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LANOD3N WMETim .--This eminent--s*d, highly respected citisen breathed his at yesterday, (says he' South Carolinii,'"of the 27th ult.,) at his residende 1i this city. Mr. Cheyes ;was born .oa l17th Sep -.tember 7.4774, inAbville D1strie and.,was thertfore in his eighty first'year. At an early age, with his father,' he removed to Cliarleston, where by his talents and energy -be soon rose to eminence as a lawyer,. and.was sent to Congress. During the war of 1812, hq was one'of an illustrious trio from -South Caro lina-Calhoun, Lowndes and Cheves. He was stern, inflexible and honest-distin. guished for strong and' inanlyeloquence. After the supendei of Hall and the.disastrous defeats in the North-West-when the news had over whelmed- Congress with consternation, and when rosyenor, of 'New York, Gaston, of North Carolina, and Webster, of Massachusetts, and such like men, who wdre leadera of the Federal party,:,4 - by their eloquence and sarcasni thrown the Republican party into confusion and discouragemdt, Langdon Cheves rose after 9 o'clock at night, and delivered ~one of the most eloquent and powerful speeches ever made in any. assembly- he rolled back the tide of invec tive and indignant denunciation, and stood forth a mnaster spirit defying disaster-and imbued with the very genius of patriotism, called the country to rally to the rescue. The Republican party .was excited to mad ness, and adjourned, that stormy and gloomy night, with' higher resolves and nobler feelings of devotion to their common country than were felt~ before. -It was. one of the great speeches, if- not the greatest, . of the war. In debate he was always considered equal to any man in Con -gr~ess. On the 19th January, 1814r when Mr. Clay, being appointed to Ghent esigned llis station as Speaker 'of the House, Mr. Cheves was elected in his place,- having received 94 votes, Mr. Grundy 59, and 12 scattering.. He was not strictly a party man, and often differed with his party. His stern integrity would bend to nothing, and ho could not bear the party restraints of Congressional life. He retired and was elected Judge in our State, 'where he presided with great purity and ability. The United States Bank being embarrassed and in great-difficulty, the President invited Lang doa Chees to the delicate and thankless tasli of managing-it. It required not only ability, but 'integrity and purity of the highest order, and he an'swered 'the call of his country with success. By his great financial skill, energy and initegrity *he restored the credit of'the institution, and made for himself a reputation for high and loftyceharacter, rarely if ever equalled in our country.. He retiarned to his native State, and breathed for lher a filial and devoted love, which was the gcherished feeling of his declining life. His frame was Herculean, and his intellect massi'e and powerful, and he bore within him self Roman sterness and Roman greatness. * e was one of the noblest so.ns of South Caro lina. She has in the 'Iast. fifteen years lost a Hayne, a Legare, a McDuffe, a Calhsonn,.a But Ier-all great men in the enlarged sense of the term-and now again she is called on to mourn for Lanigdon Cheves, one of the purest and most glorious of her sons. Peace.to his ashes -the Goddess of Fame leans on his tomb. From the Charleston Evening News. THE EDGEMELD ADYRETISER AND STATE -RIGHTS DEMOCBACY. The Adtertiser of the 17th instant was not seen by us until this morning..* In another col umn will be' found an article, fn which it would rebuke some of our late remarks-would fend off a deduction from them, which looms to its uneasiness like an impending blow. It particu -larly suuf's in the -breeze two things ; that the -Democratic treachery in Kansas may recoil on the partyj men in this State ; and that the State -Rights Democracy of South Carolina .may in tend an issue in the State with the naationals. It proceeds to dodge or avert the first danger, and then meets the second by a sort of threat.that the contest willbnot be feared or avoided. *We are not in the habit of dealing in innen .A(o, and generally use language in a quite dis -tinct meaning. That which hase been quoted by. that journal, has its intent palpable on its face., When it was penned, we did not have the Ad ertiseror any 'of its peculiar friends in our view. Nor did we for a moment surmise that any rep. resentative, politician or editor of South Carolina did or would approve the course ad~d position of Gov. Walker in Kansas, or that they would be *unfaithful to the' general political sentiments and interests of the State on the sectional issue. There cannot be a doubt, that South Carolina has been de'ceived as to the polic adopted in relation to Kanss, and which ely involves treachery solaewbeff;;that ,this polic :has been originated and: is. now .being enforced by the ,aatidnal Democracy,..and the agent of the Ad ministration, now, in ppower; and that our *State -wai' carrid, .dragged or' "whewded"' inteithe national 'Convrention of that national party by a body of polticians in it contrary to its past custom and doctrne, and ini committal tof zt to party supremacy and - dictation. . That biody of politicidhs and their followers, although apparently supported-but by a few of the people, anid very meagre meeotings, complacently assum ed that they were in their.a proceedings, and par excellenee, the very .ordam opd empbodimen~t of .i th'iure policy of..he~8tste, ,whe$Asy cmbraoinn . wisdom, soundness or safelg.;' aiidc grni4ulgel sin derogation of thoue Whosieesutousenticipa -.4iun of( somec such' betrayal.and.. iry. as have & 'eeentred, desired tolatand~lly.*J* landmarks .o~jha.State, planted byhsr Usomer pad great sate..s.en h ndance and secnrity. . We make this statement in mere justification of our remarks, It is not our. intention to in dalge in any harshness or severity toward tis'e gentlemen, as 'we have no doubt they meant well. But in meanin-' well for the State,: is it unfair to infer that probably they also meant well for themselves? At any rate, and iii.view of the merit and confidence they assumed for themselves in'the Convention inovement, can they justly complain; howeag, dismi'yed., they may be by the disastrous and insulting action of their party in the confederacy, if the people doubt the high pretensions of their policy, or if in ordinary Polical re-action hey incur the cen sure and fel the idetraction inident to the er rors and wrongs of those, into whose arms they had precipitated their fellow citizens? If under the national Democracy- Kansas would have come .in as a slave State, would. they not in their jubilant pride, and in sequence of the iuklings of every, party. which n cn.secure dominaney, have