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A Democratic 30xrnal, Devoito to ilje Souti w An ouil.ern digljts, t, ftt 11a-, . i.nut rtn epat at t & "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst theRuins." -_-_-_ W.-F. DURISOE SON, Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C., NOVEMBER 7, 1855. Vr--N - Edgefield Collegiate Institute FOR YOUNG LADOE8 I T lR1, next Senssti will commence on Monday the lith Sept., and continue fourteen weeks.. The system of Instruction, under which this Inasti .tution has retained its popularity for the last four years, will be continued, with such improvements as an enlarged experience has suggested. The same "teachers who have proved so popular during the gpast year will be continued in the several depart btents. Whatever enn be uined'by a most thorough system, combined aiith faithfulness, competency and industry on the part of the Teachers-Bided by a splendid Apparatus for illustrating the different branches of study--can be safely promised to those who wish fortheir daughters an enlarged and liberal mental culture. We consider the accomplishments of the past as the surest guarantee of success for the future, mid rely upen these, and our continued efforts during the coming year, for the continuance of that liberal patronage which has always been so cheerfully ac corded to this Institution. It ii of importance to the Pupils that they be present as early as possible after the commencement. The Rates of Tuition in the different departments will rema'n unchanged. They are as follows: Collegiate Department, per session, - $15 00 Acaden.ieal ' - 4 1 12 00 Primary " " "~ - 7 00 Optional Studies, FoR WeI-Cu Te16 CisARO 2 EXTRA. Music Department - ------ $18 00 French ''.. - . -.. -10 00 rwing."- - - - - 10 00 Pupils using the Chemical and Philosophical Ap paratus are charged each $2 a Session for breakage, de. And those practicing upon the Pianos at the Institute pay-goch,$1 a Session for keeping them in tune. There.is also a charge up..n all the Pupils of 50 cents a Session for contingencies. r All bills are payable at the close of each Ses sion. CIIAS. A. RAYMONDr PaiM. August 29 tf 33 Curryton Academies. T H E MALE DEPARITMENT of these Acade mies is under the supervision of Mr. J. L. LESLY. Assisted by Mr. BASS. The Female Department will be supervised by Mr. A. P. IIUTLER, assisted by conipetent Mu sical and other lnstructoress. Rates of Tuition. First Class, Primary Eepartment, per Sess-on $9,00 2nd " ordinary English branches,......12,00 3nd " higher English branches.........1,00 4th " Greek and Roman Literature with higher Mathematics..........18,00 Music.......................$20,00 Pupils are charged from the time of entering un til the end of the Session. Tuition in advance. The year is divided into two Session of five mouths each. M" Good board can be had in the neighborhood at from $8 to $10 dollars per month. t ROBT. MERRIWETHlER, Chsir'n Board of Trustees. Feb 14 tf 5 UIr lIE Exercises sf this Institution are now in progress for the Fall Term under the control of t Mr. W. E. McCASLAN, as Principal, and Mr. 3 T. I. CROOKER, as Assistant. The regulations of the Academy are being re arranged by the Teachers conjointly, and will soon be petfected. The Village of Edgefield offers many inducements to parents in an educational point of view. It is perfytly healthy as a general rule. It is free from the evil influences of grog-shops. It is a reliious community. And it car justly boast of an enlight ened society. Over the Male Academy the Trustees exercise a direct supervision and are consulted in all eases of extreme punishment. They propose to give more of their attention in future to the weekly reviews of the scholars, that an additional stimulus may be imparted to the classes. The present Teachers are capable and energetic young gentlemen in their respective departments. Their School numbers about 40 at this time, leaving abundant room for 20 more. It is hoped that parents and guardians withia reach of us will immediately embrace the opportunity. Terms as per last Session. R. T. MIMS, -l -g A. SIMKINS, I G. A. ADDISON, g. i LEWIS JONES, g | BENJ. WALDO. -~ Sept 19 tf 36. TVHE Subscriber repectiflly informs the citizens I.of Edgefield and vicinity that he intends open ing a School upon his premises in Edge6eld Vil lage, on the first Monday in August next, wherein will be taught the higher branches of English and Classical Literature. No pains will be spared to render ample satisaktlon to parents who may intrust their children to his care both as to lerrning and -discipline. Charges the same as at the Village Academy, and invariably in adanele will also attend to the practiee of LAW and EQUITY, for the District-sand may be found on Saturdays and a portion of sale days at his Office, over Mr. B. C. Bryan's Store. A OGE July 30, tf 29 H~E Undersigned returns his sincere thanks to .Lhis friends for their patronage while located in Hamburg, and hereby informs them that he can be found (after 1st September next,) at the ilouse of WARD, BURCHJARD & CO., opposite the Ma sonic Hall, Augusta, Ga., where he would be happy to see sind serve them, and where .a FULL and Complete Stock of Dry Go ods, can always be found, wvhleh will be sold as LOW as from anj;Heinse in the City.i.A ASM Hlambur'g, Aug 13, if 3 .n PICE TO COTTON. PLANTERS! {rTly 'Sgseriber, living niear Bethel Churehi, .Lbelow the i4ge, would inform the Cottou ,1'anters of Edgefield and thesurrounding Distriets, that he is manufacturing Of a very SUPERIOR QUALiTY-warranted to give satisfaction. I am also prepared to. REPAIR OLD G1NS, At very moderate prices. For information in regard -o m cacity to do the save work, I would refer '? r . T. Beatwright and. Mr. Wide Holstein. * . Pkeses aress thrganbgeriber, as well as the gen tlemen referred to, at the Ridge 15. 