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emocratic 3surniat, Orvste ofySW n attnM 4 r. - ~ e~n~r~dc 3ornd,~Iewte ~ Soutle au Sothern UigIbtsJ1 ii, LateMst enws, Citerature, 1*1ralitij ~enprance, Aiulture,&e A4 "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple o Liberties, and It it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." SIMEINS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD C., AUGUST 5, 1857. "O- - From the Temperance Crusader. "IT IS WELL." - LAST WORDS OF WASHINGTON. Thus the Father of his Country, Who to tyrants ne'er did bow, Spoke to those who stood around him, While the death-damp chill'd his brow. Calmly then his hands he folded, For he felt the fatal spell, Meekly raised his eyes to Heaven, Then he murmured, "It is well." Life's drear conflicts all were ending, Cares, and joys alke were past, He, the Father of his Country, Spoke these simple words-his last! Earthly glories then were fading Heavenly visions who may tell Surely angel pinions fanned him - When he whispered, " It is well." Yes ! tho mission then was ended, s Wars and tumults all were o'er, He who won his country's freedom Ne'er would fight her battles more. Yet, in Death, he taught a lesson .Which, in every heart should dwell Taught us meekness-resignation In his last words, " It is well!" -Aye, ' tas well-the life behind him ...left him nothing to regret, But the life-the life before him, -ife eternal-better yet! Saw he then a smiling Saviour 'With him ever more to dwell, SAl! -twas with a smile of'triumph -That he murmured, "It is well." 80E4 F I UNIVRITTEXITRAGEDY. NIGGER JOE'S SOLILOQUY. [en re Cabin. Old Joe sitting in. one cor ierIvn'i'ng his banjo-Dinah baking the hoc 11Master . Charley sopping the skillet, ih th& mIeit had been fried for morning -an Dinah fondly playing with his hair-the - d eildren asleep- on. their bed-Joe, very liappy sings and plays "Jim crack corn, I don't care." Dinah nods.] Charley.-(Geta in Joe's lap,) Uncle Joe, would.you like to be free, and be sent to Af rica Charley, why you ax dat ques tioauOok-so serious? Any ting happen ? OQhsar.---Yes Uncle Joe. Pa was reading 64 m t'le papers this evening that Congress bad psd a law that all black folks should be set e, and sent to Africa. Joe.-Wheder dey want to or no, Massa Charley? - - Charley.-Yes, Uncle Joe you must go. Joe.-(Much excited,) I wont go-I die right here-.I wont go-I wont. I no want to be free. I no *ant to leff old Massa and Missus, and, you Massa Charley. Old Massa, sure., won't let e'm carry old Joe, and Dinah and der children off fore he eyes; will he Massa Char ley ? (Sobs.) Dinah.-(Walking up,) Kie Joe why for you cry? What ails you?-(Charley is called at the great House and leaves.) Joe.-Nuffin' Dinah! go to bed honey, and wragup de children, and go to sleep. Diiah.-Massa Charley a pretty little boy, end so good; ain't he, Joe? (Goes to bed.) . Joe.-(Tunes his banjo.) Yes, Massa Char ley mighty good boy, and I lub Massa Charley jes like him my own child. (Play, " Oh carry my 'back to old Virginia's shore." Plays one verse and stops.) SoLI.6eU.-Did'nt old Massa .dat's dead and burried on de bill dar, bring us from old Vurginny out..here ? And when me and Massa itas boys togeder didn't be used to bring Joe, out ob de great house, biscuits and chicken, and all sorts of good tings ? Didn't we used to go possum huntin' nights, and steal oft' togedder. Sundays-to go in-a swimming? Ah! and didn't Massa, one Sunday, swim into de middle of de ribber and catch his niggar when lie was gwmne down do last time ? Hain't he told many a stary to save Joe from the lash, and Joe neb ber .care'for trufe, if lie sabe Massa anything. And since me and Massa am grown up men, *the~n did Massa whip old Joe, 'cept when Joe get too big for he britches, and richly dlesarved ..it? .Joe get plenty to eat ; good clothes to wear, good-house to lib in ; same for Dinah and de ehildren. And dan's old nanmmy Lucy, who can't do nuffin now: Massa and Missus no for get'em in dey old age. . When Joe, or Dinah, or de children sick, Massa and Missur, and Massa Charley here quick, and bring ebery ting good. And when our little Susey died didn't Missus take her in de great house, and ~is and Massa and de Doctor, set by her ""umwi us all.night, till she lobs us ? Didn't do uD.w~ n down- Missus' and Massa's face, when dey see how- Dinah and mec take on and Missus wid her own hands made little Su sey sich a nice white frock, and Massa had a fine coinmade, and dey buried her up dar by old Masita and Daddy Billy, and all de rest bat's died sence we comec from old Vurginny. And then Dinah had little Billy, and like to die- awvay,- didn't Missus set dar and cry like Ia child, and; didn't Massa tell 'em not to spare ,horse flesh for do doctor ? And when the offi cer nian come~ for sell old Joe for debt, ldi't -Missu's give up her carriage and horses, didn't Massa give up he fader's gold watch, and Massa C harley lead out he pony to do officer man to *sabe old Joe from the hammer ? (Cries.) And if -ober Ilebeold Massa and Missus and Massa Char - logtt iwdrk for deyselves in do hot sun ; it'll be to gerufyder by de side ob Daddy Billy and little Sue; so it will. Dinai.-(Stirs up.) Kie, Joe, why you no come-to bed? Joe.-(Tuning his banjo.) Go to sloop Di nah, honey. .Joe continues.