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* 7ARTFHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR. BDGEFI!ID, S. C' C WEpNESDAY, JANUARYi, 1857. dUR AGENT. T.J. WuITAaim in our authorised Agent to re eive subscriptiofls and collect all monies due this I 'Ofice. . The Cash System adopted. After tle fir& or January we will adopt the Cashi system ana intend strictly to adhere to it in each and every instance. It Ia certainly the beat system for all, especially "newspaper publishers, and as our bills are generally.small it will be no incontveience to any one to pay up in idvanee. To Advertisers. All adverti-em-nts, to secure publiety through our columns, must tr paid for when handed in. Those who live at a distance wehing to advertise, can enclose the amnunt for which they desire to ad iertise. Those . rtising by contract, by the year,will- be cxpex edto settle up quarterly. IAbenit. Proositib1. We will farnish-tbe %Advertiser and Corumisa Examiner. one' yearfor $4.25, payable in advance. The .zaminer is a large and excellent literary pa per, published weekly,,at $3 per annum. We will furnish t- Advertiser and Southern iht one year fur ,50, payab'e in advance. :.Thi.Liglt is a well conducted monthly Journal, devoted to religious and literary reading,. and pub lished in this Village at $2,00. Those wishing to encourage Routhern enterprie and obtain good and- cheap publications, would do well to take up our proposition. 17 Any one sending;us five new subscribers to the Advertiser, with the cash for the same, will be entitled to tlig sixtIreepy gratis. * A HAPPY NEW YEAR. To our readera, male'and female, hright and dull, pretty and ugly, we-sind greeting. A happy new yer,'and many more returns of the same! In the exuberance of his spirits the other day, a good fel low at aoertain dinner.tablejwmarked 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 so received. In the same olumty vein of good humor, we say to -our deai readers-(who does not love his readers )-May you, never have another dollar-to bother you 1-may you never have another wife-to tease you I May you never find another husband-to fret you! May you never have an other-hog-killing-to grease you! May you never have another paper (except the Advertiser)-to vex your opties! May you never have another flower -to grieve you by its early fading! May you never have anohier hope-to be .ori'shed in its- fullest blooming ' OUR JANUARY SAtE-DAY. A large crowd of the solid men of Edgefield were in attendance at our Court llouse'on Monday last A more bisy, earnist, stirring throng has seldom baen seei upon our public square. Of course money, money, money was the great motive power of the oceasion. And 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 onr merchants, our l awyers, our tradesmen, our Court offieials .and our hotelikeepers. It was no bad time either for our shirpers and.note-shavers. Their .eycs glistened *with occasional chances at fifteen per cent loans. Is a great dea of money adloat among our people ; * and if no false alarm Is gotten up, if no panic is mnanufactured by our money-dealers itnd bank ag'ents for purposes of greedy gain, debts will be rapidly cancelled, credit will remain un-haken and prosperity will mark the good year into which we have just launched. Return-day for March will tell who are disposed to install this desirable condi tion of things, and who to grind neilucay debtors into the dust of embarrassment. Let us all reimem ber the golden rule of forbearance, and strive to do unto others as we would they should-do unto us. SPARTANBURO PEMALE COLLEGE. Some fair young friend sends usia copy of the Catalogue of this institution for 1856. The total number of students i1s attendance during the year was one hundred and seventeen. Among them there are names from Greenville, Clhester, Laurcns, Charleston, Newberry, Fairfield, Edgefield. Rich land, Anderson, Colletomn, Union and Orangeburg, besides alarge number from Spartanlburg and a few from North Carolina. This colege was established by the juint contributions of the citizens of the town of Spartanburg, atid by the South Carolina Metho . dist Conference. Much pride is enlisted in its be half, n'nid a watchful supervision exercised towards by both the0 commiunity and thte denomninatioathinter ested in its success. The location of the college buildings is' delared to be entirely healthful, and the buildings themselves large and commodious. This is the itistitution of which J. Worron TUcKER, -Esq., is the President. , OUR EXCHANGES. . ofThe Newberry Mirror has undergone a change ofeditors, Mr. J. S. R ain having retired and Mr. J.'0. McLaxoaE having succeeded him. Tke Independent Press, of Abbeville, has been --mueh enlarged and improved. The Columbia Times also has a -new editor in Mr. BowxAN, late of the Orangeburg Southroa Mr. B. has both experience and ability, and 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 invaluable: It is one thing to know how to use a horse, but It is another thing to know how to take care of him. A stabled horse needs special care and at tention. His feeding must be as regular, as the measurement of the hours. When a change of feed is made, it must be done with groat care, giving a small allowjnee at first, until the stomach becomes used to the hange. lie must be cleaned every day ;and when we say cleaned, we mean all that can be conveyed by that word. A good cur ry-comb, brush, and an oiled woolen cloth, arc 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 both comb and brush, and follow the comb with the brush, and after every other stroke, draw the brush across the teeth of the I comb, to clean it. An experienced groom will do this Instantaneously. This done, take your cloth and lay the coat, and remove the dust, which ad . heres to the outside. The face and cars must also feel the brush. Few men know how to clean a horse properly. If the above directions are followed, daily, your horses will enjoy good health, generally. Stabled I horses must be exercised daily. This is absoluto-. ly essential to good health. If the feet of your li 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 him. Another thing quite as Important, is a clean and ' wrell ventitated stable. We cannot excuse any ~ farmer, or home owner, who does not clean his stables twice a day. A stable'should be so con structed, as to have .a wide passage-way or floor tI 'in tront, to feed from. Above the manger a space a shoa'd be left, a foot or two in width, clear, an the passage-way shewld he the avenue for the stip ply of fresh air to the nostrils of the horse. 