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S. - - . .. I || - Iemoeratic 3 rnat, ernutt to tIle Souti)4 a Svuiljern Rig1jts, !itie, ,,emperaunee, Cgr ntur, We will cling to the Pilla'rs of the Temple of @oi will Perish amidst the Rulu'." S MKINS, DURIISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD - 0., JULY 85 18. From "'The Smitten Household." ITTLE RESSIE, AND TE WAY IS WHICH SHE FELL ASLEEP. Hug me closer, closer mother, Put your arms around me tight; I am cold and tirei mother, And I feel so strange to night! Something hurts me here dear mother, Like a stone upon my breast; Oh! I wondir, wonder, mother* Why it is I cannot rest! AU the day, while you were working, As I lay upon my bed, I was trying to be patient, And to think of what you said: How the kind and blessed Jesus, Loves his lambs to watch and keep; And I wished he'd come and take me In his arms, that I might sleep. Just before the lamp was lighted, Just before the children came, While the room was very quiet, I heard some one call my name. But I could not see'the Saviour, Though I strair:ed my eyes to see; And I wondered, if he saw me Would he speak to such as me 1 In a moment I was looking On a world so bright and fair, Which was full of little children, And they seemed so happy there! 'They were singing, oh, how sweetly! Sweeter songs I never heard: They were singing sweeter mother, Than the sweetest singing-bird. And while I my breath was holding, One, so bright, upon me smiled; And I knew it must be Jesus, When he said: "Come here my child." "Come up here, my little Bessie, Come up here and live with me, Where the children never sufibr, - But are happier than you see!" Then I thought of all you'd told me, Of that bright and happy land'; I was going when you called me, - When you-came and kissed my hand. And at first I felt so sorry You had called me: I would go Oh! to sleep and never suffer, Mother, don't be crying so! Hug me closer, closar, mother, jkour arms around me tight; Oh! Bow much I love you mother, But I feel so strange to-night. * *I * * * * * And the mother pressed her closer To her overburdened breast; On the heart so near to breaking, Lay the heart so near its rest At the solemn hour of mid night, In the darkness, calm and deep, Lying on her mother's bosom Little Bessie fell asleep. There is a lonely mill, close by the little hamlet of Ufdorf, near the Rhine between the! villages of Hersel and Ursel, and on the left hand below Bonn. This mill is said to have been the scene of the following story ; which whether it be regarded as an instance of pre sence of mind in a female, or.as a spccia! inter position of Providence, is equally remarkable and worthy of attention. It was on Sunday morning, " ages long ago," that the miller of this mill and his whole fanmi ly went forth to the nearest church, in the vil lage of Hersel. The mill which was also his residence, was left in charge of a servant named Hannchen, or Jenny, a stout-hearted lass, who had long lived with him in that capacity. An infat child of an age unfit for church was left in her charge likewise. The girl was busily employed in preparing dinner for the return of her master and his family, when who should enter all of a sudden, but an old sweetheart of hers, named Hleinrich Bottlelor. He was an idle, graceless fellow, whom the miller had forbade his house; but whom Jenny, with the usual perversity pecu liar to her sex, only liked, perhaps all the bet ter because others gave him no countenance. She was glad to see him, and she told him so, too ; and, although in the midst of work, she not only got him something to eat at once, but also found time to sit down with him and have a gossip, while he dispatched the food she set before him. As he ate, however, he let fall his knife. "Pick that up, my lass," said he, in a joking way, to the cood-natured girl. She stooped down accordingly to pick up the knife. As she was in the net of rising, how ever, the treacherous villain drew a dagger from under his coat, and caught her by the nape of the neck, griping her tihroat firmly to prevent her screaming in the mean while. " Now, lass," he said swearing out a bad oath at the same time; " where is master's money ? Iill have that or your life." The terrified girl would fann have parlied with tbe ruffian, but he would hear nothing she could say. "Master's money, or your life, lass ?" " Choose at once," was the only alternative ho offered her, " the grave or the gold." Like the generality of her gentle sex, she was timid at trifles; a scratch was a subject of fear to her; a drop of blood caused her to faint; an unwonted sound filled her soul with fear in, the night. But when her energies were aroused by any adequate cause, she proved as her sex have ever done, that in courage, in endurance, in presence of mind, and in resouroes for every emergency, she far surpassed the bravest and coolest men.... " Well, well, Hleinrich i" she said, resignedly ; " what is to be must be. But,. if you takethe money, I shall even go along with ye. This will be no home for-me any more. But ease your gripe of my neck a little-.don't squeeze so hard; I can't move, you hug me so tight. And if I can't stir you can't get the money, that's clear, you know. Besides, time presses ; and if it be done at all, it must be done quick ly as the household will shortly be back from Hersel." The ruffian relaxed his gripe, and finally let go his hold. Her reasons were all cogent with his cupidity' "Come," she said, quick! quick 1-no d0 lay. The money is in master's bedroom." @he tripped up stairs, gayly as a lark; he followed closely at her heels. She lead the way into her master's bedroom, and pointed out the coffer in which the money was secured. "Here," she