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D1Iemwcraixc 3ourna, U wtdh to tIj~e Sout) ano Soutia)rn fig)ts, usities, Cateat JIew, Citerature, 1*1xadit, temperance, Agritut t c 4. . 66We will cling to tihe Pillars of tihe Temple of o~r Liberties, and If It must fall, we wil cihais h un. W-. F. DUiL1SOE &SON9. P11roprietors. EDoE.D So Co7EB U RY2 Water Proof Ware-House, HAMBURG, S. C. THE Subscriber has taken the Planters Water Proof Ware-Heuse, formerly occupied by Mr. Joux Na, Sr., and by strict attention to business he nopeu to merit a liberal share of the patronage ofI the generous public of the upper and Cotton-grow ing Districts. The Ware House is above high water mark, and inore secure from Fire than any other Ware House In Town. I will also attend to receiving and forwarding Goods, &c.,intrusted to my care. C. IH. KENINEY. Hamburg, Sept 1st, 1855. tf 34 DISSOLUTION. rrUHE Co-Partnership heretofore existing between the Undersigned, under the Firm of W.& J. ITIL., is dissolved by mutual consent. The unsettled business of the Firm will be ad justed by WILLIAM HILL, who is duly authorised to use the name of the Finn in liquidation. WAI. HILL, JAMES HILL. Hamburg, S. C., August 31, 1855. .&. =.:EU-. TIE Undersigned will continue the business in all its branches at.the Old Stand, where he would be pleased to have ALL who are indebted to the Firm in anywise, to call and settle without delay. WVIM. HILL. Hamburg, Aug 31, 1855. im 35 HARVLEY & AYS, HAMBURG, S. C. NEW ,AL ROERY 1 NEARLY OPPOSITE THE AMERICAN HOTEL. I THE Subscribers having entered into a Co-Partnership for the tran saction, of a GENERAL GROCERY BUSINESS'1 Solicits the patronage of their friends and the public generally. Having carefully selected a CHOICE STOCK OF GOODS, and at low prices. we are prepared and determined to sell as low as Goods of the same quality can be bought in this or the Au gusta Maiket. Our Stock comprises nearly every article usually kept in similar establishments. We purchased our I Goods for Cash. and can afford to sell at VERY LOW FIGURES. Our Stock eonsis:s in part of SUGARS, COFFEE, N, 0. AND W. I, MOLASSES, MACKEREL, CHEESE, Bacon, Lard, Flour, Candies, Raisins and Nuts, of all descriptions, TOBACCO & SEGARS, riekles, Pepper, Allspice, Blue Stone, Coperas, -ALSO A good assortment of Liquors, Also, a fine lot or Crockery and Glass Ware, Tin and Wooden Ware, &c., &c. JOHN B. IA RVLEY, JOHN A. 1AYS. Tnmburg, Nov.20, . -a -4 DISSOL U TIO N. THE Co-Partnemhip heretofore existing under the Firm of BEWLEY & SMIT1, was di-s RoIved this day by mutual consent. Either of the Partners will use the: name of the Firi in liquida tion. The Notes and Accounts will be kept at the Store of W. C. Br.wrLY, (as occulied by us.) We particularly reqlueast our friends and custo mer to call and settle up their open Accounts either by Cash or Notes. W31. C. ItlBWLFEY, W.M. S. SMITl. Hamburg, Feb 19, 1856. -0 .AL C1 .a. Xt."D e 1 will continuo the busi nts in all . its branches at the old Stand of BEWLEY & SSnITH. and will be pleased to have my friends and old customers call on Ine. I will keep constantly on hand a well selected Stock of Groceries, Wines, Liquors, &c., &c. I will also continue to pay the highest mket prices _r Cotton, Bacon, Lard and other produce. W.\. C. hEW LEY, IIamburg. Feb s, 1850. I TAKE this method of retu~rning my sincere ..thnks to my friends and custorners for their liberal patronage to the Firm of Inewu.Y~ & SMrrn, and solicit a continuance of the same to Mr. # . C. BEWLEY, at whose Store I will be found for some time to come. W31. S. SalITIL Hamburg. Feb 9, 1856. St 5 SIndependent Press will copy 3 times. Groceries, &c. TIIE Undersigned have formed a Cu-partner .3ship in business, under the firm of SI BLEY & UTSHIER, at the olid and well krnown stand of SIBL.EY & SoN, Corner of Mlarket and Centre Streets, llamburg, for the transaction of a general Grocery, Provision & Cotton Business, 'Where we intend to keep constanatly on hand a full supply of Goods, and will sell as L'OW for CASHI .as any other house. Our Stoek consists in j.art of the followinag: Clarified, Crushed, Powdered, St. Croix, Porto Rico and New Orleans SUGA R: New Orleans and West India MOL ASSES; Java and Rio COFFEE ; Irish POTA TOES for planting ; BACON, LARD and BUTTER-l Bagging, Rope and Twine, Shoe anid Sole Leather, Mackerel, Kitts and Uaarrels, Blankets, Negro Cloths, O.,aburgs, Saddles and Bridles, Woodena Ware, Pepper and Spice, Fresh Rice. sack anid Table Salt, Tea of various kinds, jndig~o, Ol Window Ulass, Lamp, Linseed and'raina il Panints, Powder, Rifle and Blastingt, Slaot and Lead, a good assortment or Chairs, Rock Sways, Oflee, Arm and Children's Bedsteads, Sofas, Feathers. Mexican and Peruvian Guano, Eitlewell's Salts,! Lime and Plaster, Iron, Germana and Cast steel $ails, assorted, &c., &c. SIBLEY & USHER. THamburg, Jan 23, 1856. ly 2 Notice. IAM daily receiving my Spring Stock coansisting Lof every article usu:dlly kept in onr line of Bust naeas, which will be sold :at iblessrs* Lamback& Cooper's Cash prices. Anmong my Stock is the Best Assorted Liquors and Wines, Ever ofrered in H~amaburg, whlielh will be sold ac cording to quality and not Brand. S. E. BOWERIS, Aces-r. Jan 30 tf _31 Notice, Notice. NTO Orders wvill receive any attention untless aceompanied with the Cash. . S. E. BOWElRS, AENTs'. Jan 30 tf 3 -FOR SALE, TP HE STORE HOUSE, next lFast of R. H. Sul-! .Liyvan's, 30 feet front and 60l deep, containing three roons below, one above, and a good