Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 07, 1857, Image 8

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ARTHUR SIMKINS* EDITOR. EDG IEID . cl WEpNESDAY,'JANUAR7,7.1857. dUR AGENT -T. J. Wi'4rr sta in opr auihorised Agent to re ive subscripimn s'and collect all monies due this V office. - --. The -Csh System adopted. a Ater t66i4 f January we will adopt the Cash i system Vnd iueid strictly to adhere to it in each t and every instance. It it certainly the best system I for all, espeeiaily ne'wspaper publishers, and as our bilb are generally small it will be no inconvenienee to any oe to pay up inadvance. ToAdvertisers. -All adverti4em.-nts to- secure publicty through our colt'mus must 1 paid for when handed in. Those who live at'a distunee wishing to advertise, can enclose the amnn for which they desire to ad -ertise. Those, 4,"isg by contract, by ite year, wi:6 eji to asttle up quarterly. - s. bl ser and. Corum~ia 1 Examiner, one, y .r 4.25,,payaWe in advance. 1 ;.The Eainzjer is aar ge and excellent literary pa per published weely at $3 per annum. We will furnish th Advertiser and Southern ig ht one year for ,,5o, payabe in advance. The:Light is a well conducted monthly Journal, devoted to relieiouu mga literary reading,, and pub lished in this Village $,00. Those wishintto incourage -outhern enterpri-e ata obtain good and" eliceip publications, .would do will to take up our propsition. .0 Any one sendi |us five new subscribers to the Advertiser, with e cash for the same, will be entitled to the sixtiveopy gratis. 'A HAPPY NSEW TEAR. To our readr; maleand female,-bright and dull, tty and uglA,,wend greeting. . &happy new ,year, and man- more refornm.of the same! In the ..'- emuberance of his spirit -theuotber day, a good fel owi a6a4rtiin dinner-tabliemaked to his host 7* May youneverbea day older !"i Suggestive as F tre observaion 'was of apoplexy, or of dagger -points, orpfbullitt-holes, It was yet mean( well and was so reeerva. In the same olumsy vein of good butmor, we say to our deai ieaders-(who does not love his readers )-May you, never have another Sdallax-tobother you --may you never have another wife-to tease you ! Ma' you never find another Shusbiand-to fret you! 'May.you never have an otherahgkilling-to grease you! May, you never have another paper (except the Advertier)-to vex 'you? opis ! May you never have another flower -to grieve you by its early fading! May you never -hav anoter hope-to be ,riihed in its' fullest blooming.. OUR JANUARY SAEE-DAY. Alarge crowd of the solid men of Edgefield were la attendance at our Court lonson Monday last A more busy, earnest, stirring throng has seldom - been seek upo'n 'our public square. Of course money, money, money wais the great motive power of the occasion. A Lid we are glad to. learn that it flew about briskly from hand to hand. Every one who.oould' pay uas willing and anxious to do so;. n ad those who could not evinced nmistakeable in tentions..to pay as soon as they possibly could. It Vas a considerable day with our merchants, our lawyers, our tradesmen, our Court offioja's -and our ~ehoter-kee~rs. .It was no bad time either- for our sharmipers andkmnoteshavcru. Their .eyes glistened "with occasional chances at fifteen per cent loana. . . . ...... .L... .i~t.~;.. *.,nnmek at iM SIs a great deal of money afioat among our people -and if no false alarm is gotten up, if no panic is' nmanufiietured by our money-dealers and bank agents for purposes of greedy gabzi, debts will be rapidly cancelled, credit will remain unshnken and prosperity will mark the good year into which we have just launched. Return-day for Mlarch will tell who are disposed to install this desirable condi tion of things, and who to grind u'ilnca~y debtors into the dust of embarrassment. Let us all remnem her the golden rule of forbearance, and strive to do -unto others as we would they should..do nto usn. SPANTANBURG FEMALE COLLEGE. Some fair young friend sends us a copy of the *Catalogue of this institution for 1856. The total number of students ips attendance during the year was one liundared and seventeen. Among them there are names from Greenville, CIhester, Laurens, -Charleston, Newberry, Fairfield, Edgefield. Rich -land, Anderson, Colleton, Union and Orangeburg, besides alarge number from Spartanburg and a few from North Carolina. This co:lege wa~s established by the joint contributions or the citizens of the town of Spartanburg, amid by the South Carolina Metho . dist Conference. Much pride is enlisted in its be half, and a watchful supervision exercised towards by both th-e community and the denominatiomNnter ested in its suecess. The location of the college 'buildings is' de,:lared to be entirely healthful, and the buildings themselves large and commodious. This is the itistitution of which J. WorroaD TocKER, -Esq., is the President. - , OUR EXCHANGES.. *-The Newberry Mirror has undergone a change of editors, Mr. J. S. Rao having retired and M1r. - J.~C. McLExoaE haing succeeded him. The .Independent Press, of Abbeville, has been m.~uch enlarged and improved. -The Columbia Times also has a -new editor in Mr. Bownx, late of the Orangeburg Sout/aron 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 are invaluable: It Is one thing to know how to use a horse, but it is another thing to know how to take care of hiss. A atabled 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 allowinee at first, until the stomach becomes used to thethange. He must be cleaned every day; and when we say cleaned, we mean all that can be conveyed by that wor'd. A good cur ry-comb, brush, and an oiled woolen cloth, are thoe utensils necessary. First take the curry-comb, and begin at the to~ of the neck, back of the ears, working the band bth 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 troke, 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 ears must also feel the brush. Few men know how to clean a horse properly. If the above directIons are followed, daily, your t -horses will eajoy good health, generally. Stabled hoses must be exercised daily.