said, and while you are tying it up I shall just step up stairs to my own apart ment and get a few things ready for our flight as well as my own little savings for the last five years." The ruffian was thrown off his guard by her openness and apparent anxiety to accompany him. 4Go, lass," was all he said, "but be not long. This job will be done in a twinkling." He immediately broke open the chest and was soon engaged in rummaging its contents. It was but the work of a moment for her to turn the key in the wards and lock him in. This done, she rushed forth to the outer door of the mill and gave the alarm. "Fly! fly" she shrieked to the child, her master's little boy, an infant five years old, and the only being ii.thin sight or scund. " Fly! fly to thy father! fly on your lifel-Tell him we shall all be murdered an he haste not back! Fly! fly!" The child, who was at play before the door, at once obeyed the energetic command of the brave girl; and sped as fast as his tiny legs could carry him on the road by which he knew his parents would return from church. . She sat down on the stone bench by the mill door to ease her over-excited spirit,. and she wept, as she sat, at the thoughts of her happy deliverance. A shrill whistle from the grated window of the chamber in which she had shut up the ruffian, Heinrich, caught her ear and made her start at once to her feet. " Diether! Diether !" she heard him shout; "catch'the child, and come hither! I am fast. Come hither! Bring the boy here, and kill the girl!" The little messenger held on his way un harmed, however; and she thought to herself that the alarm was a false one, raised to excite her fear and overcome her resolution. Just, however, as the child reached a hollow spot in the next field-the channel of a natural drain, then dry with the heats of summer-she saw another ruffian start up from the bed of the drain, and catching him in his arms, hasten to ward the mill, in accordance with the directions of his accomplice. In a moment she perceived her danger; and in a moment more she formod her future plan of proceeding. Retreating into the mill, she doubly locked and bolted the door, tle only apparent entrance to the edifice, every other means of obvious access to the interior being barred by means of strong iron gratings fixed against all the wiiidows; and then took her post at an upper casement, determined to await patiently eitbe%.ber master's return, and her consequent delivery from that -dangerous position, or her own deaith, if it were inevita ble. 4.. She had barely'time to secure herself within, when the ruffian from without, holding the hapless child in-.one hr.nda,.nPd a, Jon Abarp knifle in the other, assailed the door with kicks and curses, and imprecations of thei most dread ful character. " Confound thee !" he cried, applying the foulest epithets of which the free-spoken Teu tonic languages are copious; " open the door or l*1 break it in on Ye !" " Cut the brat's throat !" roared the impris oned ruflian above; "that will bring her to reason." Stout hearted as poor Iannelen was, she quailed at this cruel suggestion. For a moment Lier resolution wavered; but it was only fur a inomenf. She saw that her own death was cer Lain if she admittedl the assailant; and she knew that her master. would be robbed. She had no reacon to hope that even the life of the infint would bie spared by her comipliance. It was to risk all against nothing. Like a discreet girl, she consequently held fast in her resolve to bide as she was while life remained, or wutil assistance should reach her. " An ye open not the door," shouted the vil lian from without, accompanying his words with the vilest abuse, and the fiercest impreca tions. "i'll hack this whelp's limbs to pieces with my knife, and then burn the mill ove'r your head. 'Twill be a merry b~laze, I trow." " I put my trust in Goj,'' replied the daunt less girl ; "never shall ye set foot within these walls whilst I have life to prevent ye." The ruffian laid the infant for a moment on the sward, as he sought about for combustibles wherewith to execute his latter threat. In this search he espied, perhaps, the only possible clandestine entrance to the building. It was a large aperture in the wall, communicating with the great wvheel and the other machmnery of the mill ; and was a point entirely unprotected, for the reason that the simple occupants had never supposed it feasible for any one to seek admission through such a dangerous inlet. Ela ted with this discovery, the ruffian returned to the infant, and tying the hands and feet of the little innocent, threw it on the ground. Hie then stole back to the aperture by which he hoped to effect an entrance. All this was sun seen by the dauntless girl within. A ~thought struck her. " It is Sunday," said she to herself ; " the mill never works on the Sabbath; suppose I set it agoing now'? It can be seen afar off ; and haply my master or some of his neighbors, wondering at the sight, may haste hither to know the cause. A lucky thought," she ex chaimed ; "'tis God sont it to me ! No sooner said than done. Being all her life accustomed to mill-gear, it was but the work of a moment for her to set the machinery in motion. A brisk breeze which sprung up, as it were by the special interposition of Providence at once set the sails flying. The mill was in full operation. It was in that very instant that the ruffian Diether had succeeded in squeezing himself through thme aperture in the wall, and getting safely lodged in the interior of the great drum wheel. His dismay, however was in describa ble when he began to be whirledl about by its rotation, and found that all his efforts to extri cate himself from his p~erilous situation, were fruitless. Ilis cries