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-.- *7 "WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS 0 THE TEMPLE OF OUR LIRERTIES, AND IF IT MUST FALL, WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE RUINS." SIMKINS, DURISOE & 00., Proprietors .EDGEFIELD, S. C., JUNE 15, 1859. ~ r .... .n..___- - I. - - .. Ii1. &... e +1 ...ame n eese at For the Advertiser. REVIVAL OF T BLAVZ TADE-NO.ZYII " 2%e sar must be carried into Africa." Within the last three months the Supreme Court of California has declared a severe penal statute agalnst the importation of Chineseunconstitutional upon grounds of public policy, which may be con sidered as settling the question beyond a doubt of permanent sla ery, Chinese or African, or both, in California. a Rdeed from the very day that Cali fornia was admitted into the Union until now, her people have been as true to the South on the sub ject of slavery as the South has been true to her self. The California Legislature at its first Session adopted liberal laws for the protection of the few slaves which had been carried to the Golden State during its brief Territorial existence. The Courts there have always rigidly enforced the fugitive slave law. The State has never failed to vote with the South in Presidental elections by large milJorities.. Both Houses of the Legislature re cently passed Resolutions-almost unanimously re. questing Senator Broderiek to resign, on account of his affiliation with Douglas Democrats against the South. The Legislature at its last Session also enacted a law to divide.the State so as to erect all her Territory South of the famous Com promise line of 36: 30 into a new State, for the express purpose that it might become a negro slave State, as it is the finest agricultural region in many respects on the Globe. An additional motive was to secure two more United States Senators to represent the interests of the Paciff, but the chief object was to conciliate the South, whence the strongest opposition has hitherto come to the Pacific Rail Road, which California has much at heart. It remains only for Congress to approve the Act of the Legislature dividing the State and to revive the slave trade, so that cheap negroes may be had, to give the South all she has over claimed on the Pacific-to give her the whole Pacific coun try. Oregon is likewise faithful to the South on the slave issue. Her people are largely Demo cratio of the States Rights, not the National School of Politics. Perhaps they formed their political principles partly from the precepts and example of California, which is more ultra in States Rights. than even South Carolina. To the best of my information the California Courts are the only State Courts in the Union, which have asserted a reasserted in divers important causes i Mr. Calhoun's doctrines of State jurisdiction in judical matters. But another explanation of Ore gon's sympathy with the South is the fact, that several thousand Chinese are there and that they I are treated as slaves either under apprentice laws, i or by the approbation of public opinion. When the vote was taken a few months ago on the adop tion of her constitution, nearly a fourth of the ballots cast were in favor of'negro slavery, even whero negroes woro so scarce and negro labor higherthan white labor. More than one Newspaper there now is friend: ly to the establishment of negro slavery. One of her Senators in Congress, Gen. Lane, is a Southern ( man by birth, a native of North Carolina, moto-. g riotisly pro-saveriy in his opinions aria feelings, and he is the idol of the Oregon people. He is 1 also a great favorite in Indiana and throughout the North West. In fact, he appears to be the choice of the whole pro-slavery party, North and South, for the next President, and he certainly has paramount claims upon the slave trade Revivalists, in view of the cheering prospect of establishing Chinese if not African slavery in all the Pacific i region of this country. Moat of the Chinese now in Oregon (over 5,000 when the Constitution was adopted) went thither to work as domestics and as agricultural laborers, not to dig gold. Nearly all the surface gold diggings in California are exhaus ted and the50,000 Chinese there rather than labor in the deep diggings have mostly gone to work as house and body servants and as laborers upon farms, or in gardens and orchards, or in manufac tures of the lighter kind. Those Chinese have also generally learned to speak English and the Californians are beginning to find the menial ser vices of Jno. Chinaman indispensable to their comfort. So that within a few years more accor ding to all present indications Chinese slavery will have been established by Constitutional, or Statu tory enactment on the