- This is absolute ly essential to good health. . If the feet of your Iy horseare brittle, and are liable to break and crack, they must be oiled, once a wiiek. A horse thus e treated, will always be ready to go when wanted, ~ and you will not be ashamed either to ride, ore drive him. - Another thing qteas inportant, is a la and ell venU~sed stable. We cannot excuse any famer, or honse owner, who does not - clean his stables twIce a day. A stable-should be so con structed, as to haa .a wide passage-way or floor ii 'fu tront, to feed from. .4bove the manger a space a shnid be lefl, a foot or two is width, clear, an the passage-way sheuld be the avanue for the sup- - ply of-fresh air to the nostrils of the horse. . A horse enjoys a good bed, and it-should never he refused'him. At night, take your fork and m ae it up light, and you will feel amply reward ed for the humnana treatment you have gven your WEry word of ft the trutha. We would not only r have better homes, but we really would be better I wnn If weasitended to such Instructiuns as these j Drdthinkof the Horse! is he not among the-O est of animals I and is it iight to treath uT other ise than carefujly and generously.1 FALSEHOODS, AND ABSURDITIES. Nothing can appearmore ridiculous to Anri-r in eye,, than the occasionLl comments of Euro ean reviewers upon American morals aid Amen in politics. They evince an ignorance of cis-atlatitic iatters, so profound as to blunt our indignation y its-sheer edhicality. No monstrosity is too ionstrous for these sapien' scribblers to recognise s credible in connection with our country and our istitutions. Any hoax can be crammed down beir throats by a commonly s;gaious wag, and lorace Greeley's most flagitious wanderings nre ecepted as 'holy writ' f.r all purposes of argu mentation. W6 have before us the December number of the Dublin Uuiversity Magazine,". which contains n -iticle of this chimerical cast; entitlel "SLA tERY." It purports to be a review.-of Mrs. TOWi'S last anti-slavery novel, and is made the nedium of a wild and high-flown attifk upon Lnmvrican depravity in general and -Southern tur >itude in especial. The United States .Govern nent is spoken ofas an Anti-Christ, awaiting but he flat of Heaven to be swept into the vortex of -evolution and destruction. It is compard to that )f Rome in the days that immediately pr ceded he fall of the Empire. Then, says the reviewer, it was a conflict between.slavery and Christianity that wrought the grand finale of iloman power. Now, it is a war betwe. n slavery andthe Church that is to scatter the feathers of the American agle to the four corners of the globe. Slave holders in America are set, down as a limited nium ber of overbearing aristocrats, very nabobs, who by the force of their wealth and pride control tho. government and shape its operations to their'own nefarious ends. They are supposed to be at war with truth, virtue, honor, mercy and love, and are placed in a partivularly hostile tttitude tha ards the Christian church. But the day of their doom is said to be near, and an evident chuckle is dis cernible in the st le of this monarchist reviewer whie he predicts and depicts tie 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 find 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 farasite, hope and prophesy as pleaseth the NO'.cy or folly of each. Oir fate is not in the keeping of fools -7nor canall the powers of earth and hell-Abake the foundations of, 6ur government, if wisdom and patriotism shall now prevail in our councils. It is just such rabid comments upon American afiirs, as this Dublin reviewer delightedl3 puts 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 L-berty. The help of Providence ha- been signally with us from the in cipiency of our government to its present-fulness of wealth ano fewer andit will remain with us and cherisilus igo a ten-folt greatness if we are but true to ourselves, to our Constitution and to the memory of our revolutionary sires. e-canno deny ~our-lf the pleasure of laying bfrorreai netiact or two from the arti ole in qluestion. Ii regard to the present condi tion of things anmggt us, mprk the following: At present, lined.eseeno'break in.ho clouds. T'hepro-slavery partyseem everywhere triumphant. -As we write, the Presidential election has been Scarried in their favour. In defiance of all compact, every disrrict to watch over and protect slavery the ballot box, the crown-jewel of a sovereign peo plc, as ant Amrerican 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 reign of terror has set in, unequalled since tire French Revolution. A senator who had the courage to raise his voice against these-things in the Senate of thd United States is brutally struck down, anid 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 marsg mo're Brookes'. A silver cane, bearing the inscription " Hit him again," is the elegant trophy of a slave state to its pugilistic hcro. The Tipton Slasher, or the Brummagenm Pet would rise, no doubt, to tihe honrours of Con gress, and sit belted among the Conscript Fathrers of America, could tbey be induced to emigrate. Was threre ever a more egregious little chapter of unmitigated blunders and falsehoods'? It is only exceeded by tihe stupidity of the writer's at tempts at argument/a brief (but fair) sample of which we can barely find space for. .lIe is discus sing the chances of killing out slavery by Budting for Manchester other cottonr markets in India anid Africa, which are to undersell nigger labor arid play the deuce immediately with slavery. And this is Iris profound deduc.ion: But this monopoly of slave cotton in the Man chester market depends upon a slight difference in price. Thre price of a full-grown slave at work in tire cot-ton fields averages 800 dollars, anrd iris maint tenante for one year averages at least fifty dollars. Tire profit Ihe yields Iris' owner is calculated at not more than one cent on the pound of cotton as it is landed in England. To cheapen cotton one cent