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'__ ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR, - EDGEFIELD,5. C. WEpNESDAY, JANUARYT, 1857. OUR AGENT. T. J. WHrr-raKR i4 our authorised Agent to re eeive subscriptions and collect all monies due this office. 1 The Cash System adopted. A'ter the first or January we will adopt the Cash system :nd intend strictly to adhere to it in each and every instance. It iv certainly the best sy.stem for all, espeeially newspaper publishers, :nl as our bills are generally small it will be no inconvenience to any one to pay up in advance. To Adverthers. All advertitem-n.ts, to secure publicity throuah our columns, must lte paid for when handed in. Those who live at a distance wishing to advertise, can enclose the amnount for which they desire to ad tertise. Those .adiertising by contract, by the year, will be expected to .settle up quarterly. Liberal Prposition. We will furnish the 'Advertiser and Co'unia Examiner, one year,'for $4.25, payable in advance. The Exaniner is a large and excellent literary pa per, published weekly, at $3 per annum. We will furnish the Advertiser and Southern Light one year for $3,50, payab e in advance. The Light is a wyell conducted monthly Journal, devoted to religious and literary reading, and pub lished in this Village at $2,00. Those wishing to encourage Southern enterpri-e and obtain good and cheap publications, would do well to take up our proposition. IX Any one sendingus five new subscribers to the Advertiser, with the cash for the same, will be entitled to the sixthrcopy gratis. A HAPPY NEW YEAR. To our readers, male and female, bright and dull, pretty and ugly, we sind greeting. A happy new year, and many more return4 of the same! In the - exuberance of his spirits the other day, a good fel low at a oertain dinner-tablelemarked to his host "May you. never be a day older !" Suggestive as the observation was of apoplexy, or of dagger points, or of bullet-holes, It was yet meant well and was a. received. In the same elum~y vein of good humor, we say to our dear readers-(who does not love his readers ?)-May you never have another dollar-to bother you !-may you never kave another wife-to tease you 1 May you never find another husband-to fret you! May you never have an other hog-killing-to grease yon! May you never have another paper (except the Advertiser) -to vex your opties! lay you never have another flower -to grieve you by its early fading! May you never have another hope-to be crushed in its fullest blooming OUR JANUARY SALE-DAY. A large crowd of the solid men of Edgefield were in attendance at our Court liouse'on Monday last A more bisy, earnest, stirring throng has seldom been seein upon our public square. Of course money, money, money was the great motive power of the occasion. A nd we are glad to learn that it flew about briskly from hand to hand. Every one who could pay %as willing and anxious to do so: and those who could not evinced unmistakeable in tentions to pay as soon as they possibly could. It was a considerable day with our merchants, our lawyers, our tradesmen, our Court oflieia's ad our r hotel-keprs. It was no bad time either for our s'hirpers and, note-shaveis. Their eyes glistened with occasional chancs at fifteen per cent loans ... . . s L ,..... - ... 1.. a a -,i n at i 1is is a great deal of money afloat amsong. our people; and if no false alarm is gotten up, if no panic is manufactured by our money-dealers kand bank age-nts for purposes of greedy gahi, debts will be rapidly cancelled, credit will remain unsaken and prosperity will mark the good year into which wve have just launched. Return-lay for Mlarch will tell who are disposed to install this desirable condi tion of things, and who to grind u'ilucasy debtors into the dust of embarrassment. Let us all remnem ber the golden rule of forbearance, and s.trive to do unto others as we would they should-do unto us. SPARTANBURG FEMALE COLLEGE. Some fair young friend sends usia copy of the * Catalogue of this institution for 1856. Thte total number of students ijs attendance during the year was one hundred and seventeen. Amtong them there are names from Greenville, CI.ester, Laurens, Charleston, Newberry, Fairfield, Edgefield, Rich land, Anderson, Colletoin, Union and Orangeburg, besides ajarge number from Spartanburg and a few from North Carolina. This co:lege was established by thte joint contributions of the citizens of the town of Spartanburg, and by the South Carolina aletho . dist Conference. Much ptride is enlisted in its be half, n'nd a watchful supervision exercised towairds by both the community and the denominatiotminter ested in its success. The location of the college 'buildings is de,:ared to be entirely healthful, atnd the buildings themselves large and commodious. This is the iustitution of which J. WoFvoaD TUcKERi, Esq., is thte President. ,OUR EXCHANGES. The Newberry Mirror has undergone a change of editors, M1r. J. S. R EID having retired and Mr. J. C. McLExoaE has ing succeeded him. The Independent Prtss, of Abbeville-,has been much enlarged and improved. . The Columbiam Times also has a -newv editor in Mir. BOWMA, late of the Orangeburg Southron Mr. B. has botht experience and ability, antd we con -gratulate the Times upon his induction to its chair editorial. STABLE MANAGEMENT OF HORSES. To a man who has fine horses and wants to keep them so, the subjoined hints arc nvaluable: It is one thing to know htow to use a horse, but it is antother thing to know how to take care of. him. A stabled horse needs special care atnd at tention. His feeding must be as regular, as the measuremnent of the hours. When a change of feed is made, it must be dlone with great care, giving a small allowjnce at first, until the stomach becomes use-d to thec hange. He must be cleaned every day; and when we say cleaned, we mean all that can be conveyed by thtat word. A good cur ry-comb, brush, and an oiled woolen cloth, are the utensils necessary. First take the curry-comb, and begin at the top. of the neck, back of the ears, working the hand both ways. Proceed in this way, till you have gone over the entire body and legs. Then take botht comb and brush, and follow the comb with the brush, and after every other stroke, draw the brush across the teeth of the comb, to clean it. An experienced groom will do this