0., 8. C. WILLIAM GASTON. sept 5 106t 34 Merinos and DeLaines, A '; NRY LOW PRICES! qg ascriber will sell his present'large Stock Iof 'French and English MERINOt3 and all DsAJgtS, at very Low Prices. The assortment DeLbA~ 5 ra jriety of styles, for Indies and Chidre" l~he. Also, stuperior Welch, Gauze and Silk Warp~fangels.WILAM HER Augusta. July 3, f 29 -"cool~y is Wealth I" fOOD clean iasof every description will. be tiprchased at t es4 Ad~ertiser Ofie." Price, 2jci pr oud.Now here'da ohance for almost ever boy, and old bjqelor's too, U' mgeF money. Aprl8 t '* 4 Female Collegiate Institute, AT COKESBURY. T HIS Institution will be open for the reception of Pupils on the first Monday in January next, and close the last day in September, making one long Term of Nine Months. The Faculty will vonsist of Mr. F. A. CONNOR, PaEsIDENT. REv. T- E. WANNAMAKER, AsmsITANT PROF. Ma. E. L.EGER, PaoFEsSOa OF Music AND MoD UaN LANGUAGES. Miss MARY E. SNEAD, INsTRucTmEss IN PArIT INo, Euao:IDEYa, &C. The Board of Trustees have secured the servioces of a Faculty composed of worthy Master Masons, eminent for purity of character, and high'literary attainments, whose every effort will be to educate young ladies so as to adorn any sphere in life. Our new Masonic building will be completed by the opening of the Term, and the Board intend furnishing it with every appurtenance necessary to the acquisition of an education of the highest order. As they have determined that this Institution shall be second to none, so they confidently expect the encouragement and patronage of an enlightened public. For any information necessary, we refer to our Circular, or to any member of the Committee, or President of the Faeulty. J. K. VANCE, B. Z. HIERNDON, Committee. F. F. GARY. Cokesbury, Oct 20, 3t 41 Spartanburg Female College. J. WOFFORD TUCKER, Esq., President and Professor of English Literature. REV. SAMUEL B. JONES, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Science. Professor of Ancient Tanguages. MISS PH(EBE PAINE, Modern Languages, and Assistant in English Department. MR. WILLIAM SCIIERZER, Professor of Music. @@USE 07SUY PRIMARY DEPARTMENT. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar and Geography. COLLEGIATE CouRsE. First Class-English Grammar, (reviewed,) Arithmetic, (continued,) Geography. (with Maps, continued,) Outlines of History, English Compo sition. Sorno'uoa CLASS. Rhetoric, Logic, Composition, (continued,) Bota ny, Algebra, History, (continued,) Latin, (comnien d.) JUNIOR C.aSs. Ilistory, (continued,) Latin, (continued,) Geome ry, Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Moral Philo ephy. SENIOR CLAss. Trigonometry, (with its applications.) Latin, (con inud,) French, Astronomy, Mental Philosophy, vidences of Chritianity. Instruction in English Composition and Analysis, ontinued through the whole urs Tuition for College course, proper, embracing all le studies enumerated, per Term of one scholastic ear, payable half yearly in advance......$40 00 MIuc EXTRA, PER TERM OF ONE YEAR. On Piano.................... $40 00 Guitar....................... 25 00 Use of Piano,.................... 3 00 Contingent,.................... 2 00 Primary Departmnt, per Term of one year, paya le as above,................... .... . 20 00 Board on the Campus, under the direction of the )ficers of the institution, per month, including all expenses of Lights, Fuel, Washing, &o., $12 00 payable at the end of each half year. Text Book can be furni.hed, if desirable, at cost prices. Er The above includes all charges. No other fees, ordinary or extraordinary, will be charged for ny or all the branches enumerated. This Institution went into operation on the fourth Wednesday in AUGUST last, and will end its first Term on the fourth Wednesday in DECEMBER. Non-.resident Pupils will be required to board on the Campus, except in a special class of eases provi ded for by a resolution of the Board. S. BOBO, President of the Board of Trustees. J. HI. Wu~soN, Sec'ry. Oct 31 2m 42 TUTT & PELsIETIER, -EAatsas IN DflVGS, 3EDICEWS, IAZNTS, 0O1.81 DYE STUFFS1 VARNISHES, BrseWlndow Glass, Perfumery, SPICES, &c., &c., H AVE received a well selected Stock of Goods in their line, for the Fall and Winter Trade, to which they respectfully solicit attention. I&l All-orders by letter or otherwise filled and put up in the neatest manner. Hamburg, Oct 8, 1854. 4t 39 Removal No. 2. SE. BOWERS, Agent, begs leave to e inform his friends and the publio generally that he has again moved his Large Stock or Groceries, And will occupy for the ensuing year the Store formally teneted by M. A. RANSOM, next door to J. Ss.EY & SoN, where he will keep constantly on hand, every article that appertains to the Faily Grocery Business. amburg, Oct 9, tf 39 .OPPOSITE MASONIC UAI.L, , BROAD STEW~, AUGUSTA, GA. cp aeA.m" E en O 3 Arereceiving their full Stock of BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALUSES, CARPET BAGS, &c., &c. Our Stock will comprise all the most fashionable ar ticles, and those thatean be recommended for dura bility. Also, a large and superior lot of Negro Brogans, Men'. Rip BROGANS and Women's Leather BOOTS. We feel confident that we can show one of the BEST ASSORTED Stock of Goods that has ever been in our City, and request our