jeered those who' had differed from them in anticipation. The essential spirit of party power is proscription, and the rod was hanging over those who doubted the faith of national partyism. - Talleyrand said, in reference to poli tis, that a-mist was worse than a crime. Let the Advertir at least remember, that under party bents-tenets that ndionale in this -coun try have all adopted-mistakes, whether of the head or heart, must be visited upon, and their consequences borne by,thoae whoseparty or men make them. Who of ua that has not been made to feel thisl The Convention nationals must take their turn; and-we say this, not in the spirit or with the 'rpose of proscription, but in -respectful admonition that 'events have illustra. ted the propriety if their being "taken down a button hole" in -their assumptions and aspira tions. Every party in the State, which has ever deliberately or by mischance, become entangled with Northern alliances, has been made to rue it in fact, measures and principles, and to rue it also in conviction as in defeat, and the sooner the conviction is acknowledged the better. In all.cordiality, we say to our conten ary take the lesson gracefully, cheerfully and quietZ It :at last will only amount to teaching th State to avoid pyetan ments, and to stand.. by its own o thhood and right independenee In dM-ng.ao it can ever promptly. suppori those whose, cause is hers, and efficiengy rist and check those who would betray or assairher. Thereima. be those wh:forget theState in remembering party; if there be any, we call ,upon -the State Rights Democracy to find and .weed'them out, But we have full faith in those, who, while they may encourage the Denrocratic part Ito success and to right action,, are ever most mindful of the dignity, rights and safety of their State. And among these we class. our cotemporary, and those of its friends, in whose special admiration, we know, .it most heaAily indulges. It is not the Democratic party, but its self-sufficient nationalism and its consequen ces which we deprecate. We would have more confidence, if it would save the country in the nanme of the CosTITUTIoN, and. not those of -itslf and the NAT .--synonyms of a UxoN .despotism. .Fim .ie CAarleston Evening Neiws. - E YOUT- AND THE DEMOCRACY. The.. fact has. been . noted in several of the recqnt riots in our cities,.of the presence of boys insimusualnumbers, who have beenthe chief ac tors in.the proceeding3., Is this a peculiarity of our free ins.titutions,? is the circumstance one of the socialistic ph#gpiena ofa country in which the democrati. element is ali pervading ? Or, is it a defect in ,or modes of education, viewing education n its largest sense as embracing pa rental training as well as intellectual culture ? Or rather is not this training and culture the proximate and our institutions still the ultimate source of.the mischief ? This is an interesting inqury. If our political system. is answerable for premature developmont by presenting to the too youthful the incentives to action, which become socially organic, and peculiar to the democratic form of society, the question is answered. ihe general fact is unquestionable, that coun tries in which the political organization is less democratic and the popular movement less deci ded, there is less general activity, because there is an absence of the stimulants *to excite it. There are fewer to Qccupy an active sphere pre senting diminished inicentives to rivalship. Not only are there fewer mpotives to arouse the ener tries of both old and young in the paths of am Sitions rivalry and opposition, in countries where all the faculties are not called into action, as with us, but the force of contagious .passion does not operate so widely through the intluoence of popu lair sympathies. We must take the evils of our political institutions with their benefits. If -we possessed a less active form of social organiza tion-if we had less political life and more of that quiescent tranquility which is peculiar to European society, we should be less vigilant for the preservation of our liberties-our sense of oppression would be less acute. We would be easier enslav-ed. The infectious influence of that sympathy that diffuscs the perception of public wrong with electrical rapidity through all ramnks might be restrained, but it would create a .slug wishness which would be the~ best preparation for aespotismi. it is natural and inevitable where the popular movement is so .universal-where 'activity. is so unceasing-that th~e limit should be so easily passed that separates boyhood from manhod. Iwould be singular if it were otherwise. The country which has, from the rapidity of its changes, 14tle or no respect for tradition, would present few examples of youthful submisions to law.' The restraints of the parental voice and counsely equally with the rules of collegiate dis cipline, meet with correspondent lrreveranoe, in the eagerness to act out the part of independent members of society. It becomes, in consequence, more and more difficult to define that barrier-line between puberty and youth which, being lost threatens to blend these parts of society into one undistinguishing mass. It must be within the recollection of many that the stages by which this consummation is reached, have come on us with rapidity in proportion as we have widened the sphere of gez'esai netivity and held out stronger incentives to enter it=n one word as we have become more democratic. This appears to be the great controlling cause.. Modes of education are but tho reflex of that stateof opiniion by which society itself is moul4ed, We-find in its organic laws the habits that are socially distinctive. If we call into premature development and public display the capacities and passions, which fostere and regulated, are unfolded gradually, by wise, private culture, the fruits must be correspondingly bitter. Human nature is too week to resist te provocatives that are held out to an emulation, both of the evil and the good, in those who are presented as sue cessful examples in the career of ambition and the distinctions of manhood. EANIAB, The Washington Union, of 24th instant, says "The country at large have been advised through the mails and by telegraph, of a studied deter mination on the part of those deluded citizens of Kansas who still madly cling to the so-called Topeka Constitution to take no part in the pend ing election contest in that Territory. Friends of law and order, men who are actuated by the purest an4 rmost patriotic motives, having in vain urge4 there to vote for delegates to a con vention to frame 'e Stet Constitntion, there is nothing left but to express regret for their folly, and to leave them to the consequences whikh are likely to