-It is stated that nearly all the branches of the Bonaparte family will in a very short time be assembled in Paris, round the Emperor Napoleon i11, who desires that the several persons bearing his name should form, as it were, a faisceau near him. All the children of the Prince of Canino have already arrived in Paris and taken up their residene in a hotel purchased anid fitted up for thema by order of the Emperor, at the end of the rue de Gre nelle, St. Germain. This branch of the family is composed of four brothers, the Princes Charles, Louis, Lucien, Pierre and Antoine Bonaparte. "No SouTu."-Jt was noticeable to visitors at Dorchester, on the Fourth, says the Boston Post, that the rear of' the residence of Gov. Gardner (one of the delegates to the recent Know Noth ing Council at Philailelphia,) was distinguished by a windmill and a weather-ecock, and that while the points of the compass N. .E. and W. were designated thereon, the S. was entirely omnitted. ANTITODE FoR POKE RooT.-Mr. R. L. Talia-. ferro, has written to the Christian Advocate .xtaing that sweet milk is an almost sure anti dote in cases where child ren or others have ac cidently eaten of that poisonous substaince. lie ARTHUR 8IMKINSi \EDITOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18,1855. BARBACUE AT LYBRAND'S. WE are requested to announce that there will be a Free Pic-Nic and Barbacue at Mr. EMANUEL Lv DRAND'S on Friday the 20th inst. All the Candidates are respectfully invited to attend. The locality is near COLEMAN'S & LYDRAND'S Mill. FINE CABBAGE. WE are much obliged to Mr. Jonn HAMILTON for his sample of extra cabbage. - It is the largest we have yet seen. The spot where it grew must be rich and well cultivated. - T - RAIL ROAD NOTICE. IT will be seen that an important meeting of the Savannah Valley Stockholders is to he held next month at FREELAND'S. The attention of all interested is directed to the " Notice." '' "PECCAVI." WE fear, from the silence of " RosE CoTTial" since our little passage at arms of last month, that we said something too rude for the occasion. Whatever it was, we assure our talented and favorite correspon. dent that we are truly penitent. An expressinn. that ne used was perhaps more significant than we design ed it to be. We take shame to ourself for not having been more guarded, and very respectfully ask forgive ness. Such an approach to ill-manners will be avoided by us in future. Perhaps this apology is neither look ed for nor desired by " Rose COTTAGE." Yet it is none the less our duty to render it. "NEOS EPISCOPOS" AND OURSELF. AN unusual and, as we regard it, a very absurd personal collision is at this time defacing our paper' We shall jendeavor to dispose of it at once, feeling assured that our readers can find no entertainment in such stufn We ask them first to examine our brief piece of last week and to decide whether there is - any thing in it spiteful or " supercillious." According to our under. standing of " NEos Eriscoros" he had clearly indi cated Know Nothing affinities. lie knew this to be utterly antagonistic to the declared principles of the "Advertiser." Yet without the least respect for those principles, without so much as the courtesy of offering the editor an opportunity of advice in the matter, he comes out with a sneer at the "famous STEPEN's letter" (speech you should have said, friend " Erisco ros") and parades, with the pride of a partizan, some thing which he conceives to be a triumphant reply to a portion of that speech. But previous to this, " NEos Episcoros" (as we were casually informed) had un dertaken to exercise a sort of censorship over other selections of ours upon this same political subject. One of the letters addressed by an anonymous writer to Judge BIUTLER, (and which we republished,) had the misfortune to call down his condemnation. Had it been in public conversation, or in conference with ourself, that this thing occurred, we should not have regarded it for a moment. But such does not seem to have been the choice of our associate. In conversa tion with another person, in the very office of the " Advertiser" (the editor absent and not dreaming of such a thing) Mr. W. drops his word of disapprobation. Of course the-whole office hears it, and we, no matter how, are informed of the circumstance. We are in censed at the momerit, as every other editor of the least self-respect would be, butt content ourself with a short paragraph entitled " The Know Nothing Argu ment," in which we speak of the common iliberality as well of Catholics as of Protestants. Upon opening the next ensuing copy of our paper we find a selection by Nuos EPzscoi'os, which in connection with pre ceding circumstances, convinces us that his feelings are wtith the Know Nothings and that he designs to hoist that banner in the religious department of the " Advertiser." We immediately write a distinct disclaimer of the political indications thus given out by him, hoping that its timely appearance would have the double effect of righting the paper before the pub lie and of confining its religious reading in future to~ the placid lessonis of Christian morality as contra distinguished from the turbulent tupheavings of con troversy, whether partizatn or sectarian. Such is the head and front of our offending, by which " NEos