were most, appalling; his shrieks were truly fearful; his curses and im precations were horrible to hear. Hannchen hastened to the spot, and saw him caught, rep tile as lhe was, in his own trap. It nee. not be added that she did not liberate him. In vain did he promise the stout hearted girl to work her no harm; in vain did he implore her pity on his hapless condition; in vain did he pray to all the poer of heaven, and adjure all the powers of hell to his aid. She would not hear nor heed him; round and round, went the un tiring wheel, until, at last, feeling and percep tion failed him, and he saw and heard no more. He fell senseless on the bottom of the engine; but even then 1is inanimate body continued to be whirled rcound and round, as before. A loud knocking at the door was shortly aft er heard, and she hastened thither. . It was her master andl his family accompanied by several of their neighbors. The unaccustomed appear. ance of the mill-sails in full swing on Sunday, had attracted their attention; and they had hastened home from church for the purpose of .acrtaining the cause of the phenomenon.. TRADING iNGA 11 WITH NEGROES.' MR. EDITOR :-The !surensville Herald com ments as follows da tA arrest by Col. WIL LIA.Ds, of that District of four white men whom he caught gambling and triding with hi: negroes. Every commuiity. should have jus such citizens as Col. WILLIArs-those who " know their rights and dara maintain them. From what we can lemn two or three triflinj scoundrels, of the ilk described below, at pre sent infest our Town and vicinity, and should b4 dealt with according to the law made, and pro vided for such characters. But, Mr. EDITOR, those who are the chief sufferers from the ne. farious piactices of these vile wretches, appeai loth to indict them or bring them before the proper tribunals of the country, through fear, ] think, that the cowardly fellows would reveng( themselves by setting the torch to their dwel lings or damaging their'.atock, &c. The propel course to pursue is to acV promptly, fearlessly openly and independenty with all such interlo pers, and mywordfor it,ilashort time, there will quite a change comd over our colored. popula tion, both morally and physically. But publish the accompanying extracts, and oblige Your, old friend, MINDFUL. A DEN OF GAMBLFRSSuRrRIsED.-Cur friend, Col. J. D. Williams, brought to jail, on Sunday last, four white men whom he had caught that morning gambling wi .l'jhis negroes. We arc not disposed to excite",public against these men, but as public .jouialists we deem it just to give our approbation.to any act that has a tendency to remove the many pernicious practi ces and demoralizing influences that are at thi time thrown in the ppth >f our negroes. Col, Williams deserve- the approbation of the whole comnmunity for'actin'g hus promptly and fear lessly in this case. As the matter will undergc legal investigation weibink it proper not to pub lish the circumstances, although we have them from the Colonel himself; and there can be ne doubt of their coirectness. There are three classes:of men infesting ou communities, who should-be watched with dili gence and made to suffer the most rigorous penalties of the law; we allude to the foreig foot peddlers, travelling ,Wliskey dealers, and those who wbuld so degrde themselves as tc gamble with -negroes. Ti first of these, when ever found on- plantationsshould be driven from the place, and if found in the neighborho.>d af tervards should be made to carry on their back positive warniing to others of the same kith not to "-follow. in'the .optstaep of their illustriouLs predecessors ;'l tre second.hre fully as dangerous N who has any respect fir hilm. .. regard for the welfare of his negroes will oljec to Making onc hi a committee of vigilence, uncle: ucl circumstances; and should a man object t< the duty, depend upon it, he will bear watching as much as the whiskey peddlar. Those two classes are bal enough in all con science, but, in our opinion, the ian who wil amble with the poor, weak-minded negro, fiu mtstrips theimi in meanness and degradation and the sooner ou1r people set to work to rit the community of such rascally beingis the sooner will they iake their necrro properti more valuamble, uisisiv.e and pr olitable. Bhit few imagine to what extent whiskei drinking and gan:bling, is e-iriel, amnoig oi laves. A fewI days :go a friend inforumel u that whilst hunting through an "old field, near this villa're lie discovered a number o whisker~ bottles'secreted in the gras-s, and man: evidences of card playinig. T1hce facet is, owner: and those having'the charge of slave~s ace lno strict enouigh to know where the ncegroes specne their nights and Scuncdays. They permait then to do an:l go wthere aund when they ph-a~:se, aun' the result is, they are easily lea.l iintu habit thiat are most ruisnous and de.structive. A feuv such captures as that made by Col. William; will do much to brake ump these habits. Please give pilace to this also from the Union ville Journal on the same subject. Mr. Editor: Our District is becoming noto riu for~ the inn violations of the laws of th< land, and promicnent anmocng them is trading witi negroes, acid selling spiritous liquors withouc license. From almost every neighborhood w< hear of somje scoundrel, and sometimes three o: four of them tradineg with negroes, acnd encoura ging them to steal fromc their owners andl other to carry on the base and illegal traffic. If thme: are allowed to go on with irmpucity, the bolde: portion of the rascals will consider their shari of crime too circmscribed, and the pirofit to< small, and take new degrees in villaicny, by steal ing our slaves, and selling them. At one time we hiear of a fellow protendicng to niake