follow their mischiievous, if pot dangerous .obstinacy. "The position of the Democratic party, and, it is scarcely necessary to add, the position of the administration, in regard to existing difficul. ties in Kansas, cannot be misunderstood.. It is, that the people of the Territory, have the right to settle the character of their institutions. If. a considerable'or inconsiderable portion of their' uumber conceive that they can impair and ulti. mately destroy that right by creating difficulties. and distnpliances, or by taking no part in the elections, they Jabor under an error of which they cannot- be too po~n disabused; for .the Democratic, copserva4y.e pqon of the country will regard the people of . aa .Qply such as are now uniting to frame a form of goveripp in acordaince 3-ith the provisions of law; and not those who are-seeking to paralyze the popu-] lar will by illegal subterfuges . and the quibbles .f fanaticism. "},VhateveF As ?gustitution may be-whether pecogniiing or .e;elp4ig slawnuy, or silent in re gard to the mnstitution-it will L~E viewed as tha. as those who frame it will act under the Federal Constitution, and in a manner recognised by the organic law. "The administration, we are quite sure, stands on the doctrine of non-intervention, in the strict est sense bf- the term, and will insist to the ex tent of its constitutional power that the people of that.Territory shall manage their own affairs in their owa way." LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF STEAMER INDIAN. QUEnEC, June 27.--The steamer Indian has arrived with Liverpool dates of the 17th inst. The. Niagara arrived out on the 14th LIvERPooL, June 17.-Cotton was quiet at unchanged rates. Sales of three days 17,000 bales, including'2,000 to speculators and ex porters. Breadstuffs were buoyant and holders asking an advance. Holders of Flour demand 6d@1s. advance. Provisions and Sugar dull. Rice quiet and Corn steady. Wheat advanced ld@2d. Rosin dull. Consols 93J. Political news is unimportant. The Disabili. ties Bill was occupying the attention of Parlia. mont. The Catholic amendment had been defeated by an immense majority and the bill had been sustained on a test vote. The London Ttmes advocates the abolition of Slavery in Cuba. The treaty of Commerce between Russia and France had been signed. Country meetings in regard to the supply of Cotton had been held and the Liverpool resolu tions endorsed. QUEBEC, June 27.-The steamer Montreal, having .on-"board 500 Scotch emigrants, was burnt near:this city yesterday, and 350 unfor tunates were either burnt or drowned. WASHINGTON, June 26. Gov. WApKER AND THE ADMINIsTRATION. The Administration does not fuliy approve of Gov. Walker's course in Kansas, as.it consi4es he is exceeding his instructions.' WAsRNoToN,June 20.t SPANIst &ND MExICAN DIFIcULTT.r-The Ad. ministration is considering the SyanisU Mexican difficulty. FROM WASMNGTON. WASHINGTON, June .23. Goveinor Cumming takes his family with him to I'tab, intending to make that territory his iiermanent hoine. Col. Jack Hayes, of Texas celebrity, now Sur veyor General of California, will probably be transferred to Utah, in a similar capacity. Brigham Young has never re cognised the United States Surveyors, but claims possession of all the soil of Utah. Not one inhabitantholds lands derived by government title, hence even Salt ..ake City itself is open to pre-emption. This is one of the perplexities which the Federal Courts in the territory will have to deal with, together with the established titles to lands. It is expected that troops and more civil officers will leave for Utah in the middle of July next or the 1st of Au-ust. Mr. Izard returns as Gov ernor of ebrasi-a. The British consulate at New York is a very important post, but it has been allowed to re main vacant since the dismissal of Mr. Barclay, who had filled it in a manner very acceptable to those who had official business with him. We learn that after a year's delay, a successor has been appointed, in the person of .\tr. Francis Lousada, at present a resident of Cuba, where he has held the officer of arbitrator of the Mexi co commission. It was wished by the British residents of New York that Mr. Barclay should return to his post there, but it was believed that some objection would have beer made to it by the present 1ieenitive, ilut it may be doubted wheiher Mr, Buchanan gave any opinion upon that subject. The Governorship of Nebraska is vacant, for Gov. Izard was superseded by the appointment of Col. Riehardson, who has declined the office. Mr. Chapman, the able delegate from the Terri tory in the late Congress, has been named for the post, but there are several other prominent applicants for it, including Gov. 0. Clark, of NwYork. Lieut. Craven has received preparatory orders for building boats and making other arrange ments for the survey of the Isthmus of Darien, with a view to the construction of a ship canal. He will start before October. The Navy Depart ment has mado application to the War Depart ment for the assignment of an officer to co-ope rate with the expedition. HoN. F. W.'Pre~nxs.-We see it stated that this gentleman has declined the mission to Rus sia, recently tendered him in the kindest terms by P'resident Buchanan. This puts to rest all the calumnies and slanders which have been uttered against Col. Pickens in reference to his p atriotic and disinterested national Democracy. Wheni ho presided at that Convention in Colum bia, which the "Immortal F'orty-Eight" called together, for the purpose of sending delegates to the National Democratic Convention, he was charged with an ambition for Federal office and honors. Once before he had shown his indiffer ence to these tempting allurements by declining the mission to Great Britain, offered him by President Polk. His accusers had no such evi dence of their disinterestedness or disinclination to Feberal honors, for we do not know that any of them have ever declined such things, even dewn tQ the publication of the public laws or a mail agency; Ii; is not that these igen believe their charges, but they are anxious, by making them, to deter patriots from doing their duty to their country. We regret that Col. Pickens is so much disin clined to accept these honors. He would do credit to the American Republic abroad, and win for himself distinguished honors. By ac cepting these high offices he would, too, have conferred honor *n his State. We therefore, regret his refusal, deeply regret it, and it ought to be a source of regret to the whole State. Gropiiville PNtriot. Tus citizens of Meraphis were shocked by the annouheement on Wednesday evening last, that'a wealthy and respected man named John Everson, had been shot and killed by John Abel. No provocation for the