per pound in Manchester would abolish slavery an evil which neither religion nor reason, Uncele Torn nor "the underground railway," American abolitionists nor English philanthropists have been able in the least to chreck. The long-eared ass ! ie has no conception that cotton has fluctuated from 8 to 15 cents a pound. throughout its whole history, and yet slavery still flourishes in healthful vigor. He seem not to dream. that thre profits of slave labor in the articles of tottonr is regulated largely by tire amount made per hand, o that this amonut can vary from a cer ta fixed and unincreaseable quantity. lie takes it for granted too that -the produce of American ilave-labor can he easily knocked out of the mar ets of the world/by the competition of Indians md Africans; and tis too with the fact staring' jim in the face, that the munificence of an ambi ious Emperor has thus far failed-to foster into be ng even thre initiation of such a competition.--The trticle is too absurd to dwell upon longer. And ret suchr is the wisdom, such the veracity, of wri era who give direction to the anti-American fcel g of Europe. .DECISIVE BATTLES. An English paper thus enumerates the decisive attles of earth: " The most decisive battles recorded in history rethose, at ?larathron, of the A thenians and Per an; at issus, of A lexander and Darius; at Cain a, or the Carthagininrs and Romans ; at Pharsalia, etween Pomp~ey ard Caesar; at Chaiona, between Ire Freneh und thre lluns; at JIaz'tings, between e Nornians rand English ; at Bannockburn and lodden, of the Scts and Englishr; at Cressy, 'ietiers, and Agineourt, of tire French and Eng hat Ascalon, of Bajiazet anid Tamrrane; at avia, of the French aind Germans ; at Blenheim, re French and Allies; art Fontenoy, of the French ad English ; at Luthen and Riesbach, oaf the Pros anms and French ; at Marengo, of the Frecnch and .ustianrs; and at Ainsterhitz, .lena, Friedland, eipsie, and Waterloo, of the French and Allied rations." - Johnny Bull dislika' to think of two other bat es quite as decisive, if not so great, as any here ientioned; we mean the battle of Yorktown be ren Washington end Cournwallis, and the battle New Orleans'between Jackson' and Paeckenrham. 1 E A gentlenyaz observing a servant girl, wire as lefthIanded, placing ths Jpivps and forks on t dinner-table In th~e sange awkward position, unarked to..her that she was laying them left anded, Ohr, indadel" saidshe, "so Ihave Be a MR BUCKANAW. POLICY. Aptominent Pennsylvania paper thus discourses a to the course and policy'of the President elect: Now without assuming-to speak for Mr. Bu banan, or to promulge -lt ,..views on the topics reated of in the Enquirer, we nevertheless ven ure to assert that Governor Bigler, and gobody Ise, is hinisolf resionsible for what he said on. - he floor of the Senate; and, further, that neither di he Pennsylvanian, nor. any other newspaper, . peaks by authority of the President elect. Mr. Suchanan is now, 'what he has been for the last birty years or more, i thorough.going. State tights constittltional democratic statesmian of tle a eferson and Jackson school, and in his adminis- t ration of the government will be actuated, we ave not a doubt, by a determination to do equal s ind exact justico.to every portion of the Union. - r lis course of policy will know no North, no South, . ao East, no West. The constitution -will be his t ompassend his chart. By it, and it alone, 'will b he seek to guide the ship of State; and of his t skill as a pilot at the helm, and the iofty patriot- t sm with which -he will he actuited, no one who is personally acquainted vith the nan-can*iaveSa i solitary doubt.' The Enquirer may, therefore, iel reiterate its exnression of " implicit confidence in the President elect." This confidedee, we venture.t to anticipate and predict, will not be shaken du- . ring the next presidential term by any act of his. a His course of policy we doubt not, will 'be all e- 1 setisfactory to his friends and the lovers of th .1 Union in Virginia and Pennsylvania,.in Georgia and Indiana. But that policy has not yet been adum- f brated, except in his endorsement of the eincimati -s platform and -in his letter accepting the noni- ( nation. . We, therefore, respectfully advise our Southern C deniocratic friends to keep cool. The President elect has always stood by their constitutional rights when assailed by abolitionism of every. hue and grade; and, we firmly believe, he will stand by them to the end. Ho is, therefore, entitled their geriferous -confidance, even in advance of his. inauguration as the Chief Magistrate of the Re public. Let them not permit the opinions of A, B, or C, who, we again aver, speak of their own I repoisibility, to weaken their faith-in the integri ty of the President eleet. If Providence, spares I his life until the fourth of March next, -he wile then take the oath of office and enunciate.te .1 'rinciples and policy which he intends carrymg ] out in his administration, and when he -does that we have every reason to believe the EnquIrer , be abundintly gatisfled. So far as Se6tor Bigler in concrned, we know him to be a true-heated conservative Union-loving democrat, who will stand by the constitution-an the rights of tho States in every emergency. e is a well-tried 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 glorlojis Union. In connection with the foregoing, we have' tfie approval of Mr.