customers and friends to give us a call before purchasing. Aug 29 -'-~ 3m 3 CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY!I EDGEFIELD) C. I., S. C. T H E Subscribers cntinue to build to order, and of the BEST MATERIAL that can be procured, Oarriages, Buggies, &,, Or EvER S-rrrL AND Dascalr~IoN. They alsokheep constantly on hand a fine and varied assortment of New and Second.Rand Carriag es W'-REPAIRING neatly and promptly attend ed to. Thankful for post patronage, they hope by giving due attention to their bqsiness and the interests o their cistomers,tocntinue to receive a liberal share of publio favo.C. McGREGOR, F. LA. SMITH4. Mar.8 If t A DUCK OF A XAN. Dear me ! I'm now a joyous wife, I've left my anxions mother, And such a man as I have got I think there's ne'er another. The other day when in a fret, I ruined.my costly fan, He softly smiled, but nothing said, For he's a " duck of a man." He rocks the cradle, and the babe He dandles on his knee, And when the cherub's naughty, He laughs with heartless glee; He never snubs me when I'm out I do not think he can Behave as some vile cross men do, Hes such a "duck of a man." The other day he brought me home A stylish little bonnet Forgetting where he put the hat, I sat myself upon it. I crushed ten dollars quite flat, When straight away he ran And brought a prettier-oh! the dear ; Ain't he a "duck of a man," I burnt his cloak the other day Against our parlor stove, Instead of chiding me, he said I was a turtle dove; - And when his watch to SisI gave, Who to the window ran, And threw it out, he never frowned, He's such a " duck of a man." My sister Mary envies me Turns up her little nose, And spitefully says, " Sissy dear, There your hen-peeked husband goes." She need'nt talk, the saucy flirt, She'll have, if she only can, A husband half so good as mine, Though not a "duck of a man." ' , A CID'S EVENING PRAYER. Jesus, Heavenly Shepherd, hear me ! Bless thy little lamb to-night; Through the darkness be thou near me, Watch my sleep till morning light. All this day thy hand has led me, And I thank thee for thy care; Thou hast warmed and fed and clothed me, May my sins be all forgiven ; Bless the friends I love so well; When I die take me to Heaven, Happy there with thee to dwell. ANt AMERICAN RAT DoG.-Last summer, Bob L crossed the Atlantic to spend a little time and a good deal of money in looking at the women and wonders of the old world. Among the wonders which he took along "just for the fun 'f the thing," was a small sized snapping-turtle. Having a week's leisure at London, Bob packed up his trays and went over to Ireland. The first night he passed "on the sad" was at a little roadside inn, about fifteen miles from Dublin. 1 Having partaken of a supper of bacon and eggs. ob walked into the bar, and placed the turtle on the floor. The first person to notice the "ritter," was Mr. Flinn, who kept the house. "And what do you-call that'!" "That is an American rat dog." " A what 1" "An American rat dog," "Musha, go long-and do you call such a papeen a dog?" "I do, indeed, and he is worthy of his name." " Will he fight ?" "Yes, sir, not onljht, but will whip any "iil youdhold me ten shillings on that'!" "I will." " Enough," said Flynn. "Barney, get the rindle pup we bought of Sheridan yesterday, nd let him out." Barney did as desired. The brindle pup pur hased of Sheridan was brought in. The brin le pup took a look at his American relation, ad then made a plunge. She caught the brin e pup by the nose. 'Ihe brndle pup gave one yell and put far the oor. When last seen he was rushing towards ublin as if he had eight tin cullenders tied to his tail. Whether Flyn gave up the money ithout getting a shelah to apt as umpire, wil e known when the next steamer arrives. A STRONGo SToRY.- A wild friend of ours, Selma Ton,) told us the other day the follow ing tough story: Tom says he got acquainted with a very com anionable fellow from one -of the mountain ounties, who hsppened to be in Selmna on busi ess. This was in August last. Mountain, prout was a member of the ohuroh, but being long way from home, and having never expe rienced iced cock-tail before, he '"took on as mch as much as he could wag with"-Tom aiding and abetting. In due time, Sprout went ome, but rumors of his potations followed him, and the church brought him " to taw," for drunk eness. Sprout, on trial, admitted that he had, while in Seims, got a little "foxy,".but then he told his brethren, the " big lumps 'of ice they had at the bar, were so very inviting, he couldn't help drinkin." Thereupon an old brother got p and said that for his part, if the young rother had only got drunk under the circum stances of being away from home, and falling into bad company, he should have been in favor f forgiving him, on his making proper ack owlegment. "But, brethren, he wound up, this matter is worse than drinking. Its down right lying! Did you hear what brother Sprout said about ice, and it August! I'm fur jerking him out for ling!" And out he went !-Mont gomery Mail. BUYING A Conm.-The London correspon ent of the Inverness (Scotland) Advertiser gets off the following bit of experience of a model temperance man: The other evening, at a temperance meeting, a prson in the hail got up and said, " My friends three months ago I signed the pledge. (Clapping of hands and apprvi ers.) In a month afterwards,.my friends, rhda sovereig In my pocket-a thing inver had before. (C appin and loud cheers.) n another month, my friends I had a good coat on my back-a thing I never ha4 before. (Cheers and clap lng ingph logider.) A fort niit nat tha- ,frien u. I bonuht a colin." The audience was going to cheer here, but stop ped and looketserious. "You wonder," con tinued the lecturer, "why I bought a cofin. Well, my friends, I bought the coffin because I felt pretty certain that.if I kept the pledge an other fortnight I should want one." A RoUGH RoAD.