Pacific slope. The Chinese arc also emigrating to Washington Territory, as agricultural laborers, and although that is the most Northern of our Pacific Possessions, yet there too we find the white men growing daily more friendly to slavery. Many of the prominent public characters there are advocating the intro duction of Chinese apprentices, as menials and laborers. Let the Chinese once get there, no mat ter whether they go voluntarily or by compulsion, whether as apprentices, or as freemen, and in the end they must be slaves. The necessities of' the country require it-the laws of God and man de mand it. Even Gen. Harney now in command of the North Pacific division of the United States Army was bold enough recently to address a letter to the Governor of Washington Territory advo cating a compulsory system of Chinese labor there. This single fact should encourage the African slave traders to redouble their efforts. The Pacific slope is larger than all our Atlantic slave States, 'as It contains an area of over 933, 000 square miles, every foot of which is well adop ted to negro slavery, if the slavem could only be got.- It should be borne In mind that there are no Beserts In the United States Westof the Rocky Mountains. They are all East of that great chain and North of the present slave States, occupying what-Is boastingly called "Free Territory." Hence If the Pacific slope is well adopted to slavery, there Is room in that quarter for as many freemen and colored slaves, Chinese or African, as there is In our present negro slave States and according to to the estimate before given that slavery will pay until population reaches at least 100 to the-square mile, it follows, that even if negro slavery should never be established in any of the North Western States--that even if we should never get any more Territory -from Mexico, or Central America, yet we have ample spae in the South and on the Pacific for 180,000,000 of souls bond, or free. I have shown that Chinese slavepy does now practically exist on the Pacific. Let us examine some'ther facts as to its climate, soil and produc tions to prove its adaptedness to slavery. It oe copies the West Coast of our Continent and every intelligent man knows, that a given point on the West Coast of all the Continents is as warm as another given point on their East Coast at least 10 degrees latitude and in some places 15 degrees SourA of the said given point on the West Coast. Therefore assuming a difference of only 111 de grees Latitude as the isothermal line of our West and East Coasts, it is clear, that "all the Pacifie Territory which lies 10 degrees North of the point on the Atlantic intersected by the 39th parallel is well adapted to negro slavery, other things being eqilab Now the 89th parallel of Iatitudec runs a littlh S5tt of Baltimore and leaves a large sec tion ef.-Maryland, Virginia and Missouri North of it. Nence, In theory, or rather in fact, 'as far as euma~nlasinpces are concerned, .the whole area off-the United States West of the Rocky Moen tuIWIrill1 adapted to slavery; because, the 495 ~la bie etreme Northern boundlary of the But it is authenticated by numerous and long continued Meteorological observations, that a given point on the West Coast of this Continent is generally as warm as one 15 degrees of latitude South of it, on the East Coast. Of course it is the Gulf stream of the Atlantic, which heats the West Coast of the Eastern Continents, as it is the Gulf stream of the Pacific which warms the West Coast of our Continent. The cause usually as signed for the difference of temperature in the same latitude on the West Coast of Europe and in the West Coast of our Continent is the greater volume of Equatorially heated waters in the big Pacific. It may however be alleged that the three Ranges of Mountains which traverse the Pacific Slope from North to South between the Ocean and the Rocky Mountains prevent the passage of the Pacific's genial atmosphere. into the interior. But such is not the case. Those three ranges are no where very lofty except in occasional Peaks and their continuity is often interrupted by broad pas ses, or dats open for the free circulation of the Pacific's benign atmosphere. Indeed while those mountains are no bar to the warmth of the Ocean Atmosphere, in winter they generate eool breezes in summer, which makes the climate of the Pa cifc Coast so delightful at all seasons. In addi tion to the interruptions in the Mountains, the Gulf of California ditributes its invigorating breezes in summer and its warm ones in winter throughout all the valleys of the slope, west of the Rocky Mountains. There is no such climate as that of California and most of the Pacific Coast, any 'where under the blue vault of heaven, except