-Buchanan in' saying that the fol lowing extract from the Southside'Democrat states correctly his position: " As for Kansas, Mr. Buchanan has never ex pressed an opinion either one way or the other, in .favor of its coming in as a free or a slave State. He has prudently conceived that it is a matter with which he has.nothingto do, and with which he does not mean to meddle. It is a question ex chsively with the people of the Territory, with whom he is content to leave it for solution. He - will see to it that the principles of the Nebraska law are carried out in letter'and spirit,'impartially, and without fear, favor, or affection." Tis exposiLion of Mr. BecnAxx's..sentiments has very much the air of authority and sincerity. .There is a degreeopf modesty and an absence of pretentiousness about it, which cannot fail to strike every reiderof taste and experience. We have nodoubt that.its distinguished subject will rigidly adhere to the charit here foreshadowed. His an tecedents; his .associations, isa grade of statesman-. ship, the school of which he is so able and so faithful a reprcsentative, the links that connect him so intimately with the good and great of a past and a better day, his Christian worth and in since WisumsavoY have commanded. True, he has arduous obstacles to surmount, perilous shoals to escape. But with the~ honest and bravo back ing of all good patriots over this wide and glorious country of ours, ho will (if any man can) guide the ship of State safely amid the gales of popu Jar fury which in one section of' the Uliion seem to threaten her with shipwreck. It is a warm, generous, .energetic, undcspairing suppiort. that will carry him, and us, and our country, and our institutions, right on in the road of success and of glory. Godi grant lhe may prove ,himself altogether worthy of this support, and that he may receive it cordially and fully, at the hands of the Ameri can pecople ! 'For the Advertiser. THE AEAB'S LAMENTATION, FOaL nTE DEATu OF IlsI STEEDI. Wlowv thy labours are o'er And the d irk grave hath found thee,* I shall see thee no rimare The cold earth is around the.. Thou art fallen at length, No mowre sha'l I find thee In the pride of thy strength,. Fling the desert behind thee. Oft have I been borne . Through the w"i !ierness rush'nug, ,O'er my foenmen in scorn, In their inputence crushing The hosts that aissnil'd Though mn agony stra'ning, Thy strength has prevailed The sharp spe.ir disdaining. But thy strength is no more, And thy beauty is lned And thy swift course is o'er; Thou, my lov'd steed, art deadl! - And a sign there is not, To the passer-by telling Where iq the sail spot - Of thy last lonely dwehling. - LIRA. COTTON STATEMENT. Satment of CottIon in Augusta and Hamburg January 1st. 1857.I Stock on hand Septemiher 1, 1850.. 1,7681 ' 'from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1... 95,699 IU in December............42,993 4 otal supply and Receipts... 140,560 Deduct Stock September 1........... 1,769 1 Total. Receipts. ......... ..... 138,692 r' SIIIPMENTS. To Savannah in December........... 8,014 " Charleston, in "........ 27,992 " Savan'h & Charlest'n-previously.... 59,871 Total Shipments ...........;. 95,877 s'"OCKs. l rn Augusta................... 40,340 f " Hamburg,.................... 4,243 e Total Stock....... .... ........ 44,583 ti NO .-As we did not make up our tables on d le lsb of January, 1856, we have no means of a omiparing the statement of this year with the fi ast.-Chroniele & Sentinel. A DEADFUL TYPHOON-Loss of a dhotusanri W~Les.-he North China Herald, of September C , wich came to hand by the last steamer, d ontains the following account of a terrible ty- r hoon and its appalling consequences: n The Captain of a large junk from Bangkok . ins communicated the following note oni the isasters occasioned by a typhoon encountered ? n tn he 12th of August on approaching the Clhu- ' an Islands from south: " We formed one of ab eet of 22 junks bound to various points from angai to Tientsing. On the twelfth day of he moon the wind blew furiously from the P frthwest, and suddenly chopped around from he south ; seventeen vessels soon foundered, at d the remaining five were dismasted. We re4 st also both otir double rudders. About one bousand men perished in that storm. In con quens Qf .assistance liberally afforded by a ca _7. -R! a ^General 06Mblyt ni and holden at . Cofumbia. - oni.the fd.th [ndaof Novem ber, in the Year- of our. Lord jone thousand . eight lundred-and. fift sx,-n thence continued by.divers adjournmedts .to the 20th da of Decenber,iim the same year. An Ac 'riesppe for the year, .cum encing in $ctober,- onthu eight han red and fifty, SiX..: I.. Be i-enabled by' ilia Senand House of . . and * i General ebly, and by te puiri same, T hat tax ithe sums anithe ,ind r herein tr nientioisedi hiall 'be rasA Id paid into e rblictreasury of .thisStateor the usand rice thereofrthat it; 'to mg:-sixty cents ad loremon e very hundred dlatiof the -value F all.the lands granted~minM.-State, according > the existing classification as hetofore estab shed: seventybentsi- head .n all slave.; io dollan Oneach fro*ne ,u4elatto or mus o E ptia and Indi ree. :ans, i ami p. ithhie b Govern Ae ad ,) between beages of fiftee nand' it except such s shall be clearij p-v d to thea satisfaction of hie-Collector to be incapable, ftrom maims or thewicofprocuringf tlivelih -od ; twelve and half cents aiaadfemd er thundred dol ir-f the'ad ftldtinds and buildings rithinsnIctylf tica e as r borough, in ho ite; 6 d dollars on - bctager 't flfaoymeu lties and. proft - I ions sincludig- tpoed . h dentistry whether in 'the prfsso .the Law, the I rofit bederived from' c ofsuit, -fees, or thenources of profeia ine'de,) excepting lergymien, schoolmasters, s mistresses and mechanies, and on e on fi commissions ecei d by vendue misters andsadiinge hisSt4tientf.fiveentA -pe5 hundred dollars in, the capital stock paid inionithe 1st of Octod ' >er; one thousand eight'fhijided and fifty-six, if all banks, which, ftherieprersent charters, taye Ait pd a-bonus to t& State ; twentyhfive ei. oereyhndred'dolls of capital of nks-of ssue oit f this Sitit, used and ecm >oyed ina this State by .agsn of said banks, ietween the.first.of October, one thousand eight intadrid aial ft-five, and the first day of Oc ;bir, ois thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, iecting Jones or.discounits Jnd dealing in ex :in or notes; twenty cents per hundred dol ars on the capital stock of Ali incorporated gas ight-companies; one per cent on. all premiums akedn-in this State, by icorpo rated insurance ompanieshe.and-by the gpcies of surance domre s,ud