-Must go to Africa ! Dat's dework oh de Bobolitioners; tink poor niggar Sot no heart ; tink lib go one place as a nudder; or'dey dont care if it broke he heart. What ~-~igger know 'bout Africa? Me got no kiinfolks dar. All my kinfolks hero, and in old Vurgmn y.I don't know Africa; I know ebery place leMI .all<do paf, all de creek, all de folks; and 1debranch all de place where dis niggar go j~imhuntin; go a fishing and swimming. -466ildh.hunt him in Africa, and he soul wo'd dpto coine back to de old place. I won't got I w*on't ! And dar's old Daddy Billy's .,aeidar,. and do grave ob little Sue; how ha 6heart to go away and lebe 'em ? il ~die fr. (Cries.) And den to see Massa stiain'dar', and Missus pale and in tears, and ~aCharley cryin' like be heart would break, acfiah and de children crymn' and holdin' o$asa and Misses -and pleadin' to stay, --aainmtimewidy at right up in an troat, 'bliged to say kood-bye, Massa! good-b3 Missus! good-bye Massa Charley! good-bye foi eber! I couldn't! I couldn't! (Cries like i child)-If Massa say de word, when dein Bobo. litioners come, I'll help to kill 'em ; dat I will THE PATCH ON MR. MARCY'S BREECHES. Harper's Weekly relates the following anec dotes of Mr. Marcy: While he was Governor of New York, he was visiting Newburgh on some public occasion, and, with a party of gentlemen, Whigs and Demo crats, was at the Orange Hotel. Good humor was prevailing, and one story suggested another. The Governor always enjoyed a story, and cold tell one with excellent effect. A Whig lawyer was present, and the Governor, recognizing him, said: " Ali, yes, I'll tell you a good story of Spoo ner. The other day he came up to Albany, on his way to the Whig Convention at Utica, and so he took it in his way to call on me to gcta par don for a convict at Sing-Sing. I heard the case, examined the documents, and being satis fied that all was right, agreed to grant the re quest. Spooner handed me the paper to en dorse, and I wrote--" Let pardon be granted. W. L. Marcy" when Spooner called out, " Hold, hold, Governor! that's the wrong paper !" And, sure enough, it was a Whig speech that he was going to make at Utica, abusing me in the worst possible way. But I had granted pardon in ad vance, I suppose he committed the offence after wards." The story was received with great applause, and Spooner. being looked to for a response, in stantly went on with the fol!owing, which, for an extempore story, certainly is capital: " Yes, gentlemen-yes, I did. And when the convention was over we went to Niagara Falls, and as we were dragging on by stage over miserable corduory roads, bangin: our heads against the top of the coach. and then coming down as if we were to go through the 'bottom, the stage came to a dead halt; the dri ver dismounted. opened the door, and requested us all to descend. We did so, supposing that some accident had occurred. When we were all out, standing on the ends of the logs of which the road was made, the driver took off his hat and s-Lid: " Gentlemen, we always stop here out of respect for the Governor; this is the identical spot where Marcy tore his panta loons !" The story was heard with great jollification, in which no one joined more heartily than the Governor himself. That pantaloon incident deserves to be record ed in every history of this great man. Ie was sent out to hold special sessions of court to try the anti-Masonic parties charged with murder. He was to receive a salary and his expenses. With that nice regard for details that belonged to his steling character, he kept a minute ac count of all his expenditures, and handed in the list on his return, without thinking it ne cessary or proper to revise and strike out those items of a private nature, which others much -dess scrupulous in great matters, might have carefully suppressed. There stood the tailor's charge fbr mending. The political foes of. the Judge when he caine to be a candidate for Gov ernor, found it, and paraded it before the world in the newspapers; and making an effigy of Mr. Marcy, suspended it in the streets of Albany, with a great patch on the pantaloons and the tailor's charge on the top of that. But an observant people saw. through the patch, and the charge into the heart of an lion est man, and in that very deed of his they re cogniscl a frankness and transparency of char acter that commended him to their warm ap probation. It is not probable that the panta loon charge lost for him a single vote, while it is doubtless true that it made him multitudes of friends. Ile was never ashamed of it, and never had reason to be. "FIFTEEN YEARS IN BELL!" As, with a stamp of the foot lie dashed on the table the pen which had made him a bankrupt and a beggar, wvas thme exclamation of a genitle moan of sixty, whlo had been born and reared ini luxury and wealth. This excellent man, in the course of business, had become involved, but was hoping and striving, as honor-able men do, to "wor - ut of his embarrassments ;" and for all that h ng time, lie did work, and worked haid--allowed himself no indulgences, sacirifice-d his large proper-ty freely, whenever necessary to meet "engagements." But all would not do, and closed the strife by saying, " I am old aiul poor, (ad hare no hm. Not long ago, a gentleman who had failed ini busiiness but had subsequently paid all his debts, and was now acting in a capacity which, wvhile it involved no pecuniary responsibilityv, was suf ficient to enabile him and his family to live com fortably, said, "I am one of the happiest men in New Yor-k, and no amount of money could induce me to repeat my former career. I could not (10 it. The eflorts to keep up the name of our firm wvould now eat ont my mind." Another gentleman, still in active business, who lives in his own house, and who is addingp to his fortune every year-, said with the seious ness of a man who in a moment's retrospection had lived over the strifes of a quarter of a cen tury of business, '- Could I have known the day I entered New York a boy, the cares and anx ieties which I have had to encounter, Manhattan Island and all that is upon it, would not have presented the slightest inducement to undertake he task." Within a month a gentleman whose "house,' in a single year, cleared six hundred thousand dollars, has been sent to the lunatic assylum, and has since died, at an age but little beyond that at wvhichi men are fairly prepared to live to pupo.se Little does the careless and penniless light heartedi passer-by of thme splendid palace of Fifth Avenue, anid Union Square and Fourteenth street, imagine wvhat storms of passion