scvel or eight bags of cotton off of three or four acre of land ; at another time, we hear of twent; odd pieces of bacocn being stolen from acn ok widow, in one night, and delivered to som, whiskey selling, negro trading, roguish whit< man. At various p)oints in the district we hear o liquor being retailed without licecnse; and thc Sabbath, instead of being kept holy, made aladay for low-life white men and degrade egroes to congregate on, at ocne of these liut hells on eairth, and beastify themselves ; thu ruining the negroes and making property inse cure, tempting the poor megroes to steal to rais means to get the liquid poison to satisfy thel depraved and vitiated appetites. It is a cryi evil, and the good and the wise should devis some means of arresting the worse than lpesti leice stalking abroad in our land, and bringt condigni punishment the brutes who, to make few dollars, are willing to furnish what kill both soul and body, and make of a human beini born in the image of his MIaker. and only a Iii te lower than the angels, an object of disgui and contempt, bereft of reason, and kissing th ground in company with the swine, less filth and loathsome than they. IMPRovED AxLE FoR CARRIAES.-Mr. Tho W. Williams, of this city, has recently patented new invention for securing the wheels of carr ages upon axles, which is very inigenious an vey successfuil. In the end of the axle is ci a retangulareavity, in which is hung a leve mounted on a pin, and wnpelledi outward by spring beneath the lever. A corresponding re tagular cavity is formed in the nut which serov uon the end of the axle. The lever falls in th is cavity as the nut turns to its fitting plac and b~y this m'eans the nut is held fast withol danger of removal, effectually securing the whec The spring may- be pushed down by a small p inserted throug a hole in the nut for the pii pose of removing the latter. The invention fworthy of attention for it will be found a ve ....o. :.p.....ent..Pildelfehia Ledaar Harinchen, in a few worrds, told all; and then the spirit which had sustained her so long and so well while the emergency lasted, forsook her at once as it. passed away. She fell senseless and was with great difficulty recovered. The machinery of the mill was at once stop ped, and the inanimate ruffian dragged forth from the great wheel. The other ruffian was brought down from his prison. Both. were then ound, and sent off to Bonn under a strong escort; and, in due course, came under the hands of the town executioner. It was not long till Hannehen became a bride. The bridegroom was the miller's son, who had loved her long and well; but with a passion previously unrequitted. They lived thence forward happily together for many years; -and died at a good old age, sursounded by a flour ishing family. CURRINT.ITENS FROM ALL QUARTERS. FACT, FUN AND FANCY. low to be rich. Having food and raiment, and the favor of God, be careful for no more. 3Z Be gentle! Harsh words are like hail stones in summer, which if melted, would ferti lize the tender plants they batter down. ET A meeting of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, will take place at York ville on the 22d day of July. E How does a pitcher- of water differ from a nian throwing hii wife over a -bridge ? An .-vr-One is water in the pitcher, and the other -a pitcher in the water. 7--'N OLD SCBSCRIDER.-The National Intellige:n-cr tcknowledges from the "venerable John Jo!.unton, of Cincinnati," his fifty-fifh year's sub.,cription to that journal. lie has been a subscriber, without a year's intermission, for over a half a century. H HEALTH OF NEw ORLEAs.-Our ex changes from the Crescent City write in glad terms of the extraordinary healtli now being enjoyed by the residents of New Orleans. There is nothing in the form of epidemic disease. Z A Danish writer speaks of a hut so miserable that it did not know which way to fall, and so kept standing. This is like the man that had such a complication of diseases that he did not know what to die of, and so lived on. ; ONE EAc !-Wc read in the Norman die:--" A most extraordinary fact has just oc curred in the neighborhood of Conteville. The daughter of a fisherman, Marie C-, who married, about a year ago, John D- , a negro sailor, native.of an English colony, has just given birth to twins,a girl and i by. The forer is *white, like the mother, and the latter black, like the father." r A -TnUE WoVW .-A young..British officer who was mutilated and disfguresfiin bat te requested a comiradle. to write to his be trothed'in England 'and release her frbm the bridal engagement. Her answer was worthy of a true woman: " Tell him, if there is enough of-hisodyeTt'ltcrm itr so;Tur n, Tr aii Mad him to his engagement." 33THE: Latnn TaAn.-It is stated that fifty tons of American lard has been shipped to New York from Liverpool, the prices here being more remunerative than in England where it has declined from 73s. per cwt. (the rates ob taied a few months ago) to U . It retails in New York at 16 to 18c. per pound. Z. In Marion country, Ohio, a few days ago, a iMan sned anot her for the rent of a house. On the trial, evideuce was adduced that the house was haunted, and t he jury decided that the defendant should be paid q,5 as damages, instead of paying rent. r We find in the Repertoire de Pharma cie, that M. Leperdriel advises, to conceal the disagreeable taste of* cod liver oil, the addition to the latter of about ten per cent. of' conmnion .:alt. Not only does the salt render the oil pal atalek, lbut it cats'e:i the stomuachm to digest tihe oil mnore completely. All the fishL oils may be masked in the same miannier. $^ In China. whein a man coimmit~ suicide they immediately hang whoever, by offendjing or thwarting him, has been the caume of the :ash deed, and give the goods of the offender to the family of the suicide ; so that nmany gemn tlenmen of failing health and slender means, manage to get insulted by a rich man, hang themse~lves, and havo the pleasing assurance that their families will be provided for. EK Taassr.Atsc TELEGRAHI.