underwritern thoit the limits Wfthi r State; titein cents on every hundred Iolars of the amount of salles of goodaeas nd merchndize, eml-racinall 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,) whiok 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 iis, her or their capital, or bor- ad rowed capital, or on account of any person or persons as agent, attorney or.consignee; twenty- je five cents upon every hundred dollars of the W, amount of sales of goods, wares and inerchan- am dize whatever, which any-transient person not al resident in this State shall make, in any house, ke stallor public place; ten dollars per day for representing publicly, for gain and reward, any ar play, comedy, tragedy,' interlude or farce, or ad other employment of the stage, or any part E therein, or for exhibiting wax figures, or other shows of any kind whatsoever-to be paid into 01 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. -I 2. That llthe taxes levied on property as hi prescribed in the first sect.ion of this act shall- tI be paid to the Tax (Jolfector for the Tax Dis- fe trict in which said pthpegy is located. gi 3. In making assessm~ents for taxes on the p Srwr- en e-ywyi1txuse in mnlufacturingd j value of the macbiuery used therein shall not be included, but only the value of the lots and gi buildings as property merely. sI 4. That the Tax Collectors in the several Dis- is tricts and Parishes in this State in their return t< hereafter to be made, be, andl they are hereby iv required and enjoined to state the precise am'ount lIi of taxes collected by them for the purpose of m supporting the police of the said several Dis tricts and Parishes aforesaid, state the rates per iv centum on the amiounts of t be State tax collec- ir ted for said Districts and Parish Police purpo-- i ses; and the-Comptroller General shall return iS the same in his report. p 5. That free negroes, mulattoes, mustizoes, et Egyptions and Indians (free Indians in amity ol with this government excepted,) be, and they, are hereby required to make their returns and hi pay their taxes during the month of March. se 9. That the lots and houses on Sullivn'is Is. ki land shall be returned to the Tax Collector of hi 'he Tax District in which they are situate in the. iv same manner as other towvb lots and houses, and Id shall be liable to the same rates of taxation. In. thec Senate House, the twentieth day of PE December, in theyear of our Lord one thou- er sand eight hundred aind fifty-six, and in the ed eighty-first year of the sovereignty and inde- de pedence of the United States of America. I JAMES CIJESNUT, Jr., in President of the Senate. b.) . .JA~mEs Sm~oxs, Iof Speaker of the Housdor Representatives. bI SEr RETA RY's OFFlcE, CorxtMBIA, D)ec. 24, 1856. asi I hereby certify the forgoing to be a true copy of an act entitled "An act to raise sup- to plies for the year coimmencing in October, one in thousand eight hundred and fifty six,'' passed eq 20th Deceniber. A. D., 1856, and now in this hvi ,ffice. Gien under my hand and the seal of the co tate. .W. F. AUTHIUR, Dep. Secretary of State. DEDzIseNa ToF. SOru -The New Orleans bu Bulletin suggests the following method of de- we ending the Southi: " The best way of defend- mnt ng the rights of the South," the Bulletin says, tri s to make a vigorous and extended assault up- i m old fields and dilapidated fences. The cne- Al ny is sure to enter at every gap, and lie con- dei ealed in every brier pateh and acre of weeds of ie may discover. To rout him, horse, foot and sin Iragoons, it is necessary to set the plough aiid hir he spade going and then to overwhen him with his nountains of manure. Nothiing like manure hiol or the rights of the South, and thme expulsion Pc if its enemies. They can't stanid it at all. The dal Virginia and -Kentucky Resolutions, are nothing mue n comparison with it. They may be attacked up n front and rear, and terribly shattered; but hmaf auck -from the swamps and doep plowing, with Wi plenty of it, will prove invulnerable. Cotton tioi als are but gossamer in potency, placed be- in1 ide heaps of muck. of a k A Ricnr Couxvy.--Dougherty county, Gear in, claims to be the'richest in ihe wcorld; we ho resume, however, outside of those embracing h irge ci lies. The valuation is as follows: Slaves, are 2,230,912; land $1,781,887; money at inter- ble st, 650,67; city property, $980,000 ; mor- abc bandize, $125,000 ; othior property $60,000; cou 3tal, $5, 828,360. If the property was equally "C ivided out, each voter in the County would bo how considerable farmer, with nine slaves valued at ene ye thousand dollars, and ten thousand dollars' sp rorth of land to work themt on. d ses IMPRoAn-iTf TO BETTrNG MEN.-.The Supreme of ourts of Ohio and S9outh Carolina have lately ~5 cided that the losing party in a wager may cover from the stake-holder the money he i y have deposited with him, although the lat- Tie mr, after the determination of the wager, had, " r thie order of the depositor, paid the money sani rer to the winner. Tilis decision of the Court this destined to efiect an entiro revolution in tho per tting world. fro:1 The new steamer Everglade has taken her ,sition in the line between Charleston and F icksenville, and .touching at Savannah. Her pert commnodations for passengers are favorably Stea eommended. "fai ---+----wee It is stated in the New York Scientgilc Ameri- less< :n that the cause of the burning of the steam- tiori ip Knoxville, was the spontaneous combuhtion ami 'OUNTING HOUSE CALENDR FOR 18R7. S21 31 1. - ' . 2 3_ 4 1 6~ 1 819 0 i6 8 9!10,I I 11 12 13 14. 15.16 17. 12 118 918 1 22 1 2221 2 4.2512627 28.2930 31 26 27'28'29 30.31l... 612713 -1 . . . .. ..1 9 1 12,13 14111 31 4 5 61 71 8 20 214 1 1 6 7 2 7 1 0 . '11 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 9! 8 56 11'1 2.0 122:79$2.03 '25 26127 280 11617i1 192021 - - - -V 3234 29 12~2 1319 222 23 242526 27r 62 7228 9 0 11126 3 the 3J .a N 51 the Southern . 262 8; 9012 3; ...4: 1 1 3~~~ 4 4 65 . 31~ ~ ~ ~~8 .........1.,2132. - 7- 32:5'2 7 14 'i 7 1 . '4 15 16 148 19 17119 18 . 