0 .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 Every word of it the truth. We would not only r have better horses, but we really would be better I hm, if we sttened to such instructions as these or-think of the Horse! is be not among the no fest of animals 1 and is it right to treat hinT other rise than carefully and gencrously I a Ss FALSEHOODS AND ABSURDITIES. Nothing can appear more ridiculous to Ameri an eye,, than the occasional comments of Euro can reviewers upon American morals and A meri- ci an politics. They evincean ignorance of cis-atlantic th iatters, so profound as to blunt our indignation ti ,y its sheer cdnicality. No monstrosity is too S aonstrous for these sapien' scribblers to recognise s credible in connection with our country and our R nstitutious. Any hoax can be crammed down J hi heir thiroats by a commonly sagazious wag, and forace Greeley's most fiagitious winderings are tecepted as ' holy writ' f.r all purposes of argu nentation. We have before us the December number of the Dublin Uuiversity Magazine," which contains si In article of this chimerical cast, entitlel " SLA- Is VERY." It purports to be a review of Mrs. I 3Tows'S last anti-slavery novel, and is imade the s nedium of a wild and high-flown attack upon t, kmvrican depravity in general and Southern tur- t itude in eapecial. The United States Govern- r uent is spoken or as an Anti-Christ, awaiting but ,he flat of Heaven to be swept into the vortex of revolution and destruction. It is compartd to that 1 of Romte in the days that immediately preceded I I the fall of the Empire. Then, says the reviewer,V it was a conflict between slavery and Christianity that wrought the grand finale of Roman power. ( Now, it is a war betwo it slavery and-the Church that is to scatter the feathers of the American eagle to the four corners of the globe. Slave- I holders in America are set down as a limited n.um- t ber of overbearing aristocrats, very nabobs, who by the force of their wealth and pride control the government and shape its operations to their own nefarious ends. They are supposed to be at war with truth, virtue, honor, mercy and !ove, and are placed in a partivularly hostile tttitude toa ards the Christian church. But the day of their doom is said to be near, and an evident chuckle is dis cernible in the stile of this monarchist reviewer whi:e he predicts and depicts the subversion of every thing American. No doubt, great joy would sparkle along the crown jewels of Europe at such an event; and their pliant tools And profit as well as pleasure in pandering to their anti-American hopes after the manner of the-stupid article before us. Let them delude themselves as they list. Let king or subject, emperor or parasite, hope and prophesy as pleaseth the fancy or folly of each. Our fate is not in the keepiug of fools;~ nor canall the powers of earth and hell 6hake the foundations of our government, if wisdom and patriotism shall now prevail in our councils. It is just such rabid comments upon American affairs, as this Dublin reviewer delightedl3 put% forth, that should con strain the great American people to eschew their follies and come shoulder to shoulder in the grand common cause of American Liberty. The help of Providence has been signally with us from the in cipiency of our government to its present fulness of wealth and yiower; and it will retnain with us and cherish-us i4to a'ten-folf greatness if we are but true to ourselves, to our Constitution and to the memory of our revolutionary sires. We-cannot deny ourself the pleasure of laying before our readers an entract or two from the arti cle in question. In regard to the present condi tion of things amgpgst us, mprk the following: -At present, indeed.we see break in the clouds. The pro-slavery party seem every where triumphant. -As we write, the Presidential election has been carried in their favour, in defiance of all compact, shamefully violate. -iance uomi a si~ i every disrrict to watch over and protect slaver'y the ballot box, the crown-jewel of a sovereign peo -ple, as an American senator has finely described it, has been plundered. Preachers who dared to be true to God have been ridden on a rail, tarred, tied to a log, and thrown into the Missouri. A reigni of terror has set in, unequalled usice the French Revolution. A senator who had the courage to raise his voice against thesothings in the senate of the~ United States is brutally struck down, and left stunned and bleeding on the floor of one of the greatest deliberative assemblies in the world nor was the act'the act of a single bully. As the Spartan mother thanked her God that Sparta had many more such sons, so Carolina subscribes to show there are man~y moi-e Brookes. A silver cane, bearing the inscription " Hit him again," is the elegant trophy of a slave state to its pugilistic hero. The Tipton Slasher, or the Brumamagemi Pet would risc, no doubt, to the hotnours of Con gress, and sit belted among the Conscript Fathers of America, could they be induced to emigrate. Was there cver a more egregious little chapter of unmitigated blunders and falsehoods'? It is only exceeded by the stupidity of the writer's at tempts at argumcnt,a brief (but fair) sample of which we can barely find space for. He is discus sing the chances of killing ot slavery by finding for Matnchester other cotton markets in India and Africa, which are to undersell nigger labor and play the dleuce immediately with slavery. And this is his profound deduction:, But this monopoly of slave cotton in the Mam chester market depends upon a slight difference in price. The price of a full-grown slave at work in the cotton fields averages 800 dollars, atnd his main tenanCe for one year averages