and of fer, what wvrecks of heart -md hope, what with eing of the sweet joys and anticipations of youthi, what a drying-up of the better and purer feeling of our nature, these stately mansions have soumetiimes cost their owners. " What did that house cost?7" is not an un freuent inquiry. " I am ashamed to tell you ;~ or "moore than it is worth," is a vem-y common response. The true answver in many instances is, "it has cost me my soul !" To maintain a good name at the bank, at the exhange or on the " street," is an idolatory with many New Yorkers; and to that idol, rather than be sacrificed; men will offer heart, conscience, independence, everything. A good name, certainly, can never be overvalued ; it is worth niore than millions to the man in busi ness ; it is as mch his duty as his interest tc maintain it at any pecuniary cost, at any perso ial sacrifice; and it is highly creditable to our business community that so honorable a feelinp generally prevails. But the error consists in men placing themselves in positions which pre sent the strongest of all possible temptations to sacrifice independence, and heart, and con science, in order to maintain their standing in th( business worlId. Beyond all question, the uni versal error of the age in this country, is "hasting to be rich;" anid this neglect brings with it, is multitudes which we know of, the premature decay of body and mind together, and in the sw.eing' ruin carie with it down to deat.. truth, manliness, heart, conscience, all!-con firming the saying: " They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition; which, while some men coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." And again, " He that basteth to be rich shall not be innocent." " He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him." Hal's Journal of lealh. A CIn.n's OFFERINXG TO MOUNT VERxON.-We give place. with no ordinary satisfaction, to the following letter from a little boy-a Charleston boy, at school, in Georgetown, D. C.,-to the Southern Matron. laying his free. will offering the grateful incense of mind and heart-on the shrine of Washington. It will be seen that this good boy, this grateful boy, this sensible boy,has not only i.iibe4d the lesson of truth and honor, from a einorable incident in the boyhood of Washington, but has made it practically the po. lar star of his own conduct. There is at once a beautiful and a touching propriety exhibited by this young and promising scion of the Palmetto city, in thus acknowledgimg and thus redeeming his debt-a debt alike due by all the youth of America-to the early example of the Vather.of our Country. Let all the boys of Charleston, 'Who have the willing heart and the ready means, go and do likewise, and, for that purpose, em brace the opportunity, to be afforded by the next spreading of the Mount Vernon Tent, under the auspices of the Citadel Cadets.-Charleston Con ner. To THE SOUTH ERM MATRON. - (JEoRGETowN, D. C., July 8, 1857. Resp1ed Madam. :-You will, I hope, excuse a little boy for writing to you, because I only wish to send you one dollar for the great and good purpose you are devoting your time to. I hope, my goo lady, you may succeed in your attempt. for I love to read the many anecdotes about Washington, as I know he was a great and good man. But one anecdote of Washing. ton has been useful to Inc. You remember, I hope, that, when Washington was very young, on his birth-day, lie was ainde a present of a new hatchet, and lie cut down his father's favor. ite cherry tree. Well, his father blamed all the servants for it; but lie, when he came home, declared the truth to his father. Well, often have I been in trouble, and could have come out with a lie, but the memory of that anecdote was ever before my mind' I received some money, lately, frpm home, and I send you a dollar of it. I remain, your little friend, E DWARD CHUPEIN. THE art of visiting, says the Boston Post, is well worth a special treatise. Whom to visit when to visit-how long to visit-these would form the staple of a useful essay, if any body would take the trouble to write it,. and would write it cleverly. Some people visit nearly all the time, and so waste their own lives and-their friends' sub.itanec; s6me ei V_ visit aidifan so deny themselves and their neighbors one of the greatest pleasures of social existence. Some people make their visits so short that they are not worth the trouble they cost; others stay so long that the visit becomes a "visitation"-like a fever or a famine. As use is always essential to excellence in any art, only those who have a certain amount of practice know how to visit well, while those who visit too much, sin in an other way, and become bad visitors from impu dence and carelessness. But we are writing the essay which we began by simply suggesting. and will only add, in conclusion, that all rules must vary more or less with the character of the visitor. As the old epigram says What smiles and welcomes would I give Sonic friends to see each day I live; And yet what treasures would I pay If some would always stay away! SnvrN DAnI.v SINs, AND NO SA.VATION. There are some sins that not all the perfumes of Arabija can render savory, and which pent ance and holy water cannot remove. The fol lowing are seven of them: 1. Refusing to take a newspaper. 2 Taking newvspapers and not paying for them. 3. Not advertising in a paper. 4. Smoking in and prying into the secrets of the sanctum. 