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All Advertisements not having the desired number of Insertions marked on the margin, will be continued until forbid and charged accordingly. Those desiring to advertise by the year can do so on the most liberal terms--it being distinctly under stood that contracts for yearly advertising are con fined to the immediate, legitimate business of the firm or individual contracting. All communications of a personal character will be charged as advertisements. Obituary Notices exceeding one square in length will be charged for the overplus, at regular rates. Announcing a Candidate (not inserted until paid for,) Five Dollars. For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be paid by the Magistrate advertising. HON. P. W. PICEENS. Maj. PERY, the Editor of the Patriot and Mountaineer, in alluding to the vacancy in the United States Senate, says: We have already expressed our preference of the Hon. J. L. Orr and given our reasons for such preference. But in case he declines to run, we now nominate the Hon. F. W. Pickens as one on whom the whole democracy of South Caro lina might well concentrate. He is a patriot by inheritance. Whilst a very young man he rank ed with the very first men in Congress for talents, ability and eloquence. He has had great expe rience in the service of the State, and has shown himself above all desire or ambition for office. No man in the" Union has rejected more high of fices than Col. Pickens. The mission to Eng land was tendered him by President Polk. e has had offered to him, the mission to Spain, and more recently he was urged by President Buchanan to accept the mission to Russia. But he has declined all Federal offices, and is willing only to serve his native State. He justly feels an ancestral pride in South Carolina. No man served her longer or more signally in the strug gle for Independence, than his illustrious grand father. His father filled most worthily the Exe cutive chair of the State. He, unlike others, who have sent off their property to increase their fortunes in the West, has brought back into the State a laige property inherited in the West. At one tine the owner of more than five hun dred slaves in South Carolina, he never thought of carrying any of them out of the State. i ho is there, by fortune and inheritance, more worthy *of being trusted on the slave question, or who can fee a deeper pride in the glor of the State ? No one has been more thorouglyStates-rights in all his political creed than Co.Pickens. And yet, at the same time, he has had wisdom and virtue and boldness enough to appreciate the blessings of the Federal Constitution and the Federal Government 'administered under that Constitution. Like a brave man, he is ready to meet danger when it comes, but is not disposed to be scared at imaginary dangers. We ha* something more to say on this sub Seetnext week.if we.have time during the sit '-p 'of the'State and 'United States Courts at thi place. From the Patriot and Mountaineer. PEOPESSOR LAD0EDE. It is with great difficulty we make room for Dr. LaBorde's letter, and have no space or time for a proper expla nation this week. The Doctor thinks we are in gross error and have done him great injustice. If. so we assure him there is no one more disposed to make the amende honorable. We know the Doctor stated before the Board of Trustees that he never ad vised the students not to attend President Mc Cay's recitation, and we implicitly believe his statement. And yet we have no doubt, at all, that the students came very properly to the con elusion, from all that passed between them and the Professors, that their refusal to attend Presi dent McCay's Lecture would not be offensive to them. We set up no inquisition before Dr. LaBorde. Nor did we catechise him. We simiply expressed our opinion, which the Doctor hias not dirictly met-that he did not think the boys ought to be p unished. Does he think so ? The Doctor says hethought it proper that if the President report ed the class they should be tried. The President did report them, and they were not tried ! In stead of trying the young meni for rebellion ag-ainst the College and their President, it is th'ouoeht better to conv.ene the Boand of Trustees, and Tet them tythe President on a charge of a want of veracit brought by the students I This is what the Fauty called referring "the whole matter to the Board of Trustees I" There were several Professors who did express the belief that it was no combinationi for each student to stay away from the recitation on his own responsibility, although he knew that the whole class were going to act in the same way. We are called on to name the Professors. If our memory serves us right, Messrs. Pelham, Rivers and Barnwell expressed such opinion, Dr. LaBorde'did not. We have neither time nor space for further comments. COLUMA, July 27, 1857. My Dear Sir: I am truly sorry to be forced to write a line in reference to the College. Im mediately upon the 'adjournment of the Board of TruteesI deterined to take no part in thedis cussion which I believed would take place, and I have religiously adhered to this determination up to the present moment. 'A sense of duty to myself demands that I remain silent no longer; I cannot suffer myself to be put in a false posi tion~before the public. You are a Trustee, and permit me to remind you, that as you are sup posed to speak by authority, you should be doubly careful in the statement of flacts. In the last number of your paper arc to be found the fol lowing words; "the young men said by way of encouraaine their followers, in staying away from Preside<Y !icCay's lectures, that Professors La Board and Barnwell would not think that they were made of the right kind of stuff if they at. tended the lectures of the President." Now, sir, this is a mosti serious charge against me, as an officer of the College, and well calculated to do me a mr.terial injury. Was this charge made by "the young men" before the Board? No. The Board refused to hear the students. I know that "the young men"s acquit me entirely, and that you must prove my guilt, if proved at all, by other witnesses. I am the more surprised that you shoald give currency to such an opinion, when you know that on being asked before the Board if I had ever advised a student not to at tend Mr. McCay, or if it came within my knowl -edge that any Professor had so advised, I ans wered unheatatingly and unequivocally, No. Am I to be discredited? In the face of my flat denial, am I to be made the victim to a vague, wild an$ irresponsible rumor ? So determined do you appear tb fasten the charge upon me, that you hesitate not to say, that if I was asked the question, I would answer, that the students were right in not atedn him, and that they should not be punished for it. You have no right to present me in this aspect before