-A young Tennessean, who was taken by the British before the battle at New Orleans, on the night of the same day was asked how far it was t the city and answered "Six miles." They replied, " We will be there to-morrow." " It is not far," said lie, "but it is a very rough road." " What is in the way "Old Hickory," repli the young man. As Irishman, walkin ,n the dark. on a certain occasion stretched out th hands to avoid com ing in contact with anything, but unlucky a door, which stood half open, passed between his hands, and struck him a blow upon the nose. "Dickens I" muttered he when he recovered his senses a little; ",I alwaays heard that I had a plaguy long nose, but I vqw I never have thought before that it was longer than my arm." " DID you know," sad a cunning Yankee to a J( w, " that they hang Jews and Jackasses to. gether in Poland ?" Indeed ! then it is well that you and I are notthere," retorted the Jew. TEE following from.od Knick, on the death of a miser, is excellent ? One.day last spring death, the inexorable, de manded his carcass, and- it was found that he died worth nearly a million, but the cause of his death. " What could it have been " was in every. body's mouth. " Ahi! Mr. B- ," sayi one, " old H-- has gone at last." " No, you astonish me. What was the mat ter ?" . " Well, it is hard to-telf: It is known though that he yesterday relented-toward a beggar, who had importuned him everyday, for twenty years, gave him sixpence, and took his bed immediate y. Doctor C- -thinks it must have been enlargement of the heart.' YoUNG America is growing rapidly. Every lay we meet with proofs of this oncouraging Pet. Here is one of the latest instances of apid development: " Have you been to the 4stor Library I" asked tyouth of his father a few days ago. " No, I have not," replied the father. I " You had better dall and see it," the youth I ,oninued: "Just mentionmy name to the Li rarinn, and he will show you every attention." rhat looks big. ONE OF TUE PENALTISS OF POLITENESS.-A -entlemun recently handed a lady out of the I ailroad cars at Buffalo.He was a total stranger o her, and simply offered her his hand as an act. f politeness. It turned"out that she was run. I er. The unfortunate stranger, being taken for icr friend, was arrested at the cars and sent to ill with her. He had some difficulty in estab-: ishing that his politeness should not be taxed o a much greater extent. There is a family within eight miles of West illinoly (Conn.) who are to all appearance in he fuil enjoyment of an uncivilized existence. Lhe family consists of a man and wife, with our or five small children; and the habitation vhere they " stop" (for they cannot be said to ive) is a mud and stone hovel, without a win low, and containing no furnature. The immates it on the bare earth, lie on the bare earth, eat )n the bare earth with their fingers; nor do hey seem aware of the existence of the sligh est article of domestic comfort in a civilized ife.-Killingly Telegraph. HEATHENDoM1.-There are five hundred mil ions more of heathens than of christians in the orld. For this mighty mass, it was recently stated at an anniversary in Berlin, only fifteen indr.cd missionary stations exist, and only hirty-seven societies have been formed to pro note their conversion. THlE HERO OF THE 3iIArLA~oFF.-A letter from in oficeer at Sebastopol, in the Paris Constit u ionnel, says: " It was a corporal of the 1st Zouaves who lanted the first French standard on the Mala off. His name is Engene Libaut, of Paris. It was Gen. McMahons's standard of the first divi sion. the hoisting of which was to be the uigfnal for the attacks on the other points. The Gen ral gave him the standard with his own hands, with the words, " This is the signal flag-go !" Libaut was the first to spring out of the trench m. While getting into the enemy's ditch he was struck by a stone, but, notwithstandling the pain, he scaled the parapet in the midst of a ail-storm of projectiles of every kind, and at length planted the flag, around which our bravo soldiers soon~ fioked, and maintained their ground." A CRINEsE PRIEsT AT Ims DEvoTrroNs.-Hear ing a continual thumping noise in the room be yond, we push open the door and surprise a Boodhist priest at his devotions. He is seated at a table with a book before him, from which e is chanting prayers with a monotonous, draw ling tone, while with one hand he thumps inces santly with a small wooden hammer upon a bolow drum of the same material. This drum is called by the same name as the great' fish upon which the earth rests, and which its sound soothes into quiet. When, at any time, even for a minute, there is no drum beaten through out the whole world, the fish at once becomes uneasy, and his contortions occasion earth quakes. The priest wears a yellow robe, his skin is yellow his head is shaven bald, his face is pukered with wrinkles, and althoqgh he is one of the oddest and funniest old men that ever was seen. He looks up, nods, with a queer twinkle in his eyes, looks down again, and up again, but never once pauses in his chanting or his thumping. PANTALOONs WITHOUT SUsrENERs.