at least lity dollars. The profit Ihe yields his owner is calculated at not mtore than one cent on the pound of cotton as it is landed in Englatnd. To cheapen cotton oneC cent per pound in Manchester would abolish slavery an evil which nteither religion nor reason, Uncle Tom nor "the underground railway," American abolitionists nor English philanthropists have been able in the least to check. The long-eared ass ! lie has no concep~tion that cotton has fluctuated from 8 to 15 cents a p)oundl throughout its whole history, and yet slavery still flourishes itn healthful vigor, Hie seem not to dream that the profits of slave labor in the articles of cottoni is regulated largely by thte amount made per hand, o that this amonnt cant vary from a cer-, taini fixed and unincreaseable quantity. lie takes it for granted too that -the produce of American save-labor can he easily knocked out of thte mar keta of the world/by the competition of Indiansa cud Africans; and this too with thte fact staring' im in the face, that thte munificence of an amnbi ions Emperor has thus far failed'to foster into be nag even the initiation of such a competitio.--The rticle is too absurd to dwell upon longer. And ret such is the wisdom, sucht the veracity, of wri ers who give direction to the anti-American fcel ug of Europe. DECISIVE BATTLES. An English paper thus enumerates thte decisive lattles or eartht : i "The most decisive battles recorded in history re those, at Marathon, of the A thenians and Per ian ; at Issus, of A lexander and D~arius ; at can ta, of the Carthaginiatns and Rotnans ; at Pharsalia, -etween Pompey antd Ciesar; at Chailons, between lie French and the I luns ; at Ihastings, between tI [e Normans ad English ; at Bannockburn and CC lodden, of the Sicot. and English ; at Cressy, Ia 'uletiers, and Agiueourt, of the French and Eng sh; at Asealon, of Bajazet and Tamierhane; at avia, of the French and Germans ; at Blenheim, me French and Allies; at Fontenoy, of the French d English.; at Luthen and Riesbach, of the Prus ans and Freneh ; at Marengo, of the French and cc sstrians; and at Austerlitz, -lena, Friedland, P1 eipsie, and Waterloo, of the French and Allied raions." h Johnny Bull dislikes to think of two other bat- di es quite as decisive, if not so great, as any here or entioned; we mean the battle of Yorktown be een Washington end Cornwallis, and the battle New Orleans'between Jackson' and Packenham. th~ 87 A gentlenia1 observing a servant girl, who th as left handed, placinig ths kqivss and forks ona eo dinner-table in the sange awkward position,tl unarked to her that she was laying them leftse anded, " Oh, indade !" said she, '' so I havel Be at, XME. BUCHMANAN'S POLICY. A ptominent Pennsylvania paper thus discourses to the course and policy of the President elect: Now, without assuming, to speak for Mr. Bu anan, or to promule hit views on the topics -ted of in the Enquirer, we nevertheless Yen re to assert that Governor Bigler, and igobody ie, is himself responsible for what he said on e floor of the Senate; and, further, that neither e Pennsylvanian, nor any other newspaper, aks by authority of the President elect. Mr. achanan is now, 'what he has been for the last irty years or more, i thorough.going State igh'ts constittntional democratic statesman of the fierson and Jackson school, and in his adminis ation of the government will be actuated, we ive not a doubt, by a determination to do equal id exact justicsto every portion of the Union. is course of policy will know no North, no South, East., no West. The constitution -will be his )mpass and his chart. By it, and it alone, will seek to guide the ship of State; and of his ill as a pilot at the belm, and the lofty patriot m with which he will be actuited, no one who personally acquainted 'with the nan can have a itary doubt. The Enquirer may, therefore, well iterate its expression of " implicit confidence in e President elect." This confideice, we venture anticipate and predict, will not be shaken du ng the next presidential term by any act of his. [is course of policy we doubt not, will be alike tisfactory to his friends and the lovers of the nion In Virginia and Pennsylvania, in Georgia and diana. But that policy has not yet been adum rated, except in his endorsement of the Cincinati latform and -in his letter accepting the nomi ation. We, therefore, respectfully advise our Southern eniocratic friends to k;eep cool. The President lect has always stood by their constitutional ights when as.sailed by abolitionism of every hue and grade; and, we firmly believe, he will stand y them to the end. He is, therefore, entitled to leir geierous confid-nce, even in advance of his inuguration as the Chief Magistrate of the Re blic. Let them not permit the opinions of A, I, or C, who, we again aver, speak of their own aponsibility, to weaken their faith-in the integri y of the President elebt. If Providence. spares is life until the fourth of March next, be will ben take the oath of office and enunciate the wrinciples and policy which he intends carryming ut in his administration, and when be -does that re have every reason to believe the Enquiror.will e abundantly Iatisfied. So far as Sitor Bialer in coneerned, we know m to be a true-heated conservative Union-loving emocrat, who will stand by the constitution anf be rights of the States in every emergency. He s a well-tried and faithful democratic statesman, td we have no fear that he will prove recreant, in ord or deed, to the great principles which have ilways been his guiding star, and which are so lear to every democrat throughout the broad ex ?anse of our gloriops Union. In connection with the foregoing, we havd t1ie pproval of Mr. Buchanan in' saying that the fol owing extract from the SouthsideDemocrat states :orrectly his position: - " As for Kansas, Mr. Buchanan has never ex pressed an opinion either one way or the other, i1 favor of its coming in as a free or a slave State, e has prudently conceived that it is a mattei vith which he has nothing to do, and with whicl he does not mean to meddle. It is a question ex hisively with the people of the Territory, witl whom lie is content