the public - to mnatitute an inquisition into my personal, and *private convictionsl; you should know me in this -matter only as an officer. But though denying 30o1right to catechise me in this way, I hereby declan ss nctl; that if an officeer of Cole~ woge go ask for isu puisment of a clau, nonattendance, I-should feel myself compelled by every consideration of duty to vote for it. In the case of the Junior Class I made the motion to summons it immediately before the Faculty, but this motion was made to give way to another which looked to the reference of the whole mat ter to the Board of Trustees. I stated distinctly that I would throw no obstacle in the way of the President-that if he desired the class to be brought before the Faculty, it must be done, let consequences be what they may. - There was a general acquiescence in this view on the part of the Faculty. When the motion to refer the mat ter to the Board was made, the President said nothing in opposition, and it received the sup port of those members of the Faculty who are known more particularly as his personal friends. I have given the facts to the best of my recol lection, and refer to my colleagues in proof of them. I will only remark further on this point, I that I had fixed deliberately my line of con- s duct; that before the meeting of the Faculty at t which Mr. McCay made his report, I said to Professor Rivers, that if he reported the class, I would make the motion to summon it before us. He said that I was right, and that he would sus tain the motion. As Mr. Barnwell and myself are the only Professors, I believe, mentioned by name, the reader will very naturally conclude, that we are particularly alluded to, when you t make certain other complaints, against "several Professors." You assert that ' several Profes sors" admitted that at the Faculty meeting they took the ground that there was no combination. Fairness demands that you give the names of the Professors; I deny it for myself. I took no such ground, and made no such admission before the oard. I perceive that you are grossly at fault in reference to the history of our difficulties, and thatin many particulars youhave misapprehended the facts that were developed before the Board. Nothing would be easier than for me to show that you have erred. It is not my purpose, how ever,'to discuss the proceedingy of the Board, or to take part in the controversy (I hope a fniendlr one) between you and "Andi Alteram, Partem.' At a future time, and before a proper tribunal, I may have something to say. 1 hope to be able to show that I have done my duty to the Presi dent- that whatever other errors I have commit ted, f have not, as an officer, been false -to him ; that I have, to the best of my ability, and with i at least a fair measure of success, devoted my energies to the good of the College. When that time arrives, I shall look for you, as among the first, to confess your many errors of judgment and opinion, and to make that reparation which every honorable mind feels to be due to those whom he has unintentionally injured. I am, most respectfylly, your most obedient, M. L.tBORDE. COREESPONDENCE OF THE SOUTE CAROLIAN. LExINGTON, (K. T.,) July 20. Mu. EDoIvO: In a late Carolina paper, I see a movement made to raise funds to reimburse Col. J. J. Clarkson, for services rendered South Carolinians. In the same paper it is stated that Oslonel C. had assisted the " boys" to such an extent that he was seriously crippled pecuniari ly. Col. C. is still ensidered here as well to do in the world. There is no doubt that Col. C. did assist the " boys," Lut were it not as well to look little nearer hone flrst. I should be glad I to see Col. Clarkson paid what is due him, but, Mr. Editor, many of those that contracted those debts have lon~g since returned home, and are able to settle their own debts, accounts made recklessly and heedlessly. Would it not be just to commencewith your own sons ? I have a case in view now, that calls for some actions sooner than the one referred to above-I allude to Ma jor Bell. This gentleman's action in behalf of Kansas have never vet be en duly appreciated at home. In the month'of December, 18535, Mis souri called on the South for aid ; Major Bell was thefirst one to advertise for men and aid. He was attacked through the papers of his own district as endeavoring to make a speculation. When the time came for him to start, $100 (from Governor R. F. W. Al~ston) and a gold chain, was the sum total of aid, and lie was compelled to join Major Buford in Alabama. He was not discouraged ; his reward was, he landed in Kan sas with a company of forty-six men, as respec table in looks, egent9manly in bearing, .and as courageous as any company froni Carolina; and I do not hesitate in saying that there are more of his men in the Territory now than any company from Carolina. I could give innumera ble instances of their services, but I do not wish to take up too much room; the members of Major B.'s company can testify to his many acts of kindness, his attention to the sick, and his firmness and courage. I unhesitatingly say that South Carolina never sent a braver man to Kan sas; several of his men know that he has many a time divided his last'dollar with them, and the writer of this knows that he stood security for seeral for board, boots, clothing, &c., and had to pay. In every difficulty he has taken a lead ing part, and nobly sustained the honor of the Palmetto. At the battle of Ossawatomie, it wsas acknowledged by all that his artillery saved the day ; the ladies "of Clay County, Missouri, made him a present of a handsome flag, and the citi ens invited his company to a dinner. He came here a poor man, and for nearly twelve months he was occupied in behalf of Kansas ; this was attended with expensos, and lie had no way to make anything. When others pressed horses, he refused. A fter things were quieted he went out west of Fort Riley, a long distance, survey ing, and was frozen uip for- sev-er-ah months, near ly lost his life and made nothing. I have seen him since doing all kinds of work, even diggingi a well-showing a true spirit of industry and perseverance. He has assisted every Southern man as far as lie was able ; but enough. Gentlemen! Ladies I "South Caroliniansl'" would it not be an act of generosity to assist such a man ? Remember, he owns no slaves, but has acted through principle. Show him that his principles are appreciated at home by sm testimonial; remember, he is still at his post, when many who reaped the benefits of the as sociations in Carolina have long since returned. ONE WHlO HAS iwEEN wmTH lix Fuox Fins-r TO LAST. RAII.IOAn CoNNEC-rioN AT A rvsi-a.