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For the AdvertIser. To the Citizens of Edgefield SIMstrct : Abrr.n much heritation, I have concladed that4t is iecumbent upon uo to reply in this form to s.me of the matters contained in the several publications put forth by Mr. Uneaso. As to the topies merely per sonal between him mind myself, I torbear introlut cing them here. I lr.lose to confine myself te the matters set forth in his lettpr to Mr. TUoaNtoN Cl. mAS; and to these I will address myself with all the brevity I can commanid. I differ widely with Mr. Gnasco as to the prolriety of his courso at the last Session of our Legislature in respect to such of our Banks as had failed to redeem their notes in specie. The proportion between the curreney and the resi due of the aggregate cpital of the community, Pays Mr. CALHON, may be set down as one to thirty. " With this assumption," he continues, "let uo sup poso a community whose aggregate capital is $31,000, 000: its carrency would be by supposition one wil lion, and the residue of its capital thirty millions. If the ourrency be inecrased or decreased. the other por tion of the capital remaining the sane, according to the well-known laws of currency, proeperty would rise or fall with the increase or decrease ; that is if the currency be increased to two millions the aggregate value of property would rise to $60,000,009, and if the currency be reduccd tie half a million, the aggre gate value of property would be reduced to $15,000, 000. With this law so 'well establiehel, place the mon. ey power in the hands of a single individual or a combination of individuals, and they, by expanding or contracting the eurreney, may raiso or sink prices at pleasure; and boy purchasing when at the greatest depression and selling at the greatest elevation may command ti.o whole property of thu commulnity." This power so fearful, and so proneo to lee abused, is vested in oni Baneks who furnish the currency, and have heretofre increased or diminished it at pleasure. It is a mattsr of momentous interest to the whole community that stern restraints upon ti.e Banks, in this regard, be imeposed mnd rigidly enforced. The direct interest ani therefure t1:e strong tendency of the Banks is towards over-trading. The profits of a Bank, says an einent writer, emsrinstially depend onl maintaining the largest po.eible circulation, with the least possible amount of their funds in.the unprotita ble shape of cash and bullion. If.a Bank with a enpi tal of $200,000 in coin gets into circulation its bills to the ameunt of a million, its profit. swell up at once to thirtyper cent-for each one of its bills is represented by a nee or draft or other evidence of debt bearing interest. If the tines are prosperou and confidence in the soundness of the Bank prevails, another temptation besets its directors. There ie no demand upu the Bank for redomption of its bills in specie. The $200,000 of coin in its vaults appear to be idle and unproductive. Why should not that coin be turned t profit also? Accordingly it is done. The great L.ulk of jts specie is taken from its vault and is invested in drafts on the Northern cities which command a premium-or else In the purchase In New York, of the notes of Southern Merchants at a heavy discount, and thus some 10 or 15 per cent. additional upon its capital flows into the coffers of the Batik. But such a course on the part of the Banks neces sarily leads to consequences most deplorable. By and by a feeling (.f distrust in the soundness of the Banks springs up, i hich soon grows into public panic; their bills in circulation rusth back upon them like a flood; they cannot redeem them for their issues have been excessive, and their coin has been abstracted from their vaults, and is invested in drafts and promissory notes, for the time wholly unavailable fur payment of their bills. The result is that the- Banks suspend the redemption of their notes in specie, and a sudden and stringent contraction of the curreney, with all its at. tending calamities, Is at once brought upon the coa munity. The refusal by a Bank to pay its notes in coin ope rates as a forfeiture of its charter. After the Bank suspension of 1840, the Legislature of South Caroli * na exhibited teowareds the Banks a lenity but ill-do served by thec:.e. They might most justly have been deprived of thecir eharters.- Instead of thus procoed lng against them, tho Legislature by the Act of 18th December 1SI0, offered them a release from forteiture of their charters in eases of suspension, upon condi Lion that they woukd accept of two provisiuns as lpar. eel of their .respecte charters. The first wais that whenever they suspended specie payments they should pay into the peublic treasury, upon the amount of their notes in circulation, during the period of such sets. pension, an interest at the rate of five per cent, pr amnuss: and the second* was, that the Buanks shoeuld furnish the Comnptrollejr General with monthly state maents of their true condition, to be by heim eollated and published. The Act referred to was essentially a measure not of peunishent but of reef. In lieu eof forfeiture of their chartdr,-the milder correctives ol thelet were substituted. After first refusing, the Baneks accepted the perovisions of the Act of 18-10, which were thus incorpourated into their charters, and there. by became peart tend parcel of a formcal contract andl agreement between thetm and the State of South Carolina. In October lS857, the Bank of the State with nie of our private Banks, suspended the paymenet of thieir notes in coin. Upon the meeting of the Legislature In November 1857, the course to be taken with thte delinquent Baniks formed the chief subejeet of consid oration. A large and intelligent party in the Legis lature were foer enforcing the contract between thte State and tho)se ikanks as to the paymcent of thee per cent. on their btls in circulation. A still larger party were In favor of releasing the Banks frotn that pay. ment. Mr. Uttarno sided with thme latter party, waerm ly and actively, and by their votes, the provision of the Act of J610, in that regard, was susp~ended until the first January, 1859. Ought the delinqtuent Banks to have been released from their formal and solemun obligation to pay to the State tice prescribedl per cent age upon their bills in circulation ? I maintain that they oughet reot. It could not be justly regarded as' a penalty te ho enforced. It was rather a contract to be fulfilled--a contract framuod in their favor-ex pressly for thceir relief--a aubstituto for the penalty of an absolute forfeitucre of charter. The en which wouled have becen payable to the State under the Act referred to, would have been at best but a small corn pensation for the heavy loss she sustained by reason oef the late Bank suspension. The amount of that loss to the i:hole State has been eatimnated at five mil lions of dol!ars, and to the cotton planter alone, is set down as besing frosm $10 to $15 per bale. Mr. Uaxeo's estimate is even higher: " It is my candid opinion (says he) that if all lice Bank capital iti the whole counetry was divided out amoung the sufferers, it would fall abort of paying therfoss. In altleprobabili ty this cetten crop will sell for $20 a bale leass titan it would have