Eiscoros" has felt himself impelled to come out this week in a long article overhis own proper signature. Our comments upon this article shall be brief. Imprimo, there is an italicized expression in Mr. WtATLEY's third paragraph which would seem to re quire a word of explanation. We care not for the slight conveyed by the words " did, not knowe you in the transaction." Mr. WIJATLEY is assured that we knew him. The gentlemanly junior proprietor of this paper consulted with us upon Mr. W's proposition, previous to its acceptance. If Mr. W. in his self-pro posed arrangements ignored our editorship of the " Adriser," Mr. D. R. DuarsoE did not. And we regarded the matter as one in which we had a voice. The display of the fact, that our associate did not know us in the transaction, is at least no very marked evidence of the frien lshiip lie speaks of in the conclu son of his present article. Secundo, as to the "pen' oa ink sketch." We cannot see why it should be regarded so very " bold" in us to draw our conclusions-as other men do. Espe cially are we at a loss in this regard, when those con clusions (however formed) prove to be ent' rely true. We did not accuse " NEos Eriscoros" of political wrangling, past or present. We didl not say that his " manner of life had been such as to commit him to the declaration of political principleu or preferences." We did not announce that lhe had in days gone by mingled in " the strifes of contending parties." We said nothing of any proclivity of his towards the " hus tings." All this was no part of any " pen and ink sketch" of ours. We only thought (and wrote as we thought) that his style and tone indicated opposi tion to the declared principles of our sheet. That we thought and wrote aright is rendered clear by the de velopments of Mr. W's article of this week. Precise ly as we supposed, lie diffeirs with us in toto so far as he declares himnself in regard to the Know Nothing platform. Was it "hbold" in us to draw conclusions last week which Mr. W. himself substantiates this ? Tertio, Mr. WutATLEY says he will send us " two ses" of Know Nothing principles to be published in the " Advertiser," said publication being (in his opin ion) " better than to suppress, for pa rty pur~poses, that which the people have a right to see." Talk of our " boldness" forsooth ! There is an old text that occurs to us here but which we will not make mention of further than to say thiat it contrasts a " beam" and a " mote" in striking juxtaposition. We challenge criti cism as to the fairness of our paper in all disputes. We have ever published for the one side as freely as for the other. Our own polities see maintain of course, whether in our ediforials or our selections. Calt we do otherwise I But yet our paper is known by all to affrd the opportunity of free and fair fighting to any who respectfully ask a place in our columns. And the fling of Mr. W. implying the reverse, is at once "hold" and unsupported by the record. Of Mr. WitArLay's political principles, as entuncia ted this week, we have very little to say : -. The blended idea of favoring the political proscrip tion of foreigners as a general rule, and condemning it in particular cases, is one that we are not prepared to appreciate. If you proscribe at all how are you to avoid proscribing altogether i Or if you design pro scribing only in part, what trijiunal is to designate those worthy of proscription and those who are noti How will you word a constitutional amendment which is to proscribe bad foreigners and not good onesi Woud it not be an ornament, new and bewildering, to any modern code of laws? As to advocating an " entire separation of Church and State," who In America dreams of any thing else?! To point this out as a peculiar feature of Know Noth - ingism is laughable. Mr. W. is a Know Nothing, " dyedin the wool,"&c., when it comes to opposing the promotion of those who would violate " that Heaven-descended and dearest of all privileges," the right of conscience. But who are they that would do this wickedness in our countryi The allusion is of course to lRoman Catholics. And yet as things stand at present with us, decidedly the strongest bent of religious intolerance is to be found in the bosomi of this very New Party. Can it be doubtedi In his allusion to American Catholics, Mr. W. dis plays his native generosity. D)id that sentiment pre vail more generally among those who believe them-I selves to be the orthodox branches of the Christian meat of Protestantism. She needs no help of govern, uent against the dCurch of Rome. She has no ineert tive to depreciate the tmerits or umagnify the fatflts of that Church. She has no need of intolerant eneta ments with which tobedge around the supposed strides of Papal power. - That power in America Is to hers as one is to thirty.Q'ree. And, God being het guide and help, Protestaniism must be irresistible in her on ward march. . We have now perhaps said as much in this article as the occasion demands-we hope we have not said more. The concluding paragraph of our intelligent and high-spirited friend may (possibly) be merely thrown in by way of placebo.. But we prefer to recog nise it as genuine. 