cellamr. =Also TH~E TAN YARD and Lot adjoining, and con taining about three acres. ONE LOT on the branch adjoining C. L. Refo. IR. T. M1318. VIEWS OF W. C. MORAGNE, ESQ., Ott THE ELECTORAL QUESTION, Continued from last week. TO THE PEOPLE OF EDGEFIELD DISTEICT: The plans above considered will, as I con ceive, weaken the safeguards to property within the State, and must seriously affect the political peace and happinesa of oar i people. . - - |1 But, they will introduce a train of other I positive evils, against which aampatriots and I good citizens, we should sternly struggle. T'hey cannot fail to create within our limits a strong Federal Government party, with t all its evil and corrupting tendencies. This j 6'f itself should be sufficient to deter us from the change. Who would wish to see enact Dd in our State those unnatural scenes of excitement, that wretched system of elec tioneering, that corrupting strife among po litical aspirants-all those shameless, licen tious party scrambles so common in many )f our sister States during a Presidential < anvass ? Can we fail to perceive the ill effects of such scenes upon the tone and -haracter of our people I And what a field will be opened for demagogues and wily oliticians? Where this party exists, how I any prominent men have been led astray y the seductive influences of the powerful government at Washington, or by the tempt. ng offers of gain and promotion held out by the successful party in the great political I atruggles of the country. Is it not, also, a ( motorious fact, that when great issues have i risen, involving the honor, rights and liber- t ,ies of our section, libations have been freely t poured upon the altar of party to the sacri- S ice of the real interests of the country I t If experience is worth anything at all, it ust have taught the American statesman, e hat systematic party organizations, under the C nfluence of a large government patronage, re no schools for either patriotism or intel. e igence. They promote neither truth nor t norals, but are rather hot-beds of political r :orruption, in which the plants of patriotism f mnd knowledge do not and cannot flourish. a ,an we covet this order of things? Could 1, we be willing to see our people lose that b ond attachment to their native soil, that c ioble State-pride, which has so long char cterized them, by transferring their affec- a ions to the " vulgar tyranny" of the Federal b .overninent I by becoming slaves to a peo )le, who delight to abuse and villify them? I, knd who are seeking-by the lowest-means-of'j ti action and fanaticism to dissolve their reli- 11 ious and political union with them? Make I his change so much desired by some, and a hese results will follow as naturally. as the I vaters seek the ocean. t Nor is this all. In making this change, , -on will destroy, in a measure, the moral f ower of the State in the Union, and in the a ederal Congress. Territorily and numeri- f ally small, our only hope of exerting any 1; ontrolling influence in Federal politics rests a pon the moral and intellectual character of , >r people : upon the proud political virtues t hey may bring to bear before the public i ve: upon the fixedness of their political rinciples: upoir the stability of their political I onduct. And can these be secured except ( >y a proper development of our moral and tellectual energies ? by inculcating a strong h levotion to the interests and character ofe he State ? by preserving, so far as practica- i le, a healthful unity of sentiment and of jt etioni in a wvord, by avoiding the bitter miosities, the disgusting strife, the evil nssions roused( by the two great parties of 1 he Union during a Presidential canvass!i Weakened by dissension, demoralized by he corrupting spirit of heated party contests,r io chance would be left to us for influence in he Union except as a small fraction of at reat party within the limits of a little Com-n. nonwealthi. The State would thus bring apon itself all the evils of a corrupt party ,rgan izatijon without any of its benefits: without the offices, the woalth,. the power it I ns at command to distribute among its fa rrites. Look at the picture .as it truly presents tself. Now, we hold a respectable position n this Confederacy. Our public men are eputed to be honest, independent, intelli-t ent. A fair share of the public honors< wait them. Our people still proudly stand np for the. Constitution, and for the rights f the States, untrammelled by the partyI hackles with which most of our sister States are mischievously beset. The fire of patIn tism still burns in their bosoms with a teay, bright flame, throwing its clear rays into the mists of party selfishness, and ] jerving as a sort of beacon light on the, watchower of Federal liberty. But effect this change : msake us fractional portions of the great parties of the Union, and our place in the table of Federal power will become a mere decimal. The moral and intellectual superiority of our public meg, being no longer the index of our trength in the Union, our political impor ance will be (determnined by the quantum I of numerical force we may be able to bring, into the Electoral College. What then will e our future hopes ? A mere handful of voters, with slight prospect of future rapid increase, we should be doomed to a miss rable inferiority, unable *for want of size t arid inmbers, to mnake ourselves respected and felt in the Government, and with the ' in fluence of our public men greatly weakened by the corrupting associations of party strife. T1he distinctive features, wvhich now mark us as South Carolinians waould he gone, and one forever ; and wes would, in future, be Leemed a mere small party hack to serve the great hydra-headed majority of the Union in the dirty work of making Presidents and acquiring Territory. But further. By this change you will set elements at wvork in our State polity that wvill gradually uproot and destroy all our wise! and time-honored institutions. Thbis, I am aware, is much desired by some, whbo un-. derstand little of the true theory and prac tical working of our State Government: To t-em, th cro change brings no annrehen-. ilons of a serious nature. Their watch-word I a, "Change !"