-The ar rangement between the South Carolina Raiilroad1 on the one hand, and the city of Augusta anid the Georgia Railroad on the other, has at length been happily completed. It provides that the roads shall run parallel tracks in aspecified street, in the city of Augusta, thus enabling their respective trais to load from a common platform without the use of dr-ayage. The value of this arrange ment will soon be felt, as it goes into operation1 about the 15th of August. The coninection be tween the two roads, always so imiportanit, has gained additional interest from the bulk of grain that now passes over them during the summer mionths. One Railroad delivers ait its depot an average of five thousand bushels of wheat dhaily, and it is expected that in a short timie this aver awe will be doubled. Thus the transportation of wheat wmill soon be made to fill the gap in the transportation of cotton. It is another evidence of the benificent operation of Railroads upon agricultural enterprise.-Charleston Mercury. THE DECLINE~ IN Suu.ta.- The stock of sugar on hand in New York yesterday, as we learn from the New York Post. is not less than 100, 000 hhds., besides from 15,000 to 20,000 hhds. Melado. The Post states that the decline in price on this stock since the 1st instant, includ ing reduction of duty, is at least two and a half or three millions of dollars. The fall is fully 11 ent per pound on general qualities, and the market remains depressed. Recent importa tions from the West Indies, costing 111r cents, have been sold in lots at 9} cents! As we stated sonmc time since, the Eastern and Western States have produced largely from the maple< tree, and the decrease of demand on the INew York market from that quarter is enough of it elt to affect prices seriously. Every,table in the West is supplied with maple syrup and sugar i of home make. We think that the price of sugar, has reached the highest point, and from the pre sent time a rapid decline may be looked for. SaRL&X WAT~.-A gentleman from Alabama received from the Patent Office somne spring wheat from the Holy Land, which he sowed last1 spring. It came to maturity in seven weeks, producing a large, full head, with a berry in every respect equal to the original. This wheat is reputed to ri in Syria in sixty days from sowa. It' ths beseenthat our climate 1 ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR. EDGEFIELD, B. 0. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1857. ERRATUX. In the latter part of the 4th paragraph of the com IuUication of "SALVDA PLANTER," in our last num or, for " old grub" read "old grain." THE SALUDA HOUSE. We are requested to state that the Hotel kept by [r. L. CoVAn, and heretoforeknownas the " Mansion louse," has had its name changed to " The Saluda [ouse." We furthermore speak knowingly when we ay that itis a capital good House both as to boarding, edding, and the comforts of life generally. The overnor and his Aids, the Generals and their staf ificers, have been sojourning there for some days, nd fully concur in our estimate of Mr. CoVAR's eX ellent accomodations. CAMP MEETING. We are re4uested bly our Methodist friends to state hat the annual Camp Meeting at Mt. Vernon - Camp )round will be held there this week, commencing ov -morrow (Thursday) evening. THE GOVERNOR AND THE MILITARY. Our military reviews are now in progress. His Ex elloney Governor ALLSTON and Suite, Adjutant Gen. ral DwiovAxT, and Major General SmiTH and Suite, iro in attendance. Our town has had an unusual in erest attached to it for the few past days by the pres nee of these gentlemen. It is needless to say thal hey are winning golden opinions in passing. RoM ould it be otherwise, when affability, high tone, in. elligence, and social warmth so manifestly character ze them all. Gov. ALLSTON, we regret to say, has been somewhai ndisposed; but was improving when he left us yes erday mornhtg. Besides the military duties of hi our, his Excellency is assiduous in his inquiries as tc natters of a civil nature, and especially In referenet :o the working of our present Free School system, rhich subject he evidently has much at heart. W4 ,re more convinced than ever that our Legislature, it electing him to the Chief Magistracy of the State, nade an admirable choice. Let us say, that oh Edgefield wishes him a pleasant summer and a sue ,essful term. Our feelings are not less worm towards the severa nembers of his present military cortege. CAPT. BELL, OF KANSAS. Attention is asked to a Kansas letter, which we opy from the Carolinin, in relation to Capt. (noi ajor) E. B. BELL of that territory. We have heari ut one account of Capt. B's conduct, and it ip aliki reditable to himself and honorable to the State hi ns in parL represented throughout the Kansas diffi sulties. Ilis case, as stated by the letter-writer, ! .rtainly one to enlist the sympathies of his friendi n this District and State; and we suggest that somi estimonial to his activity and zeal would be both op portune and appropriato at this time. A well-fllei purse for his present relief would perhaps form the nost acceptable offering in his straitened circum tances. The letter-writer is wrong in saying that the paper, >f Edgefield "attacked Capt. B. as a speculator. he Informer may have done so. The Advecrtiee: lid not, but on the contrary gave many indications o riendliness towards him ; and he has been our occa, nional correspondent from Kansas. NARROW ESCAPE. The Ninety Six and Augusta stage coach and pas engers came near a serious accident on Friday las pon the up trip. It seems that Stephens' Creeki ine miles above this plae, had overflowed its banks endering the approach to the bridge a little uncer an. The driver however took a horse from his tear ad aseertained that it was still quite easy to reach it ie thereupon entered with his coach and one passen, ger. Just at that moment a flood of water cami ushing down from a mill'pond aove,the dasm which had given way, and the horses were at onel ubmerged. The water was 'quite deep in the coach yet it fortunately remained stationary, the horses hav ng been cut loose. A Mrs. McCULLrOUH, of Augun ta, who was inside, succeeded in getting out at th window and climbing with assistance to the top of th oach. Some negroes who were upon the bank the hrew in a rope by means of which she got ashor safely. Eventually, the coach, horses, driver an Unle Sam's mail bags were all extricated from thei critical predicament, not however without a complet uking of the whole party and a narrow escape frori more fearful result. MRI. MELTON, OF THE " ENQUIRER." The last Yorkville Enuirer contains the valedicto y of 31r. SAN'r.. W. MEL.TON, lately one of the edi tors and proprietors of that handsome sheet. Othe ngagements and other duties have led this gentlemna1 to bid adieu (at least for a time) to the editorial fra ternity of South Carolina. W*e regret the fact ; for'i ay most truthfully be said that Mir. MEL.TON was on of the ornaments of our State press. Ever attentiv' to the tastes of his readers, ever manly in the express [on of his opinions, ever ready with the reasons of hi rourse, he had helped to give the Engn.irer~ a promi rent position among its compeers of the South. W must be allo~wed to think, that much of that paper sucess has been attributable to the refined taste, thc the critical acumen, and the correct judgment of Mr IETON; And, in parting with him, we most heartil express the hope that it is but for a time. True knigl of the qjuill that he is, we will not believe that he ha left the profession except yith tho eainaus rererteindi THlE CHARLESTON EVENING NEWS. We hare just seen, upon the eve of going to press the last remanrks of this paper in relation to the Ad ari.r ; andI we seiz~e the occasion to express ou: regrets ait not having republished the article of ou: oteporary to, which we made allusion in our last We hold that it is but right to give every one, whoa< arguments or opinions we endeavor to rebut, as fai and as full a shnowing us he gives us. Such Is oui usual course. We cry "peccavi" in the present in stance.