instantaneously. This done, take your clotht and lay the coat, and remove the dust, which ad . heres to the outside. The face and ears nmust also feel the brush. Few men know how to clean a horse properly. If the above directions are followed, daily, yotur horses will enjoy good health, generally. Stabled horses must be exercised daily. This is absolute ly essential to good health. If the feet of your I horse'are brittle, and are liable to break and crack, they must be oiled, once a week. A horse thus treated, will always be ready to go when wanted. and you will not be ashamed either to ride, or drive himt. Another thing quite as important, is a clean and wvell ventistad stable. We cannot excuse any iarmer, or horse owner, who does not clean his stables twice a day. A stable should be so con atructled, as to have a wide passage-way or floor in front, to feed from. Above the manger a space shwdd be lell, a foot or two in width, clear, and the passage-way shougld he thte avenue for the stip ply of fresh air to the nostrils of the horse. - I A horse enjoys a good bed, and it should never be refused him. At night, take your fork and make it up light, and you will feel amply reward ed for the humane treatment you have given your beast. Every word of it the truth. We would not only have better horses, but we really would be better umntf we attended to such lnstanctin a these or think of the Horse! is he not among the no lest of animals 1 and is 'it right to treat hint other ise than carefully and generously I FALSEHOODS AND ABSURDITIES. Nothing can appear, more ridiculous to Ameri an eye.-, th:n the occasional comments of Euro tean reviewers upon American morals and A meri an politics. They evince an ignorance of cis-atlantic natters, so profound as to blunt our indignation iv its sheer canicality. No monstrosity is too nonstrous for these sapien' scribblers to recognee is credible in connection with our country and our nstitutions. Any hoax can be crammed down :heir throats by a comionly saga:ious wag, and [forace Greeley's most flagitious wanderings are xecepted as' holy writ' for all purposes of argu luentation. We have before us the December number of the - Dublin University MJagazine," which contains :tn article of this chimerical cast, entitle.1 " SLA VERY." It purpors to be a review of Mrs. STOWE'S last anti-slavery novel, and is made the miedium of a wild and high-flown attack upon Anrican depravity in general and Southern tur pittide in especial. The United States Govern ment is spoken or as an Anti-Christ, awaiting but the flat of Hcavt n to be swept into the vortex of revolution and destruction. It is comparLd to that of Ronie in the days that immediately prccaed the fall of the Empire. Then, says the reviewer, it was a conflict between slavery and Christianity that wrought the grand finale of Psoman power Now, it is a war betwe i slavery and -the Churel that is to scatter the feathers of the Americal eagle to the four corners of the globe. Slave holders in America are set down as a limited nun ber of overbearing aristocrats, very nabobs, wlhc by the force or their wealth and pride control th government and shape its operations to their owT nefarious ends. They are supposed to be at wai with truth, virtue, honor, mercy and love, and ar4 placed in a particularly hostile attitude tonard the Christian church. But the day of their doon is said to be near, mad an evident chuckle is dis cernible in the st% le of this monarchist reviewe: whi:e he predicts and depicts the subversion o every thing American. No doubt, great joy would sparkle along the crown jewels of Europe at sue an event; and their pliant tools find profit as we] as pleasure in pandering to their anti-America hopes after the manner of the stupid article befor us. Let them delude themselves as they list. Le king or subject, emperor or parasite, hope an prophesy as pleaseth the fancy or folly of eacli Our fate is not in the keeping of fools; nor canal the powers of earth and hell shake the foundation of our government, if wisdom and patriotism shal now prevail in our councils. It is just such rabi comments upon American affairs, as this l)ublii rvyiewer delightedli put% forth, that should cor strain th'e great American people to eschew thei follies and come shoulder to shoulder in the gran common cause of American LIberty. The help c Providence has been signally with us from the in cipiency of our government to its present fulne. of wealth and power; and it will reanain with 1 and cherish us into a ten-f.ltd greatness if we at but true to ourselves, to our Constitution and t the memory of our revolutionary sires. We cannot deny ourself the pleasure of layin before our readers an extract or two from the art ele in question. In regard to the present cond tion of things amppgst us, mark the following: A t present, indeed. we see no break in the cloud: The pro-slavery party seem every where triumphaa As we write, the Presidential election has bee carried in their favour, in defiance of all compac shamefully violated. I iiiie"CdoImit SSIN every dlisrrict to watch over and protect slaver'y the ballot box, the crown-jewel of a sovereigtn pe pie, as an American senator has finely describedi has been plundered. Preachers who (dared to b true to God have been ridden on a rail, tarred, tie to a log, and thrown into the Missouri. A reig of terror has set in, unequalled since the Frenei Revolution. A senattor who had the courage t raise his voice against these: things in the Senat of the United States is brutally struck down, at, left stunned and bleeding on the floor of one< the greatest deliberative assetmblies in the world nor was the act'The act of a single bully. As th; Spartan mother thanked her God that Sparta ha< many more such sons, so Carolina subscribes I show there are many more Brookes'. A silve cane, bearing the inscription "Hlit him again,";i the elegant trophy of a slave state to its pugilisti hero. The Tipton Slasher, or the Brumamaget Pet would rise, no doubt, to the honours of Con gress, and sit belted among the Conscrip~t Father of America, could they be indluced to emigrate. Was there ever a more egregious little chapte of unmiitigated b!unders and falsehoods? Iti only- exceeded by thte stutpidity of the writer'~s at tempts at argtmecnt, a brief (butt fair) sample which we can barely lind space for. lie