4nd, without an effort at the rhet oric of old reminiscences, we adopt and reciprocate the happily expressed sentiments of our quondam schoolmate. In the language of the "Undertaker," who undertook to deliver himself of a pacificatory sen timent at the-hebdomadal meeting of a certain " Coun try Club," we emplhatically- say-" Let us bury all animosities." But we conclude. Even granting that we were out and out wrong, It is no such matter as should kindle so large a fire. A simple note, assuring us that we were mistaken in our conclusions would have called forth the handsomest apology at our command. But standing now beforeour readers as we do, attacked for doing what we really considered due to them as well as ourself-we confess that no very apologetic spirit possesses us. Still, if it may do any good, we have no personal objection toadmitting a faultin the matter and asking forgiveness for the ame of all it may have troubled. SCHOOLS,rB3IHIBITIONS &c. Wa hear of School ejarninations and exhibitions in every quarter. The papers of South Carolina are teeming with notices of these educational demonstra tions here, there and every where. It would seem that our people Aredeteriined to take this noble cause into their own -ands, without reference to the State or State funds. W.bad looked with great interest for a successful scheme of "gneral education to be promulged by some one of our many wise and skillful Legislators; but thus far none seem to have appeared of sufficient comprehensIveness and fullness of detail to command public confidence. Perhaps it is well enough as it is. The educational spirit, now so mani festly abroad among 'or people, may possibly do more for general cultivation and refinement than any uniform and fixed Stiate system could effect.- At all events the present indications are decidedly cheering. In this connection we may remark that Edgefield, among the rest, is awakening to her duty. In almost every part of the District schools of greater or less im portance are springing up. Among the most valuable are those known as the Curryton Academies. By reference to a noticejleewhere published, it will be seen that the first public examination and exhibition of: these schools willtake place during the present month. Mr G. D. TILzifAN, a talented member of the Edgefield Bar, is to deliver the address of the occasion. From the well knownabilityof Mr. LaLE, principal of the Male departmetit,-and the high character of the other teachers conneeited with these institutions, the public may anticipate a large degree of satisfaction from tlfe performances of their pupils. We beg leave to bespeak for these examinations a full attendance. P. S. Since the foregoing was in type, we have re ceived a notice that the Curtyton Examinations are postponed. - THE EARTH IS THE LORDS. In regarding the overflowing abundance which now promises with certainty- to crown the good year of 1855, a feeling of. exultation is irrepressible. The sight of broad corn-fields, green and rank in exuber ant vegetation-the sound of their 'rustling blades as the evening breeze plas among the towering stalks -the bright and cheerful "silks" of the later crop or the heavy ears of the earlier planting-all giving ear nest of what the Scotch would call "a wvealth o'plen ishing"-is it not deligbgful to contemplate? And yet we should beware howiiwe suffer that feeling of exul tation to fill us with4 undue boastfulness of spirit. Remember the story atone who said to his soul, " Thou hast much goog laidup for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drinkaM he merry." Remember too, and realise, that greantituth, so simply expressed by the Apostle to thej ~ sthat "the earth is the Lord's andithe fulness-t ydof." Thus will we temper our jubilee and make it an acceptable offe-ring of gratitude to Heaven. MAN AND WOMAN. Tra most striking illustration extant, of the relative positions of man and woman in the scale of being, is to be found at 1 Cor. 10 Chap. 26 v : "1#an is th~e image and glory of God ; but the woman is the glory of man." This is the teaching of inspiration. But even though it were not so, who would desire to con trovert the beauty of the reflection!i THE HERLO OF SAN JACINTO. Sam HocavoN's laurels, it would seem, are about to be blighted. His boastfulness as to the heroic part he acted on the memorable field of San Jacinto has at length called down upon him the scornful denunciation of some of his really brave compatriots in arms. Gen. Sherman says that whenever a full narrative of the battde is given truathfully to the world, "Gen. Houston's mushroom fame will rapidly derompose and sink into putrescence, with the mae's of falsehoods upon which at rests ;" and Gen. Lamaf says. "My opinion is that lhe himself f.Houston) was the only cow ard on that field. I can name no other, and hir.. I know as one." This is the fellow nho dared to speak in terjns of abuse and derision about South Carolina only a few years ago, and whom a certain Carolinian (0! tem pra !) has actually sought to putin nomination for the Presidency of the United States!!. POIITICAL AMIABILITY. WHKEN the Know - Nothings first came to the light of day, they indicated (as we construe the facts) hos tility to foreigners and detestation of Catholics as their salient characteristics. Finding soon that there was alittle more true civilization in the United States than they reckoned upon, we see them