-" Change !"-" Change !" hles, this is the talismanic wand by which hey hope to achieve the " sovereign good" of society. But prudence bids us, appeal rom judgments so slightly and so rashly ormed, and to take a few lessons in the ichool of reason and experience. From hese, we may gather a solemn warning It s a prianiple of our nature that " change be retu caage ;" and no propensity with which! we are endued is more than this to be held n restraint. This feeling continually grows: Py what it feeds upon, and is never content, when allowed even the most libertine indul [ence. Like the leech, it perpetually cries, ' give," " give," till drunk to satiety, it be. omes a d evouring element, destroying all he conservatism in a community, and seat ering horror, bloodshed and ruin in every lirection. Look to history. Look to nearly very government, ancient or modern, and ou may trace the ruinous work of this rash nd ruthless spirit. How many grand em ires, how many excellent republics, how! many admirable institutions, how many bril. ant national prospects has it not pulled own, destroyed and forever blighted! How much innocent blood has it not shed? Like ome dreaded Gorgon, it has stalked forth ver the nations of the world, poisoning the tream of public sentiment, converting the earts of men into stone, and spreading ruin nd havoc in its bloody train. And in this ur own country it has already made fearful avages. Look at its progress here! After otfr Revolution there arose in these Jnited States a system of RrPUCLtes the icellence of which has never been surpassed a the history of the world. Beautiful in heory, admirable in practice, they seemed D combine all the desired virtues within the cope of human govornment. They served; D restrain the many, and to protect the few. [hey'kept down vice and corruption : they levated virtue and intelligence. They se ured liberty and happiness to all. They roduced a race of statesmen of which the uperiors were never before seen. In a word, iey commanded the admiration of states ien and philosophers, and drew eulogiums rom whole nations. Mankind, seeking for ges, after a perfect scheme of government, yoked to these as the bright Eutopia, which ad so long been the subject of the patriot's ream. Yet in less than four-score years, how: rious the changes in most of these admira le Republics! -How sadly have they do arted from their former purity and excel nee! Some have changed and changed llthey aMf now little betterthan the shack' ng democracies of old Greece and Rome. Vhere once order and virtue, intelligence nd patriotism reigned supreme, the turbu nt spirit of a heartless majority controls e affairs of State. The great principle of icarious power, so wisely recognised in all ree governments of modern times, has, in measure, been laid aside to give place to a armless, irresponsible exercise of the popu ir will: while third and fourth-rate talent nd attainments, adorned by no remarkable irtues, are, in some places, more in demand' ian the best intellects of the country. This no fancy sketch. Look around over this road land. Look to New York-the great mpire State of the Union. Her original onstitution, pronounced by ALEXANDER IAxiLToN to be one of the best in the world, as already undergone its third radical hange, scarcely enough of the original be ig left, to mark its identity. Thue old two iird rule-so common in all good govern ients, and so necessary to the preservation if the fundamental law of the State-has een discarded, and a bare majority may lw alter the most solemn parts of the Con titution. The whole clog-work of govern sent is effectually thrown back upon the ople, who.gin addition to their offices under he Federal Government, niow elect all their tate officers-Governor, Judges, Secretary if State, Attorney General, Comptroller, ['reasurer, Canal Commissioners and all. nd what have been, the practical resultsi las tihe libertyjof the citizen been increased t 4: diminished rather. A wild spirit of bocracy has seized upon the people there. ative Americanism, Fourierism, Socialism, Ibolitionism, Hunkerism, and all the sense-; ess iams of the day, wieldinig for the time he most despotic power, have been engen lered there with the most astonishing facili y. All over the North, secret societies and ormiess conventions control the most im ortant affairs of State ; and confusion and snarchy reign in all their councils. To some degree this infections spirit thas' ixtended South--affecting, more or less, the olitisal institutions of Virginia, Georgia, etucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. And vere it will ultimately carry these States he wisest heads cannot foresee, unless his ry shall be a guide to their judgments. Shall we, too, embark our little vessel of tate upon this broad sea of innovation? i an