to leave it for solution. H< will see to it that the principles of the Nebrasks law are carried out in letter and spirit,'impartially Fnd without fear, favor, or affetion." Tiis exposition of Mr. BrcnAXAX's sentimenti has very much the air of authority and sincerity There is a degree of modesty and an absence o: pretentiousness about it, which cannot fail to strik4 very reader of taste and experience. We hav o doubt thatits distinguished subject will rigidll adhere to the chart- here foreshadowed. His an ecedents, his associations, his grade of statesman ship, the school of which he is so able and sa faithful a representaitive, the links that connec iim so intimately with the good and great of past and a better day, his Christian worth and ini since Wsmsaro~s have commanded. True, hi has arduous obstacles to surmount, perilous shoal o escape. But with the honest and brave back ing of all good patriots over this wide and glorion 'ountry of ours, he will (if any man can) guid< the ship of State safely amid the gales of popu. lar fury which in one section of the Uiiion seen o threaten her with shipwreck. It is a warm generous, energetic, undespairing support. tha will carry him, and us, anid our country, and oul institutions, right on in the road of success and c glory. Godi grant lie may prove himself altogethel worthy of this support, and that he may receivi :t cordially and fully, at the hands of the Amern an people ! For the Advertiser. THE ABAB'S LAMENTATION, FOR THlE DEATHI OF IllS STEED). )Now thy labours are o'er And the d1 irk grave hatsh found thee,* I shall see thee no inure The cold earth is around the.. Thou art fallen at lengthi, No more sha'l I find thee In th~e piride of thy strength, Fling the desert behind thee. Oft haive I been borne - Through the wilerness rush'ng, O O'er my fi (een inl scorn, In their impiitence crushing : The hiosts that :assail'd Though in agonyi stra'ning, Thy strengtth hmas pre'miled The sharp' speir disdaining. But thy strength is no more, And thy beauty is fled And thy swift course is o'er; Thou, my lov'd steed, art deald - And a sign there is not, To the passer-by telling Where i'i the sadl spot v or thy last lonely dwehling. - LIRA. COTTON STATEMENT. 'tnent of Cottoun in Auguista and amrng Jfanuary 1si, 1857. tok on hand Septembler 1, 1856..1,768 ' d from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1... 5,99 in December............42,993 Total supply and Receipts.1 40,50 leduct Stock September 1...........1,769 Total Receipts .... ........... 138,692 SIIIPMENTS. o Savannah in December........ ... 8,014 haltoin.."..... .... ... 27992 Sava'h & CJharlest'n-previously.. .. 59,871 Total Shipments .............95877 S'"OCKS. Augusta...................... 40,340 1aburg,.................... 4,243 Total Stock....... ............ 44,583 No-rr.-As we did not make up our tables on C ls of January, 18'56, we have no means of mparing the statement of this year with the t.-Chronicle & Sentinel. DAF:L TYPHOON-Loss of a tousand r's.-he North China Herald, of September , which came to hand by the last steamer, utains the following account of a terrible ty oon and its appalling consequences: The Captain of a large junk from Bangkok s communicated the following note on the asters occasionedl by a typhoon encountered the 12th of August on approaching the Chut a Islands from south: " We formed one of i. et of 22 junks bound to various points from aghai to Tientsing. On the twelfth day of emoon the wind blew furiously from the' rthwest, and suddenly chopped around from outh ; seventeen vessels soon foundered, d the remaiining five were dismasted. We ;t also both our double rudders. A bout one musand men perished in that storm. In con juencp .of aistance liberally afforded by a THE TAX iL. At a General A sembly, beguif and holden at Columbia. on the f&irth Monday of Novem ber, in the year of our Lord ohe thousand eight hundred and fifty six, hnd'from thence continued by divers adjournments to the 20th - day of December,:in the same year. An Act tqraise supplies for the year, cum iencing in October,- one thousatid eight h6m dred and fifty six. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatirea, uo, met and aittpig in Geieral Assembly, aid by the puthwrily of - some, That a tax, fl'or the sums and in the inner herein after mentioned, 'diall' be raisedAnd paid into the public treasury of this'Statefor the u.se and sdrvice thereof,'that is to siy4-Aixty cents ud raloremn. on every hundred dbllair, of the value of all the lands grantedjn thi. State, according to the existing classification as heretofore estab lished: seventy cents pei- head 'on all slaves; two dollars on each free.negro mulatto or nius tizo, Egyptian and Indi(ffee Ijfdians in ami ty with this Govermnea exieed,) between the ages of fifteen and fifty-years, except such as shall be cleaily proved to the satisfaction of the Collector to be incapable, from maims or otherwise, of procuring a livelihood ; twelve and a half cents d-radifem'on every. hundred dol lars df the yalue of all lots, lands and buildings within any'city,- town,...illage or borouglx in this State; fifty ceits perdhunaired dollars on factoiage, eniloymentafaculties and profas sions, including the pofessign:of dentistry, (whether in 'the profession 4f the Law, the profit be derived from theqcosts of suit, fees, or other sources of professionid income,) excepting clergymen, schoolmasters, choolmistresses and mechanics, and on ti e amount of commissions received by vendue masters andeommission mer ,chants'; twentf-five dents .pef'hundred dollars on the capital stock paid in on'the 1st of Octo ber, one thousand eight hiindred and fifty-six, of all banks, which, for thIr 'present charters, have not paid a bonus to the State ; twenty-five cents on - cvey hundred dollars of capital of banks-of issue out of this State, used and em ployed in this State by ags of said banks, between the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and the first day of Oc tober, o'ne.thousand eight hundred and fifty-six effecting lones or discounts - and dealing in ex ch.nge or.notes; twenty cents per hundred dol lars on the capital stock