done, but for the monetary convulsion." But who are responsible for this disaster? Men of all parties concur in ascribing it to the inordinate eu. pidity of Lihe Banks, lustingr after exorbitant gains, and filling all the channels of trade with an excessive and redund tat curreney, and then suddenly and atrin gently contracting it. Mr. Guinea, at page 17 of his Bank speeh, referring Lu the state of things in the summer of 185i7, thus speaks : '" It is soon fund that the Banks have contracted thirty millions of dollars of their circulation. V'ery soon some of the strong est and best houses in the country are driven to the wall; their affairs are put in commission with good assets to sho w a surplus of a million ; they are wound up, ruined, and reduced to beggary, from Neo ot.er euU5e tha a suddens cuntraSction of Banek-crrency." Long experience has shown that no Bank, however well established in the public confidence, can with safty issue its own notes or receive moneys on de pomsit beyond three times the amount of its specie on hand. This rule has teen grossly and systematically violated by our Banks for a series of years. The anks oef the 1;nited States in 1854 had less than $1 in specie to 7& of circulation and deposits; and in IS46 less th::nl $1 of speocie to $7& of circulation and deposits. Ic. 1855 the linnks of this St'ate held but $1 of specie :e.r $9 oef circulation ad deposits, and in 1856 but $1 in specie fur $12 of circulation and 4pusits. Ins $epteuner 1lu7, the month precedicng the late suspension. the suspending Banks of South Crolinat (exelOdin;: iLe latnk of the State) had less than $1 in ieeio for $ltis otf circulation ad deposits. In October ;.57, the month of their suspension, those Sasks wesendebted for their bills in cirenlation and )r money on-de~sit, in thee aggregate $4169,248, while the specie In their vaults was but $189,103, ex hibiting the extraordinary spectacle of their holding fur every $22 (if circulation anl deposits, less than .ne culiear in riet! Were thue delinquent lrivute Bunuks of this Stato unable to pay the per cintage due under the Act of 1,440? Fars ,roum it. as wiil puir by the following fiacts, ccmpiled from the monthly Bank statements of tie Compj-troller General. At the slate of their sus pensionii the dellinquent Banks (excluding the Bank tot' the State) had oni band, after having declared haud soeni di% ideni, for years lreviou.ly, uercumulated, or reserved profits, amounting to $538,595. During the first fuur months of the present year the nett profits of those Banks were $202,262, eiual to an interest on their capital for that periAl at the rate of more than 91 per cent. per annuni. They could have paid the 5 per cent. upon their circulation and still have had remaining $1219,308 of nett profits, equal to an interest on their entire calpital, during that tihs, cut the rate of more than 61 per cent. per annum. One of the auspending Banks, the Bunk of Hanburg, has for the last three years declared semil-annual dividends auveraging an ifiterest on her capital at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum, besides an extra dividend equal to a seni-annuml diviulend at the rate of IS per cent. per annum on her capital; and that Bank moreover had on hand at the date of her suspension $124.360 of reserved profits. The nett profits of the .Dank of Haiuburg during the first fadtr months of the present year wore $40,476, equal to a rate of interest on her capitl during that timo of more than 24 per cent. per annum. Out of her nett lrofits during these four months Ae could have paid the 5 per cent. on her circulation, and have had a surplus of $29,962, equal to i rate of interest on her capital during that time, of eure than 17 pcr cent. per anutium. Assuming that the suspendud Banks (excluding the Bank of the State of South Carolina) would not have resumed specie payments at an earlier date than they actually did, the 5 per cent. upon their circulation, had it been exacted, would have amuiounted to inure than oneu hundred and three thousand dollarac. This sumu was ae justly due the State at if it had been se cured to her 1y a formal bond-and this suin, bcy the act of the Legislature in Dectunber last, huts beun, to all intents and purposes, yi-coe mencsy-und to whom? Not to the poor? Not to those who had conferred benefits on the community? Not to proper oljects of charity ? But to the over-fed and wealthy Banks, who, but a few weeks previously, had brought on the State a derangement or the currency resulting in the loss ot fifty thius the donation thus strangely bestowed upon them. It was mere child's play to pase an Act in I10, and the moment that it was about to go into practical operation, to suspend it for a year! If any private citizen of South Carolina owes the State mo ney, eveu though it be ruinous to him to pay, lee is not furgiven the debt. On the contrary payment is demanded nud exacted from him. Can any reason be suggested why the same rule should not have been pursued with the offending Banks? Are the rich and powerful banking corporations of the State alone to be released from paying their just debts to the State? The measure is an evil and mischievous precedent and in my judgment cannot be justified. Mr. Gasco in his letter to Mr. TuoxTrox Coa.-Ns, insists that the 5 per cent. o the circulation of the suspending Banks would have been "an intolerable tU.r." What has boon already said shows that this position cannot be maintained. The delinquent pri. vats Banks could have paid the per centage to the State out of their accumulated or reserved profits, and then have had a surplus of moro than $430,000. But Mr. GREOG forgets what he has already said upon the same eubject in his Bank speech. I will refresh his megory. At page 9 of that speech; he says, " The penalty of 5 puer cent. is a meree tuockery, for the bIlls in circulation have been put forth in many instances on an interest of 10, and are paying the Banks at leeat 7' per cent." And at page 10 of the same speech, referring to this "Intolerable tax," Mr.'G EtGG says: "Five per cent, per annum on the circulation during the period of suspension, is aa sluhyspn isAcmen.-The Banks might many timeS lie so circumstanced that it would be greatly to their intereste to suspend and pay such a forfeiture." Mr. GaEGo argues that if the 5 per cent. had been exacted, the Banks, ,during the period oet suspension, "would hare forced every dollar that could have been collected from the country," and would have rc. fused tu loud their hills, and that the Cotton crop could not have been sold. The answer of Mr. MotIMNxaat to this argument is conclusive: "So long as the Bank of the State is un der suspension, the withdrawal of the circulation of the other Banks would he altogether harmless. Nothe ing would be easier than for the Bank of the State to fill up the vacuum, and thus take the profit of the whole circulation." But would thes suspending Banks have pursued the course indicated by Mr. (Jnieia, had the 5 per cent. been exacted? It is in nmy judgment demonstrable that they would not. The Bank bills, says Mr. GJ nEoG, ave been put foerthe in many instanc(es at an initerest af 10, and are paying the Banks at luest 7 per cenet. [f this be so, thes bills of the Binks aru eanrnieng for them an averauge profit of 