deed is known to have been given. They were setting with others in front of the Watham House, when Abel rose up suddenly and shot Everson through the heart. Abel then attempted to make his escape, but was seized and taken to jail. Within a few mo ments after the murder, a large crowd had as senmbled upon the spot, and were about to go to the jail and hang Abel without ceremony, but were prevented bythe milder counsels of sever ni g.lelnei. hey were addressed by Mayor Dougjan, Gog, Wsgell, Colonel Martin and Co.eahon. The meeting finally adjourped until eight o'clock, when about 400 persons as sembled in the Exchange Building. A jury of six persons from each of the six wards of the city was then formed, and witnesses were brought before them for examination. After hearing the evidence, the jury returned and reported that 24 of their number were in favor of leaving the case to the law, while twelve advised his im mediate execution. The crowd received the report of the jur, and about three fourths of hese sustained the oinion of the twelve, but .nal they digpe~s after passing a resolution that all gamablers shcmld leave thlp pity ~wthin ten days, and that if they fluiled to do se, they should be driven out, XoN. WM. C. PREsvoN.-This distinguislhed entleman is now upon a visit to his friend, Hon. Vaddy Thompson, at his delightful mouintain residence near this place. We are happy to learn that Col. Preston is in fine health, and we trust that he may be long- spared to ebjoy the gratitude and amiration which' the people of iSaeso wamyaduniversally redrto his talents, patriotism and. ,irtue.-Greenille Patriot. ThE PnosPECT IN~ CALIFORNIA--GREAT YIELD iP Glowi ANTICIPATED.-We have seen a private letter, which came by the last steames, from a gentleman in San Francisco, which states that Lf the writer's opinion the yield of gold for the year 1857 will not be much short of one hun ired millions :of dollars. The assumption ig' bsed on-the knowledge that -the faih''ties for makhngavebea kng=etle incredbytalecoa n. 1 pletion of sfumerous canals-and ditches which have been ii progress for .a year or two past. The letter firther states that trade in San Fran cisco will be. ood throughout the summer. So says the Ne4Yorkerald. -ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR. - EDeSFIELD, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1857. ADVERTISEMENTS. MAuxany A GOTTSCHALK's hdvertisement shows for itself. They will come up squarely to what they pub lish. M. & G's establishment is growing rapidly. It grows upon the principle, that industry combined with Ingenuity must thrive. Try them. J. M. Wim's advertisement, of which we spokelast week, also appears in this issue. NOW FOR TURNIPS. The time to sow the seed is rapidly approaching. It isto be supposed that every farmer and house keeper Is preparing a fine large bed, or may-be spateh of an aore or two, for the purpose. The next thing is to get the seed,-fresh and genuine seed. Do you want the globe turnip ? or the rutabaga ? or some of both ? We are the people who can tell you exactly where to get them. Find an advertisement of G. L. Paxx, the same old G. L. Pztzv, over there In another column. And after you have found it, read it. And after you have read it, go and-nuf ced. . PATALITY. Amid the prospective plenty and other pleasant ac companiments of the season, we have the pain of re cording the fact that an unusual number of deaths have occurred In and about our Village during the past few months. The last one is the ease of Mrs. Dr. Wx. BuRT, one of the most estimable of ladies, who departed this life on Monday morning last. How irreparable the loss to her husbana and their Interest Ing family 1-But we must add that 'scarcely a single one of these failleses has been attributable to local or atmospheric -auses. Still, they are well calculated to Impress upon us all a.more vivid perception of the uncertainty of life, and to temh us so to number our days that we shall apply our hearts unto wisdom. APPOINTMENT BY THE G0VERNOR. The appointment of Notary Public has been given to Mr. STAxixon B. Gamr, of this -town, by his Excellency, Gov. ALaox. - - DR. ALBERT G. MACKEY. This well-knolbveteran of the Masonic Fraternity has been in our town for the past week, drilling his subalterns in the mysteries of their ancient craft, de lighting his admirers with. his easy but commanding conversational talents, and- adding new friends to the already long list which his qualities of head and heart have attached to bim. It gives us pleasure to state moreover, that he will this evening lecture be. fore the Edgefield- Lyceum. ip Masonic Hall upon a most interesting subject, viz: " the infiuence of the temperaments upon character." The lecture will commence at 8 O'clock precisely. The price of ad mission is but 25 conts, and it is sincerely hoped that our people will show their appreciation of a good man and a highly popular lecturer by turning out in full numbers. ATTENTION I ATTENTION I Again, by instruction of our town authorities, we notify this community and all the surrounding coun try that every family will be expected to contribute of their good things'to the Picnic of Saturday next, the ver-glorious Fourth. It will be seen that a large and efficient Committee of Arrangements has been appointed, and from its complexion and composition we foci certain that every thing will he done as it ought to be done. A fine day Is anticipated. The la dies will of course be there In all their goodness and beauty; it needs not therefore that we say anything as to the turn-cut 'of gentlemen. For where the la dies come, there iiu the gentlemen always gathered together. To the gallant EImbers of the Edgefield Band we again say, come; and the girls say, come ; and the spirit of '76 says, come ; and let all who will come and surround the Altar of Liberty ! CELEBRATION AT HAMBURG. By a private letter we learn that the citizens of Hamburg and its Vicinity are making arrangements to celebrate the Fourth at Shults's Park within the corporate limits of that town. JosEra AsNEY, Esq., has accepted an invitation to deliver an address on the occasion, and Capt. J. C. McDONALn will read the Declaration of Indepcndcnce. " The ladies," says our correspondent, "will not be excluded "-which means that they will be welcomed with abundant grati fiation. Hurrah for old Hamburg ! We offer the meeting as our sentiment: " Hamburg ; the best cot ton market in the South ; long may she wave !" We bespeak a full report of the proccedings. THE SEASON. The summer of the year has been thus far delight ful indeed. The temperature with us is that of a mountain elevation. The crops premise a full yield. The slight drouth of June has been followed by pleas. ant rains, atleast in