is discus sing the chances of killintg out slavery by findizt; for Manchester other cotton markets in India an Africa, which arc to undersell nigger labor an play the (deuce imimediately with slavery-. Anm this is his profound dedue',ion: But this monopoly of slave cotton in the Man chester market depends upon a slight differencc ii price. Tihe price of a full-grown slave at work ii the cotton fldbs avernges 800) dollars, atnd his namin tenlanCe for onte year averages at least llfty doallars The ptrotit he yields his owner is calculatedl at no more than one cent ont the pound of cotton as it i landed in Englatnd. To chapcn cotton onc cena per pound in Mantchester woutld abolish slavery an evil which neither religion nor reason, Unick 'omn nor "the undergrottnd railway," Americat abolitionists nor English philanthropists have bteet able in the least to check. The long-eared ass! ie has no conception that cotton has fluctuated from 8 to 15 cents a potnda throughout its whole history, and yet slavery- still flourishes in healthful vigor, ie seem not to dreatm that the profits of slave labor in the articles o1 cotton is regulated lat-gely by the ameunt mate pcr laund, o that this amnonut can vary from a cer tain fixed antd unincreaseable qumantity. le takes it for granted too that -the produce of Anmericatn slave-labor can b~e easily knocked out of the mar kets of the world by the competition of Indians~ and Africans; and this too with the fact staring him in the face, that the munificence of an ambi tious Empet-or has thus far failed 'to foster into be ing even the initiation of such a compeition.-The article is too absurd to dwell upon lonager. And fet such is the wisdom, such the veracity, of wri ~ers who give direction to the anti-American fcel ring of Europe. DECISIVE BATTLES. An English paper thus enumerates the decisive ttes or earth: " The most decisive battles reeordled in historny re those-, at Marathon, of the A thieniatns and Per anas ; at !ssus, or A lexander and l)ar-ius ; at ('an i-, of the. Carthaginiatis and Rotans ; .at l'harsalia, ,etween Pompey'a anad Cuesar; at Ch:adons, between le French aind the Iluns ; at lastings, betweent lie Normans aind English. -iat Bannockburn and floddeni, of the Seots and English ; at Cressy, 'ietiers, and Agincourt, of the French and Eng ish; at Asealon, of Biajnzet and Taaierlane; at 'aviai, of the French aind Germas; at lllenhmei, lie French and Allies; at Futntentoy, of the French nd En.:lish ;at Luthen and Rtiesbach, of the Prus inns arid Frenehi; at Marengo, of the French and ustians; and at Austerlitz. lena, Frieduand, ,eisie, andl Waterloo, of thle French atnd Allied itions." Johnny Bull dislikea to think of two other bat le quite as decisive, if ntot so great, as arty hete entioned; we tiaani the battle o'f Yaarktown be seen Washington and Caornwallis, and the battle f New Orleans'between Jackson and Paekenhlam 87 A gentlenlar observitng a servant girl, who ra left hiandled, placing thy krgiv'es and forks on he dinner-table in the same awkward position, emarked to her that she was laying them left mnded, " Oh, indade !" said she, aa so I have! Be MR. BUCHANAN'S POLICY. A prominent Pennsylvania paper thus discourses as to the course and policy of the President elect : Now, without assuming to speak for Mr. Bu chanan, or to promulae his views on the topics treated of in the Enquirer, we nevertheless ven ture to assert that Governor Bigler, and nobody else, is himself responsible for what he said on the floor of the Senate; and, further, that neither the Pennsylvanian, nor any other newspaper, speaks by authority of the President elect. Mr. Buclianan is now, what he has been for the last thirty years or nore, a thorough-going State Rights constitutional democratic statesman of tie JefIerson and Jackson school, and in his adminis tration of the government will be actuated, we have not a doubt, by a determination to do equal and exact justico-to every portion of the Union. His course of policy wil know no North, no South, no East, no West. The constitution will lie his compassend his chart. By it, and it alone, will he seek to guide the ship of State; and of his skill as a pilot at the helm, and the lofty patriot ism with which he will be actuited, no one who is personally acquainted 'with the nan can have a solitary doubt. The Enquirer may, therefore, well reiterate its exvression of "implicit confidence in the President elect." This confidence, we venture to anticipate and predict, will not be shaken dii. ring the next presidential term by any act of his. His course of policy we doubt not, will be alike setisfactory to his friends and the lovers of the Union in Virginia and Pennsylvania, in Georgia and Indiana. But that policy has not yet been adum brated, except in his endorsement of the Cincinati platform and .in his letter accepting the nomi nation. We, therefore, respectfully advise our Southern democratic friends to keep cool. The President elect has always stood by their constitutional rights when assailed by abolitionism of every bue and grade; and, we firmly believe, he will stand by them to the end. Ho is, therefore, entitled to ticir generous confld-nce, even in advance of his inaunuration as the Chief Magistrate of the Re public. Let them not permit the opliions of A, B, or C, who, we again aver, speak of their own re;.ponsibility, to weaken their faith in the integri ty of the President eleLt. If Providence spares his life until the fourth of March next, he will then take the oath of office and enunciate the principles and policy which he intends carrying I out in his administration, and when he -does that we have every reason to believe the Enquirer will be abundantly latisfied. n So far as Senator Bigler in concerned, we know him to be a true-heated conservative Union-loving democrat, who will stand by the constitution anf the rights of the States in every emergency. He I is a well-tred and faithful democratic statesman, and we have no fear that he will prove recreant, in word or deed, to the great principles which have always been his guiding star, and which are so dear to every democrat throughout the broad ex pause of our glorio.us Union. In connection with the foregoing, we have the approval of Mr. Buchanan in' saying that the fol I lowing extract from the SouthsideDemocrat states correctly his