we expect to avoid the shoals and reakers upon which others have been wvreck d, and are fast ruining themselvesi It wore nadness to indulge such a hope. TIhe change roposed, if carried into effect, wvould soon ring its hundred other changes. Party as endency would give tone and tolor to all ur Legislative enactments; and eaqh rival arty would come into power only to undo nd overthrow the work of its adversary, and o appropriate to itself the spoils of the con uest. Whigs would, in turn, displace Demi rate, andi Democrats, Whigs; and every arrier to party success, though .at present leeply planted in the Constitution of the state, wvould be thrown aside with a ruth ess hand. Toe reap the full harvest of party :onquests our people would be annoyed by h election of all our State officers; the iresnt just distribution of power in the sate, and our system of representation, the risest known to any government, wvould be lstroyed before two Presidential campaigns hall have closed upon us. Even .now these various projects of reform iave bold advocates among men of imnpor ance in our Stat'e,Iboth in and out of the begislature. ;Stamjp speeches and newvs aper articles have been manufactured to )omotC them, nnrd in. some of the Districts, if I have been corre4tly informed, they were made questions of dqbate at the last general elections. Nor are these new-light reform era content with the one change they now ask for. No! Reform! radical reform is the war-cry of the arty. While some seek to cover their ultimate designs by the arts of a staid diplomacy, others rashly proclaim, that one Main object in urging a change in the electitn of Electors, is to ef feet a thorough a ration of our State polity ; and they ut ie so to interweave these measures as to use')vhatever of prejudice may exist against the one* to aid in the ae complishment of the'other. Thus a menac ing crusade is prea'ed against the Parishes, and the present sydtem of representation in the State. I purpose briefly 1,to consider this wild and foolish enterprse in its bearings upon the electoral question. Why should this outcry be made against the Parishes 1 What have they done, oi what can they do, to warrant it? Can t&e Parish interest cause us any possible danger? What is that in terest I Is it not a lave inter'est I Is it not a cotton and a grai' interest I It is these and nothing more. And are not these the identical ioterests of all the middle and up per Districts I What legislative influence, therefore, exerted by the Parishes consistent with their best and only interests, can, by any possibility, injuriously affect our welfare I Is it reasonable to: suppose that men will legislate against all they have and hold dear in life ? So far fomi apprehending danger the slave and planting interests of the State have, in the influence of the Parishes, a strong guarantee oCsaf ety. The members from that section .epresent a considerable portion of the great: planting interest of the state, and are usually intelligent, high-mind ed and conservativei. But more than this: their geographical position throws them into a perpetual minority; and hence it is a strugg:e of life and death with them to sus tain, in its utmost integrity, the Constitu tion bfL the State. What better elements of representation could we desire I We are chiefly a slaveholding and an agricultural people, and who is more fit to legislate for the country than the intelligent, high minded planter, who, be it spoken to his honor, is nearly always soundly conserva tive in his political creed? Constituting chiefly the bone and sinew of the land, this class has, at the same time, afforded much of the lofty spirit which has made for us an honorable name in tisconfederacy. Why, then, should we seekto check or to suppress its influence I : - - - - . It is urged, however, that the Parish rep resentation should he diminished to establish a proper balance of power between the up and the low countay: in other words, to give the up country its full voice in the State government, of which it has been deprived by the existence of the Parishes. This argu ment is altogether fallacious. By the pres ent order of things that very balance is now admirably preserved, while the effect of the change would be to destroy. it, and to give undue preponderance to one section over the other. It might, indeed, in the lapse of time, render insignificant the voice of the Parish Districts in our State Legislature; for, as before stated, in some of these Dis tricts, geographical difficuities exist against anything like a rapid increase of white popu lation. Thus a minority section in the State, would be mado wholly subject to the will of a majority section-another name only for slavery-while the federal vote of the Pa rishes would searcely be worth counting. Never, fellow citizens, was there less cause for a change than in this matter; for the Districts have now, in our Legislature, thme superior numerical strength, and this superiority is gradually increasing by the more rapid increase of white population in the-up-country.