this locality. The lightning's flash has purified the atmosphere. And we have cause, al most every way, to be thankful to a beneficent Provi dence. SUMMER TRAVEL. Some of our citizens are off for the springs. The tendency appears to ha divided between Williamston and Glenn's. Our own conviction is that the water of Glenn's is equal to any in the Southern country. Yet Williamston has many advocates. But for one in tol able health, and who only needs a tonic influence, the blue mountains are better than bitters, and the moun tain air more salutary than mineral waters. THE FARMER dr PLANTER. The July number of this publication has made its appearance, and presents its usual amount of most interesting matter. Maj. Sution deserves much credit for his untiring exertions in carrying en the "Fre #Plaster"-now the only Agricultural Journal in the State, He has at last plaed It upon a firm foundation and in a flourishing condition. Every planter in South Carolina should encourage this work, and that at once.. It is now well conduct ed and very valuable to the farming community. Send $1.00 to Maj. Gao. Sztnons~ Pendleton, S. C., and you will find our assertions strictly true. Those subscribers in Edgefield, who are indebted to the "Farmer & Planter," are requested to call on A. Rtusur, Agent, at the Post Office, .and settle the same. "ETHEL SOMERS s THE FATE OF THEK UNION." This Is the title of a new work veryr soon to be Is sued by H. D. Nona., of Augusta, Ga. The pros petus is before us, giving some extracts in advance f the- publication. It is a tale of fiction, designed to illustrate South urn character, Southern institutions and the dangers that threaten the Union. It purports to seek the in ulation of truth, and "Incidents of life, draped In the colors of romance, are resorted to only to lure the reader to its investigation." Judging from the ex tracts given in the prospectus sheet, we should say that It would probably prove an interesting and use ul book, It is impossible however to judge of any production properly from disjointed extracts; and we reserve our opinion of the present one until we shall iave seen it in its fullpyroportions. Its being a South urn work is enough to attract the fostering attention >f Southern readers. The price will be $1,25, and rhoever wishes it, has only to remit that amount to 'I I.). Nonus., Augusta, Ga." and the book will uo sent free of postage. It is said to be the produe ion of a citizen of Augusta, Mr. 8xvva perhaps. #' Juoa Josmren B. Bnows, of Cherokee Coun. y, is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia. g7 Ta Democratic State Convention of Missis ippi met at Jackson on the 28d Inst., and made the ellowing nominations: For Governor, Hon. Wzz.tx.a ioWs.uz; for Secretary of State, A. B. Drswonvu; Luditor of public aceounts, Manisox McA'a; Treas rer, 8. IL. Hesssic; Attorney General, T. J. THE CHARLESTON EVENING NEWS AND SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRACY. The Evening Neas, in an article which we'lay be. fore our readers this week, falls into several errors tg which we would briefly call attention. First, It is incorrectly declared that the State was carried into'the(inoinnati Convention -"in committal of it to -party supremacy or dictation." No sue committal has occurred, either directly or impliedly. On the contrary, the policy of the State's uniting is that Convention was again and again coupled witl the express abnegation of any purposes of party af filiation. As we have before said, the main objecl was to -advance Southern unanimity and Southers power, for the good of the whole country it is true but more especially for the weal of our section and its pecular interests. The comments of that portior of the South Carolina Press which advocated thi measure, the resolutions of the Convention held al Columbia, and the course and conduct of our delegatei at Cincinnati, are confidently offered in . evidence as t' the truth of the position we here take. Upot closer Inspection, the News will see abundant cause t< recant its charge In this regard, at least in so far au the intention and spirit of the Carolina Conventlonisti are considered. It is Equally incorrect to conoludi that the State is by Implication committed to the die, tatlon of the Democratic party. The feeling ofth great majority in South Carolina is assuredly one e sympathy with that party in most of Its high alms But, while ready tosupport it in the advancement ol such aims, no one ever dreamed. of upholding it o its agents in wrong. The tone of the whole Southerr Democratic Press in relation to Gov. WArsan's Kan. sas policy, is enough to show that the South"althougl forming the bulk of the so-called National Democrs ey, lends no countenance to that Governor's act where they impinge upon Southern Rights; and thii tog, without asking whether these acts originated with the Governor himself or are put forth through him b3 the very head of the existant Demoeratic Adminiska. tion. As is the South, so Are the conservative South. urn Righta Demoerats of South Carolina: faithful tc the Democratic party only where it is faithful to us. Secondly, the News mhkes some random shots Is speaking of the meagreness and eonsplacent assump tion of theparty in South Carolina whichinsisted upos ,the State's being represented in the General Dome. eratic Convention. The movement was gotten uj quietly and without concerted effort; yet It prevailed wherever tested, with -two or three exceptions. If i1 be objected that the primaiy meetings were meagre, and in some cases they certainly were,-we suggesi per contra that there were almost no' meetings at all in opposition to the. measure, although it was urged it several prominent quarters to hold such meetings and although it was advised to assemble an oppositio Convention at Columbia. Even the proposition te meet in-Convention at Columbia and simply cast ow vote for the State's favorite, FAnAxrx Pisaca, mel with no reception so far as it was intended to defeal the representation of the State at Cincinnati. And whyF Because tho bulk of the people of the State ap proved the piopriety and expediency of our joining with the South in the General Convention then pend. ing. That their approval was not. lessened by the course of those who represented us there, may be confidently inferred from a certain test vote during the onsuing session of our Legislature In the electiom of electors,-a vote cast by men directly from the people and who knew the mind of their constituents So we must-conclude, as at prosent advised, that whet our brother of the News hints at somebody's being "taken down a button hole," he at once depreciate the unpretending strength of that body of men which he attacks, and overgoes the mark of a probable