-Prof. La Borde, of South Carolina College, in bis recent work on Physiology, says: As the women have concluded to dispense with shoulder straps, some men, especially in the city, have thought they would prove panta loons can be wore without, suspenders. The men now strut the streets with their pantaloons tightly buttoned, side by side with the women, whose skirts or petticoats are firmly, bound their persons. Upon a fair view the evil is the same in both cases; presstire upon the vital organs, impairment of their proper actIon, want of development, deformity, disease and prema ture death. The New York Phrenological Journal says-As we walk the streets of our city, we see scores of boys from twelve to six teen years old with theIr pants buckled very tightly around their disconnected bodies, pre venting growth at this rapidly growing age, and the rerult is a generation of dyspeptic pale-facoed, puny apologies for men. SOFT soap, in some shape, pleases all, and, generally speaking, the more lye you put into it then better. ENGLISH FEELING. THE subjoined comments, upon the compara. tive success of the French and English arms it the late storming of Sebastopol, will be read with interest. We extract from the editorial department of the Leicestershire Mercury. ED. ADV. Nothing can be found more brilliant in milita. ry annals than the assault of our French allies upon the M2lnkhofi and its contiguous line of defences. In the contemplation of this dazzling feat of arms, it is difficult to say whether praise should be most awarded to the skill with which it was contrived, or to the resolution with which it was executed-to the gallant conduct of the soldiery of General Pelissier, or to the consum. mate ability on the part of their officers, by which every point of vantage gained was made available for their own security, and turned to the discomfiture of the enemy. Yet it is at the same time humiliating to discover, that in this crowning struggle of a whole year of peril and endurance, and on this proudest day in the histo ry of the great Crimean enterprise, the army of England played an inferior and much less dis tinguished part-since it failed where others triumphed, and was compelled to recoil from de fences which its confederates in arms were able not only to win, but to hold. Still more humili ating is the reflection that, but for the fearful incompetence of our generals-the chivalrous devotion of the regimental officers, and the matchless resolution of the troops, would have placed the Union ensign side by side with the Tricolour upon the ramparts of the Gibraltar Euxine. Such is now only too clearly shown to be the case. If means had studionaly been adiopted by the Commanders-in-Chief to ensure the failure of their attack, they could scarcely have taken a different course from that which, by general testimony, they are proved to have pursued. While on the side of the French, the sap was carried within ten yards of the Malakhoff, ours was discontinued at the distance of two hundred yards from the Redan. While their trenches were broad enough to afford an easy passage to the columns which they contained, ours were made so narrow as to impede the men in every movement. While our allies made their assault in masses of tens of thousands, ours was carried on by a mere handful of com batants. While they were pouring in powerful reinforcements to the support of the first storm. rs, our reserves were kept in a state of inaction nd confusion. While their generals were act ing in perfect intelligence with eai'h other, ours appear to have had neither a settled plan of vro eeeding, nor any means of mutual colnmunica tion. The result naturally and necessarily was, hat difference in success which, however the wounded pride of England may seek to disavow, nd the courtesy of Franco endeavour to conceai t, will be t;ken by all Europe as convincing roof of a marked difference in efliciency between he armies of the two nations. This is now unavoidable, and unhappily all our preceding a i gon.rouu ior~a conTi si o'unflattering o our military reputation. The repulse of the 3th of September will be considered quite in ;eeping with that " Want of Head" which, ifter committing the great mistake of Balaclava, nd allowing the formidable surprise of Inker nan. left twenty thousand of our best troops to erish by neglect and famine between the months f November and February, and hurried whole regiments to certain destruction on the fatal 8th of June. Everywhere our War Depart nent will be pronounced incorrigible-our sys tem of promotion a libel upon pommon sense and in Great Britain itself, we doubt whether Len men will henceforth be found to deny the accusation, or to maintain that the censure is mnjust. It is in no spirit of unworthy jealousy at the success which has just crowned the eagles of the Second Empire, that a cry of general dissat isfaction has been raised throughout the country by the despatehes of General Simpson, and the publication of the letters of the Times and Daily News correspondents. The French army s acknowledged to have performed the task ssigned to it in a manner wvhich does credit to he successors of those hardy veterans who fought at Austerlitz and Jena, and it is felt that t would be a scandal and dishonour to ourselves, f the praise, which has so nobly been eaned, were either scantily or grudgingly bestowved. But it is at the same time felt that, in justice to hose thousands of our brave fellow-countrymen whose lives were lavished upon the late fruitless ttempt; in justice to thiat' reputation which has been scaled by a hundred victories, and to that haracter of successful prowess which has