-We hlave been informed, says the Boston Posti, that the first telegraphic di-patch to be transmitted across the ocean will be the compliments of James Buchanan, President of the United States, to Queen Victoria, and the return dispatch will convey Her Majesty's reply. & The number of law students is at pre sent so great in Prussia that the minister of jus tice has thought it advisable to address a circu lar to tihe rectors of piulic schools, directing them to warn their pupils and thme parents or friends of the latter that the legal career is on the whole not a profitable one in Prussia, and that those young men who posess mno private fortune would do well to choose another. I WSLANDERL SL'IT.-On1 Saturday, a young lady of St. Louis' commenced suit in the circuit court against her own father for slander, laying the damages at $2,000. g To Vmottsx PLAYE~S.-In Viennai, we are told that the violin players are in the habit now of using liquid colophmotni, instead of the solid ro-in, which is in vogue in the other parts of the world. The liquid mixture is applied with a camel's hair brush, is said to last during one hundred hours' playing, anud neither to in-. jure the strings of the instrument nor the bow. The strings, it is aflirmned, too, give out a clearer tone than when the solid rosin is used.. & EArINO ORANGE PEEL.-We learn thata little son of Robert Oliver, of this city, abot ive years of age, is now lying in a very critical condition fronm the cffects of eating orange-peel on Monday last. Parents cannot be too can tious in keeping orange-peel from their children, as it contains an active poisonous oil, which in many cases has caused the death of persons wvh indiscreetly made use of theta. Life is jeopar dized every time the rind is taken into the stomach.--N. Y. Journal of Commerce. &~' The Empress Eugenic, of France, recent ly appeared at a ball, wearing jewels whose value was estinmated at . 800,000, and - having flounces of lace on her robe that cost $12,000, gili Mr. Thomas W. Thompson, of Soutla Carolina, has been appointed to a first-class (.$I,200 per annum) clerkship in the office oj the 'Third Auditor of the Treasury. giti"The Ind iana State Sentinel says : "His many friend~s in this vicinity will be painmed to learn that tho Rer. Elijah Anderson of Madison, Indiamia, was sent to the-penitentia ry the other day by the Bedford (Ky.) Circuil Court, for stealing niggers." d KBoys that are philosophers at six years of age are generally blockheads at the age o twenty-one. From the Charleston Evening News. NATIONAL DEMOCRACY-SLAVERY EXTENSION TI[E EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER. There are, in South Carolina, two wings of the Democritic party. One attaches itself to it as an injegral portion--" bone of its bone, flesh of its flesh," adheres to it as a party, and of course accepts all its rule, obligations, plat forms and aims. The other acts in conjunction with the Democracy in preference to any other general organization, because it approves most of its measures, doctrines and action, but holds itself independent to act more decisively on Southern and ^State Rights, and to disapprove where it may deem party proclivity wrong and injurious. The litter are, in fact and nane, the State Rights Democrats; and with them is our strongest affiliation. They have, as yet, taken no distinct-organization, but may be driven to it by the receding of national Democracy on the one side, and by the pressure of anti-slavery aggression on the other. That this distinction may not appear shadowy, we will adduce two tests. 1. The first is, national partyism. Those who reject it in the entirety of its trammels, do so, because experience and reason prove that it has been the obstruction which has hitherto preven ted Southern unity and the complete efficiency of Southern defence-has undermined the fi delity and broken the firmness of Southern politicians. Among many whom we could name, are Foote, Houston, Stanton and Walker. The Missouri Compromise, the repeal of the 21st rule, the admission of California, the Wilmot Proviso in Oregon, the Compromise of 1850, squatter sovereignty, and the present proceed ings in Kansas, are examples of the default of national partyism.- Our friend of the Edgefield Adcertiser must consider that national conven tions are but the means of the concentration and continuance of its power, and that those who accept its obligations and aspire to its hon ors, must be held to some extent answerable for its mischiefs. And in reference to Conventions, we do not so much refer to those who only as semnble to confer on principles and measures, and to ascertain how far there can be agreement or disagreement, but to those party bodies which I meet in party domination to organize party powers, and to dictate elections to office, and all this in a m-mner not contemplated nor provided for in the Constitution. 2. The extension of slavery. Does not the Aoluertier know that the untional Democracy do not.advocate it, and that the Northern Demo cracy repudiate it? In proof, look at the course of Gov. Walker in Kansas. And as another testimony, read the following, second, resolu tion passed by the Democratic Convention of New Hampshire, a few days since: Resolved, That the Democratic party of New Ilampshire, speaking through its representatives, in convention assembled, brands as a falsehood the cha'rge so ofteinimadle 1w: '0 - 1VL LZLU . LLAUtLM Ilm a .ierritory (MILwL o wi uoin, now, are mere squatters and unnatu ralized aliciis,) lve the right to interdict such extension. It i, a right undler the Constitution -it is a right extrinsic to and above the Con stitution. The Democracy affects to adhere strictly to what is either fudamental or consti tutional, and yet, in this regard it either ignores or defies both. ft affects to abide by the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court, yet the doctrines of that decision sustain the right. 