-The complaint of the News seems to hav reference mainly to our not having copied Its expla nation reconciling its former adherence to American lam with Its present attitude. We make the amend by re-stating that explanation as we understand it t is this : The editor of the News was a member o the American party until he saw that it was becom ug (at the North) but another name for Abolitionism e then renounced it, and took the position of State Rights Democrat, only retaining so much o the American creed as conformed to his duties an obligations as a Southerner. We arc free to say tha this is an honorable position. The well-known in lependence and purity of our cotemporary forbi the idea that he could take a position which was no so. And we much regret that different conviction llace the Adrerriser~ and the Newcs on different stand. points in the present juncture of affairs. We inus1 think that calmi investigation and the development: f the next few mouths will bring us nearer together t may be that we shall be brought to his views ; 01 t may (more probably) be that ho shallecome to ours o cverrone. ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. Just upon going to press, a gentleman drops in and ith hasty earnestness begs us to lay before the pub ic the following Recipe, as supplying the desidera im of a " Cheap Sugar Mill :" " Cut as mnuch Chinese sugar cane in the day as yeu an chew up at night and spit in a- tub. Boil next lay to a thick syrup. WVhen your teeth wear out, ge o Dr. Parker and have more put in." Now that is not tho nicest recipe in the world; but a estimating it, we must remember what they tell us Lbout expressing the real West Indian juice by the rigger-foot operation. "At all events,", said our !isitor when we suggested this objection to this re ipe, " It will do for the Chinese cane and all the su :ar it will ever yield." Our visitor is of course an unbeliever on the Chi. es Millet subject. Will no one take him up, or, erhaps .we should say, take him down ? Where is he gentleman who has that fine lot of the Chinese ane down there under the hill? And where are hose other gentlemen who wants to trade him otif THE KANSAS STION. Gov. WALKER'S intermed with affairs in this territory has been of a kind:provoke the anger of the South. The tone of hi..peal to .the Topeka i rebels was petty to say the1i bilt; and his threat to side with them against thJ d.order men, in case the forthcoming Consti ifu o ld not be sub. I mitted to the people of the toryfor ratineation, had the appearance of swag 4ug foolishness. Such has been the light in which personal course has been regarded by us from ot of. his Kansas career. But we have thou"' t proper, with many others, to forbear any expreaon' of 'ensure towards the Administration on that "iount, because we did not appreciate the fairness :cshastily visiting upon the Government the faults of-in agent, who was ne cessarily entrusted with eulakod discretion as to the mode and manner of his opiations in the difficult field to which he was appointed. In the exercise of that discretion, Governor WAiun has made speeches and announced declarations.yll calculated to infiame the pride of the Southern pople ; and, even admit ting that this has been a pne . hypocritical seeming for the purpose of throwin'gBlack Republicanism more fully into the wrong before the country, yet were his said' speeches and dplaratlons uncalled-for and presumptuous, neither, reditable to his head as a statesman nor to his hearas a Southerner. But, as we have intimated, the i2inInistration was not supposed to have advised orj ppioved these special acts of its agent; nor does lt.4 appear that such is the fact. On the contrary, fis it not been announced from an authoritative quarte that the Kansas Gov ernor's modua operandi exceeded . in its character what the President expected' and desired. We are no apologist for the' present Administration. Yet, seeing that its rule has'ieen inaugurated mainly by Southern advocacy and Southern votes; and knowing that it has plantea "itself upon a political code which has for its aim juttice to the South as well as the North; we cannot discover the taste or the wisdom of that advice whichwould have us abandon it abruptly, at this early period of its labors, because its agent has maneuvered offensively in the so-called 'Kansas imbroglio.' But perhaps we do not give the full weight of the charge laid at President bucuANAN's door. That charge is, generally, that be Is not true to the South upon the Kansas issues. And bow does this appear? 1st. He sends an agent to that territory who uses rash, and apparently anti-Southern, means to secure the success of his mission. 2nd. He favors, through that agent, the submittal of the Kansas 'Constitution to the people of the territory, for ratification. 3rd. He encourages, thereby, the formation of a Free State out of Kansas. We have spoken above to the first count in this in dictment. In regard to the second, we submit to our readers and our cotemporari's the following inquiries by way of suggestion. Is it not the true principledof popular sovereignty, that the voice of the whole bona fide people of a ter ritory be ascertained, upon all measures connected with the important event of its becoming a sovereign State? In the case of Kansas; has the Administration sought anything more than:this? And has not its accredited organ distinctly said that the pro-slavery Conven tion is the only power to determine who compose the DOxA FIDE peopl)of Kansas ? Again, does it not now appear evident, to the sur prize of Southerners, That the pro-slavery party is after all in a slender minority in Kansas? And since this has become evident, are there not statements freely circulating to the effect that the climato of that territory is unsuited to the nogro race, &c ? In short, have not the pro-slavery men