of all incorporated gas light companies; one per cent on all preiums taken-in this State, by incorporated insuranc< companies- and -by the agencies of insuranc< compaMes, and underwriterawithout the limits otthiState; fifteen cents on every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods-ware and merchandize, emi racing all the articles o trade for sale, -barter or exchange, (the product of this State and the unmanufactured product 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 o 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 o persons as agent, attorney or-consignee; twenty five cents upon every hundred dollars of th amount of sales of goods, wares and nerchan dize whatever, which any transient person no resident in this State-shall make, in any hous< stall or public place; ten dollars per day fo representing publicly, for gain and reward, an; play, comedy, tragedy,' interlude or farce, c other employment of the stage, or any par therein, or for exhibiting wax figures, or othe shows of any kind whatsoever-to be paid int the hands of the clerks of the court respectiv ly whom shall be bound to pay the same int the public treasury, except in cases where th -same is now required by law to be paid to cor porations o~ otherwise. 2. That the taxes levied on property presc'ribed in the first section of this act sha be paid tni the Tax Collector for the Tax Di: -trict in which said property is located. 3. In making assessments for taxes on tl ..~ .Jl. -pu'~usedj~in~jnufacturir1 value of the mnalchiey used therein shall n< be included, but only the value of the lots an buildings as property merely. 4. That the Tax Collectors in the several Di tricts and Parishes in this State in thcir retur hereafter to be made, be, and they are hereb required and enjoined to state the precise anioui of taxes collected by thenm for the purpose< supporting the police of the said several Dia tricts and Parishes af'oresaid, state the rates p centum on the amounts of the State tax collec ted for said Districts and Par-ish Police purp< ses; and the Comptroller General shall retur the same in his report. 5. That free negroes, mulattoes, mustize -Egyptions and Indians (free Indians in amit with this government excepted,) be, and the are hereby required to make their returns an pay their taxes during the month of March. 9. That the lots and houses on Sullivan's I, land shall be returned to the Tax Collector< "he Tax District in which they are situate in th same manner as other towhi lots and houses, an shall be liable to the same rates of taxation. In. the Senate House, the twentieth day< -December, in the year- of our Lord one thorl sand eight lundred and ifty--six, nnd in th eighty-first year of the sovereignty and indc pendence of the United States of America. JAME~S CIIESNUT, Jr., Presidcnt of the Senate. Ja.s Simoxs, Speaker of the Hlouseof Repr-esentatives. SEcRiav~t's OFricE,, Cor3.BrA, D~ec. 24, 185( I her-eby certify the forgoing to be a tru copy of an act entitled "An act to raise sup plie.s for the year commencing in October, on' thosand eight hiundredl and fifty six,'' passem 20th, December, A. D)., 1856, and now in thi office. Given undecr my hand and the seal of ti State. .W. F. AUTIIUR, Dep. Secretary of State. DEFP.NDING Ti HF. SoCT1r --The New Orlean Bulletin suggests the following method of de fending the South: " The best waiy of defend ing the rights of the South," the Bulletin says is to make a vig;orous and extended assault up. on old fiels and dilapidated fences. The ene my is surec to enter at every gap, and lie con. cealed in cevery brier patch and acre of weed, ie may discover. To rout him, horse, foot and dragoons, it is necessary to set the plough and the spade going and then to overwhen hini witli mountains of mannui-e. Nothming like manure fo- the rights of the SouthI, and the expulsioni of its enemies. They can't stand it at all. The 'Virginia and -Kentucky Resolutions, arec nothing in comparison with it. They may be attacked in front and rear, and terr-ibly shattered; but muck from the swamps and deep) plowing, with a plenty of it, will prove invulnerable. Cotton bales are but gossamer in potency, placed be side heaps of muck. A Ricen CouxTv.--Dougherty county, Geor gia, claims to be the'richest in the 'world; we Ipresume, however, outside of those embracing large cities. The valuation is as follows: Slavesy $2230,12; land $1,781,887; money at inter est, $650,567; city property, $;980,000 ; mor chandize, $125,000 ; other property $60,000; total, $5, 828,360. If the property was equally divided out, each voter in thme County would bo a considerable farmer, with nine slaves valued at fye thousand dollar-s, and tenl thlousand dollars' worth of land to work then) on. IMPOR TANT TO BETTING MEN.--The Supreme Courts of Ohio and -South Carolina have lately decided that the losing party in a wager may recover from the stake-holder the money he may have deposited withl him, although the lat ter, after the determination of the wager, had, bythie order of thle depositor, paid the money over to the winner. Tliis decision of tbe Court is destined to effet an entire revolution in the betting wor-ld. The new steamer Everglade hias taken her position in the line betwveen Charleston and Jacksnville, and touching at Savannah. 11cr accommodations for passengers are favorably reommended. It is stated in the New York Scientofic A. ri ca that the cause of the burning of the steam ship Knoxville, was the spontaneous combuhtion COUNTING ROUSE CILENDAR FOR 18V. ~ 5 67~8 ,1 671 30 3,11 2 5 1115 1 I j 204 ji 21 6'1 P 23 28 6 18 19 20|21 22 '23 225 26 27128 29 X : 2"315 5 6 7 0 .. .. ..l. .. 1 ,1 8901112113 14 - - -- - 21;2~* '19,~ .~20 21 '2324 25 1 16 7 1, 9 2 2 - -- j3 o 34 25227 .30312 6 27 28 29130'311 1 12 1 3 1 51 3 1T6, -911 21 2.3. 1 2 45 671 826 - -2. -2 3 2 718 9 0 . ..2. 5 fI - 8 !i 2 5 1227o2'2 ..... ..'.. 3i242252627.2 2728'3 V 1 3 4 5 6 7 4 -81 19 123. 123 8 9 1 I 3 14 1.17 -18 19 20 ,21 23 !5: 1 17 :1 ; 1 4015 245 227'28 30t22d 4'52 72 0 2 3 1 . .. .. .. .. ..a 293 ..1 . . . ..17 18 ' .. . 21 22 23 2412552627 20 ' 81526 i28 9 3 .... .4. 