1. The right of extension emanates directly from the respective sovereignties of the States. who are the paraioiimt owners of the common domain. Their sovereigni claimns are behind and above the Constitution, and the re.pective peo ple of each are participants of tho.e claims. It ''is by virtue or such fundamental rights, the fConstitution being silent, that a Northern man can remove. as a clii:en, ,cith hsis property, into Sa Territory, and no one is entitled to gainsay thim in either regard. Ihas not the Southern citizen the same right! 2. IL is a right under the Con.,titution, be cause it expireely recogizes slavery as prolwri y. Where is ther~ie a claLuse or. power which dloes or can interdict pr~operly puing into am! t cmaining as sucit in a 'J erritory or on the public domain! There is no one goverinmeint or authority, now existing in or under the Union, entitled to make such interdiction, whether it be Congress or w hat is~ called popular .-overeignty. The power is only ini the sovereign States in their primary capaicities, and can only be exercised ini the form of~ a new treaty or compact. The Southern cit izen is niot only entitled to remove with his slaves to the public domain, but is also entitled to protection in such property, from either -Congress or the Territorial government. If it is not afforded, then the Southern States should secure or enforce its protection. a. The Southern system of lab:r, as labor, has as much right, fundamental or constitution al, to extension and free scopie as has the North ern. Whether viewed in a social or political h:lght, they are both essential and recognized elements of our established and, in this reaard, sunalterable system. What right has the Dem ocratic party, not only to ignore these claiums or truths, but to aid in such a plan of constricting Southern institutions and enterprise, as will en danger, within their present limits, Southern fprosperity and safety. Is it not directly con trary to the policy which acquired Louisiana, Florida and Tfexas ? Is not the argument, which was used in the latter case against Great Britain, now equally applicable in favor of the South against the North-existence on one side, po litical aggression on the other ? If justly used to avoid external danger, how much more im r portant to prevent internal discord andprobable disruption? e In view of the two considerations which now rise in gloomy potency before the pleople, is it anot time for the question to be asked how do a ou men and parties stand upon them? The sState Rights Democracy are "on the square" and erect. t COTTox Caor is A LAAA.-Extract of a let e ter, dated Eufaula, Barbour County, Ala., June Y 18, 1857 : " Crops are still very unpromising; in short, the cotton crops of this year must be a very short one; it won't average six inches in height, when it should be now at least sixteen inches - tall, and blooming. The prospects were never d so poor in twenty years-the time I have beeu t engaged in plantinmg in Alabama. You may put the above account of the crop in the newspaper, if you think proper." rs Sucia AT 'rUE Maunitiru.-Dates from Pori oLouis, Mauritius, are to the 11th of May. The eweather was dry. New sugar was expected ir tPort Louis early in July. Of the last crop 202, 1. 000,000 of pounds had been shipped, and thert n remained about 15,000,000, all of which wouls r-ilie shipped in the course of a mionth. The corn is.' ing crop, according to all appearances, wouks yreach thre figure of 125,000 tons. A~n advaneu perm... -c-at - wa n readan tha matici INTERESTING STATISTIcs.-The United States are composed of thirty-one States and nine Territories. They contain a population of 27,000,000, of whom 23,000,000 are white. ( The extent of sea coast is 12,550 miles. t The length of the ten principal rivers, is 20,- ( 000 miles. The surface of the five great lakes is 90,000 square miles. The number of miles of railroad in operation is 20,000, which costs $78,000,000. . 1 The lengths of canals is 5,000 miles. . I It contains the longest railroad on the globe- E the Illinois Central--which.is 784 miles. 0 The annual value of its agricultural produc- t tions is $200,000,000. d Its most valuable production is Indian corn, t which yields annually 40,000,000 bushels. - s The amount of registered and enrolled ton- 1 nage is 4,407,010. t The amount of capital invested in inauufac- s ture is $600,000,000. C The annual value of its products of labor other a than agricultural is .1,500,000. ii The annual value of the income of the inhab- h itants is $1,500,000. e The value of farms and live stoclg is $500,- o 000,000., si its mines of gold, copper, lead, and iron are r, among the richest in the world. I The value of gold produced is $100,000,000. 1 The surface of its coal fields is 138,131 square C acres. si Within her borders are 80,000 schools, 5,000 academies, 234 oolleges and 3,800 churches. a] t, ti SOMETHING NEw.