adroitly modifying these excrescences by adopting a sort of nationality to catch the popular ear. They were to unite theistrength of the country under the banner of "American Con servatism." The South not being yet entrapped, next comes the impotent phase of " Americanism ignoring Abolitionism." And they all met in Philadelphia to see whether this policy could not be agreed upon in such a way as to produce the desired efTect upon the Slave States. But the northern branch of the Order could not stomach any course,' however advantageous to them as a party, which even seemed to tolerate sla very. So they fhew off in a huffrand swore they would remain as they were, genuine Abolition Know Noth ings. WVhat now is to be done by the Southern wingi Their ingenuity and amiability are taxed, and we find them gradually developing a fourth change, which is to be styled " Southern Arericaniism." So we are to have a Northern Sam and a Southern Sam, an anti slavery Sam and a-slavery Sam. Perhaps it would be as well, for the sake of avoiding confusion, to change the Southern appellation into Sambo. Excuse the badinage, gentlemen--we mean no offence. But your political amiability is so manifest that we Imag ine the suggestion of any slight improrement In your nomenclature will be thankfully received and con sidered. 1ihen you eventually settle down upon something that you design to stick up to thro' evil as well as thro' good report, all such suggestions will of course be out of place if not actually impertinent. Beating about however, as you at present are, in the dark, for something that shall take before ti-a people, you will doubtless catch at the least straw that may be thrown out. But, trifi ng aside-the apparent po litical amiability of this New Party is really nothing but vacillation and uncertainty of Purpose. They scarcely know what to be at, especially in the South. The Northern wing are more decided. But here, Americanism pulls them one way and Southernismn another-Nationalism is on this side of their banner. Sectionalism on that-bold Intolerance fires one por tion of the party while others seek to cover its harsh ness with the garb cf necessary policy. How the Southern people can have the slightest confidence in such an organization we are at a loss to imagine. For in addition to its glaring contradictions, Know Nothingism is doing a serious, perhaps an irretrieva ble injury to Southern Union. In the impressive Ian tuage of a distinguished cotemporary,"ihadage from the dust into wohich they had fallen the o blocks ad tones" of Nationalisam. It lias bribed Southern men again into the stamnbles-excited nnewv the rage fr poils-planted thorns of dissension betwocen Chur -he and classes in every precinct i:a the South, and brought divisions amongst us, which in all the annals of itory are marked with the torch and thme sword, and whose efectI, already visible, is to .weaken and - OUOMUNIOATIONS Harmony Restored. Tnn following communication from the Rev. Mr. WrATLErY was banded in after the Editor's article entitled " Nios Eriscoros AND OUasELr" was near ly set up. We have no other course than to publish it with the rest. It is too late to allow any change In the other pieces. Col. Siusxns desires us, how ever, to say that he has not an unkind touch of feel ing left In the matter. It is due to both gentlemen further to state that the following expressions were penned by their author after a perusal of the man uscript of the Editor's piece as given on this page. This much we thought it necessary to say to prevent a confusion of appearances.-Pus. . TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERIf. Foa the benefit of friends at a distance, to whom things of this character assume a degree of im portance, unknown to those at home, I take occasion to say that the little piece of sparring which has oe ourred between myself and the leading editor of this paper, should not be construed as indicating any bitterness of feeling or alienation of regard. What [ have written in this week's issue, was dune under the force of feelings excited by an editorial of last week, and perhaps exhibits more of the spirit of the " old Adam," than is consistent with the character of one whose business it is to teach lessons of meek ness. In a conversation held with Col. Simxnis since my article went to press, mutual explanations were made, which removed, and I trust forever consigned to the tombs of the Capulets, what little feeling of irrasicibility might have existed. How many foun tains of " bitter waters" might be sealed up effectu ally, if this course were always pursued, before men had committed themselves to a particular course of action. In retiring from the paper, (the propriety of do ing which I have soine time been considering, and for reasons not necessary to mention,) I carry with me feelings only of kind regard for all connected with the Office, even down to the ebony ink roller ; in regard to which last I can scarcely restrain a wish that I had his daguerreotype as he has stood.at my gate waiting for "copy" or "proof," but afraid to venture within reach of the fangs of my mongrel pointer, who is a terror to all little intruders. To each and all then we say Paz vobisucmn. " N EOs Eriscoros" alias E. L. WHATLEY. FOR THE ADVERTISER. EAST FLORIDA-E