been aoquired on many a hard fought field, a strict in uiry should be instituted to discover why, in a onflict from which our allies have derived the ighest degree of glory and advantage, wve have reaped nothing but probable discredit and cer tain loss. it may be that success was impossi ble, and supposing this to be proved, no one will be injured by the results of the investigation. But it may also turn out, that to the folly or to the perverseness of some two or three individu als, we are entirely indebted for a calamity, which has brought mourning into so many of our households, and cast so marked a discredit upon our arms. In this case, it would be a aaste of words to show the imperative necessi ty of bringing the parties really culpa ble to ligh t. We trust that, at the very first re-assembling of Parliament, a committee will be especially ap pointed to investigate the causes of the failure of the English assault upon the Redan, and of the confusion and wanL of arrangement which in the despatches of the Commander-in-Chief are confessed to have existed on that occasion. A letter to the New York Tribone from Para, Brazil, dated September 20th, gives the follow ing translation of a I.ortuguese letter from the Barra of the Rio Negro, published in the Pirno of Para, containing an account of a massacre of six Americans at the fort of Tabatinga, on the frontier of Brazil, on the river Amazon. The language of the letter shows the spirit anima ting the Peruvians ar.d Brazilians towards the United States. "On the 2d of the current month there arrived here from Tabatingam a " Correio Extraordinario," with intelligenee that six fitibusteros, wvhose na tionality could not be wholly distinguished, although all appearances indicated that thaey were North Americans, had forced the author. ties of Loreto (in Peru) to give them the pass, with which they entered the territory of Brazil, robbing and destroying whatever they found, without regard to whom it belonged, or to the directions that had been given them by the authorities of P'eru. The authorities of Loreto, from whom they had extorted the pass, hastened to give information of the same to the comman der of the fort of Tab'atinga, Captain Garcez, who, putting hImself on the alert, saw the fili busters coming into port in a canoe, and order ing them to a halt, they answered by a discharge of their guns and passed down the river. With out loss of time they were pursued by a canoe with troops, sent by the said Captain Garcez, which,arriving in gunshot, the soldiers were salu ted by a second discharge from thme "said eight," who then, jumping on shore, proposed to strengthen themselves, taking for a wall ,the trunks... r ees;: hehind whioli t hey m-nde, over the top of a canoe, a very lively fire, from wn one soldier was killed, and a Tapulo Ind gravely wounded. "In these critical circumstances, the comm der of the expedition judged prudent to let I canoe be taken down the current, and then r I king a small disembarkation under cover of high bank of earth, he ordered that small di sion to cut away through the matted undergrov to the rear of the enemy, while ho turned take him in front, and divert his attention, which end lie turned up the river, expendi some shots for diversion of the enemy, until 1 filibusters, finding themselves entirely surrot ded, redoubled their energy, and exposed the selves to everything which a general subje himself when he has no place for retreating good order. Now throwing into the wa whatever they had brought with them, th struggled and fought Boldly, and as if they wi sixty ; bee:,use, having arms of ten barrels, t number that they represented appeared th large; but the low, steady arm of the Brazili soldiers succeeded in sending below and ord ing, within a little time from this, for a bet1 world, live of the resistants. The sixth, t only one that escaped an ounce of lead, to to his heels with the nimblest activity; but, e countering a lake, and thrusting himself into head foremost, .to pass it by swimming, he w made a prey of by the aligators that called hi bait." RESOURCES UNIMPAIRED.-The Paris corr pundent of the Commercial Advertiser has t following respecting the effect upon Russia, the loss of Sebastopol, at fortress which was long obstinately defended, that it came to 1 regarded as the most important feature in t1 contest, but has already lost its prestige, ai the Bourse instead of rising, fell with the capti ed city. " Russia does not appear to have placed tl same estimate on it as a fortress that the Alli have done, and it is becoming more and mo evident every day that she was very glad to ii it as a means of concentrating at a distant poi the attack she was to undergo, but that her r sistance is by no means overcome when that Sebastopol is e.'huusted. The renewed prep rations of the Czar, his presence at a council war at Odessa, the impending levy, the accoun of the material found by the Allies in the cit of the unequalled works for deadening the effee of bombs, and the inevitable inference that ti loss gf the Russians cannot have been anythit like what it has been estimated; more than a the attitude of the forces of Gortschakoff, Os( Sacken, and Lipandri, in the Crimea; and tI language held by the Russian organ at Brusse -all conspire to show that Russia is underg< ing one of those periods of revival and of renec ing which often result from the shock of a disa ter better than from the encouragement of victory. The Russian argument, as we are b ginning to understand it, is simply this: "T fortification of Sebastopol did not exist whi the Allies appeared before it; those improvist fore Frin-e and England has been broug to bear against one Crimean port, all of who. stone defences were intended against an attac from sea only. The final capture of this nay rendezvous has no other significance than wh springs from the destruction of the fleet, o from the loss of a certain amount of material And I think that the public mind is acceptir and acknowledging the justice or at least til plausibility of this position." RUssrA's DETERMINrATION TO PROSECUTE Ti WAR.