perhaps a small section about classic Athens-no such soil and climate for the production of grain, grapes, fruits, vegetables and lite stock of all kinds. The Great Creator would seem to have provided ex traordinary means of subsistence for the miners in that land of inexhaustible gold. Quite a suffi eiency of wild ducks and geese resort thither to urnish meat for millions of men. Finer grapes than ever a Malaganese smacked his lips over, aourish there almost spontaneously. The grape 1as no disease, the vintage never or but seldom rails and yields the most -delicious wines, which require only age to eclipse any produced in France >r on the Rhine. Tea of excellent quality thrives here as has been demonstrated by many well ried experiments and preparations are making for indertaking its culture on a magnificent scale by he introduction of laborers and Tea plants from dhina. The Federal Government is importing he plants, but white men and Mandarines are mporting the laborers-the slaves. A number of rmy officers have also declared that the longest, trongest, finest and whitest Sea Island cotton 6und on the Continent grows'in the valleys of he Calorado and Gila Rivers. Most of the land n the fork of those Rivers is stated likewise to be roll timbered and both streams are known to be invigable far up from their mouths. Cotton, Tea and Grape culture then on the aciefic Coast demand that the Chinese or African lave trade shall be opaned. The miners of Cali arnia want cheap provisions. The families there ieed servants and the stock raisers need shepherds, ow minders etc. Shall the required laborers be hinese-or African ? The Chinaman has got the tarkof~Cufee, but would noiLaleor-at least most rhite men prefer negroes .1f negro labor could be ad at even double the cost of Chinese labor? dore than a third and nearly a half of the Ameri :an population on the Pacific were born in the outh. Thousands of the Oregonians were reared u Virginia. Kentucky Tennessee and Missouri. Would they not prefer a docile strong and endu -ing negro to a mutinous weak and failing China nan ? Yes! but the price the relative price of Ufrican and Chinese labor at this time with free rude in Johns and no trade in Cuffees, that is the luestion for the South to determine. The Legislatures on the Pacific will shortly le galize the Chinese apprentice system. The next tep will be but a short one to legalize Chinese lvery as a permanent institution. John China nan, as he is over called there, is already en insti :ution, planted and fixed to the soil on the Pa siie. No matter whether he went thither or re nains there voluntarily or by compulsion, he is still there and there to be forever as he has his women and children with him. Instead of show ing a disposition to return to their mother country he Chinese stick to California, as though it were paradise, and a new impulse has lately been im parted to the Influx of the Celestials all along the Coast from Van Couver's Island to San Diego. Now why object to reviving the African slave trade lest we shall have too many negroes to gov er, to subsist or to make slavery profitable, when Chinese are filling up our country to perform the >fices of slaves. Those Chinese must be subsisted and governed, ye they are semtinous, because they have more of he faculties and passions of the white man than he negro possesses. The descendants of those hinese will be present in the United States when aver our population shall have become too dense is much so as the descendants of the negroes sould be in case the African Slave trade were revived. One race, or the other is bound to come. Which class of serviles shall we have the docile or mutinous? As eadbwitence is such a bugbear, with some anti-slave traders the evil of a redun lant servile population might be avoided by im porting only, or mostly male slaves but the bare thoght of such a policy Is abhorent, and there Is ot the slightest necessity for it, nor will there be or a few thousand years. I merely suggest that we could import only male slaves as the French tad Spaniards are doing In respect to both Afri ans and Chinese or as our saintly cousins across ;he water are doing in regard to Coolies. But probably, even if the African slave trade were revived, Chinese slavery is destined to pre rail on our Pacific Coast to a greater extent than segro slavery, for several reasons. In the first laco China is only about half/ as far freem ,alifornia, Oregon etc., as the Easit Coast of Af rica, and in the second plae, the surplus provis ins of our Pacific States will always find a ready narket in over peopled China. Africa has no rommerce to offer, while China can afford both a lurative trade antd millions of the very cheapest laborers. Moreover, a voyage