ADVANTAGES, &c. FLORIDA, June, 1855. Ma. EDITOR: I purpose giving you a few plain. facts with regard to Florida. Unvarnished truths are all with which I shall have to do, leaving the task of eulogizing the " Land of Flowers," to those more familiar with the pen than your correspondent. I hope that what 1 may write, will not prove unin teresting to those of my Carolina friends who con template visiting our Statt. This is the first summer I have had the pleasure of spending here, and from my experience thus far, I unhesitatingly pronounce it far more cool and pleasant than it is ujually in Carolina at this season. We have a sea-breeze every day, and frequent showers of rain, wlhieh keeps the atmosphere cool. Our nights are truly delightful and invigorating,-as unlike your sultry Carolina evenings, as light is unlike darkness. And yet, notwithstanding that fact, a large proportion of our citizens are now pay ing their accustomed visits to the P'almetto State. Let not your readers judge from this, that our citi zens are in search of either cool air or health There are various reasons why we should visit your State during the summer. It Is the only season when our planters can conveniently leave their farms, and you return our visits in the winter. Let it also be remembered that a very large proportion of the citizensof East Florida have but recently removed~ from Carolina. Is it at all strange that many of them should have occasion to visit their native State ? Some left behind unfinished business which needs their personal attention ; others desire to see their aged parenits, their afetionate sisters and brothers, their much respected friend and acquaintances; whilD asenin an occasional stragler is " carried back to old Carolina'" by the laudable desire of lending to Hymen's sacred altar some idle of his afection, thus to enliven and make happy the bachelor home of his newly adopted State. The lands in this portion of our State are as good as the best, I care not where you may find them They ai-e rich and durable. There are fields in this neighbprbood (near Mticanopy,) wh~ich have been in cultivation for more than twenty consecutive years, and which now produce as well as the fresh lands. The land here need not-I had almost said cannot becomie exhausted. This is no le.ss true of good pine th~an it is of good hammock hand. The latter I consider the best, though many persons prefer planting the pine land in cotton. The facility with which elearinigs can bo made ont the pine lands ren der themn very desirable to small planters, and to planters whose places are unimproved. The price too of the pine lands, makes very much in their favor, as they do not command over half so much as the hammocks. To those who desire to know whether the water here is good or bad, I would say it is very good. We have but few Springs, but wvells arc h~ad with ase, and with very little cost. Of course the water here is not so cool as it is in some of the upper Dis trits of y-our State, but it is free from impurities, well tasted, and is decide~dly better than thant in the lower Districts of Carolina, and the supp~ly is boun tiful. " Is your country healthy 7" So far I have found it remarkably healhy, and at this time I know of scarcely a ease of sickness of any kind whatever. I learn h~oweve r from those who h~avc been here l'on ger than myself, that at times there are frequent eses of ehils and fever, though at no time sevcre attacks of B3illions or Typhoid fever. Attacks of Billions fever even in its mildest forms are of ex eeedingly rare occurrence, while that scourge of Carolina, the .Typ~boid fever, is, so far as I can as ertain, wholly unknown to the eatalogue of the diseases of East Florida. The chaills are almost the only local sickness to which we are subjpet, and from my own knowledge I assert that theyare light, and yield to treatment much more readily than they do further North, and if proper care is taken are not so liable to return. The fatality here, in my opinion, does not exceed one thir'd of one 'per cent for the number of eases. Soine of your substantial old planters who have been accustomed from their first setting out in life to raise their own meat and bread, wvould perhaps like to know how it would be with them, were they down here. Perhaps they may-hmve been informed that the weavil wvould destroy their Corn, the red-bug their Cotton, that they could raise no hogs, and even i they could, they could never make bacon of them. The corn in my erib is still sound and good, while the meat in my meat house, raised here and baconed here, will coampare favorably with that cured in the mountains of Carolina. The weavil does sometimes injure the corn hero, but, they can easily be prevented by. gathering thme crops at the proper season and by properly eribbing it. Ilogs do well here without ever tasting a grain of corn, and we generally have coldl weather enough during the winter to save the meat. At any rate it costs nothing to raise the hogs, and as that price we might afford to lose some of-he meat as is customary with you in Carolina. Our Cattle are line. We have excellent beef and it only costs the time weo spend in getting it ready for the table. We have numerous prairies well covered witht grass and the cattle are nowv as fat as even