position: "As for Kansas, Mr. Buchanan has never ex pressed an opinion either one way or the other, in I favor of its coming in as a free or a slave State. - He has prudently conceived that It is a mattel with which he has nothing to do, and with which he does not mean to meddle. It is a question ex clusively with the people of the Territory, wit1 whom he is content to leave it for solution. Hc f will see to it that the principles of the Nebraska law are carried out in letter and spirit, impartially and without fear, favor, or af'ection." This exposition of Mr. BecuANAN's sentiment. has very much the air of authority and sincerity There is a degree of modesty and an absence oi pretentiousness about it, which cannot. fail to strikt every reader of taste and experience. We havo no doubt that its distinguished subject will rigidlA adhere to the chart here foreshadowed. His an tecedents, his associations, his grade of statesman ship, the school of which he is so able and s< faithful a representaitive, the links that connec himi so intimately with the good and great of ipast and a better day, his Christian worth and in . ince WAsmse-'rox have commanded. True, hi - has ardluouis obstacles to surmount, perilous shoal: to escape. But with the honest and brave back ig of all grood natriots ovrthis wide and grlorion: o 'ounitry of ours, he will (if any man cain) guide ithe ship of State safely amid die gales of poplu. lar fury which in one section of the Union seen tu threaten her with shipwreck. It is a warm - generous, energetic, undespai:-inig support. tha will carry himz, and us, and our country, and oui institutions, right on in the road of success and o glory. Go'd grant lie may prove himself altogethei worthy of this support, and that he may recciv< sit cordially and fully, at the hands of the Ameri can people! -For the Advieriiser. THE ARAB'S LAMENTATION, FOiR TiilE DEIA'ral5 IF lS rTEE.. Now tlihlbours aire o'er -And dhe J irk grave. hi:ith found thee,* I shall see thee no more The col eairth is aroundl thte'. '1Tiou art falle.n at length, No mionre sha'l I find ilhee In the pride of thy strength, Fling the desert behind dice. Ort haive I been bornie. ThroIa',ughi the wihlerness r'ushl'ng, 0 'er my'. f' '(men in scorn, In their impistene crushing The hoists dthat aissaiil'd - T.lhough mi a.puyi stra~nnt The sharp speitr disdainaing. But thy str'enth is no mnore, Anrd thy beauty is led Andi thy swift course is o'er; T1hiou, my lov'd steed, airt dea-l A\nd a sign the~re is not, To the passer-by telling Where is the sad~ spot SOt' thy last lonely d weling. - Li R A. ..- ...-g . - COTTON STATEMENT. S'catenn of Cofton in Anltisia and IIambur:g Stock 011 hand S e t n her 1 185 0 . .. 1,7f8 Ii - ed' fr'om Sept. 1 to Dec. 1.f 5,t99 in D)ecemnber............42,993 Total suipply and Receipts..... 140,50 Deduct Stock September 1........... 1,769 Total Receipts .... .......... 38,92 SHI P3ENTS. To Savannah in Dccembear...........8,014 " Chale.ton, in."..... .... .... 27,992 " Savan'hI & Uharlest'n prleviously... 5987 Total Shipments .... ........... 95.877 S'"OCKs. n Augusta.......................40,340 " Iambur'g,............4,243 TiitailStock... .......4 44,583 Nor..-As we did not make uip our tables on Ithe lsb of .Janumary, 1856;, we have no means of comiparing the statement of this 3-ear with the hast.-Chrnicle & Sentinel. A DuaE~wyel T vruoos-Loss of a thousand L~ices.-The North China Iherald, of September 10, which came to band by the last steamer, contains the following account of a terrible ty ploo anmd its appalling consequences: The Captain of' a large junk from Bangkok has comuntnicatedl the following note on the dis~sters occasioned by a typhoon encountcered on the 12th of August on appr'oachinmg the Clhu Isan Isands fi'om south: " We formed one of a fleet of 22 junks bound to various points from Shanghai to Tientsing. O.n the twvelfth day of; the moon the wind blew furiously from the Northwest, and suddenly chopped around from the south ; seventeen vessels soon foundered, and the remaining five wuere dismasted. We lost also both onr double rudders. A bout one thousand mien per'ished in thiat strrm. In con seqmenc .of assistance liberally afforded by a teamer, we were saypd from drowning and ntsrvin. ME TAX MU. At a General As3embly, begun and holden at . Columbia, on the f'.trth Monday of Novem her, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, hmd from) thence continued by divers adjournmeDts to the 20th day of December, in t he same year. An Act t'q nuse supplies for the year, com mencing in October, one thousand eight hun-: dred and fifty six. 1. Be it enacted by the &ate au IIouse of. Representativex, nwi. met aml biling in Genir iul Assembly, and by the authority efpthe same, ' hat I a tax, f'or the sums and in the mannr herin after mentioned, Ahall be raisediand paid into the public treasury of this State,Tfor the uw and service thereol, that is to say :-sixty cents md r(dlorem on every hundred dollh, if the value of all the lands grantedjn this State, according to the existing classitication as heir-etofore estab lished: beventy cents Ier head 'on all slaves; two dollars on each free negro, mulatto or inus tizo, Egyptian and Indian (free Indians in anm ty with this Government excepted,) between the ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as shall be clearly proved to the- satisfaction of the Collector to be incapable, from mainis or otherwise, of procnring a livelihood ; twelve umd a half cents ad raknrem on every. hundred dol lars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings within any city, town, village or borough, in this State; fifty cents per .hunalred dollars on factorage, eniployincuts, faculties and profes sions, including the profession. of dentistry, (whether in the profession of the Law. the profit be derived from the costs of suit, fees, or other sources of professional income,) excepting clergymen, schoolmasters, schoolmist-resses and mechanics, and on t: e amount of commissions receivd by vendue masters and coinmission mer chants ; twenty-five cents per- hundred dollars on the capital stock paid in onthie 1st of Octo ber, one thousand eight hundred and lifly-?ix, of all banks, which, for their present charters, have not paid a bonus to the State; twenty- five centson every hundred dollars of capital of banks