27.28 29.30 3 .. From the January No. of the Southern Light. TO MY FATHER. I'm thinking on the time, Father, When a guileless little ch ld, I listened to the pleasant tones Of thy voice so calm and mild; And as Lheed the prattling ones Who all mny 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 whiter grown, Father, And mine have sadly changed, Since round our quiet fire-side, A cheerful 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 *ie! E. W. R. IATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF STE AMER NIAGARA. 4 5HALIFAX, Janury 1. -The steamer Niagara has arrrived, with latti advices from Europe. The quotations for cotton are: Middling 0O -leans 7, middling uplands 0 7-8. Sales of tli week 55,860 bales-speculators taking -9,5( and exporters 3,400. The sales on - F-id amounted to 12,000 bales, at firm prives-mna ket active, and an advance of 1-8 on all grade r Financial matters are easier. -The bank rat are 0 per cent. Consols for money 933-4; f r account 93 7-8. The bullion in the Bank' 4England has increased 20,6 000. r The steamers Erricson and Persia had arrmv D out. - The political news is unimportant. HON. HENRY BIT.T.AR. - At the recent Alabama Conference of ti |Methodist Episcopal Church, Hon. H. WV. Hi a h lard announced his intention of returning i. the ministry. 'He had been alluded to in Co -ference as probable editor of the Methodist c gan to be established in Montgomery, and ti e proposition meeting with some question, 1ii Iillhiardgrose and turning..p.E~hop Pier< t "I give you my hand, my brother, in t a great work! Henceforw ard our paths of Ii shall not diverge! I come, in the maturity -. my manhood, deliberately to lay my heagt, ii a tellect, and whatcver of trophies I may ha y won in other walks of lile, professional or p 2t 3itical, humbly at the foot of thie Cross, wil f motives which befit the service of my Maste "Let it be distinetly understood, that no vo r which this Conference may take upon the pen ing proposition can affect my resolution to gi myself to this work. At home and abroad a my solitary journeyings-or standing in ti palaces of kings, I have never forgotten n Searly vows. I have seen the begining and e of earthly greatness. r "Intimately associated with some of the fir C living statesmen of this ag and country, I ha' seen them pass away from this eadthm! Sir, know the vanity of earthly things! I con f humbly, but I come preserving that self-respe e. without gych I should not be ee for ti I Master's service. "I ask nothing from this Conference on n f personal account. Lwt the vote have no refe - ence to me. -No, no, sir ! I have never lowe eut crenthenea fse ,ater my e, political parties ill tI - dlay of battle. I preserve my self-respect, bi I desire to achieve somewhat tt will enab me, whleni this w~orld~buris up. to be recogniz< by the Great Iead of the Church, as a friezi of Christ, and to take my place, however 1hun ble, among martyrs and saints who have love . and served him on earth !" This is the substance of his remarks delivere . to the spell hound audience. It was a scene imtense moral sublimity. May he find grac I equal to his noble resolution ! Long may 1, Alive to edify the church; and finally vin an Wear the crown of endless joy and glory.-E con Telegraph. SARRL INSTANCE or AFFcT~oN IN A Do -The nany extraordinary instances of the de votion oe the (og to his arve, now on recor seem too much for the bhef of most of mei but the following was told us by a gentlena well acquainted with t he circumstances, ani many others in this vicinity can vouch for th truth of the statement : Charles Itneston, a man well known on th, Alabama river, but for the hlt few years a resi dent of California, was killed by the explosiomi of a steamboat near San Francisco a few month since. A noble Newfoundland dog owned bj hi mescaped injury, and dragged the body o his Fmaster to the shore. The dog bas seni home to the mother of the deceased, residing i Perry county, Ahabania. On being shown t daguerreotypie of his lost master, the dog im mediately recognized it, and commenced lifting up the most piteous howls ; since that time 1h has refused all food, and moans constantly. When last heard from he was in a dying condi tion, and is probably dead by this time. Where in hiuman history, can be found such an instance of devoted love and intense grief at the loss o~ a loved one.-Selmi a Reporter. THE AMERICAN HoRsEs IN ENGLAND.-Th< horses taken to'England by Mr. Ten Broecli are at Ncwmarket, where they excite considera ble interest. An effort has been made to bring about a match for ?5,000 over a four mile course, but the English do not seem willing tc " come uip to the scratch." There is no doubt, however, that the English turfiters have pluck enough, and it is probable that the relative speed of English and American horses will be decided in the spring. Mr. Ten B3roeck's hor ses are " Lecompte," ch. h., by Boston, out of Reel, 6 years;- "Pior," ch. h., by Glencoe, out of Gipsy, 4 years; "Prioress," b. f., by Sover. r igu, out of Reel, 3 years. LARGE SALE OF MoL ASSs.-The New Orleans Ticayune, of the 10th ult., says: " We learn that a sale of six hundred thou sand gallons of molasses, on plantation, was this ,vorning closed, in thme city, at sixty cents per gallon, for the Ohio river. The molasses is from the plantation of Col. John Preston, and is supposed to be the largest crop in the State." RiGHTs OF COLORED PERSozs.