* Thus at the adoption of our Constitution in 1790, the aggregate representation of the Parishes for the House was 70-that of the Districts 54; while now that of the Parishes is only 45-that of the Districts 79 :-mnak ing a decrease of more than 30 per cent. in thme Parishes, and an increase of more than 40 per cent. in the Districts. The Districts have thus in the way of Legislative power all they can wish, consistent with a true spirit of liberty. They should, in truth, be thankful that their powvers are net more compirehensive, lest they might be led into the dangerous temptation of using powver arbitrarily anid improperly. While by the compromise of 1806, it was designed that the- Parishes should have a majority in the Senate, .and the Districts in the House of Representatives, the Districts have tiow in the House a majority of 34, and in the Sen ate, counting the new Senator from Pickens, a majority of 4: thus making for the Dis tricts on joint-ballot a decided preponder ance, and enabling them, if they will, to con trol the entire legislation of the State, to their hreart's content, except ini matters re lative to the fundamental law. They have power to elect all the general officers, to ad vance all the various interests, and to de velopo all the resources, of the State, so far as this can be done by legislative enactment, without even the aid of the Parishes The Parishes, in truth, have a mere negative or veto power. T1hey cannot of themselves make laws, or elect officers. They have no positive power to do mischief; they can only prevent it. And their practice is con sistent wvith the theory of their power. While voting, with judicious liberality, the public funds, to the raising of wvhich they contribute largely, for improvements in other parts of the State, they very seldom ask any for themselves. Out of Charleston, where is any appropriation, worthy of notice, ap plied in the Parishesi How many of the general officers of the State are taken from that sectioni Almost none. Trhe other * Nor.-The amended Constitution of 1808, se cures each of the Parishes, under any contingeney, one IRepresentative. This, therefore, was evidently intended as a final adjustment of tho distribution of political power between the two great divisions of the State. Not, however, that thme power or the up-country should not be increased, but that the liepresenitationm in the low-country, should not be . ..d-,n bk-oen a crain igrure. Districts take them all, and receive nearly all the public funds appr-opriated by the Legislature. I repeat: the Districts have now, if united, all the ordinary legislative power of the State. .What more should the patriot and statesman desire I What more could they reasonably expect I Why, then, this perpetual longing to break in upon the sanctuary of the Constitution! to ,uproot the foundation of some of our'wisest instite. tions? and to .drive frpm as those who are our natural friedsls and allies ;*men bound to us by the strongest ties of a community of political and property interests I What good can arise from this severance! or from these inroads upon the Constitution I Whore, in history, will we dnd a government that has worked better than ours I Where one, which has more fully secured the peace and happiness, rights and liberties, the honor and dignity of its citizens I W. C. MORAGNE. 6Qiiut ptdg. Written for the Advertiser. A CHILD AT PRAYEB. BY CAD COLWIN. There's much on earth that's lovely; But beautiful to me, is a gentle child of innocence On its little bonded knee, Lifting its trusting eyes to heaven, Clasping its hands in prayer, Thanking its Savior God for all His kind and gracious care. How holy is that countenance, So trustful and so bright, Lighted by heart that ne'er has known Dark sin's destroying blight As while it deems-this eartli may be All beautiful and fair, It seeks a Heavenly Father's love In simple, earnest prsyer; As it thanks the Glorious Giver For the birdsong and the flower, The golden clouds of sunset, The streamlet and the shower, And asks His blessing yet to gild All beauteous things of earth, Which, by His love and goodness, Were ushered into birth. If to gaze upon the beauty Of that sweet and guiltless brow, E'en angels to this simple world, Their starry wings may bow; And the Saviour loves so graciously The little one to bless; 0 say-what siht on earth can be More beautiful than this! . BOYCE. THE following truthful forebodinga fell from the lips of this distinguished young statesman in a recent congressional debate: Now, why do I think that this party at the North will succeed 1 Because it recommends itself to the great sentiment of the North-the sentiment of anti-slavery-and because, too, it recommends itself to that love of power which no people can resist. What people have ever declined to receive power when it was offered to them 1 This great sectional party at the North goes upon the idea that, by uniting together at the North, they can obtain the control of this Government, and dispense its vast patronage amongst themselves, and reduce the people of the South to a secondary and subordinate uo dition. That is their great idea. Well, what peo'ple, I would ask, have ever had the greatness to decline power when offered to them ? There is but onesman who stands out on the canvass of history illuminated with the glory of having had the magnanimity to decline power. There he is, (pointing to the portrait of Washington;] but no people in ancient or modern times have hod the magnanimity to decline power. The people of the North cannot decline i'. That party, therefore, which places itself upon the position of giving power to the North, ,will eventually succeed; and when that party does succeed, in my opinion, the Union will be at an end. I say it in no spirit of threat at all. I am merely explammig my position. I think that this sec tional and slavery psrty.will succeed at the North and, therefore, that revolution will be inevitable. But