88 per cenet. AndI yet his Irgument is that to avoid thes taux of 5 lper cenet. the Banks will withadraw their bills frcem circulation-that e, that the Banks in order to save 5 per cent. will onsent to lose Si per cent. The very statement of he proposition is its refutation. Had the 5 per cent. een exacted, two courses would have been open tee he suspeending Banks, whereby to be relieved of that ,urden. The one to eunforce rigidly the collection of heir debts and to decline all new loans or advances. Bly this means their issues would ho reduced and ulti nately wathdrawn from circulation. But this looks ather to fmnal liquidation than to regular resumption ,f business. This peolicy, if carried out, would have ot them the entire profits of their circulation with. Irawn, have ruined their best customers among the orantile class, and have brought dowen upon them he exocrations of the comumunity--aed ultimately1 he voegeance of the Legislature. A course so fraught ith evil to the community and ruin to thiemselvev, hey would not have pursued. The other course ould have been to extend all reasounable forbearance o their debtors, and to adopt the policy of judicious liscounts and advances to further the sale of our great ta'ple. This latter course the suspending Banks rould have pursued, tho' constrained to pay the 5i >r cent. on their circulation. The practical workings f such a policy may be theus briefly summed up. he dealer in cotton applies to one of the suspended Banks fur an advance of $50,000 to buy cotton-to be onsigned to a mercantile house in New York--whose baractor and means are known to he beyond all tuestion. The money is advanced, the cotton bought tud shipped to New York, and a draft upon the Now fork house is delivered to the Bank payable in 30 lays. The $50,000 advanced to the cotton buyer is listributed among twenty planters, perhaps, or more, ho by this means are enabled to pay their debts to I he merchants and tradesmen with whom they deal; and these latter, the ordinary custoiners of the Bank, ire now enabled to pay their debts to the Bank. In a hort time tho $50,000 or the great bulk of it has seen returued to the Bank in payment of debts due o it, and at the end of the 30 days the draft has natured and is payable not in depreciated Bank paper, mt in specie to that amount, which thereupon passes 1 to the vault of the Bank. This course of business aas only to be pursued for a short season, when the Bank becomes possessed of an ample supply of coin, cud thereupon resumes the redemption of its netes in pecie. The course of policy last indicated would mndoubtedly have been adopted by the delinquent Banks, tho' the 5 per cent. had been exacted, because t was the cheapest, the most direct, and Indeed thei mnly means of procuring the necassary amount of zoin to enable the Banks to resume specie payments. how else could it have been obtained ? They could lot have bought it with their own depreciated bills. nd if they had done so, and thereupon had attomp-. ad to resume specie paymeents, the very bills thus) >ut in circelation wousld instantly have come back I pon theem for redemnption, and thus another suspen- I lion would have been forced upon them inevitably. But cotton possesses an exchangeable value every where, and thus commnands gold and silver coin in all he markets of the world. It was only by discounts cud loans upon the drafts of the cotton buyer that he delinquent flanks could ever have hoped to resume upecie payments. Mr. Gzze in hi~s Bank speech at I pagefi uesisas this cosolusion out ad out: "In I [840," (says be) " when the Banks suspended, I was director in Charleston. The Bank in which I was , director, had $600,000 circulation, and $:0,000 in lpeeie-t ,rus Aapeleat to think of erer resisaming rithout tien -.,-pnsio,. We did expand, as nearly as c ean recollect, about $00,000, principally upon cot on dri'fra.. Our weak Bank in a few months, became trong, paid its Bank balances in specie, and re 'umed." In hi letter to Titouiox COL.:ua, at page 10, Sir. Guiimi again confirms and sustains this very ar Pument I have suggested. teferring to the state of ings attending the Bank suspension of 1840, he re narks, "The Lanks received tbo proceeds of the cut ton crop which went rapidly forward, and met a rea ly market, and soon was it seen thait xpecic ,cas cont ingfrosa one quarter, trhile the bynk hille put the unks in poginent of debte, and so the ship of cur rency, by good seamanship, righted itself." If the correctness of the views that I have sugges ted requires further eonfirmation, it Is to be found In ither signiticant facts, disclosed by the monthly Bank stAttements published ly the Comptroller General. From them it appears undeniably, that those of the lelinquent Banks that expanded their circulation most, made the largest per centage of profit upon it, and that the suspending banks during the 6 months ending June 30, 1858, could have paid out of their profits the 5 per cent. under the Act of 1840, and then have had remaining a nett protit equal to 10 14-100 plor cent. per annum, upon their circulation, and exceeding the rate of i per cent. per annum on their entire capital during that time. Mr. UutGu's course in respect to the Fuspending Banks was unconsciously influenced perhapt, by his personal relations towards one of them, the Bank of Hamburg. Of that Bank he is now, and has been for several years, a director, and therefore responsible for its managenenteduring that period. When therofore the course to be pursund with the delinquent Banks came up for consideration, Mr. UniRo's position was an cnbarassing one : To vote for the exaction of the 5 por cent. was to vote that the suspension ly the Bank of Hamburg could not be justified. But this would have been to all intents and purposes a vote of ensure upon himself and his associate directiors. Besides, Mr. Guxas, as President of the raniteville Company, is in the habit, I am informed, of obtaining large loans from the Banks of Hamburg to carry on the operations of their Factory, as some 12 or 1i months intervene between the making of their goods and the reccilt of the money for which they are sold. But if the exaction or the 5 per cent. would have caused the suspending lanks, as Mr. Gnuo:o main tains, to decline all new luns or advances, during the teru of their sus.penmion, the necessary effcct of it would have been to criplo the operations of the Graniteville Company, and to occasion perhaps their being wholly suspended. And these dieturbing in fluoncer, upon the judgment of Mr. GnEo, were cer tainly not diminished by the fact of his being a stock holder in that Bank, to the amount of some eight thousand dollars, as I am informed. Mr. G R'GG in his letter to Mr. TaonNToN CoiZMAIC, betrayed into several gross and palpable errors. At page rith of that letter, referring to the state of things in October 1857, he says, " Old England and every country that consumes cotton had suspended." Mr. GanEo is misinformed. There was no general sus pension of specie payments by the Banks either of England or Franceo who are the chief consumers of cotton. At page 7 of that letter, he asserts that when our delinquent Banks had suspended " all the other Banks in the whole country were in a state of suspension." This is a great mistake. In our own State, of the seventeen private Banks, nine suspended, but the re maining eight refused to suspend, and continued thrughout the redemption of their notes in coin, thus nob!y sustaining the commercial honor and integrity f the State ; and these, the 8 specie paying Banks, it will perhaps surprize this community to learn, had in the aggregate a capital larger than that of the sspending Banks by the sumi of $724125. Mr. GREco denounces the new State House now in process of erection, as " the most magnificent monu ment of fbly ever commenced by a senuihle people." And, yet it is entirely true that at the Sessions of 185d and 1857, Mr."G Ruo vot for the Acts author sing the issue of State bonds to the amount of $550,. 