5. Markingi the Printing Ojfice a loajing place. (i. Reading the manuscript in the compositor's Ihands. y. Sending abusive letters to the editor. For the first and second ofiences no aibsolu tion can be granted. The fifth is death by law. To the balance, especially the seventh, dispen sation can be obtained by special agreement. In Lynchburg, Vam., there is a lad proverbial as being a bad speller. The school that lie at tends has among its many rules and regulations one that requires the scholars to spell a column in the dictionary and "give the meanings," just as the school opens; well, this lad wvas " foot" of his class. The next day the first word wvas admittance. This lad had been walking around sighit-sceing, when his eyes fell upon a cius bill which, among other inducements to draw a crowd, had "admittance, twenty-five cents niggers and children half price." Our young friend spelt thme word, and learned it ' by heart.' Next day, strange to say, the head boy missed, anid thme next, aind the next, and so on, until it caime to our particular friend, who was ini the meantime all excitement with the hopes of his getting "head," being sanguine that he was right. Here's the result: Teawcher-LBoy at the foot, spell admittance." Boy-Ad-mit tance, admittance. Teacher.-Give the d!efinition. -Boy-Twenty-five cents--niggers and chil dren half price! AN 0nuJ E-r or IN-rEIns'.--The ph ilosophier, Dr. Barwin, informs us that the reason why the bosom of a beautiful woman is an object of such peculiar delighut, arises from hence-that all our irst pleasurable sensation of warmith, suistenance aiid repose arc derived from this interesting source. This theory is beautiful and ino doubt to a certain extent, true, but our friendl Pilkinis says in his case, at least, can b~e found ain excep tioin. He was brought up on "spoon victuals," and says that even the sight of a whole table of spoons produces oii him not the slightest raptu rous sensation. Nevertheless there must be some truth in the theory, for Fundles insists that the fondness for which lie is so notorious, is solely attributable to the fact that lie was brought up on a bottle, and has derived " pleasurable sensations of warmth, susteniance and repose," from it ever since. Tun paers of Southwestern Georgia and Midle nd estFlorida, report having received ed, too late to revive the corn, which was suffer ing from drought. From somne parts of Decatur we hcear very flattering accounts, many planters saying they never had finer prospects for abin dant crops of corn, cotton, tobacco and sugar. The croakers seem to have suddenly become si ~lent, and it is only at long intervals that we now hear - aeqfBhort crops.-Savannah N~ews. THE POISONING 4W* LD99N AT CINCINNATI. The Cincinnati cial of July 25th, has the following p t of the poisoning of a number of childr efly mentioned in our last: Yesterdag afte between the hours of two and four, a coup of boys, apparently from fourteen to sixteeiQ of age, were observed sauntering up Buk street, a densely popu lated German nei. rhood, scattering small lozenges upon th walk about the size of peppermint drops another part of the street a rather robust oe man, dressed in a black coat, white pants af' hite hat, with a box un der his arm, was also served occasionally dis tributing a similar deription of lozenges, only in larger quantitieirAs is usual in German localities, quite a ninlmer of children were play ing upon the street, 4tnd they greedily seized the tempting candiesttus gratuitously thrown in their way. Occh onally the man would give a package to p s he met, but in these instances the parties lined tasting, suspecting something wrong. ' so, however, with the unsuspecting child ho greedily devoured the to them dainty ~ and in a short time afterwards they wer ken with violent vomi ting. Theneighborhoddecamespeedilyalarmed, and Drs. Smith, Dav and Fries were sum moned, who speedily tected the action of poi son, and upon a ehet& in the neighborhood, Mr. Eckel, analyzing-a ozenge, it was found to be composed of equal ts of arsenic, sugar and flour. In the track ch the man, or rather monster, had taken, -*any as one thousand five hundred of these mth-dealing drops were fouid in one pile, and another spot one-fourth pound of arsenic iras nd tied in a couple of parcels. The neighborhood bcome fearfully excited, for at least twenty "chidren had more or less partaken of the insidi- poison. The first vic tim was a fine little named John Shultz, aged nine years. H6. pired about six o'clock in the evening. W6 ere present when the coroner held his inqu i~and a more melanchol ly sight it has hardly:an our lot to witness. The mother of the d child, had a few days previous been confined snd in the same room her eldest babe lay a st&i afiM rigid corpse, while the new born infait sobiht in!vain for nourish ment from the mater41 breast, the fount of which sudden grief and agony had dried. Her two other childrelhadralsQ partaken of the poisonous drops, and liasick in the same room, but they were prQnouned-out of danger. Immediately upon the other side of the street, another promising childinamed Henry Schwarts, about eleven o'clock last night is said to have breathed its last; and ? the time ive visited the poisoned district some- ror five other children, male and female, wer'upposed to 'be in a very critical condition. Wei eard also that several similar ca'es had odcur idjn Fifteenth, between Race and Elm streets. VA:-2 It is with heartfelt comlled to'recordp. tor of the ve.fi-m ies- t iglitiel caue us to rather claim kindied with the brute and for swear our relationship with th'e human species. It is to be hoped that no pains will be spared in hunting the vampire to his lair. A BOSTON COURT. A Lady Arrested fur Obstructing the Side-walks One of the most extraordinary cases ever brought before a legal tribunal was witnessed in the Police Court on Saturday. An officer complained of a young and remarkably hand some lady for obstructing the side-walks of Washington street by too great a display of crinoline. As it is understood that the lady is highly connected, we will call her Mary Smith, and not expose her true name. Before the complaint was read, Judge Russell inquired as to the whereabouts of the prisoner. The officer replied that the lady was waiting in the entry; that himself and two otheris had en deavored to squeeze her through the door-ways, but they were too narrow, and he wished the Jnlge's advice in the premises. Judge said that it wvas an extraordinary case --the constitution gua-anteed to every one anI open trial, and lie would not hold session in the entry even to please a lady. Under-the circum stances, he recomimenided that Miss Smith lbe mnovedl from the entry to the front door, and he thought that she maust spread considerable not to be able to take her place in the prisoner's dock. The experiment was tried and found to ans wer admirably-the dooer being sonme twenty feet wide very little compressmng was needcd and with a frown of indignation upon her pret ty browv Miss Smith found herself face to face with the Judge, and listened to the complaint which was read to her. 