of Kansas themselves given up all hopes of making it a'slave State ? Un -der these circumstances, even supposing that the Convention could fore throiigh a pro-slavery consti tution, would it be advantageous to the Southern cause ? Is it not evident thiat such a constitution would speedily be abrogated as to its slavery features by the people of the State of Kansas? And would -not this ho a more demonstrative and a more danger ous blow at our peculiar institution than the one now likey t ur 'hp ~ydpto cf-te Consti all-this -to be trde ? BIsia, hM ite 'we to adcount for the fact that theyjare heartily with the Administra tion in its Kansas policy ? They, upon the ground and with their eyes open,. unite with WALKERn;-are they not the best judges in their own case ? And now, because the Administration with the honest de sire of setling a vexed question has recommended that the Constitution of Kansas he referred for ratification to the bonafide citizens of the territory,-leaving the proslavery Convention to designate who these bona fide citizens are,-we ask, is It right, is it reasonable, is it magnanimous, to urge the South,-for this offence, no more,-to turn upon our aged and patriotic Chief Magistrate, and take from him the true lever of his power for good, the united friendship of the South ? Would it not at least he politic to delay such advice, until this whole Kansas question shall be unfolded in all its bearings and results? A word or two upon the third division of the charge against the President. It contains the real political sin complained of by a portion of the southern press; and it is, that the Administration, by Its course, is en couraging the formation of a Free State out of Kan sas. To assume that this is the spirit and intent of Governor WYALKcn's mission, is to believe that Mr. BucHAN'An is capable of treachery towards that per tion of the people of the United States who reposed confdene in his high character for patriotism and ability, and who, by their united support, elevated him to the first office in the Union. In the language of a Western exchange, " we are at a loss to conjec tre any adequate motive to prompt the President to a policy violative of the very issue upon which be was elected." It will be said, that however strange and incomprehensible this may appear, the facts of the ase are nevertheless so. What then are the facts ? One of them is, that the pro-slavery party were, upon WALKER's arrival in the territory, hopel'ess of success. Another is, that they readily united with WALKER in his scheme of making Kansas a Democratic State. A third is, that they made no 'sort of objection to sub mitting their Constitution to the test of a populatr rati fiation. Is it to be surmised, that these facts were brought about by Washington influences ? The sup position Is too grossly insulting to the gallant pro slavery men of Kansas. The more natural and the more liberal interpretation is, that these men saw their weakness and were eager to grasp the only alternative to ultimate defeat left them, vis: concerted action with Walker in giving a flied Democratic complexion to the future State of Kansas. And to this point we ask the especial attention of our readers. Kansas, not by thle fault of the Admin istrtion' but hy the force of circumstances within her own borders, is to become a Free State. But, by the manactigement.of the Administrations's agent seconded by the pro-slavery influence in the territory, she bids fair also to become a staunch Democratic State, having many pro-slavery Democrats within her borders, and a large number of other Democrats who respect the constitutional rights of the South. We are aware that this accession to the Democracy will not he rel ished by Southern Know Nothings, Southern Whigs, -or any whose antecedents are adverse to the princi ps of dhat party. Neither will it be acceptable in the sight of those extremists who desire now to break up the Democracy and ruthlessly to scatter Its ancient glory to the winds. But in the estimation of those c onservative patriots who believe that a triumph awaits the South in the Union, and who feel that this triumph is inseparably interwoven with the progress of sound Democracy, it is an .accesioni of real impor tanc. Is it not then a corrpet deduction from the foregoing premises, that the Administration has not only done us no wrong in Kansas, but is assisting to achieve all the good that our party therd'can hope to gain ? A BLAMED BIG BEET. Here's the beet that beat the beet that beat the beater. Where's the beet can beat the beet that Jzan Mon rar rained ? -- It weighs seven pounds ne.eerly, and measures round the waist about two feet and one inch. Thanks, friend M., for this noble specimen of the Beet family. We must add, that itis not only an un 'inmonlA beet,,but is also as red as beets greir to be, and as sound in every respect as Governor Warn COL. LOtuIS TRUZZVANT WIGUALL. On our first page will be found an article from a exas paper, having for its subject the talented and pirited gentleman whose name is at the head of this aragraph. Many friends of Col. WiarALL in South 'arolina will be gratified to learn that he is entering ally upon the political arena of the Lone Star State. 1To wish him great success; nor can there be a doubt hat our wish will be gratified if he shall put forth is brilliant abilities actively and continuously. Of he aspersion cast upon his good name by Gen. Hous. o, when he speaks of him as "a fugitive from jus ice in South Carolina," it is needless to say here that tis as false as it is foul. In honor as well as in ge ius, Col. WIOFALL is far more than a match for the icro of San Jacinto. It is the consciousness of this het, no doubt, which reduces the notorious General o the extreme resort of fabricating false flings at the haracter of his opponent. We send a voice from )ld Edgefield, Col. WIrALL's native place, congratu. ating his political friends in Texas upon possessing o fearless, so honorable, so accomplished and so able L champion. MISCEiLANEOUS ITEMS. , READ the very interesting letter of our " E. K." touching upon'matters in Greenville and up-coun try topics in general. pW" Tui rains still continue to fall profusely. The earth is thoroughly soaked. p9 WN had afair turn out of the people on Sale. day, considering that the weather was so foul. No ows of interest. pO Tiu thermometer has latterly ranged with us at or about 80". It has not, we think been above 900 ten days throughout the season. flM As bricks on the Columbia road seem to sell lowly at six dollars and fifty ets. per thousand, they will be offered in future at $7.50. fpg- A fresh edition of old Weems History of BucK Corro-(a most remarkable narrative)-will shortly be issued from the Advertiser Press in pam phlet form. It is emphatically what an old friend of ours used to denominate, "A love tale about mur der." Speak quick for copies. Price, 15 cents. p1 Tuznx is a feeling afloat in our community favorable to the licensing of a deeent dram shop, or, to write it down more elegantly, " an imbibing sa loon." pV During a late thunder storm at Greenville, the lightning struck a mill, knocking over two negroes who were at work in it. As soon as they regained their feet, the first exclamation of one of them, in great surprise, was, " liWhofire dat gun ?'" W2 Williamston Springs is mentioned as thronged with visitors, is easy of access, and its mineral water Is inferior to none in the State. 