-Two colored persons, named Julian B. McCrea and John Stevenson, whlo were refused'admittance to the " family circle" in the Howard Athienazeum last week, at Boston, have brought suits against the lessee and manager, to test the question in rela tion to the rights of colored people in places of amusement, especially theatres. The cases will hn trierd in January. Miscellaneous Items. (Qi' THE Medical Department of the Uni versity of Kentucky at Louisville, including the Library, Laboratory and Museum, was burnt on the 31st uIt. The fs-s is estimated at $100,000. r TiE New York forger, Huntington, was convicted Wednesday last, and has been son tenced to four years and ten months in the State pri-on. " THE S rncuse Standard says: Justice flurst performed a marriage ceremo'ny on Sat urday evening lost. The bridegroom was a red headed white man, the bride was a good locking aquaw, and the bridesmaid was a gy-.taue Afri can wench. L--"PoRTER'S Srmr," 'of November 22d, says: The fistet mile ever maae by a running horse, was made by Henry Perrit, in 1 42J The fatstest mile ever niade by a parer, was Poca hontas, in 2.174 ; and the fastens mile ever made in trotting, was made by Fra Temple, in har. nesS, in 1.24J. W THE number of hogs killed at Chatta nooga to the 20th afiounted to 8.000. One lot of 1.200 averaged in weight 400 lbs. each, many (f t hem going as high as 600 poumis. It is thonght that pries will recede, as supplies are coming in plentifully. Wf 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. W' SENATOR Sumner hopes, " with the sanction of his physicians," to be in Washing tol early in Jainiary. Wg" THE Selma (AI..) Sentinel states that Col. Wi. M. Brantley, of that place, has re, veived the appointnent of Colonel in the Nicar. aguan army, and is now engaged in mAking up acompainy of two hundred young men, to ei grate to Nicaragua. gRr Two resurrectionists, Patriek Lillis anc Wn. Cunningham-the former an Irishmin anc the latter an American-have been arrested anc held to bail in Cincinnati for procuring ^ sub jects," for the doctors. W THE Ohio Farmer estimates the profit on .heep in that State last year at $6,000,000 and the whole capital invested at $60,000,000 The number of sheep is, probably, five millionm and the wool clip last year reached 10,196,001 lbs; one fifth of the entire wool clip of thi Union. - . Wg Os Christmas night, at Springville, ii Darlington District, (says the Pee Dee Herald a man named Henry Moore was almost instant ly killed, by a knife in the hands of a womal named Martha Kennedy. We understand tha the femoral artery was severed, and that Moor bled to death in a few minutes. g' THE old adage-" You should not cour chickens before they are hatched !"-has ob e tained a new reading thus.-" The producers c 0 poultry should postpone the census of the jt y venile fowls till the period of incubation is full e- accomplished. 5. W NEwSPAPER READERS TURN OUT WEI '? We know a respectable gentleman in Mlonrc er county, who many years ago sawed a chord < if wood to pay, in advance, his first year's sul dscription for a newspaper. He is now, in h ripe and vigorous old age, worth a quarter of million. of dollars. W' WE admire the ladies, because of the beauty, respect them because of sheir nrtue iadore thema because of their intelligence, an 1love them because we can't help it ! Sgg," WHEN we record our angry feelfngsm, l rit be Oct the snow, that the first beam of sul tshir.e may obliterate them forever. -. ig" LATE arrivals from Havana state th: -i nother cargo of Chinese coohies, nnmberir FATAL. AccIDENT.-On Monday last, a your man named J. ckson was killed in this Distric .by th'e accidental discharge of a gun in his ou hbands. The pieiculars, as we learned ther rare singular. One barrel of his gun was loades tand whilst in the act of loading the other, jsmall gourd tilled with slpot slipped from h ~hand, and fualling upon the coek of the .loade ibarrel,, caused it to spring back and rebour Swith sufficient force to explode the cap. TI load entered his side and he died within a fe dhours. Mr. Jackson was a rcsident of Chester Di ztrict, and was on a visit to the house of M 'J.as. Douglass, of this District, where the act Sdent occured.-Lancastcr Ledger. ~A "NuscE" DEV[NED.-At a trial I1 " maintaining a nuisance" recently- at Excte England, it was shown on the part oTa M yAbraham that his neighbor, Mr. Minty, had -cock which crowed one hundred and fifty time -in twenty minutes. The learned Judge thougl this was an amount of crowing which hiumn tnature was not bound to put up with, an cawarded to thme plaintiff one shilling damage Dayv GOODS IMPORTAT oxs.-Thie importatio of dry enos at New York lnst week, reache Sl.1:27,561. being an increase of over hialf milion. The entire foreign imports at Nc dYork ha;.t week, exceeded by nearly 63,000,00 *those of. the same week last year. (Q Watch two foes wvith all diligence-i e~nemny that stan I without and thme traitors wht open the gate within.. COMMERCIAL, SA cous-rA, January 3. .C'otton -The demand Oontinues good, and a lots offered are readily bought at current ratet Good Middling 12* cents. 'The river is reventeen feet by the mark. - OnsszLusroN, January 3. ICoo.-The market is unehanged aindl Grm a full pries. Sales to-day, 1,012 bal.., at 125. Nsiv Yoar, January 2. * Cotton.-The cotton market is active with at .th ad vace. Sacles to-day, 6,000 bales, and for the three previous days 4,500, making in past four dayt sales or 10,500 Linhes. Middling Orleans 136, s'nd M iddling Uplands 131 cents. Plour.--Market geigerally dull, an.1 for common to good brands of State $6,10 to $6,25. Southern lur, for mixed good brands, $6,90 to $7,20. Whea.-The market is dull, and prices have a declining tendency. C'orn.-The previous firm tone of the. market is giving way, and prices are easy. Naw Oar.EANs, January, 2. Corton.--Sales of cotton to-day 13,500 bales. Thme steamer's news caused greater firmness in the market. Prices are stifler, but quotations renmia unchanged. 3liddling Orleans I1 to 12h cents. Salks of the week 67,000 balest-receipts 53,000 bales. Stock on baud and on shipb.oard 380,400 bale.. Receipts less than last year, only 2,200 Isales. Cojce.-Coffee is quoted at l0b to 10f cents. Sales of the week 10,000 sacks. Stock on hand 87,000 sacks. Receipts -of the week 12,500 sacks. Wheat.-Red and mixed $I,40-Whcite $1,60. Corn.-Mixed 63 cents per bushel. Notice. - ThIE UNDERSIGNED being about to retire from the Dry Good Busincss, will dispose of his stock of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods-one of the largest in the city-at New York costy. for casul. His friends and tice public are respectfully informed that the lowest possible price will be asked, and from wich there will be no deviation. Country and City Merchants, and'Dry Goods Dealers in general, are invited to call and examine the Goods. THOMAS BRENNAN, - Suecessor of Coegrove & Brennan. usa..... . 