corn could maky thenm. In the winter the dense ham mocks altordh thenm shelter from the little cold we may have, whlile the huxuriamnt growthm of cane af f..d, .t... ..n in.lu.. antpel of f.,1. They fee on the prairies from nine to ten months in the year and. sometimes even longer in, consequence of our short,. winters. Before concluding I must say something concern ing present prospects for a crop this year.. The corn is now so far advanced that we can form a pretty accurate estimate of the probable quantity that will be-gathered. I hive long been accustomed to raising corn and cotton, and from my experience in that busi ness, 1 feel safe in saying that the present corn crops in this section of country will not fall short of an average yield of twenty five bushels per-acre, and the quantity planted is unusually large. There are many fields which I am satisfied must yield from thirty-five to forty bushels per-acre. Corn will ne cessarily be quite cheap here for the next twelve months. The Cotton crop looks very well and promises a heavy yield. The Cotton is from three toseven feet in height and very well formed. I am credibly in formed that a thousad pounds to the acre is fre quently gathered from good hammock fields and also from some of the pine land fields. The prospect now is as fair as it has ever been in this section of country. Perhaps some of your readers may think that a thou sand pounds is by no means a heavy yield. They must bear in mind that I speak' of long Cotton (or Sea Island) only, and that one pound of that Cotton usually commands about four times the price of a pound of short Cotton. I now ask what would a plantation sell for in Carolina which would yield one thousand pounds of short Cotton to the acre? Such a place can be had here for eight dollars per-acre. Lands are not so high here as it is with you and we can make three or four times as much on it. They are.steadily advancing in value howevir, and the op portunity for getting cheap plantations in Florida will soon be numbered among the things that were. Those who contemplate moving to our State had bet ter do so without delay, especially as Corn will be unusually cheap next year. Come at once, and you can readily be accommodated with good wpter, good health, good .society, cheap corn, and good planta tions at reasonable prices. A. L. 0. FOR TILE ADVERTISER. A GREAT ENTERPISE AE AD-ARD A GLORI OUS MIGHTY COUNTRY IN PROSPECT. In the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Ca ribbean Sea lie scattered between the latitude of 12 and 23 North, a large number of the most fertile and salubrious Islands in the world. Nature has lavished her richest stores upon them; and Provi dence has blessed them with an eternal sunshine and a never-ending Spring. The sugar cane, the melon, the orange, the lime, lemon, pine apple, cocoa nut, and all the choice fruits and productions of the earth are yielded by them in the utmost profusion. If their pro'ducts tended only to delight the palate or to satisfy the cravings of the fastidious epicure, even then they might furnish rare fruits for commerce almost sufficient to supply one half of this. Conti nent, and to bring themselves unaccountable wealth, opulence and splendor. These delicate tropical fruits are so much sought after, I urge, that without any other exports, these Islands could become in a short time, by industry and attention, the richest portion of the habitable Globe, as well as the most beautiful and happy. But this fairest region of God's domain, abounds not only in the delicious, the ornmental and the pleasing, but it raises every thing needful for the support of man; arid might subsist prosperous, in dependent and contented, if it had no intereourse whatever with the rest of the world. The innume rable little Islets of which it is composed afford and raise to ordinary strength and size nearly all the useful animals of which the Continent of Europe can boast.-such, as the horse, the hog, the cow, the sheep, the deer, and in a word, every anlma~l upon whos'lesh man gratifies his appetite in response to the calls of nature, or by whose power and endu rance lhe lightens the burdens of his labors in the field. Add to this, that nearly all the breadatuffs in abundance, besides nuts, nutricious roots, and sugar and coffee, upon whieb alone man might live and be merry, grow in these Islands to greater perfection than in any other place under the sun, and you have hardly yet had the slightest conception of the inestionble advantages they enjoy over any other quarter cf our terrestrial sphere. Saying nothing more of their fertility and pro ductiveness, which all will admit-they arc so ad mirably situated, that they can suffer no excess either of heat or cold, because, if they do happen to be in a Southern latitule, their temperature. is forever modified by the influence and the breezes of the ocean. What hinders them then from becoming the very Paradise of the earth ? What hinders them from becoming th'o resort for the sick and affl~cted of all patrtu of this creation ? What hinders them from raising and sustainling the best race of men that ever figured upon God's footsool ? What lhin ders them from forming a Government (for their ctent of territory and resources beyond question are amply 'ufieient.) freer