ex, poectation In contemplating their reduction by the needle-and-thread process which he so clearly fore sees for them in the book of Fate. Thirdly, we think our cotemporary in error whor he writes: "The essential spirit of party power i prescription, and the rod teas hanging ower those ,'h< doubted the faith of national partyism." T he Con. ventioniets will everywhere repel the accusation con. tained in the last clause of this sentence. They re. gard the people of South Carolina as one family. I there was a difference of opinion among them upos the matter under consIderation, there is little or non' in respect to the political principles that have so long guided them, a cloud by day and a pillar of fire b: night. In our common reverence for those principle we are still a unit. If there are to be two parties is South Carolina, the line is yet to be drawn and th odium must attach to those who point to it as a no cessity. The spirit of party! strife imputed to a por tion of the people of South Carolina, in the languag< of the News which we have italicized, does not (wi hope) exist in the bosoms of any of our politicians The appearance of It has been as distinctly foreshad, owed in the Newrs as in any other quarter; and yet we do not imagine that its strictures are intended oth, erwise than as the healthy and friendly criticism of a brother among brothers. It is this tolerant and gen erous spirit that makes South Carolina the beloved home of her children. If we mistake not, the Neto has experienced its benefits in more than one political aberration, and will doubtless unite cordially with u: in saying: Esro Perpetua. Since the firut article of the Newce and the forego. ing comments thereon wore in type, its second artick has reached us and we make room for it this woek tc the exclusion of other matter. The Ne~w. is wrong in saying that there is any par. ty in South Carolina which is " bone of its bone ant /eah of ite Jeck" with the National Democratic Party. There Is a party that is ready to unite with the Na tional Democracy for good ; nor does that party con. fine its aims and wishes to the good of our section only, but extends, them also to the constitutional pre servatlon of the Republic of our fathers. And this party is made up of the whole people of South Care. lina. Even the extreme Union men of the State are no such party as the News describes; and to show this, we point to the strong Southern resolutions of fered by Msaj. B. F. Pnnv In the Carolina Conven tion,-resolutions which specified the absolute re quirements of the South as fully and boldly as any the most extreme of existant Southern platforms. How then can the News intimate that there are any in South Carolina, who do not hold the question of Slavery at least, above all party committals or party obligations ? We have neither room nor time for further criti cism of the second article of our esteemed cotempo rary. Our only additional remark is, that he seems employed in making out a difference where none really exists. Poet Scriptum.-Upon making up our paper we find that, through the inadvertency of a compositor, the wrong article was taken from the Newos. Being on a parallel column, and under a somewhat similar cap. ion, " The Youth and the Democracy " was set up instead of "National Democracy," kc. We will pub. lish the latter next week. Meantime, senme very good philosophizing taay be found in the articeo copied by mistake. 31 YEARS AGO. From a number of the "SBouth Carolina 'Republi. ran," published In Pottersville near this place on the 22nd of July 1826, we ettract the following editorial, noticing the singular circumstance, of the demise of two ex.presidents on the dth of July of that year. It is not inappropriate on the irat of July 185f, recal ling as It does the memory of departed greatnes and of elevated old-school patriotism:. . Thu REPuURCAxe's EarrOnRIa. "We had not done admiring the singular incident attending the death of the venerable Jmrsansox, be ore we were informed of the death of the late Presi lent Anaxs, on the same day, and within a few hours >f the precise time of Mr. Jarrunsox's decease. Perhaps there cannot be found in the annals of bi graphy a more singular concurrence of remarkable ircumetances attendixig the -lives of any two men, than of those of our two late illustrious President.; and although those striking events might have been purely fortuitous, they have the appearance of design, s if Providence had in this way designed to perpeta te the fame of these two conspicuous agents In found ng a government the meet perfect and generally ad nired which was ever Instituted in any age or coun :ry. Nor do we feel disposed to attribute superstition n a faith which can discover a Providential direction n the exit of these conspicuous men, when we reflect, hat from the time of the penning and reading the lelaration of our independence, they had lived to le fifty Julies, and from the mortal condition of man xposed to death during every moment of that time - bnt met tim the wouimr-f that JILT whinka oa.=ti a half century of that independence they had acted so conspicuous a part in establishing, did either meet with death, but on this monientous uccasion, posses sing different consthiutions, different ages, different places, and almost witbout an apparentpbysical cause, they both die." Wo may add that this paragraph appears tohave been inditedby AswaaR'LADzUN, a progenitor of t'be preset LANDIuXs o Edgpsld, -and who wielded in his day a ken and feady pen.. From the same paper we copy another brief para graph, quoting a matter of fact from the "Cheraw Spectator," as follows: " Coux.-Th.Chiraw (S. C.) Spectator of the 16th instant states, that Corn will sell- readily in that place at 1 dollar 50 cents per bushel. The editor adds, " there never was such a want of the article since the days that Jacob senthis sons to Egypt for it." This item goes to show that the people saw as hard tiiges 31 years ago as they do now, and If anything a little harder; and that too when the country was eom paratively new and the lands unexhausted. Ther is I this difference in our favor; the wheat crop of '57, and the oat crop, and the appearance of the in-om ing corn crop, are all pulling down.the price of corn i asft as need be, whereas from all that we can gath er our grand-coiusias of Cheraw saw no such prospeet of releif. From this same old paper we And that DarL. Birn was then Clerk,.Wx. TamnvoxD Sherif, WaI Wr inz Baooxe Com'r. ha Equity, and JoX Swxa Ordinary, for Edgefield District. The conclusion is alaio. derivable from the same sheet that thoro was no great agidity for news among the men of that day; for in a veryong lit of " I'd. ter# Remaining in te Post OfeC" and signed by Rj H. Turr P. I., we observe the ames of DAnEL BRn, A. P. BuTLER, JoaN S. JET; and WADDY TsompsoNx all public men; and for Gzo. McDuVz there were 3 letters left uncalled frb, but he perhaps was of at Washington. DISTRIC'T sTATISTICS. Our thanks are due to- Mr. Dasm, our active and acceptable tax-collector, for the following tible-ex hibiting some interesting statistical information In re gard to the wealth, population &c., of Edgefield. RECAPITULATION O TAXATION. 