0 . . . . - i 2 9 . 1 ..1 . rom th Jaur N. f the.Southern5Light. TO KY FATHEE. 'me thinking on the time, Father, When a guileless little chjld, listened to the pleasant toneS Of thy voice so calm and mild; and as Lheed the prattling ones Who all my hours divide, 'hey seem like those who with me then Close nestled at thy side. nd then I sem to dream, Father, That on thy sacred head tre resting almost four-score years, And my youthful ones are fled. 'hat thy locks have whiter grown, Father, And mine have sadly changed, ince round our quiet fire-side, A clieerful group we ranged. lut when the dream is o'er, Father,. And I feel its all too true, knd that old friends are distant far While all a-near are ae,, dash away the brimming tear. Which swell my aching eyes, and sigh for that unchanging home Where are-no broken ties! E. W. R. LATER IRON EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF STEAMER IAGAR A. HJI.FAx, Janury 1. The steamer Niagara has ar rived, with latter rices from Europe. The quotations for cotton are: Middling Or ns 7, middling uplands 6 7-8. Sales of the ek 55,800 bales-speculators taking ',500 d exporters 3,400. The sales on -Friday rounted to 12,000 bales, at firm prives-nar t active, and an advance of 1-8 on all grades. Financial matters are easier. -The bank rates i 6 per cent. Consols for money 9334; for count 93 7-8. The bullion in the Bank of igland has increasd ?206,000. Tha steamers Erricson and Persia had arrived The political news is unimportant. HON. HENRY HrLTARD. At the recent Alabama Conference of the ethodist Episcopal Church, Hion. H. W. Hil rd announced his intention of returning to e ministry. He had been alluded to in Con ence as probable editor of the Methodist or nu to be established in Montgomery, ad the oposition meeting with some question, Mr. illiardjrose and turninet E ishop Pier "I give you my hand, my brother, in this eat work! ienceforw ard our paths of life all not diverge ! I come, in the maturity of y manhood, deliberately to lay my heagt, in lect, and whatever of trophies I may have on in other walks of liTe, professional or po :ical, humbly at the foot of the Cross, with otives which befit the service of my Master. "Let it be distinetly understood, that no vote hich this Conference may take upon the pend g proposition can afict my resolution to give yself to this work. At home and abroad-ia y solitary journeyings--or standing in the glaces of kings, I have never forgotten my rly vows. I have seen the begining and end earthly greatness. "Intimately associated wvith some of the first ring statesmen of this age and country, I have en themi pass away from this earth ! Sir, I tow the vanity of earthly things! I come nbly, but I come preserving that self-respect ithout gtich I should not be mneet for the aster's service.' " I ask nothing from this Conference on my rsonal account. Lt the vote have no refer e to me. -No, no, sir ! I have never lower my crest, when facing political parties in the y of battle. I preserve amy self-respect, but esire to achieve somewhat t~t will enable , when this wvorld~burns up. to be recognized -the Great Ihead of the Church, as a friend Christ, and to tajke my place, however hum 1, among martyrs and saints who have loved d served him on earth !" This is the substance of his remarks delivered the spell bound audience. It was a scene of ense moral sublimity. May he find grace al to his noble resolution ! Long may he e to edify the church ; and finally win and ar the crowni of endless joy and glory.-31a 2 Telegraph.___ SNGULAR INSTAXcE OF AFFuCTION IN A DoG. The many extraordinary instances of the de ion of. the dlog to his master, now on record, mr too much for the belief of most of men, t the following wvas told us by a gentleman 11 acquainted with the circumstances, and .ny others in this vicinity can vouch for the .th of the statement: )harles Hlueston, a man well known on the ibamna river, but for thme last few years a resi it of California, was killed by the explosion a steamboat near San Francisco a few moaths ee. A noble Newfoundland dog owned by 1 escaped injury, and dragged the body of master to the shore. The dog was sent ne to the mother of the deceased, residing in ery county, Alabama. On being shown a uerreotype of his lost master, the dog im diately recognized it, and comtmenced lifting the most piteous howls ; since that time he refused all food, and moans constantly. ten last heard from he was in a dying condi , and is probably dead by this time. Where, mman history, can be found such an instance lvoted love and intense grief at the loss of evd one.--Selma Reporter. 'HE AMERIcAN I-oRsEs IN ENGLAND.-Thei ses taken to'England i.y Mr. Tea Broeck at Newmarket, where they excite considera interest. An effort has been made to bring ut a match for ?5,000 over a four mile rse, but the English do not seem willing to ime up to the scratch." There is no doubt, -ver, that the English turfiters have pluck ugh, and it is probable that the relative td of English and American horses will be ded in the spring. Mr. Tea Broek's hor are " Lecompte,"~ ch. hi, by Boston, out of 1, 6 years;' "Prior," ch. h., by Glenmcoe, out ?ipsyi, 4 years; "'Prioress,"M. f., by Sover , out of Reel, 3 years. A RGE SALE OF MoLAsss.-The New Orleans myne, of the 10th ult., says: We learn that a sale of six hundred thou 1 gallons of molasses, org plantation, was Jmorning closed, in the city, at sixty cents gallon, for the Ohio river. The molasses is i the plantation of Col. John Preston, and ipposed to be the largest crop in the State." loHTs OF COLORED Pnasozs.-Two colored ons, named Julian B. McCrea and John enson, who were refused'admittance to the nily circle" in the Howard Athenamum last k, at Boston, have brought suits against the mand manager, to test the,question in rela to the rights of colored people in places of ament~, especially theatres. ~The cases will nodl in Jannary Eisceea88eous Items. 