-St. Petersburg letters mention that tl fall of Sebastopol has had no other ef-ect on ti enoral situation than to increase the probabi ty of a peaceful solution being now more dista and more difficult than it was before. The rer of Prince Gcrtschakoff, and his appointment the ministry of war, is definitively arranged. F will be succeeded in his command by Gener Muravieft; now engaged in the operations befo Kars. The Czar talks of holding out as long his foes choose to continue the war. The d termination, meanwhile, come to at head qun ters', was to defend the Crimea step by sti and coule aui coute, and to retire only wh further op'position shall be impracticable. reports of a precipitate retreat on Perekc without giving battle, are said to be imainar Strong reserves-were on their way (o the Crim from the interior of Russia, the object being occupy in force all the strong positions botwed KhuforMachenzie and Inkermann; with reserv posted at Blaktchi-Saria and Simphero.ol., 'O' Russians would have us bviieve their Crime: army, with these reserves, amounts to 300,0 men. Credat Judcus!I Without being euriously an.xious as to ti future movements in the Crime, there can no doubt that the Russians are bent upon tryi their fortune in a second winter campsig " Meanwhile," it is added, " the transport of ai munition and provisions and stores is bein driven on with all possible despatch., The most activity prevails in all the military a other establishnments, annd at Nicolaieff, whe the Czar is at this time present in person, th profess to have nine war steamers already co pleted, fitted out and prepared for actual servic and a number Igore in a forward state of outfi A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Wander of Vienna, says: The eenng before the d parture of the Emperor a council was held, which it was determined to carry on the w. with the greatest determination; and the Emi ror directed Count Nesseirode to announce ti intention to the political agents of Russia foreign countries. TMjE following tall Cotton piecing is said have been done one day recently in Aust' County, Texas. Edward.,..... -...........-.--.1235 Richmond.................... 1085 Jasper....... ......-- ...--.-. - 950 Edmund............. ..-.. ..805 Lewis..............-----..--....64Q Anthony ..............-------,--.gi80 Moses.........-- ..-----.-.. 60 Total., ...........----. 5865 lb.. oi an average of 88 pounds to each- har DESTRUCTION OF SEBnAsToPoI,.-TIle advic from the Crimea state that the Allies have mmi all the splendid docks and works at Sebastop preparing to blow them up, but the followil etract from: the London Times shows theat< ders have been issued to put a atop to this: I" Although preparations have been made the sappers and miners of the Allies to coraple the destruction of the docks and forts of Seba topol, no effect has yet been given to thesei tentions; for, upon a reference to the Alli Governments, the operations in question wn suspended." INoeUI.ATION for the yellow fever is report to have been tried in more than one thousa ases at New Orleans, during the past summ with perfect success. HoGs ROOTING -To preent hogs from rol ing, cut across the nose, just above the gris of the snout, by which you will sever the ust tendon by which the operation is performn Then split the gristle of the lose up and doi the face, and the work is done. For the )os nosed, 0ap~eared breed, cut thie nose off' eigtse inhes .bo-e the snont. Sh rTom AL INVENTOR OF-TUB- BAOAT. From advance sheets of Lloyd's fourthoomiag in. Steamboat Directory, we see that; l-gir-the he credit of the .invention of the st a oat to a. John Fitch, and not to Robert Fulton. .ppro a daces good authority to sustain him in hsWas. vi- sertions, and the friends of Fitch will notoubt rth be glad to find justice will be done him iii this - to work. for It appears that John Fitch invented and made ug a successful trial trip with his steamboat atPhil he adelphia, in 1786, which averaged nearly eight m. miles an hour, and that afterward, while he was at Paris, trying to obtain aid from the French ,t Government to further his objects, he met Rob in ert Fulton, who was: there experimenting.with ter his Submarine Battery for blowing up ships; ey and Fulton, by pretending to take great interest in John Fitch, obtained plans and drawings of he his steamboat by giving him some milk and us water letter to various persons. Poor Fitch an remained in Europe some time, trying to get .r- capitalists to advance him funds to prosecute er liis great invention, but without success. They he called him crazy, little dreaming of the prize ak they were losing. n. Meantime Robert Fulton returned to New it York, and obtained funds from Chancellor Liv. as ingston, built the steamer "Clermont," on tha m North River, in 1806, using on her one of Watt's improved steam engines ordered from, England. This was fully twenty years after poJlp. 