100, for continuing the construction of that building ! flow he can reconcile his former votes with Is present lenunciation, it is difficult to understand. In speaking of Graniteville and its populatIon, Mr. Ii nReo uses this language : " the labouring man there inds employment, and his children are educated f:'ee af charge. Graniteville will be a nionumnent to the nemory of its projectors. The children now groning p' and receiving education at Graniteville will recol et nie and what n-e have done for them when the ac ie men of this daiy shall have all passed away." Mr. Jcoa here claims for himself and the otherebrojee ors of the (iraaliteville Factory thu whole credit and jonor of there establishing and supporting a School here the children of the laboring poonr are educated, 'ree of charge. What foundation there is ir such a -lam will appear by the following facts : There Is a 'ee school at tiranitoville, but hew is it supported ? tn. Kun Blorci, some five years ago, generously be juenthen ten thousand dollars to he put to interest, Lnd the intereet to be appropriated annually to the rpport of a school for thoe edlucation of thc children f the poor at and about Giraniteville. Seven hun Ired dollars annually come from this source and go o tie support of' that school. From 1849 inclusive ip to the 1st of January last, five thousand two hun Ired and seventy-one dollars have been taken from he Free School fund of this District to sustain tkat chool ! The school at Graniteville stands upon the ame footing with the other Free Schools of this Dis ret, and has been heretofore, and is now largely sup lorted out of the annual appropriations of thne Legis ature, having received for each~ of the last two yeitrs lone up wardsof $800 from that fund. With these facts. lefre them, the community can decide whether thne lin set up by Mr. Gnxou is well founded or not. There remains but one other matter to which I will efer. In relation to the petition from the people of tiken and the surrounding country for a new Dis rnet, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee f the Hionse at the last Session of the Legislature, fr. GasGO, at page 4 of his letter to Tuonsvox oP.5Ms, says: " I went before that Committee and nade as powerful an clort as I was capable of in its avor, and had the people of Saluda made a move u a similar object, I would have worked for them rith as much seal and earnestness, as I did for the ~alhoun District." This manifestly implies that Mr. ;moo is in favor of the Saluda Seheme of divIding his District. If so, he has undergone an extraordi nary change of opinion upon that subject since the 'anvass for the Legislatureoin 1856. I am authorized to make this statement by four entlemen of high intelligence and respectability, rm whom I have certificates to the elect that in eparato conversations held with him shortly before he election for members of the Legislature in 1856, dir. Giuco declared that he had no sympathy with he Saluda plan of division-that it was an Iipracti able and foolish project, and that he was opposed to t. If the statements of the gentlemen referred to a denied by Mn. tinEco, then I have their pernmis ion to publish those certificates, and other proofs to ustain them, if necessary, will be adduced. Your fellow citizen, J. P. CA RR OLL. August 16th, 1858. Mssouni Er.E-rIo.-Thc elcction for Con press in Missouri has resulted ini the choice of F. R. Barrett, Thomas L. Anderson, James .raig, John B. Clark, John 8. Phelps. Samuel I. Woodson, and J. W. Noel, all Democrats. The Texas penitentiary seems to be doing a ool business. From October, 1857, to Jun~e, 5, tile value of the cotton manufactured ait he penitentiary was seventy-one thousand eight nunred and twenty-three dollars, and that of roollen was thirty-three thousand one htundred td forty- eight dollars The Iou. John McLellan, of W~oodsock, Ct., lied at his residence on Sunday, the 8th ins9t., in he ninety-third year of his age. Ile was the idest livmng graduate of Yale College. A mong ia surviving children is the wife of Prof. Benj. toiman. Br. ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1s, 1858. , We publish an ,able letter of Cul. JAMES P. CAnno.L, in reply to'one of Mr. G REoo's which has beensfor some time before the people.' We are not 1o be understood, by this, as making our paper in any, sense a partizan in the pending election. Mr. OnaFa. cnn also, if he desiros, use our columns in the same way Col. CArUOLL does. gg Divine service at:Mrs. nooKS' Church in this District, will be held on tho 5th Sunday of this month, instead of the 4th; and hereafter on the lad Sunday of the month. . NEW COTTON AT HAMBURG. The first Bale of the season was delivered in Ham burg, on Saturday last, the 14th inst., at the Ware House of Mr. CHARLES HANMOD, from the planta tion of Jown P. MAYS, Esq., and sold to Mr. lE.Nny SOLOMON at fifteen cents-the quality good middling. GRAPES. Mrs. A. R., of Pottersville, will accept our thanks for a basket of delightful grapes. FINE SWEET POTATOES. The first sweet potatoes of the season are from our young friend of Ridgeway Academy. They are beau tiful specimens of the early white varlety,-smooth, well-formed and of fine size. M. D. W., will please accept our thanks for his thoughtful remembrance of us. POULLAIN, JENNINGS & CO. Attention is asked to the advertisement of this well established business firm in Augusta. They have many friends in the two States, and deserve nany more. pd2- See what W catr . ALEXANDER, of Augusta, say of their "Negro Woolen.s," and other substantial goods suited to the approaching season. pe-ANSLEY L Sox, eneral Commission Mer chnts, Augusta, Ga., are strongly recommended to public favor. They are an old and highly-esteemed name in their city. GROCERY STORE. See the advertisement of Mr. HENRY SOLoMoN, who has bought out the Messrs. CuNNIsanAM in Hamburg, and is prepared to rerve all cuEtomers fully and faith fully. Mr. S. also deals in Cotton, and will be glad to prove to the planters that he will give as good prices for the article as any othercotton-buyer of the interior. COLS. ORIt AND KEITT. These gentlemen have indicated a decided concur rence with Senator HAMMOND in his vlews of South ern policy as set forth in the Beech Island Speech. We take it, that our Congressional degation is a unit in these counsels. Our Senator's conservative tone has also muet the highest commendations of the State press. And so far as can be gathered from all availa ble sources, the people of the State are with him by an iinmense majority. The policy of our leaders be