22,451 Negroes, 70 ite. $1,715,70 73 Free $ $2,00 146,00 575,430 Salesof Goods 15 863,445 43,640 Professions, 0 50 " 217,70 207,810 Lots in Town 12*" 259,762 500,000 Banr Stock 25 " 1,250,00 2,130 Acres Land $8j 18,105 4,580 " " 4 18,320 1,600 " " 3 4,800 400 " " 11 600 34,240 94a 1 34,240 771,040 " " 40.100 308,416 153,620. " " 20-100 30,724 967,610 415,205 at60 2,491,23 $20,943,8317 Deduct commissions at 5 per et. 1,047,19;1 Nett amount T'axes, $19,896,64,6 DISTRICT RECAPITULATION. Poor Tax 20 per cent on $18,982,79,3 (Hamburg In corporation Excluded) $3,796,558 Less by commissions @ 5 per cout. 189,82,7 Nett amount paid comr's. $3,606,73,1 Road Tax 15 per cent on $18,982,79,3 (Hamburg In corporation Excluded) $2,847,41,8 Loss by commissioners @ 5 per cent. 142,37 Nett amount paid comr's. $2,705,04,8 Public Building Tax 10 per ct.on $20,943,83,7 Ham burg Incorporation Included) $2,094,38,3 Deduct commissions @ 5 per et. 104,71,9 Nett amount paid comr's. $1,989,66,4 RECAPITULAT!ION, or Bumts, DEArns AND MARIuxA, IN EaaruEz.D DISTRaTo, son 1856. Total number marriages.....................137 Number white males born............174 Number white Females born...........19-343 Number white male. died.........,.....67 Number white Females died............88-155 Total increase of whites...................188 Number black males born..........491 Number black Females horn.--........493-984 Number black males died...........198 Number black Females died...........201--397 pTotal increase of slaves.................. .587 Total aggregate births inclusive.............1,328 Total aggregate death. Inclusive............. 554 Total increase of population............... 774 THE LADIES' MT. VERNON ENTERPRISE It is proposed to take up subscriptions for this en terprise all over the Union upon the approaching Fourth of July. To refresh the memories of our in mediate readers, we brieoly sketch the history of this patriotic undertaking: Three years ago, a few high-spirited ladies of the South consecrated themselves to the accomplishment of the purchase of the home and grave of Washing ton. They formed themselves into an Association for the attainment of this end, and immediately proceeded to the duties of their hallowed enterprise. The "Southern Matron," is the only name heretofure used to designate the lady who has the honor of having instituted this noble work. Around her at once clus tered a constellation of female patriotism, forming the brilliant nucleus of subsequent accessions. Tbe As sociation soon grew in strength and ability, and was not long in presenting itself before the country in tangible shape and with specific aims. By degrees they aroused towns and cities, States and statesmen, to the holy propriety of the task they had assigned themselves; and at length a charter was obtained from the State of Virginia, creating them into a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the " Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union." By this charter it was stipulated that upon the payment of two hundred thousand dollars into the Treasury of Virginia by the said Association, the Gevernor of that Commonwealth should purchase from John A. Wash ington, the present proprietor of the Mt. Vernon es tate, two hundred acres of the lands of said estate, including the Mt. Vernon mansion, the tomb, the garden, the grounds, and the wharf and landing noir constructed on the Potomac. It is further stipulated. that the Deed from the present proprietor shall reite that " the purchase money was paid by the ladles of the United States,. acting in the name and style of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, and that at their instance the said conveyance Is made to the State of Virginia." It is also covenanted that " the estate so conveyed shall be kept free from Injury and desecration, and held in trust for said Association forever, sacred to the. memory of GnoG WAsuE~ om whose mortal remains shall be kept perpetually thereon." To all of this Mr. John A. Washington, after some hesitation, has at length yielded his full consent, with certain conditions and reservations which will in no wise afoect the design of the Ladies' Association. The work Is now fully in hand and may truly be said to "go bravely on." A large portion of the fund to be raised has already been deposited with Virginia; and in every part of our common country ealous advocates are enlisted in the cause. Mr. Ev erett, by his celebrated lecture on the life and charac ter of Washington, has been the -honorable and hon ored instrument of contributing more than twenty thousand dollars to the fund. Other munificent con tributions have been made. But one of the objects of the Association is to have enrolled, in the "Mi. Va-. ox Puacai~su Boox," -the names of as many patriot ladies as desire a part In this sacred achievement; and to effect this object as universally~as possible, the fee for membership Is fixed at ONe dollar, thus ena bling every one to participate in this tribute of love and veneration to the memory of the FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY. The approaching Fourth of July is seized upon, as we have said, to consuammate the means of this trib ute; and it is expected that every community In the land will do its part with alacrity and seal. In behalf of the Association, and at the request of one of its members, we now make a special appeal to the ladies of Edgefield. You are called upon by your high-toned sisters to join them In a noble tribute to the Great and Good Washington. You are Invited to become accessory to an achievement which will form one of the most brilliant episodes In American Histo ry. You are offered the privilege of enlisting in one of the most remarkable sisterhoods ever known upon earth. It Is an organization coneived by thepure heart of.woman, urged ofl with wembua's brigbtes smiles, and pleaded for Itq wean's leiat turns. It e...aotan. The ifll tide isuswifir relilag Iton te Success. Ten thousand.hearts rebeating for Its ad Vrancoment. Ten times ten thousand are ready to-se cept the earnest invitation which sister hearts are ten deringthem, to join in this triumphal progress. At its success, the Sun of our Republic will shine in a purer-sky and the stars of our destiny will clap their hands in exultant hope. Ladies