'The officer .testified that half a dozen times during the week he had been obliged to step fromu the sidewalk to enable the defendant to pass. Once he came very near being run over by a passing carriage, and he inquired of the J udge whether the city government would have allowed a pension to his widow in case he had been killed. The Judge said that lhe should reserve his opinion until seine time next week on that poinit, and inquired whether the circumference of the lady was not produced by natural causes. The police officer said that he was the father of sixteen children, and if he was lucky, he ex pected an addition to his family next month. He had never known his wife to occupy half so much space as Miss Smith, and he hoped she never would, as he disliked twins. The court rebuked the levity of the man, and told him he must trust to Providence. The oflicersaid thatheshouild, butif Prt~vidence continued to favor him he meant to petition for an increase of salary, and 'he thought he ought to have it. The Court intimated that his remarks were irrelevant to the case, and inquired if he had any further testimony to offer. The officer said that hehad. H~e hadrequested the prisoner two or three times not to stop on the sidewalk, as people were. unable to pass without going into the street, which at times was inconvenient to ladies wearing paper-soled shoes, owing to the outrageous manner in which the thoroughfares were watered. The Court, in summing up, said that the evil was one of -great magnitude, and should be checked by vigorous measures. There was no statute under which too great a display of crino line came, but he should take the responsibility of inflicting a fine of $5 arid costs, and he hoped that it would be a warning. This fine was promptly paid'and Miss Smith was dischargedl. Bst Herald, 20th. " THE FInsT Ho!Ion."-Our Free Dirt Ex changes are laying heavy emphasis on the fact that " Charles Sumner .dined in- London with theBenchies of the inner-temple," and that this was the first instance of such an invitation to a stranger. It may be so-altiough we doubt it-but it is well to recollect that this also is the first instance of a-White man having the ex ternal marigs of a gentleman, who has coveted notoriety abroad on the plea of having taken a caning, and has appealed to eforeign syz~ie by maligoing artiieof hinedfconty COL. WIGFA'LLS SPEECl. It is known to our readersthat since Houston arrived in Eastern Texas, canvassing the State for Governor, Col. Louis T. Wigfall, of Marshall, has been meeting him at his appointments, and, when permitted, discussing the principles of the Democratic party, and exposing the tactics of the party that has nominated and is supporting Gen. Houston for for Governor of Texas. Col. Wigfall has met and replied to Gen. Houston every day, we believe (Sundays excep ted), since the third of June. Col. Runnels, the Democratic nominee, was, at the time Gen. Houston passed through Eastern Texas, and is, perhaps, yet confined to a bed of sickness. Though not an orator or a demagogue, he has that clear judgment, and fixed principles, and good sense, that would have enabled him to meet Gen. Houston on the stump. When he was prevented from doing so, we were more than gratified to hear that Col. Wigfall had been induced to follow, meet and reply to the General. There is not a man in the State in whose hands we would more cheerfully have confided the interests and fortunes of the Dem ocratic party than he. High as was our esti mate of his distinguished talents, his powers as a political debater, and his nobleness of nture, that estimate was surpassed by his speech, in reply to Gen. Houston on Thursday last. We have never heard a more clear, logical, eloquent and effective defence and exposition of political principles than that made by Col. Wigfall. We have never heard a more skilful and powerful, but at the same time temperateandrespectful, dissec tions of the political record and principles of any public man, than that which Col. Wigfall presented of Gen. Houston. Gen. Houston here, as at every other place at which he has spoken, since Col. W. has been following him, denounced him in advance in the grossest terms of abuse-called him a fugitive from justice, a man of infamous character-a felon-hireling-hired slanderer, and many other choice epithets of similar import. In reply, Col. Wigfall declined to go into a war of vulgar and abusive epithets, but on the other hand, proposed to discuss the political principles and antecedants of Gen. Houston, and those of the Democratic party. He held up to public gaze the extraordinary blunders and absurdities that have characterized the last ten years of Gen. Houston's life. He tried him by every test that the General himself has proposed-weighed him as " a Jackson Denocra," and found him ] wanting-referred to his denunciation of con ventions, and showed that he had been a sup pliant before two democratic conventions for the nomination for President; that becoming dis gusted at his reception before those conventions, he was next found knocking at the door of the Philadelphia K. N. convention in 1855-dark lantern in hand, for the same nomination-took up his denunciation of "squaier sorereignty." and showed that he had himself