2th, 1656 8 4a MaaIao, on the 16th ult., by Rev. J. P. Bodie Mr. Pu-rza Ous-s, and Miss JULIA: ANN TInaa-k MAN, all of Edgefield. MiA RRTED, on the 18th ult by thesame, Mr. MAn TIN Er.zxsuoE and Miss MARY HoaxE, all of this District. - olloway's Ointment and Pils. Ulcers and sores drain the system of its vital en ergy. Their diseased action is kept up by virul-nt matter in the vessels of the glands and skin. ~'This matter is neutraliz -d by the disinfecting operation - - of the Ointment. The Pills eure indigestio'in all its forms. Sold at the manufactories, No. 80 haiden Late, New York, and No. 244 Strand, London ; and by all druggiats, at 2, o , 621e, and $1 perbox. Read the Certificate of a Regular Practitioner ! This may certify that I have used Perry Davis" Vegetable Pain Killer. and 'believe it to be a very valuable medicine. I have prescribed itextenuive ly in bowel complaint, (particularly - for children.) and it is in my opiniui superior to any p aration I have ever used for' the relief of those disease. When given to children, I have always comblied it with the syrup, well mixed. Others have mixed - it with milk and molasses, equal parts.. A. H1UNTNG; M. D. PER DAts' PAIN Kii..a. as an internal reme dy has no equal. In cases of Ch..lie, Summer Com plaint, Dyspepsia. Dyser.tery and Asthma, it will cure in one night by takina it internally,niid bathing with it freely. It is the best Liniment in America. Its action is like :nag'e, when-externally applied to bad sores, burns, seal.ls and sprains. For the sick headache and toothnche, don't fail to try it. In short it is a Pain Killer. Sold by G. L. PENN. Agent. g'Merchants and Planters w1sh-. ing to'have batganus in fry Goods, would do well t., examine JUMES IENEY'S large and well as sorted stock. Ile has received same more of those sotid oolorca WORSTEDS, at 121 cents per yard See advertisement. tf 45. gg-Col. i.M.SMITII,of Abbeville,is respeet fully announced by his friends as a Candidate for Major General, 1st Division, S. C. M, Masonic Notice. REGULAR Communication of C=OIORDIA LODGE, No. 50,. A. F. M., will be held at their Hall, t on Saturday evening, Jan. 17th, at a 7 o'elock'. By order of the W. M. Ja7 2a -.752 - Grape Vine Abbeville Model Vin^d. R. TOGNO ofrers for sale VINE-CUT LD TINGS. and ROOTED VINES, at tho fo lowing rates: e Fo Per 100 Vine'Cuttings, t For Catawbas and other American varieties - Assorted .....................- -.$5,0 8 For Assorted Eurofean varieties.... .$0,00 a Rooted American varieties, ench.... ...50. Rooted European do -do.............1.00 Rooted Souppernong, ench .................1.00 r Montevino, Dec. 27th 1856 .At 52 d EDGEFIELD LYECEUlY1.L T HE Members of the Edgefield Lyceum will assemble at the Hail on Friday next, at 10 toclock, A* M. Punctual attendance is requested as business of importance will be submitted. The several Committees will come p~repared .with their ,reports. By order of the President.-. ~ O'N and after this- date, all Goods bought at my g Store, and not paid for at the time, will1 t, onsdered due on demand. T. ROOT. n Jan. 1, 1857. 3t 52 "CUR RYToNSCROOES. a HflE Stockholders of Curryton Academy arce - is Irequested to meet at Currytan on Thursday, d the 15th inst., -o transact business of importance. d 11L. A. STIA W, See'ry. e Jn72t 52 . For Sale, EVERAL OLD MlULES, suitable for wag r oigadtlrbegood for plowine. " Jnn7 1t* 52 Positive Notice. ArLL prsons indebted to the Estate of William rSSmyley, dec'd arc hereby notified to make r. payment by the 13th February next, otherwise a their notes and accounts will be placed in the hands Sof an Attorney fomr collection. This nnnouncement i is deemed sufficient to all who. wish to save cost. n Those having demands will please render them in d soon, or their elaims will be r,-fused. '.TanttaS.\y LEY Adn'.'r. Jnry7h1857, 3t* 52 n NOTICE POSITIVE.' d L th0se indebted to T. F.'Coleman, R ~M. n . S rry& S. Turner, will do well to come 1 forward and make payment by Return ay, as loneer 0 indulgence cannot nor will not be given. Those who wish to save costs must pay proper attjption to thise notice. Jian 7 6t 52 0 MONEY WANTED. A LL Persons indebted to the Subscriber by F Note or Account, are earnesijy requested to make payment before Return Day, as I have con .siderable money to pay out by that time, and those indebted to me must accommodate me~ with the cash so that I can satigfy the demands of my credi tors. Respond to ihis notice in due time, you that -are interested, and don't compel me to apply for legal assistance. . G. W. HOLLOWAY. - Jan 7 3t* 52 Notice. ALL persons having claims against the Estate .aof Anse d'el!s, dee'd. are requested to ren der them in nas early as possible, nd those in anj wise indebted to said Estate, must settle the same. by Return day. Beware, all ye who are opposed to contributing yopr Dollars and dimes to the support of the Sheriff hnd other public oficeers. ' CHESLEY WELLS, Adm'r. January 7th 1857, 3te .-52 Notice IShreygie to the erceditors of the Estate of G.W enms, dec'd. to' present- their eiims in the Ordinary's Office at tadgetie1l, C. H., on Tues day the 3d d y of February next, as I e pectto' make a Snal settlement on the Real Estate f said decessed, on that day.. - R. HOLLOWAY, Adm'r. Jan.5th 1857, &* - 52 Administrator's Notice. A LL persons having demands against the Es I.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. THEODORE FISIIER, Ar's HEIZEKIA H BURNET1. n . Jan. 5th 1857, 3m* 52 lMackrel! M~ackrel I T HOS wishng iINE~ FISI, inspeted. and pskdwhere they are caught, of all slixes and. numbers, call on S.B. BOWERS, Agent. Hamburg, Jan. 6th 1857, tf 52 Sherif's Sale. Andre( J. Crieghton,' vs. Fi Fa in ease.' . Alfred Ravenseroft. ) - DY Virtue of the Fieri Facini in the above stated - essepu to ite directed,' I will proceed -to sell in the Town of Hlamburg, S. C, ont Wednesday the twnyfrst Instant, the followinigproperty.. To wit; Sunr Drugs in the house where thdIerendant Alf-ed Ravenseroft kept a regular an~ Store, con ~istin'of Miedicines of all kindals,.Plts ad - other Icyarticlesausareusual keptiaiDrugStore. Turmso sale Cash. - JANES EIDSO,msa Janury 34 185 . 2a5