0 Washington drew his last breath in the last hour in the last day of the last week in the last month of the year, and in the last year of the century. He died Saturday night, 12 o'clock, Dec. 31, 1799. IV That capital journal, Porter's Spirit of the Times, has an excellant article in its last issue entitled " English Fair Play," which we will endeavor to lay before our readers next week. tW' Hon. JAUEs L. Ona (says the Anderson Gazette of the 29th ult.) arrived at home from his Western tour on Saturday last. le appears to be in good health. _Z- The Spartanburg Erpreet of the 30th July, BRys:-The contract for the erection of the building at Cedar Springs for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Asy lum, was let out by the Commissioners, to the lowest bidder on last Thursday. Mr. Woodward Allen ob tained the contract, who is to put up the building for s30,000.. - 32"0ur farmers, in view of the unusually fine rops, are selling the growing crop Corn, at 75ets per bushel. 90' Mr. Samuel Reid, an esteemed citizens of A&b beville District, and for many years an Elder in the Upper Long Cane Church, died on Friday the 24th ut., at the advanced age of sixty-nine years. pigMr. Joux J. War.rza, a worthy and estimable citisen and merchant of Columbia, S. C., died in that place on Tuesday afternoon last. 32" Mr. Henry Muckenfuss, a worthy and aged citizen of Charleston, died in that city, on the 28th ult. CO1KEUNIOATIONS. PROE OUE OWN C0EEESPONDENT. PIcKENs, S. C. July 27, 1857. M. EDIrOon:-Horace, you know, says it is sweet and glorious to die for ones country. But isn't it much better to lire and to work for one's country ? If the man who makes two blades of grass spring up in a place where only one was pre viously existing, is to be esteemed the benefactor of his race, what meed of praise is to be accorded to him, who causes two ideas to shoot, or two hou ses to be built, where there was but one before ? That portion of our citizens who are engaged in building Rail Roads, either by subscribing stock, or by the labor of their own hands and brains, may, and ought to be considered, not only the true patriots, but in some degree the educators of the country. The shrill neighing of the iron horse never fails to rouso the slumbering energies of the people along the line of its track; a new stimulus for industry is imparted to remote neighborhoods ; towns and villages, with their inseparable concomi tants of elegance and reninement, spring up in the most secluded localities to cheer the gloomy wit derness, whilst each of these hives of industrious civilization forms the nucleus for a school or col loge. When I see this country in a perfect ferment of change and improvement, I can but speak en thusiastically of Railroads. Passing through the ancient village of P'endle ton the other day, I was pleased to be informed that a change had come over the spirit of its dream. The people there are " setting their houses in or der " to receive, in a becoming manner, the cars and the travelling world. The good citizens of that high-toned community expect the coming of the locomotive before next Christmas. 'The coun try around Pendleton is rich and well improved. The handsome residences with their surroundings of green-ward and forest trees present a picture of ruril beauty, upon which the eye may rest with delight. On Seneca river four or five miles West of Pendleton, there are seven or eight plantations comprising large bodies of the richest quality of lowland. These tracts are all in Pickens, and con stitute what might be termed the garden of the District. "Fort Hill," the late residence of Mr CC Luous, is in this group of plantations. I crossed the Seneca just above the line of the Blue Ridge Rail Road. The bridge over which the ears are to pass, is to be nine hundred feet long, and sixty feet above low-water mark. Messrs. Guxx & Co., arc the contractors for building the piers. They have no inconsiderable portion of the materials on the ground. On the river bank only half a mile above, they have opened a quarry of the finest granite, the workmen say, that is to be found on the entire route. To bring the huge blucks of granite down the river in a boat is but a light task. The contractors expect to finish their work next year. Out in the river bottom the piers ate thir ty-five feet high-eighteen feet beneath the surface and seventeen above. On the top of the piers a frame work of wood twenty-three feet in height is to be placed. So it will be almost impossible for the freshets either to undermine or over-top the bridge. t Slab Town,tt I had thehappiness of spend l a night with my last perceptor, the Rev. J. LULAIID KENNEDY. This gentleman's reputation as a Teacer, attracts a large number of students to hi school every year, and it will never be other wise so long as he may consent to teach. Than Slab Town, how much soever its name may be aacking in euphony, I know of no place more fa vorable in every respect to "the acquisition of knowledge ad virtue." The climateisalubriousl, the tone of the neighborhood anoral -and refined, SheM.. ua n~ h nouh, efmciumaand eleva. I arrived at Greenville just in time to hear the ddress of Hon. W. W. BoYcz. (Of this gentle nan and his literary production, more anon.) ireenville has certainly improved very much since be advent of the Rail Road. Not that all the old iouses have been either renovated or torn down to uake way for new and better ones-(and yet a great leal of this has been done;) but the enlargement >f the Town on every side, the erection of the University buildings, and of a new Court House handsomely proportioned-these are the things vh'ch smack of progress and material advance nent: The W Baptist Church Is nearly comple ted. Its esti4kea cost Is $25,000, and it will be an rnament to the place. The plan of this edifice, which will reflect credit upon the citizens of Green ville, is simple and yet striking. There is no 'ginger-bread finery" about it-nothing grotesque; all is chaste, convenient and substantial. I have been informed that on every Sabbath morning there assembles at this Church a Sunday School having a Superintendant, between forty and fifty Teachers, and about two hundred and sixty children. The prospects of all the Baptist High Schools already established, or