-Governor Wise of Virgi- t] nia, is an advocate for that State to becodie the a insurer of all the lives and property of the citi- n zens thereof, upon the same or similar regula ti tions to those now adopted by insurance comspa- t] nies, and thinks it will be of immense advan- o tage to the State, and to the people. It will be t] the people insuring themselves, and will''be the h means of raising a large amount of nevenue, ei which the people will pay indirectly into the a State Treasury without a murmur. He says o " why not resort to a source of revenue where p the very tax protects and insures the very si property which it burdens? Why not allow ti the contributions which are now voluntarily h poured in large sums into the coffers of private m companies, chiefly'out of the State, to be volun tarily poured into the State Treasury fo lessen g involuntary taxation I" I These are important questions, and are 'well t< worthy the consideration of our law makers. The proposition is certainly plausible, and we ti should like to hear both sides of the question discussed. Will not some of our politicians, take up .the subject ind treat-it not in partizan, 1 but-in a statesman like manner,'and show if they e can, why such a law should not be passed in i-on. Mr. brai han, m' Pennsylvania, Judge Barber, of Wisconsin, Col. - Curtis, of Iowa, member of Congress elect, Mr. Hosmer, of Ohio, Mr. Pierce, oF Indiana, and r many other prominent personages visited Omaha, a examined the town and its vicinity, and the mouth t of Platte river, and industriously conferred with I the various interests and corporations, having in t view the construction of the Great Pacific Rail- T road, by way of the Platte Valley and South C Pass to the Pacific ocean. The company was or- t ganized at a meeting held in Omaha on the 6th t in3t., by the election of Gen. Robinson, of Penn- r svlvania, President, Judge Barber, of Wisconsin, t Secretary, and Mr. Hosmuer, of Ohio, Treasurer, i and assumed the name of the " Platte Valley, t South Pass and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company," with a chpital of sixty millions of dollars: A charter was obtained under the terri torial laws. The length of the road to theSouth Pass will be about one thousand miles. A Chicago mother the other night took the ad vice of one of her neighbors and instituted a newr discipline for her infant daughter, six weeksofage. She had been troublesome in the evening fretting anid crying as children will do-; when the mother was told that if she would put it in its crib in the chamnber and pay no attention to it, it would cry itself to sleep, and after one or two repetitions of of this experiment, would be quiet in future. , She acted on the new plan, and though driven out of the house by the cries, suffered it to remain uncared for until the noise ceased, when, on go- t ing upstairs stealthily, that she might not awken it, she found her child--dead I The child died. in a fit. The mother has a loving heart, but was over-persuaded to do what her conscience and1 judgment condemned, and what will haunt her as long as she lives. Sunrus.-The Secretary of the Treasury is of the opinion that the close of the present fiscal year w-ill find a surplus of twenty-two millions of dollars in the Treasury. The late reduction of the tariff, he thinks, will result in an increase of revenue from iscreased importations ; and he has already determined to recomnv. 4 another large extension of the free list. A GOOD PLACE To LIVE IN.-The fishermen of Pensacola Fla., are now supplying the good citizens of that city with all sorts of fish, inclu ding "pompano, blue fish, .king fish, Spanish mackerel, red snappers, flounders, trout," eg id omnae qensus, and at prices within the reach .of a reasonably full purse. Tne denizens -md visitors of the city are also enjoying the most delightful sea-breezes, salt water bathing, and othem rece ations alike relaxing to the weary man of busi ness, and to the jaded belle who has run a giddy round of balls and routes at the Capital or in the fashionable cities, to say nothing of the health inspiring effect upon the enfeebled invalid who seeks the sea shore to reinstate his health. When the raili-oad from Columbus and Mfontgomery are completed to Pensacola, we have no doubt it will be as inviting a retreat from the heat and sickness of the summer incident to less favored localities. BYRoN AND is Ls~n.--Lord Byron told Tre lawney that his seperation from his wife proceed ed from a few hasty words, uttered when he was unaware of her presence. During his financial troubles his wife had come into his study so quiet ly that Byron did not know it. Thinking over his condition, and how much his marriage had rendered his ruin more unpleasant, he cried audi bly enough for her to hear " Lady Byron as con foundedly in my way ?" She roused him from his brown study by saying. "Indeed, my lord ? I cneasily get out of it." Byron would have it henever forgave this escapade. DESTRUcriYE Svonx.--The Gallatin Tenn., Ex aminer learns that a most destructive rain fell be tween Carthage and Dixon Spring, Tenn., on Monday last. The oldest inhabitant has no rec ollection of just such a one. Stone fences, corn and the crops were swept away in a few minutes. Upon hillsides where there were no streams, fen ces were rapidly carried off. About four milesi of hetunpike were nearly deskoyed. THE HON. JOSEPH E. DOWN. This gentleman, nominated by the Georgia )emocratic Convention foW the Gubernatorial 1hair of Georgia, is a native of Pickens Dis rict, South Carolina, and a son-in-law of Gen. Mrisham, of this State. We hope he will be accessful. The Atlanta Inteligencer tells us who is Brown," as follows: " Jude Brown is a young man, probably not iore than 35 years of age, a native of Pickens istrict, South Carolina. He ehigrated to this tatesome15years since, a poor boy in search f his fortune. Soon aftqrwards he attracted ie attention of Dr. J. W. Lewis, a gentleman istinguished alike for his talents and his chari es, who perceiving in young Brown the- right uff -to make a man of, sent him to jale Col. ge. We know not what progresshe made iere, but from the progressive spirit he has nce displayed, we presume Dr. Lewis had no Luse to be displeased with his.charge. While Yale; yong Brown stdied Law and return ig home commenced the practice, in which he as been eminently successflul..