070 THE Medical Department of the~ Uni 'ersity of Kentucky at Louisville, including tlie iirary, Laboratory and Museum, was burnt on he 31st uIt. The l'ss. is estimated at $100,000. W TirE New York forger, Huntington, was onvicted Wednesday last, and has been son enced to four years and ten 1months in the tate pri-on. W THE Syracuse Standard says: Justice Burst performed a marriage ceremony on Sat urday evening last. The bridegroom was a red iended white man, the bride was a good locking ;quaw, and the bridesmaid was a genuine Afri. :1n wench. " PornTER'S Srrnrr," 'of November 22d, ays: The tastest mile ever made by a running horse,- was made by Henry Perrit, in 1 421 The fastest mile ever made by a parer, was Poca. hontas, in 2.171; and the fastest. mile ever made in trotting, was made by Flora Temple, in har ne.,s, in 1.24J. W THE number of hogs killed at Chatta. nooga to the 20th adounted to 8.000. One lot of 1.200 averaged in weight 400 lbs. etch, many of them going as high as 600 pouids. It Is thonght that rit es will recede, as supplies are coming in plentifully. W TEN out of eleven applicants for admis sion to the bar in New York have been rejected by the examiner. Thi 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 (Al.,.) Sentinel states that Col. Wm. M. Brantley. of that place, has re ceived the appoinitment of Colonel in the Nicur aguan army, and is now engaged in making pp a.company of two hundred young men, to eut grate to Nicaragua; WF- Two resurrectionists, Patrick Lillis and Wim. Cunninqham-the former an Irishman and the latter an American-have been arrested and held to bail in Cincinnati for procuring sub jects," for the doctors. W THE Ohio Farmer estimates the profits on bheep in that State last year- at $6,000,000, and the whole capital invested a, $60,000,000. 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. * . WF ON Christmas night, at Springville, it 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 woman named Martha Kennedy. We understand that the femoral artery was severed, and that Uoore bled to death in a few minutes. E T THE old adage-" You should not count chickens before they are hatched !"-has ob. tained a new reading thus-" The producers of poultry should postpone the census of the j& venile fowls till the period of incubation is fully accomplished. W NEWSPAPER READERS TURN OUT WELL. We know a respectable gentleman in Monroe county, who many years ago sawed a chord o1 wood to pay, in advance, his first year's sub scription for a newspaper. He is now, in him ripe and vigorous old age, worth a quarter of a million. of dollars. - WE admire the ladies, because of theil beauty, respect them because of their virtues adore'them because of their intelligence, and love them because we can't help it! - fir WHEN we record our nngry feelfngs, le1 it be ont the snow, that the first beam of sun, shir~d may obliterate them forever. jgp- LATE arrivals .from Havana state thal another cargo of Chinese coohies, numbering island. FA-rAL AccrnENr.-On Monday ltast, a yonn man named J. ckson was killed in this District by thr accidental discharge of a gun in his owr hands. The ps~iculars, as we learned them are singular. One barrel of his gun was oidd and whilst in the act of loading the other, a small gourd filled with shot slipped from hit hand, and falling upbn the cook of the loadei barrel,. caused it to spring back and rebount with sufficient force to, explode the cap. The load entered his side and he died within a feit hours. Mr. Jackson was a resident of Chester Dis. trict, and was on a visit to the house of Mr J4s. Douglass, of this District, where the acci dent occured.-Lancaster Ledger. A "NumAscE" DEFINED.-At a trial tot " maintaining a nuisance" recently~ at Lxeter England, it was shown on thte patt oTa Mr Abrahtam that his neighbor, Mr. Minty, had cock which crowed one hundred and fifty time in twenty minutes. The learned Judge thoughi this was an atmount of crowing which htumat nature was not bound to put up with, and awarded to the plaintiff one shilling damages Day Goons IMPRaTAT oss.--The imporlatior of dry goois at New York last week, renehed 1,17.,561. being an inerease of over half ii million. The entire foreign imports at Neu York last week, exceeded by nearly *3,000,000 those of. the same week last year. (~i" Watch two foes with all diligence-I c enemy that stan I thout and the traitors whoc open thte gate within.. COMMERCIAL. A c'OP-rA, January 3. . Cat lon -The demand 8ontinues good, and all lots offered -are readily bought at current rates. Good Middling 12* cents. -Thte river is reventecn feet by the mark. - CunRmsrOr, January 3. Ctton.-The market is unehanged andu firm at full prices. Sales to-day, 1,012 bak' s, at 124. Nuiv Yoas, January 2. Cotton.-The cotton market is active wvithu an ti advance. Saies to-day, 6,000 bales,and for the three previous days 4,500, making in past four days ales of 10,500 L.ales. Middlinig Orleans 134, ad Middling Uplands 13h eents. Ptour.-Market geierally' dull, an.1 for commom to good brands of State $6,l0 to $6,25. Southern l'or, for mixed good brands, $6,90 to $7,20. Weat.-Thesmarket is dall, and prices have a declining tendency. Corn.-The previous firm tone of the inarket is giving way, and prices are easy. Nuw Oar.EANs, January, 2. Coiton.-Sales of cotton to-day 13,500 bales. The steamer's news caused greater firmness in the market. Prices are stiffer, but quotations retine unchanged. Mliddling Orleans 114 to 124 cents. Sales of the week 67,000 barese.-receipts 53,000 bates. Stock on hand and on shipboiard 380,400 bales. Receipts less than last yl-ar onily 2,200 Isales. Cajfee.-Cofee is quoted at 104 to 104 cents. Sales of the week 10,000 sacks. Stock on hand 87,000 sacks. Receipts -of.the week 12,500 sacks. Wheat.-Red ad mixed $l,40-White $l,60. Corn.