about to be established in Green ville, are very, Battering. In the Furman Univer sity there are about two hundred and twenty stu dents in attendance, and one hundred and seven in the Baptist College for young Ladies. The Baptist Theological Seminary, which Is, I believe, to be central to all of the Southern States, will certainly be located in Greenville. IIon. W. W. Boycz's address before the literary Societies of Furman University, was ornate, phi losophical and-eloquent, and was listened to with the profoundest attention by an appreciative audience. Having read this gentleman's very luminous and interesting speeches on the subject of the tariff, I was prepared to hear something from him at once recherche and impressive. Nor was I disappointed in the least particular. The Honorable gentle man's theme-" the heroic spirit-the influence of man on society,"-was apposite to the occasion, and to the times In which we live. He spoke of the hero, the statesman, the orator, the reformer, the inventor and the poet,-of their individual in fluence upon the destiny of our race. Lessons of encouragement and instruction were deduced, and the importahee of noble aspirations inculcated. I thought Mr. BoYcz drew a good portraiture of Martin Luther. Among other things, be said that it was boldness that rendered the name of Luther illustriouswith him it was death or triumph-it was this temper of mind, " which rent in twain the Church whose origin Is lost in the shades of antiquity." Mr. BoYcE thought the State ought to produce its own Machinists, Engineers and Ar chitects. And yet he was of the opinion that we ought to guard against any thing like extremes in that direction. "Materialism," said he, " is the god of the age, and it threatens to crush out the heroic spirit." Ho therefore exhorted the students to stand oft upon the mountain heights and look long and lovingly upon the glorious prospect there revealed; to become star-gazers, to hold sweet and close communion with the flowers of mother earth, to wander frequently through the fancy realms of poesy, and finally to hold the ideal superior to the practical; for, said the eloquent speaker, as " the skies are abovo tlig earth, so is the ideal above the practical." Mr. Bovc, as well as Professor FURMAN, en deavored to impress upon the minds of thie gradu ates the eital Importance of the famous maxim: " A sound mind in a sound body." T he H onora ble gentleman's political reflections were timely, suggestive, and received with loud plaudits. . On Thursday, the 23d inst., the speaking of the graduates ini Furman University took place before a brilliant throng in the large Hall of the new Court House. First on the programme was RuFms A. RonERTs, of Shelby, N. C., and in treating of the " genius of American Institutions," he made a capitai speech. His manner was graceful and self posessed, and the intonations of his voice not un pleasing. The idea in his speech which struck me most was this: that our forefathers were attracted to this country neither by love of gain, nor thirst for dominion ; they came solely on account of their religion. ioir different was this motive from that which usually' actuated the adventurers of beth ancient and kadrn times. As the founding of this West.$ .spablic of ours was peculiar and remarkable,. so have its growth and prosperity been without a. parallel in the annals of nations. Taking it all in all, this effort of the youthful ora tor was of such a character as to reflect credit up on himself and upon his Alma Mater. Next upon the stage appeared 3. Er.vir' Exor's, of Orangeburg, S. C. His "speculations on the stars," were unique and interesting. Reasoning from the analogies of nature, and conjecturing from what the telescope had disclosed in regard to the moon's surface, he came to the conclusion that all the planets are inhabited by intelligent beings. Mr. KZnoTTs' disquisitions upon the luminaries of night evinced taste and ingenuity, as wa as men tal culture. E. II. Gganae, of Marlboro, S. C., was the next speaker. " The works of Socrates as a philoso pher," were the basis of his remarks. A ccording to this young essayist, the philosophy of Socrates was no myth, but had a name and a place in the minds of men, although he himself never wrote a book on the subject. The pupils and admirers of Socrates had given the world an inkling of his mode of reasoning. The antagonist was induced to assent to the truth of a long series of plain propositions until at length he was overwhelmed by the mass of hifs own admissions. In fine, Mr. GRiAhA showed considerable powers of analysis in his views upon this rather abstruse subject. Such a spechl as his could not have been w.ritten without scholarship and quickness of perception. When the young gentleman had concluded by say ing that Soerates taught men how to die, as well as to lire, it occurred to me that the applause, which followed, was a little more rapturous than 3. F. MOnnALL, of Grahamville, S. C., concluded the speechifying on the part of the students. " The claims of Religion upon men of learning," were enforced in a train of p~ertinent arguments, which addressed themselves to the heart and to the un derstanding. Mr. MoRnALL spoke with much feeling, and with ease and dignity which spring only from study and practice. Professor FunMAN, In presenting a diploma to 3Mr. MORRALL, told him that he occupied a posi tion peculiarly interesting: lhe was the last gradu ate of the Furman Theological Seminary. Other arrangements had been made, as the Students in theology would for the future be instructed in another School, and perhaps under different Pro fessors. Prof. FUnXAN's remarks, on presenting diplomas to the graduates, were brief, but pointed and touching. He told the young gentlemen, that heir eduication hadl just commenced-a truth, I think, which ought to be impressed upon the minds of all who are Teaving school for life. I must not, forget to mention that the exercises were Interspersed and enlivened by dulcet strains from the Greenville band. I missed the concert given on the evening of the 1st inst.,'by ti's Professors and Young Ladies of the Baptist College. The entire affair, I under stand, was esowned'with success. Every body It seems was well pleased, and what was much bet ter, the youzag ladies themselves appeared to have as much enjoyment as any of the spectators. I had the pleasure of meeting with many of my Egefield friends. In fact, your District was more fully represented in Greenville this summer than uual. (Jonspicubasly, at every point of fashioma bi.... pc%..hfeth as.ty, p.ni al eldvalry f "old Edgefield "-'B- tia nou fip. I shall write again in a .hor a Yours, with mIdek)a For he Adv.e4& MR. EmoE --The course oursed visionists to destroy conldencqetin e imedbteb . the condemnation of all loversof,vrtuen goj - dd, order. Hume, Voltaire, or Tom Palne