ing groundedi in wisdom and sanctioned by the ro.r puipali, it is earnestly to Be hoped that we shall here after preserve a united front from the sea board to the mountains,-watchfuland cautions in action, while yet ever annismi opibuaige pearui. CIIICK'S AND GLENN'S. While WiLLSrAs-roX is having its day of glory, Curv's and GENN's sheuld not be forgotten. The latter affords, it is thought, the very host muedicinal water in the Southern country below the Virginia Springs. From a gentleman, who recently visited GrLxxN's, we learn that the house is well kept and every thing in good order. A correspondent of the Greenville Patriot says: " At Glenn's I'found the Governor's family, and lbe is expected to join them by the fT2th instant. I would say, if travellers desire pleasantgompany and grgo fare, go to Glenn's." As the season is by no means over yet, anal will not be till the fist of October, we also beg to speak a good word fur oldl Gr.a-:s's. It Is paerhiaps the hest water ing-plae ini our State after all; and enlivenedl, as It usually is, by the chivalry and beauty of Union and Spartanburg we have always found it .one of the must delightful of Summer resorts. A BLUNDERING OVERlSIG IT. In an item of last week,-pluckedl at ransdems from we know nut where,-we made our pauller guilty of the very original blunader of stating tliat Capt. JouN SxmTa "n oarriced Poealaeaa." It was only upon a cnsual ghmene at that part of our columns, when the issue was nearly off, that w% perceivedl thu error. (We any "pceceivedl," becnuse it w~as but necessan ry that it should meet the eye, to standl detected.) As scarcely a hundred cop~ies remained unriited at the timse, wu didi aaat think it wortha while tao stop thme prs to make the correction ; but couchadmuedl to let the stuate aent take its chainco as it stooda. Luckily nonte of our shmarp brothers have seen it, anal so we have es enpedl the "rail:iing" we expected, and perhrmps deserv ed. The circumstance will at any rate lead us to. reuad proof a little snore circumspectly in futaure. We might not always be the first to see oaur own blunaders. DR. S. V. CAIN. A writer in the Abbeville Banne~r pays a touchuing tribaute to the tuemiory of this Inmtnented genitlean, and concludles with the beautiful stanza: "G~reen bec the turf aibove thee, Friend uof say better days; I knew thee hut to love thee, I named thee hut to praise." ONE OF TIIE RESULTS. The Clpraw (jaeef gives the following as one among the many results which will followr the success of the Atlantic Telegraph: " When Queen Victoria takes a notion to presenat Prince Albert with another royal pledgo of coanjnagal atie'-riion, the fact will be known thronghout our coun try long before the little scamp enni utter a second squall." " STAND TO YOUR A RMS." lion. JAtus D. Tuunawar.u., of Columbia, in a let ter to the Richland Rifles, says: a" The election of a Black Republiean Albolition President is just ahead of us, anal what suay you to thast andl its certain consequences ? Let me say, in answer for you, and such be pleased to accept as my sentiment: " .Standa to, your ara-,a, keep your powcder dry and maark timea." Let this lbe the sentiment of the whole South, and she will he enabled to shape her own destiny, whether in or out of the present Union. In the mean time though, we cannot grant that the election of a Black Republican Preside~it is an event just ahead of us. A consummation so detestible, we will not acknowl edge until it is too palpable to deny. , PLEASANT WEATHER. Those of our people who went to the Springs, have sarcely had more pleasant weather 'g that higher latitude than we have experienced here during the past week or two. With fine showers andl the ther mometer at 870 and 88*, there has been no real cause of complaint amongst us in regard to temperature. The health of the district too remains good,--as good perhaps as ever at this season of the tear; and what with barbecues, musters, big-meetings, &ce., we are all a getting through the summer better than was expected. The chief resource of the leafers about our little town, has been the congregating of themselves to gether, morning and afternoon, to discuss the probable - result of the pending election for our State Legisla ture. The chief point now' remaining doubtful in that matter is, which two of the eight candidates for the House are to be left at home ? The. question is admitted on all hands to be hard to answer, and has occasioned no little perplexity and perspiration in our community. Still, we sleep It off at night, and come to the discussion the next day with cool healds and dry shirt-bosoms. Not so the candidates themselves, -and perhaps we must except them in telling how i we have all enjoyed the pleasant weather of August. " SIAMESED." Mr. N. P. Wrurars, of the Honmc Journual, has an article upon the Atlantic Cable, to which he prefixes thapt..n, " EmN .AND ANWD A MRc~ JA sriaauD." NOMINA TION "pa ov VEnO. We observe that a writer In the Grcnville Enter prise nominates General JAEas W. HAntRISO, of An derson, for Governor. This is a dererved complincut to a gentleman of unusual worth. General HIARuR sos was a class-mnato in college of Governor MAsNsIN, and, like him, has ever been noted for his elevated iews and high tono of character. South Carolina has no truer son within her borders, and none who would more f:ithfully or becomingly discbarge the duties of her Chief Executivo Office. MR. KEITT'S POLITICS. Some of the papers of the State (the Adrerti-er in eluded) have been censured by their oldl Neemsiusn friends for not clinging to the dead issue of a departed political struggle,-for not standing aloof in gloony wrath and crying aloud against the political defections of the day, real or imaginary. This hits been regarded as a lowering (of the Secession flag to our political opponents of 1852, ani we have been denied the merit of acting with either spirit, prudence, or eon sisteney in the premises. Our reasons for this course havo been repeatedly and fully given, and, we rejoice to know, to the complete satisfaction of the great ma jority of our political readers. But a gallant few are still- dissatirfied, say all we enn. To these, we res pectfully ofler the following synopsis of soine remarks mado by the lon. L A. M.KTr, at the late William stun Meeting, as expressing, in part, the motives which have impelled us to the course we have taken. If they will not listen to our reasoning, perhaps they will to one who has up to this very moment retained the confidence of the extrenest wing of Secessionists in South Carolina. That distinguished gentleman has delivered himself to this eflect: "In 1852, continued he, we agreed to stnn upon one platori-the union of the South for the safety of the South. The South was moving with measured tread to this object. We stand together-Virginin raises a bugle note-North Carolina sends her reply the P'almettu State is ready-the Empire State-gal lant Alabania-chivalrous Mississippi-Texas, with her lone star-all are in line, marching together for efety either in or out the Union. Accursed be the tongue that would utter words of distraction, and palsied the hand that would cast a fire-brand in the Southern ranks. We shodld stand together-whether in the Union or not, time must reve:l. He would not utter little