I do not desire it; far from it. All we ask of you at the North is, to administer the Con. stitution according to the spirit in which your fathers adopted it: the spirit of concession, com promise, and concord ; to administer the Govern. ment in the spirit in which it was administered for the first quarter of a century ; and then yeu will find the people of the South loyal to the Union, and no one more so than myself. What a glorious epectacle it would be if such a state of things could exist; instead of this, the ma.. ter branch of the Government, being paralyzed and disorganized, it would be in action, giving vitality to the workings of our Government; and the hearts .of our twenty-five millions of people would best in harmoenious unison I Why do we hear of treaties abrogated. of threats of sending naval armaments to hover upon our coasts ? Why do the masts of. hostile ships, perhaps at this very moment, cast their malig nant shadows over our ser I Besause our country is torn to pieces, dir ,rdant, distracted by the war one portion of the Confederacy have declared awainst the institutions of the other portion. r have the most meiancholy forebo ding. as to the ultimate consequences growing out of this sectional crusade. But, oh ! that it may be otherwise ! HORSE-RACING iN EGYPT.--A letter from Al exandria of the 23d December, says: An inter eting race was run last week at Caire, between an English mare and an Arab horse belonging to Haleem Pasha, when the former thoroughly beat the latter. The length ot the race was eight miles; the time occupied by the mare eighteen and one-half minutes, over a rough, gravelly and sandy road. The same race has been offered for the last two years against all England, for 10,000 sovereigns, with the same horse, and not accepted. The Egyptian Prin es are now convinced that their Arabs can be beaten by English horse~s. The late vicery, A bbas Pasha, had offered to stake any amount up to $150,000 on his own horses, against any others that might be brought to run. " A LOVE PoWDER" YENDER ARausTD.-.Dr. Velpleau, the man who sells love powders, was rearrested in New York on Wednesday by or der of Mayor Wood, because he had broke his promise, made to the executive, to discontinue his loving business, lie is said to receive 50 letters a day, which, at $2 each, makes 8100 per diem recivd by him for love nowders. PRnrAXArm 3B THE PRU EIIn Whereas, indications exist that publirtrki quility and the supremacy of law in the-Te ritory of Kansu are endangered by the repri hensible acts or purposes of persons both withi and without the same, who propose to dire and control its political organization by force It appearing that combinations have been forme therein to resist the execution of the territorij laws, and thus, in effect, subvert -by violence a predent constitutional and legal authority: I also appearing that persons residing Without th territbry, but near ita borders, contempi ate am ed inteftvntion in the affairs thereof- It ala appearing that other persons, inhabitants of n mote States, are collecting money, engagin men, and providing arms for the same purpose And it further appearing that combinations wit iP the Territory are endeavoring, by the agene of emissaries and otherwise, to induce individt al States of the Union to intervene in the affair thereof, in violation of the Constitution of th United States: And whereas all such plans for the determi nation of the future institutions of the Territc ry, if carried into action within the sam will constitute the fact of insurrection, and i from without, that of invasive aggression, an will, in either case, justify and require the forei ble interposition of the whole power of th general government, as well to maintain the law of the Territory as those of the Union: Now, therefore, I, Franklin Pierce, Presider of the United States, do issue this my procd mation to command all.persons engaged in ur lawful combinations against the constituted at thority of the Territory of Kansas or of th United States, to disperse and retire peaceabl to their respective abodes, and to warn all sue persons that any attempted insurrection in sai Territory or aggressive intrusion into the sam will be resisted not only by the employment c the local militia, but also by that of any avails ble forces of the United States; to the end a assuring immunity from violence and full pre tection to the persons, property, and civil right of all peaceful and law.abiding inhabitants a the Territory. If in any part of the Union, the fury of fac tion or fanaticism, inflamed into disregard a the great principles of popular sovereignty which, under the constitution, are fundament in the whole structure of our institutions, is t, bring on the country the dire calamity of a arbitrement of arms in that Territory, it shal be between lawless violence on the one side, an conservative force on the other, wielded by le gal authority of the general government. I call on the citizens, both of adjoining an of distant States,to abstain from unauthorized in termeddling with the local concerns of the Terr tory, admonishing them that its organic law i to be executed with impartial justice; that a) individual acts of illegal interference will ine condign punishment; and that any endeavor t intervene by organized force will be firm] withstood. I invoke all good citizefis to promote orde by rendering obedience to the law; to see remedy. etamporary dIas-y peacefplpeans to discountenance and repulse the counsels an the instigations of agitators and of disorganizers and to testify their attachment to their countr; their pride in its greatness, their appreciation < the blessings they enjoy, and their determinatin that republican institptions shall not fail in the hands, by co-operating to uphold the majest of the laws and to vindicate the sanctity of ti laws and of the constitution. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto s( my hand, and caused the seal of the Unite States to be affixed to these presents. Done at the city of Wasington, the eleventh d of February, in the year of our Lord or thousand eight hundred and fifty.six, and i the independence of the United States, tI eightieth. FRANKLIs 'IERCE. By the President. W. L MARCr, Secretary of State. A MoNsTEa CR1MINAL.-The English pape record the arrest or a -man named Evans, on charge of having poisoned his wife, his brothe his friend, and thirteen other persons. His wif before marriage, was a ward in Chancery, ar entitled to'a large fortune. Her guardian resa lutely opposed the match, and the Mas:eri Chancery also withheld his consent for san: time. Both finally fielded to the entreaties < the young lady, and yet it is believed that she wi subsequently murdered by her infamous hui band. He was a finished gambler, and a mast< spirit of the turf, and his friend, Mr. John I Cook, gave him his fullest confidence, and ye suffered the same awful fate. In the case< his brother, Mr. Walter Palmer, insuranc'es a his life were effected to the extent of ?23,461 and then he also, as is believed, was poisone' Nay, it is stated that the nimes of no fewer tha sixteen persons are mentioned as having suffere death by poison through the agency of the prisi nr. TaAzsrosrTnoN or FIGUREs.-The Figui Nine-The numeral nine has a certain peculi: property, a kntowledge of which will be of ini portance to accountants and cash-keepers. It: this: When an error has arisen from any trani position of figures, the difference between suc transposed number of figures is uniformly multiple of the numeral nine. For instanei suppose an error occurred in binging out a tin. balance or cash settlement of the amount in quel tion, or that the sum short or over can be div ded by nine, without any remainder, there is strong probability that the mistake has bee made by transposing figures; at any rate, if suc mistake takes place by reason of transpositioi the sum in question will divide by nine withoi any remainder. To illustrate this further: 97 has been put down '79, the error will be 1. or twice 9 exactly ; if 32:3 be set down 223, til error will be 99, or eleven times 9, and so a between any transposed numbers. This clai of errors is very common.-Boston Cour. GEN. ATCHIsoN is KAnsAs.-Gen. Atchisoi with a company of two hundred of his neigi bors, have made their arrangements to remoy to this Territory early in the spring. He wi locate in the neighborhood of Atchison, ,whei himself and friends will meet with *i dordi; welcome from the squatters in this section < the Territory. It is the intention of Gener: Atchison to engage in. f~nning, and for that p pose he will britng with hi a.number of slavel Many of his companions, who will accompar Ihim, are capitalists and large slaveholders, an their settlement in this section of the Tcri-itoi is a consummation devoutly to be wished for. Squatter Sovereign. Fo KAssA.-Capt. Eugene B. Bell, of Gra iteville, announces that he is organizing a compi ny to proceed to Kansas, about the last of Marec and makes an appeal to his native State for ai and we hope his appeal may not be made in vail We are personally acquainted with Capt. Bel and know him to be a man of stern integrit: Tally competent to carry out with success tI important trust. All the Southern States seem tt6 be alive i the importance of settling Kansas with Sootl ern men, allied to the peculiar interest of ti South ; and South Carolina should do her pa toarda sendingr her young men to thiatTerrit y.-Leinginn Telegapnh. A GuspowDia- Piso--..At a* WgOn-e&Iyi l Evening meeting at Henry. Ward Beeeher's r church, Brooklyn, last week, the subjet of Kan-. n Se got ahead of all others. - Mr. Beecherad n dressed his hea-ers in the followig'Christrah. -t like rhanner: " He believed'that the Sharp ride was truly a d moral agency, and that ther., was -mo emtl 1- power in orie of these instruments, so.far .the I slaveholders of Kansas were concerned, a ni I a hundred Bibles.-' You riiightjirst as we, said 13 he, read the Bible to'buffalos as to those fellows . who follow Atohison and Striogfellow; but4hey D have a supreme respect for the logjiethat is oep'l . bodied in Sharp's rifles. The Bible is address a. ed to the conscience; but when *on idtfrese it' to them it has no effet-there is'no conscience there. Though he was a peace man, he had the' y greatest regard for Sharp's rifles, and for that pluck that induced those New England men to" e use them." a The above, (says the New York Day Book,) would be humiliatinty, were it the first evidence that Mr. Beecher ha3 given of his totai want of all the requisites of a Christian minister. How , the public can be deluded. by such a clerical' f mountebank, who uses religion merely as the i means of livelihood, is more that we can under stand. Christ relied on the Gospel as a means e of doing good. Mr. Beecher would accomplish' s his mission with " Sharp's rifles." What are we coming to 1 KAxsAs EIGsATiox.