to Africa, in addi tion to being twice as far is very much more dan gerous than one to China. These things com bined will enable our countrymen on the Pacific to get Chinese slaves cheaper and easier than ne groes. But which ever system of slavery may ul timately predominate on the Pacific the South will be equally benefited, except that negro slavery should be preferred to Chinese slavery, and as the latter institution is a growing fact, as there is no Federal law against the importation of Chinese apprentices, or slaves, the South must fight lustily for Cuffee's rights, or John Chinaman will be vie tr,rious. - CPO pg In Columbus, Ga., on the 7th inst., a de structive Fire occurred, by which the Alabama and Fontaine Warphouses with about 8,000 bales of Cotton, and a large amount of goods in store, were consumed. Thme loss is fully half a million of dollars. pp. Powers' statue of the GIreek Slave, which was awarded to Miss Coleman, of CincinnatI, last year, by the Cosmopolitan Art Association,'has been purchased by A. T. .Stowart, of New York, says an exchange paper, and will be placed-in his drygonan atorn - True Nobility. BY CHAS. SWAIN. What is noble? To inherit Wealth, estate, and proud degree? There must be some oler merit Higher yet than these for me! Something greater far must enter Into life's majestic span; Fitted to create and centre True nobility in man! What is noble? 'Tis the finer Portion of our mind and heart, Linked to something still diviner Than more language can impart; Ever prompting--ever seeing Some improvement yet to plan; To uplift our fellow-being, And, like man, to feel for man? What is noble? Is the sabre Nobler than the humble spade ? There's a dignity in labor % Truer than e'er pomp arrayed I He who seeks the mind's improvement Aids the world, in aiding mind; Every great commanding movement Serves not one, but all mankind. O'er the forge's heart and ashes, O'er the engine's iron head, Where the rapid shuttle Bashes, And the spindle whirls its thread There is labor lowly tending Each requirement of the hour There is genius still extending Science, and its world of'power! 'Mid the dust, and speed and clamor, Of the loom-shed and the mill; Midst the clink of wheel and hammer Great results are growing still! Though, too oft, by fashion's creatures, Work and workers may be blamed, Commerce need not hide its features, Industry is not ashamed. What is noble? That which places Truth in its enfranchised will; . Leaving steps, like angel traces, That mankind may follow still; E'en through scorn's malignant glances Prove him poorest of his clan, He's the neeldc who advances Freedom, and the cause of man. Pretty, Laughing Eoline. BY P. H. STAUFFER. Ambushed in those silken lashes. Vivid thought electric Bashes; Peeping through those dangling tresses, Glowing with their warm caresses, A neck as white as snow, is seen; Pretty, laughing Eoline! Thy jetty brows like crescents rise, In heavy arches o'er thine eyes; Each spanning, like a rainbow bright, It's hemisphere of golden light, Enhancing beauty with their gleam, 71ithsRome, dEzrk-eyeiffoTuili' An air divine, a winsome grace, United to an angel face; Seldom links like thee are given, Connecting things of earth with heaven; With less of shadow than of sheen, Tender-hearted Eoline! A virtuous mind, a feeling heart, A sweeter zest to life impart; Morals pure and wit refined, How sweetly, yet how rarely join'dI These all in thee are fully, seen, Thoughtful, dreamy Eoline ! God seen in all isi Works. In that beautiful part of Germany whiel borders on the Rhine, there is a noble castl which as you travel on the western bank c the river, you may see lifting its ancien towers on the opposite aide, above the grove of trees about as old as itself. About forty years ago, there lived in tha astle.a noble gentleman, whom we shall cal aron --. He had only one son, who we not only a comfort to his father, but a blessin to all who lived on his father's land. It happened on a certain occasion that thi oung man being from home, there came rench gentleman to see the castle, wh egan to talk of his heavenly Father in term hat chilled the old man's blood ; on Whic) he Baron reproved him, saying "sre you noc fraid of offending God, who reigns above, b peaking in such a manner ?" The gentli naiv said he knew nothing about God, for h had never seen him. The Baron this time did not notice wha he gentleman said, but the next mornini ook him about his castle grounds, and too! ocasion first to show him a very beautift iture that hung on the wall The gentlt an admired the picture very much, and sait " whoever drew the picture knows very wel ow to use the pencil." " My son drew the picture," said the Baror U Then your son isa Clever man," replie