priphecies, n..r descend to special pleading. What, taid lie, is our duty ; for that we ahould dis. charge. As for himself, to long as he was in the Union he was for dischiarging every obligation that devolved upon the State, or the citizens of the State. Twelve months ago, he advised adversely; butnow be would say, sustain Mr. Bouchanan's Administration. le went to Washington at the beginning of last ses sion resolved to oppose the Administration. iut when he got there he found Mr. Uuchannu upon the platform of the South. It was then lie deterruined to sustain the President cordially and ungrudgingly." "On the slavery question, also, lie thought the Democratic party worthy of all support. The Demo. cratic party and the Black Republicnn were the two great parties of the day. These were the two flngs on the battle-field. Those who stood under the banner of the former were of us. If it has been cut down if it has lost its strength-it was because it had thrown off its gross impurities. If it be in a minori ty, it was because it had clung to the very horns of the altar." "Mr. K. went on to say that "little issues" were the bane of the South. They injured us, and broke the spirit of the South. They were like the hundred lightning-rods thit draw the electric fluid from the clouds. The spirit of the South should be concentra ted, and launched forth at the proper moment." "-We have, continued Mr. K., nothing to fear but division in our own runks. It was the Democratic party that had won all our triuml.hs. It had carried our flag in victory on every water. That party uay go down, and if so, we are in danger. If it susta'ined itself, there was much to hoie from it. Three-fourtbs of its members were fron the South. If the South could not rely upon her public men, upon whon could she?" TIlE SLAVE TiCADEC QUESTION. Tis nmatter seems to have been brought into the canvass for the State Legielature in Anderson. A correspondent of the Abbeville Bainner, repoirting the proceedings at thme Willianmatun Meeting, says that "all the candidates were opposed to a re-opening of the Slave Trade, and, with one or two exceptions, pledged themselves not to support any ana for offcee who advocated the measure." We presume the re. mark must hnive allusion to thle office of United States Senator, to be filled at the next session. But does a single aspeirant for that offiee advocate a re-opening of the Slave Trade? We imlagine nlot. Thlere are some perhaps who would faver the measure If it could e urged practically. But as matters now stand, surely no one will lbe so indiscreet as to say that he will make this measure ayart of his Senatorial busi ness if elected. If there be such aen one, he should never have been even remoitely hinted lit, for that dig. nitied ande responsible post. PREVTTY CONCEIT., The "Autoerat of the lireakfalst Tabele," in the ttlntle ifonhly, indites the following pretty con ceit: "The schoolmistress camen down with a roese in her hair,-a fresh .Junie reuse. She has beeni walking ear ly ; shr ehas brontyht back~l uiro othuers,-nee on eachA che'k."~ -I told her so, in sonme stich pretty phirnse aIs I culdi mutster fosr the occasion. 'T'hu,e jt,o blunh runas ijst spodi oif turned inteo i couple of dlon~ues." The accomiplishedl editor of the .ontealrn Literary Ozette, noticing this little nehiievemesnt oaf the iato cru's poetic tstuc, reenilit verse oif hisi own comnposi ion, and whiich was pubhhlihed years ago in the .1/r, unge, bearing a very strong fieinily likeness to) the fney of Dr. HIom~:n. The i/cn,-,r's two roses enmlie to light in this guise: An hour or two,, atnd forth she goes, The school she birigheihy seeks She carrie' in lier hea,l ai rope Aind b tjcoun her cheecks. Of course the editor of the Xeasaceang, is the true arent of this poetic pair of twins. IIUMAN RUIIT'EOUSNESS. The Scriptures tell uts that all humain righteousness : as filthy rags when brought to the test of our whcole luty to (hod. Pecrhaps this idea has never been inure urcibly experessed than biy the following lancguacge 'huich Sue WALItI laces in the mouth of hiis 'Duce Untvie D~ennls," the stern oldl Presbyterian of 'MID-LortmtN :" "But I will hear moy cross," said DAIn, "E with he comfort, that whatever showed like goodness in ie or mune, was but like the light that shines frae :reeping insects, on the b~rae.side, in at dark night. tkythes bright to the eo, because all is dark arounid t; hut when the morn comes on thle mnountaeins, it is )ut a puir crawling kail-wornm after a'. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. pg At a lalte firemanns suipper, the following toast van given : e"tLadies of '5S-like tihe fireman's bucket, rell oopcel, and like firemen, delighting in the exlii. ition of their Arise." faI Thalberg, the pianist, was paid for his per. 'ormances, when in this country, $20,000 per mconthi, exclusive of expenses ! pD-"What are the chief ends of man ?" asked a chool teacher of his pupils. "Head and feet," was he reply. ,p"-Ex-geornor Jonx L. MAxxcao, has been iominatcd by a writer in the Charleston Xlerceury, as uccesor to Judge EvAss. g" The np-country papers pronounce General )AIEL. WAL.LACE convalescent. 30- The Union District Agricultural Society held very successful Exhibition early in this month. The Unionville Journal gives a stirring aecount of it. et us spur up in Edgefield, and be fully ready for our )tober Fair. gw" Toxe HooD, in one of his punning effusions, " A sea-horse is a sea-horse, when sYou see him in the seau; lBut when you see him in a bay, A bay~ horse then is he." p"-Yellow Fever is becoming quite severe in New rleans, and is prevailing In an epidemic form in cer n localities. gg The latest Cable news fr-om Trinity Baey, of be 13th inst., says: "Operations are progressing lowly and satisfactorily, but the recording instru ents are not yet in readiness for the transmission f messages." pe Tile Spartanburg Esrpress notes thce death of a foreman, Mr. James W. Kirkmaen. lie wits a na ive of Maryland. pe- Dysentery of a virulent type is said to prevail a dreadful extent in several counties in Virginia. pe Gen. William Walker passed through Angus. - o the orin ..of,. ten 1*th, o n him wayno arth. g|f It is said that.the Fraser River Indians a ner tain an unmitigated hatred to the Chinesie, and avail themselves of every favorable opplnrtunity 4o scalp them. The only roason for their impiucnble animosi ty to the Celestials, Is that their eyes are not located In the right place. 