than Great -Britain or, the United Staies, and nmore powerful than Ancient Rome, or modern Russia, or gallant, dashing, war ring France ? The response is, they want men they want occupants worthy of the soil-they want instruments to develope the exhaustless stores of their riches. " What though the spicy breezes, Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain, with lavish kindness, The gifts of God are strewn ; *The heathen in his blindness, * Bows down to wood and stone."1 For non, can deny the inferiorty of the aborigines of this section, or that the Spanish race has either wofully degenerated or vastly failed to keep pace wvith the improvenmenta of modern ages. It has. slowly but continually declined ever since the dis covery of this Continent; and every colony that the Spanish have planted here, and every Government they have ereeted during the period of near four hundred years, has been almost r n entire failure, or a perfect abortion. -It may be that a defective gov ernment makes a weak and'deficient people. But it appears to me that every race of men have their culminating point, and the Spanish and Portugese 'have long ago reached that, and passed it, in their declination.'-I do not ascribe this melancholy ohange altogether to any such adventitious eireumstanees a the accumulation of wealth, and hardly to their government or religion, though I owna that-the char acter of a nntinn is more affected by their religion and government than by all other causes combined, except by such as enter into the designs of Provi dence and constitute the irresistible laws of nature ; but it really seems apparent that certain people, and certain kinds of people have been crested at every era to fulfil the high behest' of Jehovah, and when they have accomplished their mission, their task has been completed, and. their course .has been run. They have sunk into insignificance, become amal gamated with the rest of mankind,.and their identity has ben totalty destroyed. Where are theoancient Carthagenians, the Egyptians, and I may even ask, the andient Grecians, for the modern brigand,ealled a Greek, is a very poor specimen of the countrymen of Demosthenes, of Plato, of Aristides,' of Socra tesof Phocion, and of Solon, and of all the illustrious men who made Athens, which was hut a-little strip of this earth, the mistress, not only in arms, but in the arts and sciencees, of the whole worldi They have disappeared from among men. And except their towering pyramids, and mausoleums, their moulding tombs and. crumbling temples, there re mains no vestige of the mighty Pharoabs, whose prinely forms have become common earth ; and all of their kindred, with the invincible legions they enmanded, have shared the sanme oommon destiny. Why this mutation among mankind is by uno means' peculiar to his species, for-it is equally as obseryable Geologists discover daily theremains eofflintes of huge dimension., which, by no possib3!ty, could exist at 'the present day. IBook at- tIe bones of the masterdom, and of' other- nmelelh beasts, which have been exhumed ly tie asidky of phi losophcrs and men of science, &W no man ca ven taro to say, that they belong to a deseription'of ani mals that now live, or that are referred to in the oldest authentic histories. They had their day and J(parIbdj to give place to a new order more adapted to the progress of the world. It is so with man, pnd the vaius raaesof man. Perhaps the genui'ne negre lIairImde'les change than any other of the different divisionsof the human family. "Can the Ethiopea ebsage bis skin ?" Africa itself (I mean the heart and iterlor of it,) has undergone less alteration than any other' part of the globe; and.consequently its inha bits' have the same complexion, And have the samo marks of inferiority 'that they did teo thouand' years ago. My principal aim though is to show that'llese Islands, called the West Indies, and others inprox imity. with them, should be under tnother idliarnd should belong to a people differing v.ith those wl now own and tyransise over them, and smother every seed of enlightment,' religion and liberty be fore it can take root in a soil- better adapted for its culture than any which was ever bessed by tJhe hand of nature, or verified and awaked by the fos tering care of Heaven; and in:my-saceedingeom munications, I shall proceed to give:my rejsons for this position, more in detail, and al'o .piovethat the duty of aecomplishing the high'object in contempla tion devolves essentially upon the valorous citizeas of the United States. CRITTENDEN. DArrox, July 8.-The wheat .harvest in the Miami valley has been progressing. throughout the past week, and the weather has been remar kably favorable for the gathering, of the crop. Its abundance has far exceeded expectations, and the grain is of superior quality. In oats, flax and barley a heavy crop is also anticipated. PRicE oF FLouR.-We learn that nbw'lor of good quality sold in our Town on Monday the 9th inst. at three cents per pound, being six dollars per barrel.-Spartanburg Express. ExEcurjoN.-The two negroes (spother and son) that have been in our jail some time past under the sentence of death for the b1arder or their master, .Mr. Holman 'Smith, wer hanged on last Friday near the place where the deed was committed.