of issue out of this State, used and em ployed in this State by agegs of said banks, between the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and the first day of Oc tober, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, effecting lones or discounts and dealing in ex chinge or notes; twenty cents per hundred dol lars on the capital stock of all incorporated gas light companies; one per cent on all premiums taken in this State, by incorporated insurance companies, and by the agencies of insurance companies, and underwriters 'without the limits of this State; fifteen cents on every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods-wares and merchandize, em racing all the articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange, (the products of this State and the unmanufactured products of any of the United States or Territories there of excepted,) which any person shall have made, from the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, either on his, her or their capital, or bor rowed capital, or on account of any person or persons as agent, attorney or-consignee; twenty five cents upon every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and ierchan dize whatever, which any transient person not resident in this State shall make, in any house, stall or public place; ten dollars per day for representing publicly, for gain and reward, any play, comedy, tragedy, interlude or farce, or other emnployient of the stage, or any part therein, or for exhibiting wax figures, or other shows of any kind whatsoever-to be paid into the hands of the clerks of the court respective ly whom shall be bound to pay the same into the public treasury, except in cases where the same is now required by law to be paid to cor porations o. otherwise. 2. That a11 the taxes levied on property as prescribed in the first section of this act shall be paid to the Tax Collector for the Tax Dis trict in which said propert-y is located. 3. In making asses;sments for taxes on the mrur-arnt~i'Way-usiin manufacturing value of' the mnachiuery used thereini shall not -be included, but only the value of the lots and building.- as property merely'. 4. That the Tax Collectors in the several Dis tricts and Parishes in this State in their return hereafter to be made, be, and they are hereby mequired andl enjoined to state the precise aniount of' taxes collected by thenm for the puirpose of supporting the poilice of the said several Dis tricts andii Parishes aforesaid, state the rates per centunm on the amounts of the State tax collec ted for said D)istricts and Par'ish Police purpo ses; and the Comptroller General shall return the same in his report. 5Thtfree negroes, mulattoes, mustizoes,i Egyptions and Indians (free Indians in amity with this government excepted.) be, and they are hereby required to make their returns and pay' their taxes (luring the month of March. 9 . That the lots and houses on Sullivan's Is land shall be returned to the Tax Collector' of ehie Tax District in which they are situate in the. sanmc manner as other towii lots and houses, and shall be liable to thme same rates of taxation. In. the Senate IHouse, the ftwentiethi day of December, in the year of ouri Lord one thou sandl eight hundred and ifty-six, and in the eighty-first year of the sovereignity and inde pendence of the United States of Amnerica. .JAMES CHIESNUT, Jr., President of the Senate. .Js3nas SsMoxs, Spea ker of the Ilouseof Representatives. St. r am 's Or rici:, Cor.roisia, D)ec. 24, 1858. I here~by certify thie forgoing to be a true copy of an act entitled "An act to raise sup ples for t lie 'ear' coninmeneing in October, one tho:isanmd eig?it hundredl and fifty six,'' pa sed 20t Decemiber. A. D)., 1$5t3, and now in this ofiee Give under miy hand and~ the seal of the W. F. A UTIIUR, Dep. Secrctary of State. D. m~i ms-rr. Sorrvr --The New Orleans Bulletin suggests the following nmethod of' de fending the South: " The best wamy of' defenid ing the rights of the South," the Bulletin says,1 is to make a v'igorous and extended assault up on old1 fields and dilapidated fences. The cue m is sure to enter at every' gaip, anid lie eon cealed in every br'ier patch and acre of weeds he nmar~ discover. To rout him, hor'se, foot and. dragoonis, it is necessary to set the plough amid the spade going aind then to overwhen him withli mountains of manure. Nothing like manure foi' the rights of the SouthI, anmd the expulsion of its enemies. Theoy can't stand it a: all. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, are nothing in comparison with it. They may be attac.ked in tront and rear', and terribly shattered ; but I mck fr'om the swamps and deep plowing, with a plenty of it, will prove invulnerable. Cottont bales are but gossamer in potency, placed be side heaps of' muck. A Ricn Coxrr.--oughierty county, Geor gia, claims to be the richest in the tcorldi; we~ presume, however, outside of those cmbr'acing large cities. The valuation is as follows : Slaves $2,230,12; land $1,781,887; money at inter est, jfit50,567; city property, $980,000 ; mor chandize, $125,X00; otheor property $(i0,000 ; total, $5, 828,360. If the property was ('qualy divided out, each voter in thme County would beh a considerable farmer, with nine slaves valued at I five thousand dollars, and ten thousand dlollars' sj woth of land to work thiem on. lir ionn-r -rO Brr-rIxO Mixs.-The Supreme ~ Courts of Ohio and S9outh Carolina have lately decided that the losing piarty' in a wager may recover from the stake-holer the money lhe muy have deposited with him, although the lat- ') ter. after the determination of the wager, hiad, by tie order of the depositor, p~aid1 the money 3 ovei' to time wminner. This decision of the Court is destined to eff'ect an entir'e revolution in the -p betting wor'hd. fi -+ --- is Te new steamer Everglade has taken hem' position in the line between Charleston and Jacksnville, and touching at Savannah. 11er p accommodations for passengers are favor'ably Si recomendedl. +.4- --- It is statedI in the New Yor'k Scienltie Amer.i- l ca that the cause of the burning of the steam- ti ship Knoxville, was the spontaneous combumt~on ai COUNTiNG HOUSE CILEADAR FOR 1s. 