of Edgeleld ! our own true women! descendants of a noble ancestry! daughters of Washington! We appeal to you, and. feel that it is not in vain. pe- See first page for a pleasant variety. p -See-the prosedings of Council as to the 4th. pt- See thi number of the Com. offange ta. - See their subscription lists wherever you can find them. _O See that you help out the pie-nie. 7t- See to your wheat in good time. pt-See that you pay the printer. pt- See that you keep.ir watermelons eles.i Jie- See that you all observe the Fourth -as i, should be. - -1jj .jzib And, Anally, see that youlearn to sMR the word "February" before any of you apply for admis. sion into theoWest-Polnt Aiad4p for we hear that 47 out uiifiifat ti rWdias9f applicants, and tlQ consequencewas a pretty general rejection of the party. For theA4tertiser . IOVRTB 01 3MY mhZL1 Edgaleld Vi.lage,.he.thia muopIg, sth ro lin& Hotel, tho folloyinggentsmnen were;zeqHst. ad to.t a4 a.Committee of Anamenaglteii occasion of the Fourth. N - . Emmet Selbels, Robert Hughes, W. Loudon Butler, Smith Blocker, J. D. Ramey, Win. Logue, M. 0. Butler, Jpa. B. Griffin. W. E. M9caslan, D. R. Durisoe, F. L. 8 ffth, J.H. Hollingsworth, John R. 13yan, . .'I(M. Landrum, H. W. Addiaon, ' W. B. Brunson, Robert Tompkins, B. Bettis, T. J. Teague, Jonathan Wevet, H. Rufas Dean, John L. Addison, J. A. Bland, James #. Wells, Rollin Eidson, Thomas Hill, John A. Addison, B. H. Mitns, Walter Nicholson, E. J. Youngblood. The Committee are requested to meet in the Court House on Thursday next, precisely at 10 o'clock, A. M. The Ladies are requested to assemble at the Baptist Church, at 11 o'clock, A. M., on the Fourth. The gentlemen will meet at the same hour at the Park in front of the Coutt House to form in procession, from whence they will march to the Church, where an address will be delivered by T. P. MAGRATv, Esq. F. M. NICHOLAS, INTNiDAIT. H. T. Wmouv, Bec'ry. June 29, 1857. For the Advertiser. QUD PRO QO. MR. EDITOR :-As ". L. W.' has concluded his articles in favor of a Revision of the Bible. I propose with your permission to review ,iis posi tion and arguments (as. far as' we think his argu ments go,) and also thearLtieto wrften.by Mr. Jas. ENxonas, " Cor- Sec. Revislen.Association." An earlier notice of these articles was desirable, but pressing buisness engagements prevente4 it. We are free to confess that the perusal of these numbers have disappointed us.- From the-flourish of trumpets made at the outset as to his donvio tion of the "vast importance of the subject," his promise to " give i$ a thorough canvassing " &ce., we wore led to suppose the matter would be die cussed with gravity, perspicuity and force; and that a larger amount of sound argument, and needful historical information would be broughtto, bear-upon the queslion Without intending anythlg e ytea sion, yet on reading his last article, we couild but think of a fable we once read, of " A mountain laboring, and a mouse being born." Was "BE. L. W." ever a merchant, Mr. Editor1I for he seems to know all-about where " Ink Stands and Chairs, Stoves and Pianoa, Ploughs and Hats, Steel Pens and Rail Road Cars, Over Coats and Trace Chains como from'! If lhe Was,-he did :f wondlerful mixed business. Or he may havo' been a traveller, and has visited the factories where all these things are made, and talked with the pro prietors-Muers. Maynard & Noys or Thaddeus David, or A. W. Harrison. Ho does'nt tell us whether ho called in at ahy of th~e Revision estab lishments, in his travels or not; if he did, ho learned dheir secret, to keep dark as to giving the names of those who worked in them &c. "E. L. W." says ho only told us about these thing., to keep the public from being prejudiced against Revision on account of its birth place. "Jusvrcn," who wrote on the same side a few weeks back, does not " like anything emanating from that quarter," he cannot see as much resemblance between a " Poker with which you stir the fire," and the work of Revising the Holy Scriptures as "E.- L. W." does. When doctors differ who is to decide ? "BE. L. W." is a funny man too; do you remenm ber, Mr. Editor, how lightly he disposes in his first number of his quotations given by "3J." In one of his articles against Revision 2 Of one especially from Dr. Hedge I It reminds us of a little boy, who, while showing off, slips and falls, butqulckly rising exclaims, it did'nt hurt me, though the twitching muscle tells otherwise. "BE. L. W." cry ing "Whew," accounts for his dropping those quotations so suddenly. The Comet burnt him. CANDOR. Cuao's x VIaoINIA.--The papers in South western Virginia speak favorably of the wheat crop in this section. They report the crop as somewhat late, hut as more than usually promis ing. The same accounts come to us from the Charleston (Knawha,),and Parkersburg region. The Winchester Virginian thinks the crop must fal realybel ow an average one. We understand, through several sources, that there is a great improvement in the prospect for a wheat crop, in the counties of Boekingham, Shenandoah, WVashington and Page, over-what the promise was a few weeks ago. Th. reports from several counties onthe8outh side are highly favorable. Iu Halifax, -Pittayl vania, Nottoway, Dinwiddie, &ce., we hear that the wheat promises an abundant yield. The news from the Valleyis, that the prospects of a wheat crop have maternally improved of late. THE WHEAT CnoP.--Some of our agricultural -- friends have commenced harvesting their wheat, and we are pleased to learn that the prospect. for a large yield is ve'ry fine. In truth, it is gen erally believed that there has not been for many years such flattering prospects for our agricultu ral friends. Itis certamnly much needed, for sucha scareityin Mecklenburghbaanot been experienced pinee we have been a resident at Charlotte. '[Nort&Carolia- W~g. THE WHEA'r CaoP.--Fromn a pirivats letter ex hibited to us, we learn thatihe wheat" ' in Anderson is as good as hae bgn raised fotrs, and that moat of thehileel aire hattesting -with a promise of a fair yield. When harvested, there can be no doubt asto the-characteiof the cep Itis alsostated thatideur per barrel will no he worth more than'aewbndollars, as soon as the new crop is brought into market.. Some of our own eitizen. will have their har vest by at least the first of the next week... We are informed from a gentleman who lias iust visited Abbeville, that thie wheat crop in that bistrict is batter than it has been for years;.that the crops are nearly harvested,and that an abun dant yield is looke for by each farmer. [Wal&4ana Baamur. Our farmers are still in fine, spirits ini regard to their crops.. There-baa nevera been a better enrlprospect in East Tennessee..thavn ow. .Wea wilieh jfearuthwaa ways,