introduced into the United States Senate, and fathered the most odious-and repulsive squatter sovereignty, that *d iA' A.t 't ~ tracted to California, .to vote in the elections establishing its territorial government, and thus shape the political institutions of that State, and exclude the South from it. He defended the convention system, and demonstrated the neces sity of it, and showed that it was only those who had nothing to hope and nothing to gain from conventions, that were decrying and de nouncing them. But it is impossible that we could in the brief space allowed us even refer to all the main points of Col. Wigfall's speech. It was throughout, the ablest political argument, to which we have ever listened, interspersed with bursts of eloquence, and enlivened with flashes of wit that delighted, warmed, and en thused the audience. le was frequently inter rupted by the warmest demonstrations of up plause. Col. Wigfall was prevailed upon again to ad dress the people at night, at the court house. We have not space for even a brief mention of his speech on this lattei occasion. le confined himself wholly to a discussion of the issues that have heretofore divided the political parties of the country- the theory. of our government, andl to a defence of Statesi' Rights denmocracy. It was a piowerful and mas~terly constitutional argument. We may refer to it more fully MH. UClu.\'N A.\l TImE SOU Ti. Mr. Buchanan hus done for the Sonth upon the Kansas question. all that be ever promnised to do, all that his advoentes promised he would do, and all that lie ought to (10. That he pre frs that Kanusas should beta free State, we have no doubt. We never did doubt it. If the South has any cause of cmplaint against him, it is that and that alone. The Government does not of right belong either to the South or to the North. Neither Mr. Buchanan or his friends were promised any thing more for him, than that he recognized thme right of the people of Kansas to determine for themselves, whether they would have Slavery or not. He has done nothing in violation of this promise, lie has not promised to do any thing. The opinions or the wishes of the Presi dent unsupported by any power to enforce them, are not the power of~ the government. Mr. Buchanan has no power to change or to control the vote of a single man in Kansas. i~e has no power to compel the convention to sub mit the constitution to the vote of the people, 1 and none to determine who shall vote provided it is submitted. lie has not power to compel any man in Congress to vote either for or against the admission of Kansas as a State; he has the power to vote the bill admitting her, an dif he were to do that on account of a pro Slavery Constitution, that would be a violation of the principle of Non-Intervention. The Democracy of the South have run them. selves into a most foolish and ridiculous position1 because Walker has told the people of K~ansas what he thinks they ought to do, and what he thinks will be done if they do not followv his suggestions. If it can be shown that the pee of Kansas are slaves who belong to Walker, why this is intervention, but if they are free men, having the right to act upon the dictates of their own judgment, he has done nothing to violate the principles of non-intervention. The difficulty is this. The Democracy of the South expected Walker to express his opinions and use his influence in favor of Slavery in Kansas, and if he had done it we should have heard no complaint of intervention at the South, but we should have heard howls long and loud from the North. But the American party is making itself even more ridiculous than the Democrats. They are raising a wvail over the loss of Kansas and de nouncing Buchanan for his treachery, even be-1 fore Kansas is lost, when they opposed the re peal of the Missouri Compromise, which cut us off from all chance of getting it. They now denounce the Kansas act a' an iniquitous scheme by which we are deprived of our rights, when without it we had no chance for Kansas or any other territory north of 36 30. We should just like to know what they ex- 1 pect or intend to make out of this thing-; if 1 there is evil or wrong in it, what remedy do t~ey propose ? The Democrats say they will nuid~]uchanan if he does not recall Walker, and AhAm...nan.-... th -nnuzaunn quan a. . Democrats whether Buchanan recalls Walker Dr not. They say the Democrats'are responsi ble for all the mischief because they elected Buchanan. But the question arises, " what remedy is proposed by either?" How is the country to be benefitted if the Democrats aban rIon Buchanan? How is cur condition to be improved if the people abandon the Demo crats?-Corner Stone. WINE GROWING IN MISSOURI. A wine company has been recently formed in Missouri, for the manufacture of wine from the grape vineyards of the region, and the product )f this manufacture, appears in the market this year for the firsttime. The enterprise promi ses complete success, as good profits are realized, md experienced connoisseurs do not hesitate to leclare the American wine superior to many of the choice foreign brands. Missouri seems pe :uliarly well adapted to the grape culture; for, ivbile blasting and mildew are said to have be allen the grape crop in Ohio, the vineyards in Viissouri are free from blight, and now promise i rich harvest. The zealous cultivators expect to displace all foreign brands, among discrimi iating judges of the article. The St. Louis Republican describes at much length the works )f the Missouri Wine Company, the process of nanufacture, &c. The main building is very vide and 150 feet in depth, having three cellars aeneath it, hewn out of a solid rock, the lowest >f which is 33 feet below the surface of the arth,.for the purpose of securing a low tempe -ature. The Catawba grape is almost the only )me cultivated for wine, though good success ias been had in making sparkling wine from the vild grape, which brings $9 per