-Mixed 63 cents per bushel. Notice. THE UNDERSIGNED being about to retire rrom the Dry Good Business, wilt dispose of hie stock of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods-one of the largest in the city-at New York coety for caush. [ie friend, and thte publIc are respectfully Informed that the lowest possible price will be aaked,and fr~nm rhich there will be no deviation. Country ad City Merehants, and'Dry Goods Dealersin geneisi, re invited to call and examin~e the Goods. THIOMAO BRENNAN; - Sneeasinr-of Cosgrove & Brenan. Au..t.,... exam 1656, 61 41 BIA&ILE09 o blaaalsD, on the 16th nit, by:Rev,,. P. joie~ ir. Paran OusTs, and Mliss Ji .d W Tnuwa V Ka11,-all of Edgeeld. - MARiDts, on the 18th ult,by theame r. MAR rm Er. A5IGN and MiSS MAR iHoaxe, all-of this Distict. Ifoloway's OIntmenat and PiLs. . Ulcers and sores drain the systemi oeitsvital en ergy. Their diseased action is kept uiby virulint matter in the vesels of .teglands inda-ski': This matter is neutraliud by.the -disiufectiuiopenition -. of the Ointment. The Pill'core ndigestiof al its forms. 8 Sold at the manufactories, No 80 blaideuTn ' New York, and No. 244 Strand Londoil and h all druggists at 23o , C2 e ,-and.41e4.x Read the Certficate of a RegIar 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 It'extensive- - ly in bowel 'complaint, (particularly - for childre.) and it is in my opinian.supeir toany preparatka I have ever used for'.the relief-ofrthose diseases. When given to children, I have always iomblni it with the syrup, well mixed;. Others-hiwe x it with milk and molasses, eql parts. A. HUNT1 , D .Pxaav Davis' PAs K IlR, as an itrareme dy has no equal. In cases of Chelio, Sunimer Com plaint, Dyspepsia. Dysertery and Asthma tIt will cure in one night bj taking it insrallyand bathing with it freely. It is thu best Liniment Ameriea. Its action is like mag:e, when-externally appliedto - bad sores,burns,seal.ls and spriuna. iori sick headache and toothnehe,don't failto try it. In short it is a Pain Killer. Sold by G. L. PENN. Agent. U"erchants and Planters wish ing to'have baigains in Dry Guods, would do well tW examine JANIES'InENRY'S large and well as sorted stoek. Ile has received same more of those solid colored WORSTEDS, at 12J cents per yard See advertisement. tf 45. "-Col.i.M.8MITH,of Abbeville,is respect fully announced by his friends as a Candidate for Major General, 1st Division, S. C. &, Masonic Noticee A REGULA R Communication o.t : 003100EDIA L103, ,40 A. F. M., will be held at their Hall, - on Saturday evening, Jan. 17th, at 7 o'olock'. By order of the W. BL Jan7 . 2 - 52 Grape Viae Abbeville Model Mined D R. TOGiIO of'ers for sale'VINE-CUT TrNGS. and ROOTED VINES- at 'thefi lowing rates: e. #. Per 100 Vine Cuttigs. For Catawbas and other Americn varieties. - Assorted............----.55,0 for Assorted Euroean varieties.......$10,00 Rooted American varieties, each ... 50 Rooted European do - 'ao. ......00 Rooted Scuppernong, each........ .....1.00 Montivino, Dec. 27th 1856 t. . 52 EDGEFIELD LYVEUME. 'HE Members. of the Edgefield, Lyceum wil .1 asemble at the Hall on Friday next, at.10 o'clock, Ai M. Punctual attendance -Is requested as-business of importance will be snbmitted. Te several Committees will come prepared wlhtheir - reot.By.oraler ofithe President' HI. RUFUS DEAN, Actn Sec'ry. 1 Jan 7 ~ ~ - It 52" (N and after this date, afi Goods bought at my OJStre, andnot,.aid for at htpe ib considered due on demand. -T. ROOT. - Jan.1,1857. . 3t 52 NCURRYTONsSCROOES. T[HE Stockholders of Curryion- Academy aroe irequested to meet at Curryton on Thursday,. the 15th inst., .o transact business of importance. Jan 7 22"52 For sale, EVERAL OLD MULES, suitable for wag Lgoning-and tolerable good for plowing S. S. TOMPKINS. Jan 7 1L * 52 Positive Notice. LLprons indebted to the Estate of William As. Syey, dee'd arc hereby notified to make payment by the 13th February next, otherwise their notes and aceounts will be placed in the hands of an Attorney for colleetion. This nnnouncement is dcemed sufficient to all who, wish to save east. Those having demands wili plcense render them in soon, or their elnims will be re'fu-'ed. .J. ,SMiY LEY, A'dii'r. January 7th 1857, 3te 52 NOTICE POSITiVE. A Lkthose indeted to'T. F.'Coleman, R M . t. Serry & S. Turner, will do well to come~ forward and make payment by Return day, as longer Indulgence cannot nor will not he given. Those who wish to save costs must pay proper attsstion to this notice. - Jan 7 6t ' 52 MEON EY WANT ED. A LL Persons indebted to the Subscriber by Note or A ccount, are earnesejy requested to 'make payment before Return Day, as I- have con siderable monley to pay out by that time, and those indebted to me must accommodate me- with the cash so that lecan matigfy the demands of m'y 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. HOLLOWAY. Jan73t* 52 Notice. ALL persons having claims against' the Estate .3of Ansel fVel!s, dee'd. are ~nested to ren der them in as early as possible, n those in any 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 suplidrt of the Sherif' And other public officers. - 'CHJESLEY WELiLS, Adm't. January 7th 1857, / S3e - 52 lNotice I hee yien to the ereditors of the Rstate of' G.W emdec'd. to present' their cLaims in the Ordinary's Offioe at tadgcile1J, C.'H., on Tues day the 3d d ty of February. next, as I etato make a final settlement on the Real Estaterf said decesed, on that day.. Jan.5th 857 HOLLOWAY, Adm'r. Administrator's Notice. A LL persons having demands against the Es ttate of Elijah Langley, dee'd. are requested to present them to the undersigned properly attested on or before the 10th day of April next, or their said claims will be excluded. THEO DORE .FISIIER. IIEZEKIAII BURNETT. "Ai -em Jan. 5th 1857, .3me 52 Eackrel? lMackrei ! T HOS wising INEc FIsi, Inspected and - Tpacked wherethey are caught, or alliis and. numbers, call on b. . BOWERS, Agent. Hamburg, Jan. 6th 1857,-' -. 52 Sherif's Sale. Ande J. Crieghon --' VS. Vi Pa inase. Alfred Ravenscroft.' ) the Town of Hamburg, 8. C c Wdelythu twenty-frst iinstant, the fall.wnppp )cl Sundry Drugs in the house whr hDsdn lfre Ravenseroft kept a regular Dr#Soenu. 'et~g f Itledicines of all kinds, Of&1t~ teroyarticles as are usual ept~bDuS . T,4fsale Ca . ~. AMES'EIDSON, a3 an..u 3dI856 7 21 A 5