he gentleman. The Baron then went wit: is visitor into the garden, and showed hir many beautiful flowers and plantationsc forest trees. " Who has the ordering of thi arden ?" asked the gentleman. " My son," replied the Baron ; "he knoa very plant, I may say, from the cedar< ebanon to the hyssop on the wall." " Indeed," said the gentleman, " I sha hink very highly of him soon." The Bare ben took him into the village and showe im a small ueat cottage, where his son ha stablished a school,'and where he caused al oung children who had lost their parents t e received and nourished at his own expensi The children in the house looked so ininocetx nd so happy, that the gentleman was yer uch p leased, and when he returned to th astle he said to the Barou " what a happ an you are to have so goo a son I" " How do you know Ihave sotgood ason ? " Because I have seen his works, and now thpt be must be good and clever, if h as done all you showed me." " But'you have not seen him." "No, but I know him very well, because juge of him by his works." " True," replied the Baron, "and in thi ay I judge of the character of our heaveni ather.. I know by his works, that he is eing of infinite wisdom, and power and goot ess." The Frenchman felt the force of the reproo ad was careful not to offend the good Bare any more by his remarks. A LussoN ON HUMAN YANIrY.-Neighlx . had a social party at his house a few evei ngs since, and the " dear boy, Charles, a fly ears old colt, was favored with permission e seen in the parlor. "Pa, is somewhi roud of his boy, and Charles was, of cours< laborately gotten up for so great an obei ion. Among other extras, the little fellow air was treated to a liberal supply of can ci e cologne, to his huge gratification. As I etered the parlp and made his bow to i l.d.. and gsnf ameun -"Lookeenhere," ai he, proudly, "if any of you smells a smell that's me l' The effect was decided, and Charles, having thus delivered an illustrative essay on human vanity, was the hero of the evening. The President on Composition. The following incident and episode are related by the correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, in his account of the first day's pro ceings-the. Sophomore exhibition-at the North Carolina University on the 1st inst: During an interval in these exercises, Prof Jno. T. Wheat appeared on the platform, and introduced student Elisha E. Wright, of Ten nessee, to President Buchanan, as the young gentleman who had won the prize offered for the most meritorious English composition, adding that the prize wo'ld be doubly valued if presented by himself. The President consented, and said: "I confess I am taken by surprise at this incident of this evening, but I am happy to be the honored medium in the presentation of this token to the young gentleman. He Is distinguished for most meritorious composi tion-and that is the great merit among lite rary gentlemen. The man who writes clearly, must think clearly, and will, by practice, come to speak clearly. There is great merit in short sentences. The author who uses long sentences is always laboring with difficulty. One distinct idea distinctly set forth, has more potency than a book full of those in which everything under the sun is jumbled together, as is so commonly the case among our modern writers. The ancient style was the best style, and that was the style of Calhoun and Web ster. I wish you, sir, great honor and great prosperity in whatever pursuit in life you may engage. I have been delighted with the ex amination. I have never heard more genuine sense, humor and wit than in the address delivered by the gentleman who spoke to you this afternoon(Dr. Hooper,) and who was for merly a professor here-and with regard to the more sober portions of it, I hope they have sunk deep into the minds of every student in this Oollege. " The great cause of our country, which has involved so many in crime is drunkenness. It is more dreadful than the pestilence, than the yellow fever, than the plague, than all the calamities that visit man. In it, we bring on ourselves a greater calamity than Heaven has brought upon us in any form or shape of misery. I wish with all my heart, to repeat what has been best said, what that speaker said, and to ask you all to take care of that fatal vice, which degrades man to the level of the brute, and brings him into disgrace in the eyes of the whole world. [Applause."] Aphorisms. Pleasure may be aptly compared to many very great books, which increase in real value in proportion as they are abridged. A legacy is a posthumous despatch affection sends to gratitude to inform us we have lost a kind friend. The man of middle rank believes that the man above him stands one step higher on the social ladder merely