dozen. The -hoicer varieties of Catawba rate at $12 to $13 ier dozen. The Republican says, In the year 1856 the Company manufactured )0,000 bottles, or 13,000 gallons of the three orms of Catawba. The present year the amount vill not exceed 40,000 bottles. The failure of he crops last fall advanced the price of the un nanufactured article twenty-five per cent., be ides limiting the quantity, so that the Missouri ine Company contracted their operations. We understand that the business of wine rowing is profitable. An acre of vines proper y tended will yield 400 gallons of wine, which, t one dollar per gallon, the usual rate, will rield $400, or $350 net, as it costs not more han $50 per acre to cultivate the grape and ress out the wine. The first cost of procuring ;he vines and preparing the ground, we did not earn. But the cost subsequently is not above :he figures stated-fifty dollars per acre.-Balt. Imer. TRANSPORTATION oF NEGROES FROM AFRICA 'O THE WEST INIEs.-Although the Earl of J3arendon says he has no offiial information of he fact, the London Daily News declares that it s nevertheless quite true that the French gov rument has entered i'nto a contract with a Mar eilles house for the supply of 16,000 Africans I o Guadaloupe and M The contract. - no reign Affairs, and Messrs. Regis, the i darseilles traders, on the 13th of March last. [he negroes are to work under an engagement or ten years, at a little over two dollars a month, iut of which each negro so imported has to pay I t the rate of 36 cents a month, the cost of his < ransport, estimated at about thirty-six dollars. I essrs. Regis are to receive a hundred dollars 4 or each adult immigrant. So far as appears, not a word is said in the i ontract binding Messrs. Regis to ship only ne- i roes who voluntarily tender themselves for emi- i ration, or not to pay money to induce negroes I o come on board their vessels. The wages they eceive being less for a month than the wages i or a week in the adjoining British possessions, I t is no wonder that the British statesmen are I nuch exercised thereby, and that they propose I o follow the example.-Richmond Dispatch. THE JEw.-Lady Shell, the wife of the Brit sh Ambassador to Persia, in a book entitled, 'Glimpies of Life and Manners in Persia," says he Jew cannot "be taken under any form with vhich we are acquainted with him-whether si representedl on the monuments of Egypt or ~f Assyria, or in the purest stock still found, ithier in Europe or in Asia-.as the type of phy; ical beauty. In common with all the Semitic -aces, he has a high development of the intellec ual fatculties especially of the imagination. In his respcct he yields to none. J)ut the well miown characteristics of~ the race-the sharp, iooked nose, the sensual lip, the peculiar form: > the profile, are too prominent and defined for >rfect bea'.ty of fe tures. And these peculi rities are not to be attributed to any intermix ure of blood, to variation of climate, to politi-i al changes, or. to social condition. The Jew of o-dlay id the Jew of the Captivity, the Jew of he kingdom'i of~ David and Solomon. Even to his hour the Shibboleth might still be his pass voruihad he to cross to the other side of Jordon."i Auvovrsznc.-Thec St. Louis Republican, in oncluding a congratulatory notice of its pros >erity and success, says of advertising: The truth is, advertising has becomie a greati cature in the business of the country. NoI derchan t can better understand this than those who engage in it most extensively. The promi ent advertisements of our fancy good dealers, .nd of our wholesale merchants, spread all over hese pages, best attest the estimation in which hey hold it. If they can in this way secure a ending by tens of thousands of persons every ay, this is just what they want. If they can >y so easy a process and so cheap a cost attract undreds of buyers to their counters every day, that matters it to them that they pay a few lollars for doing it. But the merchants are not he only persons benefitted by advertising. Every one who has anything to buy or sell ivery one who wants anything or has lost any hing-every one engaged in any business what iver-now resorts to the newspapers to commta icate with the public. As a matter of course, tvery man in search of a particular object or ;hing, looks to the advertising columns of a ewspaper to find it; and if there be any one o stupid as not to read those columns, he will ever keep up with his neighbors or the progress af the age." MoDERNX E LOQUEYCE.-A correspondent of the 3ston Courier gives the following extract from Ssermon recently delivered by a Professor at Earvard University, and asks if students are safe when exposed to such language:a Viewingr this sulject from the esoteric stand >oint of Christian exegeteeial analysis and ag-. ~lutinating the polsynthetical eetoblasts of ho-. nogeneous ascetism, we perceive at once the ab-. olute individuality of this entity; while from hat other stand-point of incredulous synthesie rhich characterize the Xenoeratic hierarchy of he Jews we are constantly impressed with the recisely entineristatic quality thereof,. A DEAT H STR UGGLE.---TWO men were drown d in Whittemore, Lake Michigan on the 4th.] n company with their wives and a little girl, hey were sailing on the lake, when an alterca-a ion ensued ; the men clinched, in the struggle 1 ipset the boat, and they fought* in the water I mtil both sunk. The women and the littlea p ,1 sav=1 ed byicinging to - the boat nm From the Spartanburg Spartan. U. S. RUM0N. MESSRS. EDITORS: The U.S. Senatoria17Ble tion is a matter of grave and great importance to the good people of South Carolina. at'this time. We want a gentleman of high cownmd ing talents and statesmanship, upon whomve can rely with confidence-whose interest is identified with ours-who is prudent and cau tious, and at the same time bold enough to speak out the truth and sentiments of the State, without "fear, favor or affection," and whose general character is such as to aid in keeping the South united; for all the Southeirini tes are together in sentinient and feeling, for the first time in thirty years. We believe that Col. F. W. Pickens is the manfor the crisis, and will be suported the , BACK COUNT l-. AN ABoLITIoNIsT PREss REMOVED FRoM TExA.