-A company has been' formed in the city of New York, composed of .fifty.five families, and numbering in all about two hundred persons, who will emigrate to F Kansas the coming spring. They have a sub scribed capital of $29,500. A site has already been selected-a place on the bank of the Neoslia river near the southern boundary of Kansas, f where the climate is warm, like that of .Virginia. Their plan of settlement is briefly as follows: Four square miles are occupied. In the centre, a plot of land is laid out in the form of an octa gon, which takes in two or three hundred acres. Roads radiate from the centre in such a manner that the whole piece is conveniently cut up into sixteen fprms, adjoining and terminating'at one end of the octagon. - The sixteen, farm houses are placed around this plot, each one upon a scpP arate farm, and yet near together. FROZEN To DEATH.-We 'have never beard says the Madison (Wis.) Democrat, of so many cases of freezing to death, as those of recent occurrence: Last week, the driver and two passengers in the stage arriving at Fox Lake, were found dead as it drove up to the door, and two Indians were shortly afterwards found near the village frozen to death. We now find the following in 4he Sp:rta Watchman: FIvE MEN FRoZEN To DEATmIL-We learn that five men were frozen to denth about fosir weeks ago in the southern part of. Minnesota. I They were in an open sleigh coming from St. Paul.. The horses went up to a tavgr.n.son the *'e paivled-sdathepudi.astltsi d found the five men frozen. stiff. Their nanies Sare not known.. of C1RIOSITIES OF.WATER.-Water exists around , ; us to 'an extent and under conditions which ir I escape the notice of cursory observers. Whenm Y i the dyer buys of the dry salter one hundrel e pounds each of :tlm. carbonate of soda, and I soap, he obtains in exchange for his money no t i less than fortv-five pounds of water in the first d I ht. sixty-li'nr pounds in the -econd, and a varia i ble quantitY, so.mctimnes aiounting to seventy. y three and a half pounds in the third. Even the e - transparent air we breathe contains, in ordinarv weather, abont five grains of water difisiied e through each etnbie ruot of its bulk, and this rarified water no imre were the air than the solidified water wets the lima or opal in which it is absorbed. Of a plaster of l'aris statue weigvhinc five pounds. inore than one good ponmd i% solidilied water. Even the preeions opal is a bit a mass of flint and water, combined in the rproportion of nine grains of the earthly ingre' ~dient to one of the fhild. Of an acre of clay~ dlaind a foot deep, weighing :about one hundral thousand tons, at least four hundred tons are "water ; and even of the great mountain chains ewith which the globe is ribbed, mnny mijlliuns ifof tons are water soliditied inito earth. A WoaD To ITTL.E Gars.-Who is lovelyi It is the girl who drops sweet words, kind re marks and pleasant smiles as she passes along; wvho hais a~kind word for every boy or girl she meets in trouble, and a kind hsnd to help her companions out of difilty; she' never scolds, 'never contends, niever teases* her mother, nor 'seeks in any way to dimiidsh, but always to n increase her happiness. Would . it not please yo -to pick up a string of pearls, drops of gold. diamonds, or precious stones, as you pass along the street ? Butt these are precious stones that ecan never be lost. Extend a friendly hand to r the friendless. Smile on the sad andi dejected. ISympathize with those in trouble. Strive overy Swhere to difi'use around you su,shine and joy. s If you do this, yeu will be sure to be beloved, a Masoa TuOMns HIA aisos, who died in Boston , on Monday, the 28th of .January, (says the B3o' i ton Transcript,) wais one of the braivest of the . oficeers of the second war with Great Britain. i. In the charge at Chippewn, where lie lost his leg, a out of his full company of 96 meni only fifteen .were left staniding after the shock. Harrison re h fused to be carried to the rear, but urged Iis i. men, who loved him a~s a father, to go forward it and do their duty. Taking out his handkerchief [f be tied it round his wounded limb,::nd making I a torniquet by the help of his sword-grip, staunch. e ed the hemorrhnge from the flow of the severed n artery. He inever lost his senses for a mtomnt. a Gen.'Scott riding across the field saw him ini this condition. " Harrison," said he, with great feel ing, " I am sorry to see you in this plight, and L would stay by you if my duty did not call me .elsewhere." Thte next day Capt. H., the was af e terwards breveted Major for his gallantry.) sub Imitted to amputationi with the utmost fortitude. A tradesman meeting a customer one day told him that his bill had been staindinga long time, and that he would like for him to eall and- settle it. L"When my bill gets tired of standing, let it sit down," was the cool reply. y A city editor, who is a bachelor,iivng said in . his last'issue that he really wished that he had a son so that lie could dress him up-in fashion, was called upon next day by h's adorable, to Swhom lie had been paying his attentions for .hlattwo years, and asked i' he really said ," Certainly I did, my dear." " Well, Billy," said she, -'why don't you make arrangements for one ?" Our friend says it was the first time he was eever cornered. He felt so mortified that he went right away to the parson. - g|" RF.NxwNG HIS YOU'rn.-The Memphis Es e gle and Enquirer sayu there is now lving in Hardeman rt county a ma aged 98 ysars who hs-only recently -cut eight neaw tietAh! Such is hi. vigor that he can wal.1k . raile w.ith the aas nf a onn man.