'iteh. s. had demonstrated the practicability of stegpyng he I the mighty Mississippi with the steambpat.. In of 1811, Robert Fulton sin dijvingston claimed the. so exclusive privilgge of navigating the Ohio and e missi ssippA by steam. Several boats wre thus te tied p i ik:At at the great trial in New'York, it d waa satipfpctorily and conclusively proven that r. Robert Fulton was not the inventdri li . steamboat, but to John Fitch belongid that ie credit. es The life of poor.Fitch is peculiarly interesting re and melancholy. Just before his death' he re- - se marked: "The day will come' when some more. at powerful man will get fame and riches from 1uly. e- invention, but nobody will believe that. -poor. )f John Fitch can do anything- worthy QJ atten a. tion." He was buried on the. banls.,of the, of Ohio-Cincinnati Times. ta -.0-": y, A LARGE INvolE.-A hot0 in this 'qity re ts ceived last week eighteen th9aand sacls ot e peanuts, worth about $5,000 No danger.o the drama declining while this crop contl ds I, so prolific! But the use of this frail is not eon n fined solely to an accompaniment tomelo-dramas, ie and pantomimes. They are rich in essential oil Is which is expressed in large quantities and used . in the South both for illuminating andiubricat. . ing purposes. The. Israelites who eschew lard .. use it for culinary purposes, and fritters, and a things of that ilk fried in it are extremely deli; . ate and well flavored. e Possibly there are many who swpose' the n peanut to be the production of a tree; we once. d thout 'stbtecasebt 1 ;e the tops the whole roots come up to k The nuts are then gathered by the negroqh . il dre and the tops rejected. They are rased. ex it tensively in Georgia and South Carolina, and d also in Africa. We have ridden through filAt " f peanuts, or groundnuts, as they are there, - called, in Georgia, when they were in full-bloa. e som, and the ground was entirely buried beneatli a thich blanket of bright yellow flowers. With a burning sun pouring on this picture, and not [E a tree visible, nor a patch of shade, the uninitia ie ted can gain an idea of the beauties of traveling. 10 in the Palmetto State. The African peanuts; i- however, are the best. Any one so dispos it can take a raisin box, fill it with aimixture o .' il soil and sand, and grow a quart or two of the to nuts. Only be sure those you plant are .Q le roasted, for of course those won't sprout.--Nw al York Courier. re - -- - is Hos. J. L. Oax.-The Washington Ecening e- Star, in an editorinl on -th. Sywhership, paXs. r- the (ollo.wing coiplimrent to owr talented Cobh, p, gressman: ma " Of the Democrats, the only prominent msag II who has strength beyond his party organizatio1 p, is James L,.Orr, of South Carolina, whose a~ y. ty and fairness in the chair during the two, 1,s ia sesaions, have gained fog hin a personal pope to larity as a presiding o~eer which we have satjs mn fied ourself will be worth at least twenty yotn es to him beyond his party strength, when th9 esri. '15 vas iecom~es protracted. We have ~ens in directly from gentlemen occupying pp to,ns 0 most adverse to his on -general politics, tljJ in case they eannot secure the election or sgersonst e sympathizing with themselves, they wrill labor se to secure Mr. Orr's eleetingi. an the grogna of ig his superior qualificatiosa and the scrispnlpus, n. sense of justice which regulated all his aptg iuk n- presiding officer when called to the chakir athe ig last Congress." td CoavExrow or HusnANDs.--The papers .tate rthat a convention of husbands is to be called sv hortly at Syracuse, New York, to adopt pga measures in rega;4 to fashion. They say that e since they have to support the expenses of fasil ion they have the right to regulate its pagess. eIt is also said that a poposition to raise ka e-r only, in future, is to.cuUme before the conypntion. atIThe members- are to reuoive themselves jnto a ar husbands' rights party. e- THE FAMoUs Da. Hpts:-=Wp notice In the ." Louisville Journal of the 6th, that in obedienee 1'a to an order of -the Criminal -Court of that city, the celebrated Dr. Hines, alias, Cei. Ifamilton, to alias Gen. Gentry, has been released froul thp mn workhouse. He was sent to -the workbosse i:3 April last for the term of tw'elve moutha, bist the Journal says, in consideration fr good conduct since his sojourn there and the promis~e of reformation made to the igge hje term wM shortened. He is a rar chap. - A DEA MARCH.--A lady playjng,99-'a pignq forte, no b.eing called upon for' a desf mnarch, asked a celebrated professor of myies wha.she should play, he repied: " Any mituh tiai ,o,: d. may play will be a dead one; fqr yoizr aara tq *murdee' it." es Tn Journal d& Ciria Mdi4Ie reltes a~ acase of poisoning fromn eating)(i'0 ob 1~gir ltercup. Some chilpig were amugtene rig selves by znalIing prowps qf this flower, FIliej r- one of therm was tempted te .eat soso of the flowers. Violent paini simulating colic, and all IY thec syqgptoms of poisoning syperyened, est for. to tunately the life of the ehhg4 yas saved. n. Tux best defence of lying Mbat we ever read, ed is the remark of Charles Lamb, relsted by re Leigh Uat, that " truth was precfous -and not to be wasted oneveryllody." ed THE~ RoT~cmLDs.-Thms ceerted nag: rid ciers, according to their own estineatee, 4~s ir, S'700,000,000 in personal property, ex~ dof real estate, se irp~ne,&. @ igli. t- to at least half as ingeh more, iq~lgover oee le thousmn4 silions, or an amoqr ~ jik arger atl than the valgatiqq qf thy .eltj 4 1~ O. THd ao. her y20pd *hlch it is g.dhd'made thie fastest mile -ot record, fell eyda e ayaao just after *DUinng a ibur mile rae on th Nasvile course.