-Spartanburg Express. . TILE CHARLESTON ELEcnoIN.-The election for Sheriff in Charleston was quite an excite affairs. Col. John E. Carew has been .el over his opponent, C. E. Kanapaur,- by neely 900 majority. The vote was .the largest ever polled in the city. - The election of Col. Carew is claimed 'as a Know Nothing triumph; but the remarks.of the city papers do not justify this assumption. The Mercury says: " We share in the gratification'n't the result. Although the issue of Know Nothingism was made among certain classes of our citizens, yet it never took the form of a distinct and general issue in the community, and thus Col. Carew was warmly supported by very many who were .able.to gratify their preferences and friendships for the man, without any sacrige- of polities1 principle." The &andard is more particular, and thus comments on the result: " The political force of this remnIt will hardly be estimated properly. It will doubtless be re-' arded as a triumph of the American order; but it would be hardly safe. to say that .thej alone had carried the election.. There were nearly 1,000 more votes cast for Carew than is claimed by that party. But it may be taken as an evi dence of the fact, that with thie Know Notindgs on one side, and the foreign vote .upon-theother the conservative vote of the city is :at present with the'Ilitter; .and to this exten.,a&Jeast.it e may be taTlen as a test of the -Americni seti ment of the distrioL. We also subjoin the comments of the organ of the party, the Evening News: We do not claim the triumph of Col. Carew to be strictly a Know Nothing victory--a triumpih of the Order proper. But we do claim that it is a triumph of the American party, of.'American principles, of American order. 'Dtere was an open and direct issue made agaidist CoL Carew on these points, by a combination of the foreign and Catholic vote, aided by many others who oppose the Know Nothings." A LARGE BEET.--We acknowledged last week the receipt from Mr. McMaster of a very large beet. Mr. W. S. Rabb hae brought us one weighing nine pounds and measuring twen ty.four in circumferenee-this bent. Mr. McMas ter's two pounds and a half ini weight and three inches in circumference. Gentlemen fix up our Agricultural Association, give a big State 'air, and see how Fairfield horticulture will take your premiums.-Register. CA BBAG EIwITH ConN.-Mr. Brooks, of Prince ton, Masi~achusetts, at the last Legislature Agri ultural Meeting in Boston, alluded to the prac Itiee of planting catbbages among Indian e~n. He knew an instance where cabbages. were planted in alternate rdirs with corn, and.the cbbages sold fi' $150 per acre. THE REDAN AND THE MAr.AKOFF.-These now famous towers, that may. be said to guard the gates of Sebastopol, arc already celebrated for deeds of valor, on t'he part both of besieged, that almost rival those which .old Homer tells of, before .the .walls. of .Troy,.thousands of on t years since.. 1 he first of these toiwers,' the Redan, is a huge semi-circular earth-work, .forming, in fact, a part of the main fortifications on the handside of the city just outside the walls. it was orig inally of stone, but since the investment of the city by the French and English, immense earth works have been added to it... The Malakoff Tower is next north and east of the Redan; between them are the Ochakos ravine and earth-works. The Malakoff stands upon low ground, near th4 head of Careening By, but on .the southern and western side. The Mamelon stands 400 yarde in front of:It, In a more commanding position; and when it was taken by the French, the RussianM hanled thieir ships out of the bay,' as they were exposed to the guns of the Nameglon in the -bands 9f the French. These thiree works were in fact all outworks, and have bien thrown up ince'the commencement of -the siege, almost In the presence of the F'rench and English, but still they may be considered as forming a piart of themain defence of the city; whilst the Manme ln,aithough importatnt from'its Aommanding position, was nevtertheless at detached work, separate and distinct from the Russian'main line of defence. It is a noteworthy faht, that the.unsecessful assault on the part of the allies was made on the 18th of ~June, the anniversary o'f the 'Battle of Waterido. Possibly- the purpose swas to cement still closer the union of ngland and Frnce, by sinking the memories of that memo rable day in the 'storming and riduction 'of Sebastopol. A happy thought' perhaps-but terminating in a melanchol dusppintment. - [New Fap xjress. .. -- 411. - . ."S~amno,.I went a gunning t'oder day.. I seed four cOOns, anid shot the biggest' one out o do lot. How many was dereef(2." - "Vy, dree,. oh course." "No, Pomp-dare was only one left." " How's dat, Sambol" "Kaze, after I shot him, do rest all rund away. Yah! yah!" ".Now, Sambo, as vou' be so 6ery' elebber, can you tell me which' side ob dat eoda ha de most hair on't -- " No, Pomp, can't tell dat, nor.yonedef. "But I can though. Vy, doan't' yos-see, it was de outside, you tai bladk'idgger,'-y4U1 Yah!yah! yah!'"_ . Ir is an'interesting tac that fret-nse to which thie disppyery Qf .E . priting was anliedu~, was ,ode ithe4a Mentx. between.:h ga iIid) e Gottinbur'wasth i e1tor..tth~.t and ,Faujst, golsmmb, fgrs ,edtbiaues f..d.. The work enne .25 pagea.