2| The Lexington Flag, tells of some prolific corn, grown in a field of Maj. Henry A. Meetze's, where a gentleman stood with a walking cane in his hand, and standing in his tracks, touched g shoots. Hurrah for Lexington. CV" An incorrigible wag, who had lent a minister a horse, which ran away and threw his clerical rider, thought he should have some credit for his aid in "spreading the gospel." g? During a severe thunder storm, in Essex county, Mass., on the 6th inst., a barn in the town of Swampscott was struck by lightning and burned, to gether with the celebrated mare Lady Suffolk. She was valued at $2,000. W-' A few days ago a tremendous excitement pre vailed in St. Louis, Mo., from the finding of the bo dies of two fino looking children in a box. A Coroner was called, and a jury scraped together, when the children were found to be of wax. g The acting President of the United States at this time is a young man named James Buchanan Henry. Each morning he receives the reports of the Departments, notes their contents, and sends such of them as he thinks requires the attention of his uncle, to the President, at Bedford. CO'UNICATIONS. For the Advertiser. BONHAM DINNER. At a meeting of the citizens held in the Court House, on 10th inst., Col. S. CHRIsTs was called to the Chair, and Mr. CicEno An.us requested to act as Secretary. The Chairman announced that the citizens of Edge field District had in contemplation a Public Dinner to our immediate Congressional Representative, Hon. M. L. BoNHaM, and that. the object of the meeting was to make the necessary arrangements therefor at such time.as shall suit the convenience of that gen tleman. On motion of Maj. S..S. Tousrxi:s, the followibg gentlemen were appointed a Committee of Arrange ments: Messrs. J. If. Mists, L. S. JonxsoN, S. B. GuitifN, GEo. A. ADiSo, D. R. DeltisoE, W. P. BUTLER, Tuos. G. BAcoN, Join A. ADIonso, R. If. SUI.LIvAs and Wx. 11. Moss. On motion the following gentlemen were appointed a committee of Invitation-Maj. S. S. ToxPKaas, E. SE1nExLs, Esq., Capt. J. B. GnIFFi, Col. LOUDON BUTLeR and Dr. J. W. HILL. On motion, the Chairman instructed the Chairman Committee of Arrangements to correspond with lon. M. L. BoxulAx, and appoint a day for the Dinner which shall best meet the convenience of that gen tleman. On motion of EXxET SErDELI, Esq. Reoolred, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Edgefield Adrertiser. Thereupon the meeting adjourned. S. CHRISTIE, Chairman. CicEno Antius, See'ry. EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE. HOTEL LEINFELDER, 1 Muxica, July 6th, 1858. J So peerless is this city of art, that I lack words to describe it! I know not where to begin, and will cer tainly not know where to leave off. It has been built almost entirelf within the last forty years by the be fore mentioned King Ludwig I, whose princely efforts and achievements, in behalf of Art, merit the adimi ration andi applause of the united world. lie has built for himself through these efforts a triumphal arch of fdme, which will rear its head proudly, when all remembrance of his indiscretion with Lol& Montes will have vanished from the mind of man and the page of history. And this indiscretion, if indiscre uion it was, only proves anew, the proneness of child ren of art and of artistic susceptibility, to stray into what the world calls "forbidden paths." This admi rable Prince has gasthered into his fatherland gems and treasures of art and beauty from all realms. Ho has visited Greece in person, accompanied by his Court painter, Rotter, and Munich now blazes with re productions from this land of song and glory. Nor is he yet wearied in well doing; at the age of sixty five, he is hale und vigorous, living for art and the hn'ppiness of his people. His roof, the beautiful Wittelsbacher palace, is the sore refuge of artists from thne four quarters of the globe. Munich is built upon the Iser ! What lover of posetry, or what school boy, who has over spoken in publlic on the stage, does'nt know "and dagk as win ter was the flow of Iser rolling rapidly "? This, same Iser is a broad, bright, sky blue stream, with nothing in the slightest degree dark or wintry :about it. "Linden" lies a few miles away. The whole city, including its enviro~ns on either side the Iser, cointains over two hundredl thousand inhabitants. It is entirely modern, airy, elegant, and exceedingly noiifrrm. All lovers of Itomuan Cathiolicisms ought to Ihuck to, Munich, fur here reigns the mother church in pride, pomp, glory, and with none of the abuses said to be so prevalent in more Southern Casthliei countries. Among the praiseworthy works of King Ludwig, are four large andI elegant Churches, all Catholic of course, he being a devoted son of that reed. Thesee sanctuaries are called after their pat. rn saints, St. Boniface, St. Louis, St. Stephen and Allsaints. The latter is the Church of the Court. [n nddition to these, is the gorgeous cathedral of " Mary, hellp !" situuted in thme suburb cel Au. This athedral is famed throughout Europe, and said to be he finest specimnen of ansoslrma Gothic architecture ex ant. Thme interior i'e entirely without seats or pews, s is the case in all churches of South Europe; the osf is supportedi by twenty-four carved and fluted lillairs, forming a row of twelve on each side. Be tween every two pillars is a window of stained glass, twenty-five feet in height, and of .surpassing beauty and richness; under each windlow is a has-relief in ava, isnd each onU of these represents some picture f thne erucifixioin. The figures upson them are almost s large ats life, light brown set upon a ground of right blue. The shrine of the Virgin forms a sepa ate chapel, in which the sacred flame burns steadily,1 and in which are treasures untold. The altar piece is sublime an4 elevating to contemplate. Upon a ofty throne sits the b~lessed Virgin with the Jcsus hild ; above her float groups of chanting angels. On ither side, surrounding the throne, are the four great fathers and teachers: Gregorius, Ambrosius, Augus inus and ilieronynmus; lower down upon the steps I nd buried in devotion, kneel St. Boniface, St. Louise ad St Stephen; the Proto-muartyr. One of the rightest among the green spots of memory, will be ny .visit to the Church of " Mary, help !"' There is rligion and devotion in the very name ! These sa red edifices are not only erected by King Ludwig, 1 bt also munificeently endowed. 't The picture gallery and the gallery of sculpture in unich are also upon the loftiest scale. The first is alled classically " the Pinakethek," and the latter the Glyptothk." There are however two Pina- I otheken, one devoted to old pictures, or rather pie- 'l ures by the ancient masters; the other to works pro. ti ued since 1800. These buIldings, to say nothing of heir priceless contents, are in themselves worth a ingdom. Any details of these contents would of ourse overstep not only the limits of a letter, hut also the bound. of Christian forbearance. Suffice it I to sany, that here are gathered together master pieces f rom masters of all times and countries, and statues, r usts and objects of vertu from Egypt, Assyria, reece and Rome. Imagine the extent of the col etion from the following: The new picture gallery lone has twenty-three different apartments, the culpture gallery fifteen. In the first hall of the new c inakothek stands a curious hut exquisite vase of e right green Malachite, presented to King Ludwig by he late Emperor Nicholas. It is eight feet in height, erfectly chaste in workmanship, and its value esti mted at some most fabulous amount. In the same oom are also three incomparable vases of Sweedish orphyry, presents from Charles XIV of Sweden. .: Another of the objects of interest and wonder is the moaufactory of stained glass, the most extensive in urope. Upon a visit to this establishment however, A~ one does not see the process of staining and burning I ipecimens of the art, copies of the most famous paint lugs, &a., which are so arranged as to move before the idmiring gaer like pieturep in a magic lantern. The uachine is managed by a female who speaks low