to overlook him. This one, however, has his eyes less upon the man beneath him than upon the-back of the man receives from the higher no other forgetfulness than he again throws upon the one beneath him. - -A poor spirtit. o-aaanipoor -pursa a very few pounds a year would ease a maI of the scandal of avarice. Envy is fixed on merit; and like a sore, is offended with every thing that is brilit. Infancy is loveable, notwithstanding fret fulness and the whooping-cough. One doubt solved by your.elf, will open your mind more by exercising its power, than the solution of many by another. Fond as man is of sight-seeing, life is the great show for every man-the show always wonderful and new to the thoughtful. Wisdom is the olive which springeth from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. It is characteristic of youth and life, that we first learn to see through 'the tactic~s when the campaign is over. For children there is no leave-taking, for they acknowledge no past ; only the present to them is full of the future. Sin and punishment, like the shadow and Sthe body, are never apart. tWaruxo is noon.-Walking is good, not astepping from shop to shop, or from neighbor to neighbor ; but stretching out into the coun ttry to the freshest fields, and highest ridges, 1and quietest lanes. However sullen the aimagination may have been among its griefs Sat home, here it cheers up and smiles. flow ever listless the -limbs may have been when ssustaining a too heavy heart, here they are ibraced, and the lagging gait becomes bouyant Sagain. However perverse the memory may ahave been in presenting all that was agonai izing, and insisting on only what cannot be treprieved, here it is at first disregarded and Sthen it sleeps; and the sleep of memory is the day in Paradise to the unhappy. The amere breathing of the cool wind on the face in the commonest highway is rest and comn tfort, which must be felt at suck times to be Sbelieved. WARNING TO -TUE INTiPEaATE.-aharles Lamb tells his sad experience, as a' iarning 1to young men, ini the following laiguage. " The waters have gone over mue; eu out of the black depths, could I be heard, [would Scry out to all those who set a foot in tie peril ous flood. Could the youth to wl a the S favor of the firet wine is delicious as ie open scenes of life, or the enteri- g upat somec Snewly disoovered paradise, look into imy de solation, and be rnado to understand what a Sdreary thing It is when he shall feel himself fgoing dlown a precipice with open gyes and passive will--to see his destruction, amd have Ino power to stop it, and yet feel it all the way Semanating from himself-to see all giodliness: Semptied out of him, and yet not ableto forget a time when it was otherwise-to ba~r about the piteous spectacle of his own ruii. Could he see my fevered eye, feverish witl the last night's drinking, and feverish looki/g for to m nght's repetition of the folly ; couft he but feel the body of the death out of wheh I cry Shourly with feebler outcry to be desvered, it, were enough to make him dash the. sparkling' Sbeverage to the earth in all the f-ide of its ,mantling temptation." aPATnonsex.-A person enterinj the House of Commons when the Rump Parlament was sitting, exclaimed :-" These are godlf gen tlemen, I could work for te l-gdy o nothing.thnal'dyfo a" What trade are you, my god friend ?" y" A ropemaker," replied the otler. TUE LosT D~ALI'.-This forcoon a man in search of a child was hailed lya ponder rous Hibernian, who thrust hl half-naked Sframe through the window of dilapidated three story wooden building. *is id a shild ye .want ?" "Yes," "Aboutithree years *owld ?" "Yes." " He has fn hair, blue ieyes, red stockins an' amoke-coked gaites ?" a" Yes." " Had he a plain dhiris and whize sthraw hat on 'im?1" "Yes I I 13 he up ~there with your ?" " Ah, no, si but I saw his :mother a while ago lookin' for e darlin'." tPittsburg Chromecle. F uNoavumar -" HarL."-Froin residence in 0New York Fifth Avenue, som naid servants 0went off because they were olpermitted to I .. ewsteaa ie is a weakl! THE PoIsoNINGCAsE.-One of the inembei ,6f Mr. Stewart's family-Mrs. Wilkes-havir 'died, an inquest was held over the body 1 'Coroner Col. D'Oyley, with the following ve dict: That Mrs. Wilkes came to her death 1 ison, administered by the hands of Fann; slave, the property of R. Stewirt, and thr William Saunders, they believed, was acce #ory to the deed, having furnished her wit tlie poison. A post mortem and chemic nalysis of the stomach of Mrs. Wilkes di ,.overed large quantities of arsenie. A Court of Magistrate and Freeholders a tmbled yesterday for the trial of the negr anny, 1os. S. Reid, Magistrate, W. H. Hun . H. Harrington, J. B. Carwile,W. A. Clir .d S. P. Boozer composing the Jury. The verdict of the jury, (as we go to pres. after a careful investigation of the matter, that Fanny be hanged on the 3d Friday, 15t uly next.