- In 1849 he was lected to the State Senate, and won the respet that body by his gentlemanly manners Pad iperior talents. At the close of the sesn he ,turned home and resumed the practice of the aw which he continued until October 1855. hen he was elected Judge of the Blue Ridge ircuit, beating his competitor, Judge Irwi, veral thousand votes. " As a Judge, Mr. Brown has won the re )ect and admiration of the bar and'the coun y. Thoroughly versed in the knowledge-of ie law, of an upright, inflexible disposition, of kind heart and courteous manners, he.has ade the court over which he presided the 'ue temple of Justice, and won for himself; e honors of her representatife. AsGovernor - , Georgia, Judge Brown will reflecticredit on te place, as he has on all other places which a has filled. He is a self made uman.aman iual to any emergency in which. he maybe diled to act. To fail is .what he caunot--.4is. trary to his nature. He is a man of the ople, and understands their wantsanddispo tions; besides, he is a. man of unsullied vir Le. and strict, almost severe morality; happily [ending in himself the character of this age ith the sterner one in which our fathers lived." The Citize says: " Judge Brown is the same. tleman who recently fined a drunken juror. ho.used the slang language, "No sir-ree Bob" ithe Judge, when charged with the offence. "Well," said the Judge, "I fine yoa $5 for te re and- 10 forthe boU. THE EXPEDITION TO UTIH.-The St. Louis epublican discourages the plan now entertain I and in ..process of execution of sending.a rge military force to Utah, contending that *~ ~ 11 4,.. . " We assume as a'settled fact, that no milita expedition, fully equipped and prepared for tive field operations, can be fairly put upon e field before the 15th of July to the 1st of mugust, and that it will take sixty days before hey can reach the " Reserve," within forty iles of Great Salt Lake City. They will not et there before the last of October and then hey will be without quarters, almost without ents, and exposed to the heavy snows of that egion, and, if the Mormons should be dispesd be hostile, to attacks from well trained men a that quarter, and to the annoyances which hey can bring to bear upon the troops." GREAT RAcE 1T ALAsY.-A race for $2,000 side came off on Wednesday afternoon, be.. ween the Dalton horse, owned there, and the aylor horse, owned in New York. The dis ane was twenty miles, in harness. The Dal on horse made a waiting race for seventeen iles, laying close to Taylor's quarter and tak g it easy, and at the eighteenth mnile Dalton trewahead and maintained it for a mile, when aylor ran past him, going in a few lengths head. The time for traveling twenty miles ras one hour, twelve minutes and fifty-four econds. The judges decided in favor of Dal on, who gets the stakes in consequence of. aylor's horse running. The horses are matched for a fifty mile race o come off at New York. CoRN IN TENNEss.-We conversed ter .ay with two of our citizens, just returnecfr0om ashville, Tennessee, which place they left on Vednesday evening, who state that corn had eclined to 75 cents per bushel at Nashville, ,nd was dull and declining, and that provisions f all descriptions were drooping. Thygave a ~lowing description of the prospects of tewheat rps. Corn, they say, is small, but that owing o the lateness of the spring much land that. rould have been planted in cotton, had the spring een more forward, has been put in corn. This s sensible in our Tennessee friends. Corn is. nore profitable in Tennessee at 35 cents per-. ushethan cotton at 12 cents per lb., to say noth. g of the economy of labor. This is plaiut. ay man acquainted with the applicability of the oil and climate of that locality to the twoayo Luets.-Columbus Sun. THE FUNERAI. Snaviczs or HON. LANoDOW JEvs.-The funers1 se:*vices of the late Hon. .angdon Cheves, lr~we decease was announced n our last issue, wok place yesterday with agood Leal of solemnity. The weather was very favor ble, and iv'thing occurred to obstruct the suo. essful - ecution of the projected ceremonies. uietness pervaded the city during the whole day; roups of gentlemen were to be seen about t treets, speaking, with sad faces, of our recent ereavement; the stores and offces upon the ay, and in other streets, were closed at an early iour in the afternoon ; and all seemed imprse with a sense of the solemnity of the occasio. Uharlston Standard.. FissIoN AND DisE~ss-The Pais eoi7Opon lent of the Boston Traveller says : " The -otr ave declared that the presenit extraordinarfin. rasion of colds, gripes and eritonital inflammhs' on(wihpoeuu-yfaa)are entirely wito the bell petticoats, which expose the whole female person, from the waist down to the reet to the weather." Was there ever any fash ion which was not denounced as the cause of isease ? Medical men find it much easier to explain theorg' of disease in that way than to iscover the relsourceaof derangementtoheath. T Hs hard case of a young widowwith $t,000 compelled to give up her property if she married aga, has been going the rounds of the papers. To effect it the Sandy Hill Herald relates how& gentleman residing in the town of Gra'aville Washington county, Md., died recently and -ile his wife a handsome sum-stipulatingiahis . will that in case she a ' married the sum was' to be doubled ? " Ant" pathetically :adds ther Herald, "may the graas ever begreen upon his