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I'm thinking on the time, Father, When a guileless little child, I listened to the pleasant tones Of thy voice so caln and mild; And as Lheed the prattling ones Who all my hours divide, They seem like those who with me then Close nestled at thy side. And then I seem to dream, Father, That on thy sacred head Are resting almost four-score years, And my youthful ones are fled. , That thy locks have whiLer grown, Father, And mine have sadly changed Since round our quiet fire-side, A clicerful group we ranged. But when the dream is o'er, Father, And I feel its all too true, And that old friends are distant far While all a-near are new,, I dash away the brimming tears Which swell my aching eyes, And sigh for that unchanging home Where are-no broken ties! E. W. R. LATER FR0K EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF STEAMER NIAGARA. IIAIFAX, Janury 1. The steamer Niagara has ar rived, with latter advices from Europe. The quotations for cotton are: Middling Or leans 7, middling uplands 0 7-8. Sales of the week 55,860 bales-speculators taking -9,500 and exporters 3,400. The sales on -Fiday amounted to 12,000 bales, at firm prives-rmar ket active, and an advance of 1-8 on all grades. Financial matters are easier. The bank rates are 6 per cent. Consols for money 933-4; for account 93 7-8. The bullion in the Bank of England has increased ?206,000. Th3 steamers Erricsou and Persia had arrived out. The political news is unimportant. HON. HENRY HILLIAED. At the recent Alabama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, IIon. H. WV. Hil liard announced his intention of returning tc the ministry. 'He had been alluded to in Con ference as probable editor of the Methodist or gan to be established in Montgomery, and the proposition meeting with sonme question, Mr Hilliard arose and triiDjmhop Pierce, " I give you my hand, my brother, in this great work! .llenceforward our paths of life shall not diverge ! I come, in the maturity of my manhood, dleliberately to lay my~ bext, in* tellect, and whtatever of trophies [ may have won in other walks of lide, professional or po litical, humbly at the foot of the Cross, with motives which befit te service of my Master. " Let it he dlistinetly understood, that no vote which this Conference may take upon the pend ing prop)ositioni can alffet my resoltution to give myself to this work. At home and abroad--in mny solitary journeyings--or standing in the palaces of kings, I have never forgotten my early vows. 1 have seen the begining and end of earthly greatness. "Intimately associated with some of thme first living statesmen of this age anti country, I have seen them pass away from this earth ! Sir, I knor the vanity of earthly things ! I come humbly, but I come preserving that self-respect without gbich I should not be mneet for the Mater's service.' " I ask nothing Iromn this Conference on my personal account. Lgt the vote havre no refer ence to me. .No, no, sir ! I have never lower ed imy crest, when facing political parties5 in thme day of battle. I prieserve my self-resp~ect, but I desire to aehieve somewhat tbt will enable me, wvhen this worbbb~Iur's up. to be recognized by the Great hlead of the Church, as a frnend of Christ, and~ to take my plauce, however hum ble, among martyrs and satinits who have loved and served him on earth !", This is the sumbstancee of his remarks delivered to the spell hound audience. It was a scene of mtense mtoral snblinmity. May lhe find grace equal to his noble resolution ! Long may lie live to edify thle church ; and finally win and wear thme crown of endles~s joy and glory.-31a con Telegraph. StNucrIn I~sTAYcE or AFFECiTroN IN A DoG. -Tihe niany extrardinry instances of the die votion of the dog~ to his mmasterz, now on record, seemi toto mucLh for the beitef of' most of men, mnt the following was tobel us by a gentleman ~vell acqutain ted witht thle ci rcuxmstances, and nany others in this vicinity can vouch for the ruth of the statement: Charles Hlueston, a nman well known on the Alabamta rivetr, but for the last few years a resi ient of California, wa~s killed by the explosion f a steamboat near Sant Francisco a fewv itonths ince. A noble New foundland dog owned by in escaped injm-y, anid draggedi the body of tismiaster- to the shore. Th'ie dog wa~s sent ome to the mother of the decease~d, residing in erry county, Ahabamna. Oni beingv shown a aguerreotype of his lost miaster, the dog iml nediately recognized it, and commenced lifting ip the most piteous howls ; since that time lie ta-s refused all food, anti moans constantly. Vhen last heard from lie was in a dying condi ion, atid is probably dead by this time. Where, a hunmn history, can be found such an iinstance f devoted hove anid intense grief at the loss of loved one.--Sehina Reporter. THE AMIERIcAN Hloass IN ENGLAND.-Tlie orses taken to'England by Mr. Ten B3roeck i-c at Newmarket, where they excite considera I interest. An effort has been made to bring bout a match for ?5,000 over a four mile ouse, but the Englisht (10 not seem willing to come up to the scratch." There is no doubt, owver, that the English turtiters have phtck nough, and it is probable that the relative peetd of Etnglish anid American horses wvill be eided in the spring. Mr. Teni Broeck's hor as aire " Lecompte," ch. hi., by Botlon, out of ke, 6 years ;' " Pior," ch. h., by Glencoe, out f Gipsy, 4 years; "Prioress," b. f., by Sover gu, out of Reel, 3 years. LA RGE SA.E OF Mo.\SSs.-The New Orleans 'icayunme, of the 10th uit., says: "We learn that a sale of six hundred thou md gallons of miolasses, on plantation, was uis "orning closed, in the city, at sixty cents 3r gallon, for the Ohio river. The molasses is om the plantation of Col. John Preston, and supposed to be thme largest crop in the State." Rwn-rs or ColaoRED PEasos.