Dutch, and who, as the different pictures present them ielvos, announces the subject and the master. These' sopies of plctares, and also of scenes from nature, ire per/ecely faithful, and as delicate in-every detail as it ispossible to be. In our glowing land, with con ,tant sunshine to illumine and enliven them, hoi glo rious they would look hung at our windows! Take the hint, all you rich people. I will execute commis ions " free gratis, for nothing." The royal palace is called the "Resedence." With in and without, it is noble, tasteful and beautiful. The "Schatzkmmer," or chamber of treasure, finds it.s equal scarcely in the Arabian Nights. King Max and his family being absent upon a summer tour to the Rhine, it was my ifrivilego to be conducted through these princely halls. Further upon the sub ject however, I say not, fearing, as in the case of the cherries, the imputation of having shaken hands with truth. In close juxtaposition to the palace is the Royal Theatre and Opera house. This is the most beauti ful I have seen in Germany, not even excepting the famous one of Berlin. The performances I will not at present touch upon,-a ream of foolscap and all the superlatives in the English language would- not suf. fice me ! But the brightest star in the Art galaxy of Munich is the " Ruhmeshalle," or Hall of. GOry. Almost every European capital has its picture galle ries and galleries of sculpture, its monuments, its churches; but Munich alone has a Hall of Gloryl, This is a glistening temple of white marble, situated upon a commanding eminence in one of the most charming environs of the city. A dense and-lofly grove forms the back ground to this temple, while in front and upon either side stretches away a broad green plain, known as the Theresa Meadow. The structure is in shape, a hollow square, open however In front; it is without rooms, and forms an extreme ly high portico, supported and surrounded by giant marble columns, and approached by a broad flight of marble steps, running entirely around it. The inner wall of this portico is bright red, and upon it, between the columns, are fixed seventy-six consoles of white marble, elaborately carved and ornamented. These consoles are about ten feet from the floor; and upon each one sets a bust, life size, and also of white marble, of some distinguished Bavarian, dead or living. There are divines an'd scholars, statesmen and orators, poets and painters, sculptors and archi tects, warriors and philanthropists. But that is not all yet! In the midst of the square and towering high above all else, is a colossal, allegorical statue, called Bavaria. This is a female figure of the noblest proportions, and with a countenance of the severest majesty; the hair is loose and flowing, and a robe of fur envelopes the upper part of the body. With one hand she clasps to her bosom an anchor, with the oth er she holds aloft a laurel crown as if offering it to the winner of the prize. By her side, sitting upon his haunches and gazing forward with a sentinel look, is a kingly lion. It is the custom of visitors to as cend into the head of this statue. The steps are within, and run from the feet to the head. In the head can eight persons seat themselves comfortably, and through the eyes, which form windows, gazo out upon the surrounding country. The author of this is the great Bavarian sculptor Schwanthaler, whose bust makes one of the seventy-six which adorn the Hall of Glory. He lives no longer, but sleeps in Munich under a costly tomb, erected over him by his patron and friend King Ludwig. Picture to yourself the approach to this sublime pile through the Theresa Meadow. The glistening white temple with its hack ground of dark and glowing green, the long rows of gigantic columns, the busts of the great and good upon their ground of royal red, while Bavaria with. her laurel crown looks down upon all, and seems toe say, " do thy part well, and so shall thy name be in scribed upon the walls of the Hall of Glory !" The whole is intensely elevated and heroic.! Immortal the work, immortal the sculptor, the architect, the king ! -J.T. B. YELL~OW FEVER IN C~ARLESoNy.- We publish a dispateh under our telegraph head announcing that several deaths had occurred by yellow fe ver, in Charleston, but that the p'hysicians in thateity say that the disease does not exist there in an epidemic form. Sporadic cases of this fever occur nearly~ ev ry summer and fall in bur sea port cities, anid it frequently happens that it does not assume an epidemic form. We trust that the lives of the people as well as the business internsta of our sistcr city, may be spared the hazards of an ep idemic during this as well as in all subsequent seasons.-Aiugusta C'onstiutionalisf, 141h inst. The Charleston Courier, of Friday, says: There are a few eases of yellow fever in thme city, but it is not true that thme dliscase, is " prevailing. in an epidemic form." 'The regular report of the City Register for last week reporied one cleath by yellow fever; whatever denihsinay oe ur in the future will also be recorded in the samne way, and weorefer our country friends to tese reports for the correct estimate and index f the health of our city." RlAcen Kr..n imr LynnTry.-The Clarks Ille (TJenn.) Jeffersonian learns that the cele ,raed racing stallion " Emubassador'' was killed y lightning on Thursday night, the 29th ukt, on .he plantation of his owner, Mr.'Charles N. Meri vether, about ten miles from Clarksville. Em inssador was the winner of the great Alabama itake of twenty-eight thousand dollars, in 1854, iud his time is among the best on record. p'o' The man who has get "ID. R. D.'s" Whieel ,arrow, will please return it. A hint to the wiso is u iicient. BYMENE AL. MARRIEn, in this Village on the 12th Inst., by Rev. r. PICKsTr, Mr. WILLIAM BLACK and Miss IARY P. GOLDEN, of this place. To the happy bride we extend our thanks for her id remembrance of the printers. May the smiles f heaven ever rest over you and yours, and "May 1 thy ways be pleasantness, and all thy paths he ece." MARFI1ED, on thme 12th August, by Rev. Wesley Vertz, Mr. LARKE SNELGROVE and Miss CATH ERINE RHINEHART, all of this Dist.miet. The above notice was received in company with a arge parcel of delicions cake, into which all hands mmediately piched, and after gulping it down with he keenest relish, wished the bride and groom a long ife of uninterrupted joy and prosperity. CO0MMNE RC0IA.L. HAMBURG, AMg. 18,1858. The receipts of Cotton here for the past week have een light-prices unchanged. The market continues be dull. We quote 9to12icts. K. BAR.BECUE ! A Barbecue will be given by Mr. Holly at [LLY'S FERRY, on the 27th August next. 'he Candidates and the public generally are invi d to attend. July 28 -4t 21) ,DRY CREEK. A protracted meeting will commence with the Pry Creek Baptist Church on Saturday before the nrth Sunday in August next. Ministering breth m are cordially invited to attend. SJuly 28 4t 29 Commissioners of the Poor. Mu. EDITon-YOU will please announce the fol wing gentlemen as Candidates for Commission r of the Poor for Edgeflold District: M. GRAH AM, D. P. SELF, A. JONES, JOHIN P. MICKLER, L. 0. LOVEL ACE. July 28, tf -3 0 N OT IC E. - . H. KENNEY, of Hamburg, . C., is still gent for the sale of LEONARD SMITH'S mut M~achines. Jamburg, June 23 i '2