never i bored more to bring the Bible into'con have these modem Revisionists. They hV , only villifled the characters of its vanerabletrans- - lators, but have presumed to speakof-th book itself, in language, which the advocatesiof C bad cause only would use. Hear*hat yiOU; said a few weeks ago through th oluni-oftW1 paper, in speaking of the translators ofKVg James' Version. "Pe'sonal feeling,. party prja dice, and sectarian bias so influenced them .as t keep out principle, truth, and actual facts;" worse charge was never preferred against any set of men; it is worse than robbing, murer~or res son. " E. L. W." endorses the opinion that Kn James was a "hypocrite, a tyrantand a ]*ohne. y wicked man, whose life-study consistde in invent ing and maturing Measures to secure tohimself the supremacy in all things civil and rdllg v" - He denounces the proceedings of the " -- Court Conference," as a disgrace to the Klig his haughty, worldly prelates. Here we are *om, pelled to say, that "E. L. W." manifests aantz' of reliable information, in regard to these sneuiK; and the rules by which they and the transladra were governed. The history. of this Confeencep'.. &c., has been given in its details by aMr. Christo pher Anderson, a learned Englishman, a l y member of the Baptist Church in Scotland, whose opinion ought to pass with "E. L. W." Mr. gives the-names of the men who composed th Conference; among them was Dr. John Rainolds a man according to this writer, of high andUt blemished character, the most eminent individu&F for learning and erudition in the kingdom ,and& - who, by the way, was a Puritan, and not anj .is-. r copallan. Again, James was not King at the e of the session of this Conferened, nor was& more than two months afterwards. jHepreid&t only by courtesy. This Conference was of no official body of men whatever; cO was not vested with any civil or ecclesiastical-49 thority. The version dedicated to King I * did not supersede the Geneva and otherversioi" nor come into general use for Forty years3ftbfer its completion; and that not by any proclamation canon, or act of parliament, but alone by i - trinsic superiority. These facts show the baselessness of the preferred by " E. L. W." and before Le I them, we hope he will refer to some unbiased.bi tory of thesemen, and of the rules whichgovered the translators. In regard to the King .hims *. - whatever his character may have been, wi thinrZ!Z he is entitled to the lasting gratitude of christen dom, for-his influence in bringing out i f - the scriptures, which, with all the' faults - against it, has 1ought untold blessings world. - But notice further how the Revis spoken of the blessed -Bible. Mr. Lee .he work against Revision we are largely ndebted tells us that in a Village in the West, one ablest advocates of Revision in thatcory$4 ' address upon that subject, pointed to the - version with supreme contempt, and'denoicit - as containing " falsehood.-" Anotheradote4. the movempnt in the same state, solemnly d~4 that "if he were on his dying bed, he -could not call his child to his side and put thoe-common vor. sion in his hand and tell him that-it wouIl 5wNmmL, ude him to Heaven." Dr. Williams er~fen the present version from such attacks,.lintroducW -.r the following quotation:~ "Christians; while pro fessing the most ardent love for the-truth, prefer to circulate the most palpable falsehoods, under the name of God's received word, rather than cor rect them when in their power." Dr. eone in a . public discussion called the word baptize, " a blind dumb dog." Mr. Campbell said the word baptize was a "lizard, crawling out of a papal swarmp.', The translators, for using the word baptize, are charged with resorting to the "popish artifce of transfer." The phrase "God forbid," the'Revi sionists declare to be "profane," and the term-. Holy Ghost, they say is " manifest blasphemy." This is the way the Bible and its translators are treated by these very innocent Revisionists, .that the way may be cleared for their immaculateVer sion. That Book, upon which God has set the mark of his approbation, and to the force of the truth which It contains, all Christian sects owe their purity and power ; which has been the bul wark of our liberties ; the comforter of the dis tressed, and the hope of the dying, is now de nouncd as -containing "profanity," and "mani fest blasphemy." The scoffer no longer need trem ble at its teachings, and the Infidel may now go on his way rejoicing. Sch, we say,. is the course being pursued by these modern Revisionists to disparage the present version, and should they succed in destroying conidence in It, we should solemnly ask, how will they secure respect, or confidence in their own ? Let them pause and consider. But, wre will be told that it is only portions of' the received version against which they inveigh~. We reply: If the translators of the common ver sion were bigoted Eectarlans, as "E. L. W." and others affirm; if they were guilty of "making, mu tilating, concealing, disguising, and wrapping up in obscurity " only one word of God, as they are charged with having done; no man can have the least degree of respect for them, or for any pert of their work from the beginning of Genesis, to the end of Revelation. "If these translators slayishly submitted to the manacles of an arbity- . ry and wicked King ; were recreant tothi and holy obligations to God and truth,solhl consciences for a mess of pottage, or from base cowardice or corrupt purpose abstracted a single scruple from God's word, or added anything to its sacred teachings,'t, never again, let "E. L- W. touch this unclean thing, or recommend thgs t0l Bible to his fellow men, as containing theunsarch able riches of Christ, and the way to truth and Heaven. "lie that is unjust in the least, Is unjust also in much." CANDOR. THOSE WE0 READ) TEE STA38 Say that the signs are right, and if any one wants money before the arrival of the Comet, they must order from SwAzN.& Co., - Atlanta, Georgia, - tickets in their celebrated lotteries. It is whispered that a gentleman of this cit? (it is to be regre'ted that it was not the writer, taking Time by the forelock, dashed into the stream of fate and secured a prize of TwEN!? TuoOrsAzw DOLLAnS, that was drifting ps on Saturday, ready for some sensible mari to grasp it --$20,000! why such a pile, at the coat of- only1 110 would make a hermit dance. Remembier, all. you who want money, 8. Swan & Co., tas - G ~eorgia!'-price of tickets $10! I halves $5 I quarters $2,501!!!.--draw~ every Saturday 1itl H-. N ~auhvile Gazette. . ~4 THE CoTroN Onor OF 1857J58Te-JMobB Register says: "We sincerely believe, jfron~a careful examination of the reports from alithe. otton grwng sections tha the .preet go A & MonxoN Ix TRoUBL.--Last weeJ. si* hough warned by the-eitmenc, - He was accordingly seized, Sear d e d, er which he maede szarapd eziLC -