--Two colored 3rsons, named Julian B. McCrea and John tevenson, who were refused adtmittance to the family circle" in tihe Howard Athmenameum last eek, at Boston, have brought suits against the sse and mnanager, to test the question in rela on to the rights of colored people in places of musement, especially theatres. The cases wili I) ed in January. Miscellaneous Rems. ( THtE Medical Department of the Uni versity of Kentucky at Louisville, including the Library, Laboratory and Museum, was burnt on the 31st uIt. The l'or is estimated at $100,000. W TiE New York forger, Huntington, was convicted Wednesday last, and has been son tenceal to four years and ten months in the State pri-on. . .W THE S rncune Standard says: Justice Burst performed a marriage ceremony on Sat urday evening last. The bridegroom was a red headed white man, the bride was a good locking squaiw, anid the bridesmaid was a genuine Afri Cann wenchl. -.PoRTER'S SrnIT" of November 22d, says: The fastes.t mile ever made by a running hore, was made by Henry Perrit, in 1 42J The fastet- mie ever made by a paver. was Poca honutas. in 2 174 ; and the fastes. mile ever made in troling, was made by Fl->ra Temple, in uar. ness, in 1.24J. g- THE number f.f hogs killed at Chiatta nooga to the 20th amounted to 8.000. One lot of 1.200 averaged in weight 400 lbs. each, many of t hem goiig as high as 600 pouids. It is thought that priies will recede, as supplies are coming in plentifully. g: TEN out of eleven applicants for admis sion to the bar in New York have been rejected by the examiner. This severity of examination is something quite new. g - SENATOR Sumner hopes, " with the sanction of his physicians," to be in Washing ton early in January. W' THE Selma (AI.t.) &ntinel states that Col. Win. 11. Brantley. of that place, has re eeived the appointment of Colonel in the Nic:ar aguan army, and is now eneaged in mAking up a eonpany of two hundred young men, to etu. grate to Nicaragua. -" Two resurrectionists, Patrick Lillis and Wtn. Cunningham-the former an Irishm-in and the latter an American-have been arrested and held to bail in Cincinnati for procuring -1 sub jects," for the doctors. iff THE Ohio Farmer estimates the profits on ,heep in that Slate last year at $6,000,000, and the whole capital invested at 860,000,000. The number of sheep is, probably, five millions, and the wool clip last year reached 10,196,000 lbs; one fifth of the entire wool clip of the Union. - . g ON Christmas night, at Springville, in Darlington District, (says the Pee Dee Herald) a man named Henry Moore was alnost instant. ly killed, by a knife in the hands of a woman named Martha Kennedy. We understand that the femoral artery was severed, and that Moore bled to death in a few minutes. - THE old adage-" You should not couni chickens before they are hatched!"-has ob. tained a new reading thus-" The producers o: poultry should postpone the census of the ju venile fowls till the period of incubation is full, accomplished. 9 NEWSPAPER READERS TURN OUT WELL We know a respi-etable gentleman in Monroc county, who many years ago sawed a chord o wood to pay, in advance, his first year's sub scription for a newspaper. He is now, in hi ripe and vigorous old age, worth a quarter of v miilion of dollars. gg- WE admire the ladies, because of thei beauty, respect them because of their virtues adore'thetm because of their intelligence, ani love them because we can't help it ! |- WHEN we record our angry feelings, Ie it be on the snow, that the first beam of sun shir.e may obliterate them forever. gg LATE arrivals from Havana state thai another crgo of Chiese coohies, numberi island. FATA L AccDENT.-On Monday last, a yon man nuamed J. ekson was killed in this Distriet by the accidental dischar-ge of a gun in his ow: hands. Thte pticulars, as we learned then: are singular. One barrel of his gun was loadedi and whilst in the act of loading the other, small gourd tilled with shot slipped from hi htand, and falling upon the cook of the loade harrel, caused it to spring back and rebon with sufficient force to explode the cap. Thi load entered his side and he died withmn a fes hours. Mr. .Jackson was a resident of Chester Dic trict, and was on a visit to the ho~use of Mt Jas. Douglass, of this District, where the acci dent occured.-Lancaster Ledger. A "NewAucE" D)EFINED.-At a trial fo " maintaining a nuisance" rccently at Exetet England, it was shown on the part o a M A4brahami that his neighbor. Mr. Minty', had cock which crowed one hundred and fifty time in twety inuteo. The learned Judge though this was'an amount of crowing whicht humai nature was not bound to put up with, ani awarded to the plaintiff one shilling damage. Dtuv GOODs IMrontTAT oxs.-The importiniioi of dry goofs at New York last week, reache< $ 1.1:1561. being an increase of over half million. The entire foreign itmports at New York lnst week, exceeded by nenrly $3,000,001 thoise of. the same week last year. (l" Watch two foes with all dilige'nc-til enemy that stan I without and the traitors wh< pen the gate within.. COMMERCIAL, At2carA, .Janfuary 3. .CatIton -The demand eontinues g.>od, and all lots offered are readily bought at current rates Good Mliddling 12j cents. -The river is reventeen feet by the mark. - CiAaLEsTON, January 3. Ceoton.-Th~e nmarket is unehunged andl frm at full priers. Sales to-day, 1,012 balls, at l2$. NEwv Yoax,.January 2. *Coo.-The cotton market is active with au th ad vance. Sales to-day, 6,000 bales,and for the three previous days 4,500, making in past four days sales or 10,50m Lales. Middling Orleans 13b, ad iddling Up'lands l3) cents. Plour.-Mlarkyt generally dull, an.1 for common to good brands of State $6,l0 to $0,25. Southern tI.ur, for mixed good brands, $6,90) to $7,20. Whea.-Thmesmarket is dull, atnd prices have a declining tendency. Cor.--The previous firm tone ot the market is giving way, and prices are easy. Nuw OaRLEANS, January, 2. Cotton.-Sales of cotton to-day 13,500 bales. The steamer's news eaused greater firmness in the market. Price. are stiffer, bout quotations renstin unchanged. .3liddling Orleans I13 to 124 cents. Sales of the week 67,000 bales--receipts 53,000 bales. Stock on band and on shipb.oard 330,400 bales. Receipts less than last year, only 2,200 bales. Cqffe.-Coffee is quoted at 10b to 10* cents. Sales of the week 10,000 sacks. Stock on hand 87,000 sacks. Receipts of the week 12,500 sacks. What.-Red and mixed $1,40-White $ 1,00. Corn.