-The citizens of Wood county, in the northern part of Texas,' being disgusted with the course *o a paper published in Quitman, called the Free Press, held a meetingan passed resolutions repudiating the reportsm cw culation that they were abolitionists, and callin , mass meeting to decide whether the Free Press should continue to be published, or re moved as a nuisance. They decided to destroy the office, and gave Winston Baks, its editor, md his friend, Mr. Lemon, twenty-four hours to leave. The citizens carried out the resolution, and Banks and Lemon left in less than the time specified. THE SMITH FAMILY OVER THE WATER.. rables have been published of the births, deaths ind marriages, in a single year, in Enylan1 and Wales, of some of the more numerous of those English families whose surnames are derived from occupation. It appears from these statis ties, which are reliable, that every year , Smiths are born. 4,044 Smiths die, and 3,005 Smiths, determined to preserve the Smith fami ly from extinction, do marry. CoTToN IN CUBA.-The most crions specu lative movements in which, since the days of. jointstock companies, the Cubans have engaged, (says the N. 0. Pidayane,) isthe org-mization of a company for the purpose. of encoragin 4 the growth of cotton. The capital of the coin pany is put down at eight millions, divided.inta four shares of S2,000,000each. They proposeto ; buy up all the cotton-growing lands of the is Land, especially such as are unfit. by hatureor ftherwise for the growth of sugar,, and put them at once under cultivation. The company also propose to engage in cotton manufact es rhe movers speak with confidence of thaiSn terprise, which they assure us has thiya a nd encouragement of the Government BALLOoN TRAVELING0 ENOLA ftwohundred and fifty milea h lie'jsipace of five hours b lpfs he travelers 'crossed thesouthenli tt, )ig village, and then.must have steered due west. l'here was a fine moon shining, and as the day ight broke on them, they heard the sound of the ,liannel serf, and found themselves in nautical hraseology, hugging the coast, and going along it considerable speed. i he river Exe was crosse >ver Stareross Station, between Exeter. and Ex nouth; Dartmoor was traversed near the prison, when Mr. Gozwell, finding that a fresh wind pre railed in the lower current, determined to avail iimself of the sielter afforded by the hills, and lescended, therefore, in a valley about three niles from Tavistock, where a suitable meadow )resented a good landing place. It' was some ime before the particulars of the journey ob ained credence. At Newton the balloon was leelared to be the comet - but the railway guard itopped the panic by declaring the erial visitor :o be Mr. Coxwell's balloon. ----- -- - SEIZURE oF PRoPERTY.-The Vineennes (Ind.) iun presents the following: On Friday a movement was made to levy on he court-house, jail, court-house square, and >ther public property of Knox county, at the uit of~ the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Corn any, for the interest due on $200,000 of the ounty bonds, for wvhich judgment was obtained it the last United States Circuit Court. Th'e ,oor-hous~e and jail are to be sold; the court iouse and grounds will be held from sale till the ietion of the county authorities is known. To ay the debt will double the present heavy taxes. FAL.T FINDIN.-Having in my youth no tions of severe piety, says a celebrated Persian rriter, I used to rise in the night to watch, pray,,and read the Koran. One night while I wvas engaged in these exercises, my father, a nan of practical virtue, awoke while I was reading. " Behold," said I to him, " thy other children ire lost in irreligious slumber, while I alone a'ake to praise God." "Son of my soul," he answered," "it is better :o sleep than to wake to mark the faults of thy rethren." LENGTH OF A MILE IN VARIOUs COU'NTRIUL rho English mile is 1,760 yards ; the Russian L,100; the Italian, 1,467; the Irish and Scotch 2,200; the Polish 4,400, the Spanish 5,028; the swedish and Danish 7,233; and the Hungarian ,830. The French measure by the mean league, vlhich is 3,666 yards. SHOCKING CATASTROPHE.--A romantiC father, rhose name was Rose, called his daughter ' Wild," so that she grew up under the appella ;ion of " Wild Rose." But in a few years the. ;irl fell in love with, and married a man named Bull, which sadly interfered with the romnance >f the lady's name, " Wild Bull I" It happened some years ago, in one of the forthern counties of Vermont, that the then 3tate Attorney, though a man of great legal ibility, was rather too fond of the "critter," mnd with a perversity of habit, which we have >ften seen in others, was pretty sure to drink oo deep at the very time when it was most ne :essary that he should be sober. On one occa lion an important criminal case8 was called on by ;he Clerk, but the Attorney, with owl-lik~e ;ravity, kept his chair, being, in fact, not fairly ible to stand on his feet. "Mr. Attorney, is theState ready toproceed!" aid the Judge. "Yes-hic--no, your honor," stammered the~ awyer, " the State--hic-is not ina state to ti~y his case to day--the State, your honor- is HON. W. W. Bovc.--The death of JTudge lutler has brought forward a number of aapi ants for the vacancy in the Senatorial re~sn ation of South Carolina; and ainong ohr, he Hon. William W. Boyce has beenco . nented with a nomination for the offic r. lyepbshsa card, in whinhki 1l fieldi seohinae in connection with ti'&ao, hip, avowing a-desire to remgin in the2H use f lepresentatives, where his 'habit ofapba uis unusual learning, andhisti'iuyct mnd original intellec-,hadaledkj~ai