-Mixed 63 eenits per bushel. Notice. THIE UNDERSIGNED being about to retire from the D~ry Good Business, will dispose of his stock of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods-one of the largest in the city-at New York cost; for cas. His friends and thme public are respectfully informed that the lowest possible price will be asked, and from which there will be no deviation. Country andi City Merchants, and'Dry Goods Dealers in general, are invited to call and examine the Goods. THOMAS BRENNAN, - Successor of Cosgrove & Brennan. Augusta, Nov. 25th, 1856, 8t 46 HYMENIAL. MARRIED, on the 16th ult., by Rev. J. P. Bodie, Mr. PETER Ouzs, and Miss JULIA Axx TImxERi MAN, all of Edgefield. MARRIED, on thc 18th uit , by tiesame, Mr. MAR TIN ELLEICBERGE and MisS MARY lIotNE, all of this District. Holloway's Ointment and Pills. Ulcers and sores drain the system of its vital en ergy. Their diseased afion is kept up by virulent matter in the vessels of the glands and skin. This matter is neutraliz d by the disinfeCting operation of the Ointment. The Pills eure indigestion in all its forms. Sold at the manufactories, No. 80 Maiden Lane, New York, and No. 244 Strand. London ; and by all druggiats, at 2. e , -2je , and Si per b-ox. Read the Certificate of a Regular Practitioner I This may certify that I have used Perry Davin' Vegetable Pain Killer, and 'believe it to be a very valuable medicine. I have prescribed it extensive ly in bowel .omplaint, (particularly for children.) and it is in my opinion supe.rior to any preparation I have ever used for the relief of those diseases. When given to children, I have always combined it with the syrup, well mixed. Others have mixed it with milk and molasses, equal parts. A. IHUNTING, M. D. PERRY DAVIs' PAIN KIL.ER. ns an internal reme dy has no equal. In cnses of Ch..lio, Summer Com plaint, Dyspepsia. Dyser.tery and Asthma, it will cure in one night by takine it internally, and bathing with it freely. It is the best Litment in America. Its action is like mag'e, when externally applied to bad sores, burns, seal.Is and sprains. For the sick headache and toothaehe, don't fail to try it. In short it is a Pain Killer. Sold by G. L. 1'ENN. Agent. gWMerchants and Planters wish ing to have batgans in Dry Coods, would do well t.) examine JAMFS HENRY'S large and well as sorted stock. Ile has received s.me more of those solid colored WORSTEDS, at 121 centS per yard See advertisement. tf 45. VCol. A.M.SMITTI,of Abbeville, is respect fully announced by his friends as a Candidate for Major General, 1st Division, S. C. NI.. Masonic Notice, A REGULAR Communication of CONOOEDIA LODGE, No. 50, A. F. M.. will be held at their Hall, on Saturday evening, Jan. 17th, at 7 o'eloelf. By order of the W. MI. Jan 7 2t 52 Grape Vine Abbeville Model VineyTInd, D . TOGNO offers for sale VINE-CUT TINGS. and ROOTED VINES, at the fol lowing rates: Per 100 Vine Cuttings, For Catawbas an other A meriesn varieties, Assorted..........................$5,00 For Assorted Europ'entn varieties.......$10,00 Rooted American varieties, Ceh..............50 Rooted European do 'do.............1,00 Rooted Scuppernong, each .................1.00 r Montevino, Dec. 27th 1856 At 52 EDGEFIELD LYCEUM. T HE Members of the Edgefield Lyceum will assemble at the Hall on Friday naext, at 10 o'clock, A* M. Punctual attendance is requested ts. business of importance will be submitted. The several Committees will come prepared with their reports. By ordler of the President. Ja . R UFUS DEAN, Acting Sec'ry. Jn7- it 52 O~N and after this date, all Goods bought at my 7Store, and not paid for at the time, will 'be considered due on demand. T. ROOT. Jan. 1, 1857. 3t 52 'CURIRYTON SCHOOLS. TH tckholders of Curryton Academy are i eqe.e to meet at Curryto.n on Thursday, the 15th inst., -o transact business of importance. IH. A. SiIA W, See'ry. Jan 7 2t 52 For Sale, EVERAL OLD1 SMULEd, suitabile for wag ~.goning-and tolerable good for plowing. S. S. TO.\PKINS.. Jann7 1t* 52 Positive Notice. ALL prslons indebted to the Estte of William S.Smyley, dec'd are hereby notified to make payment by the i3th~ February next. otherwise their notes and accounts will be pilnced in the hands of an Attorney for collection. This anunement tis deemed sulfiieienlt to all who wish to save cost. Those having demands will please render them in soon, or their claims will he r,-fused. .January 7th 1857, 3tSYe , 5diar NOTICE POSITIVE. ALT those indebted to T. F.'Coleman, R MI. tRSerry & S. Turner, will do well to comne forward and make payment by Return day, as longer Iindulgence cannot notr will not be given. Thlose who wish to save costs must pay proper att.gation to this notice. .Jan 7 6t_______52 MONEY WANTED. A LL Pers-ns indebt,.d to the Subscriber by Note or A ccount, are earnestly requested to make payment befoire Return Day, as I have con siderable money to paty out by that4 timae, atnd those indebted to me must accommodate me with the cash so that I cata satisfy the demands of my credi tors. Respond to this'notice in due time, you that are interested, and don't compel me to apply for legal assistance. .G. W. IHOLLO.WAY. Jan 7 33t* 52 Notice. ALL~ persons hyavitag claims against thae Estate of Ansel Wlel!s, dlee'd. are requested to ren der them in its early as possible, nand thaose in any wise indebted to said Estate, must settle the same by Return day. Beware, all1 ye who are opposed to, contributing yip r Dollars and dimes to the support of the Sheriff hud other public O~ieers. S CIHESLEY WELLS, Adm'r. January 7th 1857, 3t* 52 Notice IShrb iven to the creditors of the Estate of G. W Remsdec'd. to present their cLaims in the Ordinary's Office at 1Edgeticlal, C. HI., on Tues day the 3d d ty of February next, as I e pcet to make a final settlement on the Real Estate f said deceased, on that day.. E. HOLLOWAY, Adm'r. Jan. 5th 1857, it* 52 Administrator's Notice. A LL persons htaving demands against the Es ?.tate of Elijah Langley, dee'd. are requested to present them to the undersigned properly attested on or before -the 10th day of A pril next, or their said claims will be excluded. THIEODORE FISHER, ) HIEZEKIAIH BURNETT. j Adm'rs. Jan. 5th 1857, 3m* 52 lMackrel! M~ackrel! T HOE wihingFINE FISU, inspected and pakdweethey are caught, tf all sia and. numbers, call on S. E. BOWERS, Agent. Hamburg, Jan. 6th 1857, tf 52 Sheriffs Sale. Andrei4 J. Crieghton, vs. -> Fi Fa in case. Alfred Ravenseroft. BY Virtue of the Fieri Facita in the above stated esse to me dIrected,' I will proceed to sell in the Town of Hamburg. 8. C , on Wednesday the twety-rit instant, the full -wilig property. To wit: Sundry I)rugs tn the housie where thet Defendant Alfred Ravenseroft kept a regular Drug Store, con yistinjof Niledieines of all kinds, Oils, Paints and other fancy articles as are usual kept in a Drug Store. Terazsof sale Cash. -JJMES E1DSON, s... J-....y~ 1856 uta9*