-Newbe ry Rising Son 8th inst. 1. "We've Struck Kentucky." It is well known to most of our readers the e enterprise of Tennesseans has construete rnpikes in all directions from this State t e Kentucky line, under the promise fror ir Kentucky neighbors- that they would coi de them into their State. All these pike 1l end at the State line, with no prospect c being extended. The consequence a in a season like the present, when th a are soft, and there are frequent rain a snows, and heavy crops to haul over th ads, they get into the most horrible cond n, and it is no exaggeration to say that th *eller from Tennessee absolutely drop Kentucky-; and if he does not drop in a pthat horses can't haul him out, he i cky beyond the average of his class. A w days since; a traveller from foreig: took passage on the two wheel mail-carl eor einterior of the State, and was enjoyin F good nap. From this nap, however, he we -uddenly aroused by a tremendous concussior *hich threw hi'm. violently against the side c e box, skinning hlis nose, and otherwis ruising his body. Upon looking about, h ound the vehicle in the midst or a limitles Ia of mud, about the consistency of thii am and the bottom of the box below th ter line; the horses' heads and neeks wer only portions of the animals in sight, an e driver was laying the whip on to then fhe traveller recoverng himself with a veh( 3pent execration, inquired " What is' the matter ?" ."Nothing," responded the driver, busil ying his whip the while, "only we've strue entncky." -Our traveller, in relating his experience said thaL he had, in the course of his li' : ben in a good many tight places-that h .iad been blown up on steamboats, thrown oi ,of railroads, and upset in stages-but tha was the first time he had ever "run against State," and he believed that Kentucky wa e only State on the face of the earth wher e thing could he done.-Exchange. BUnRSs o EJ.oQuEcE.--The following burst pV eloquence was delivered before a court c Fustice in Pennsylvania; "Your honor sits high on the adorable sea f Justice, like the Asiatic rock of Gibraltei ile the eternal river of mercy, like th averous of the valley, flows meandering a ur feet." 10slrTlxEQjmunsncement of speech ofa lawyer in New TerssyT " Your honors do not sit there like marbi statutes to be wafted about by every wind breeze." Another oratorthus commenced his haranguf " The important crisis which were about t arrive have arroven." Another thus expatiated: " The court will please to observe that th gentleman from the East has given them very learned speech. He has roamed wit| old Romulas, socked with old Socrates,rippe with Eripides, and canted with old Cauthari des, but what. your honor, does tie know abou the laws of Wisconsin ?" Extract from the argumenit of a young lawi yer before a Mlississippi justice. "May it please the court -I would rathe live for thirteen hundred centurie< on th small end of a thunder bolt-chew the ragge< end of a flash of lightning--swallow the com ners of a Virginia worm fence, and have m; bowels torn out by a green briar than to b thus bamboozled by these gentlemen.'' HORAeE GREEL~EY 1j 'KA~sAs.-tforso Greeley was at Wyandott on Monday evening of last week, on his way to the Convention a Ossawatomie. Gen. Pomery, Mr. Parrott, J1 Ewing, Jrh, and other delegates were wit) Ihim. In the evening there was a meetina 'and Horace addresrel it, among others. . If told the people there assemtsledl whait lie hat done and what he intended to do, for IKansas and all other States and Territories, since he came promninenitly before the pubhlic. ie gavy the meeting (what was not relished by th< delegates at least.) the true Rlepublican doe trine, which is, that the negro is enititledl t< the same status as the white man. The mahi portion of hais remarks were for the negrr e wnt in for the power in Cemgaressv, whIeni ever it mnay seem fit, cither to inroduce o& abolish slarery. }Ie said ~in the comnmence ment of his remarks that Wim. H. Sewar~d, n Ne York, had said that there was an irre pressible conjliet between slave labor and free lJabo; that although the question was setller in Kansas in faror of its being a free State when admitted into the Union, yet the quest ior was niot settled, nor would it be iintit all 1k States were free. He said thiat this sonflic would go on until it penetrated the heart o the cotton States. These declarations are im portantit the present timeaprsnigt raponson which theBlkReuha itdtomake the contest for President ii 1860, with Seward in the lead.-St. Loui: Republican. ____ GREEr.EY MENvs A SaIlVE DEALER.--We find the fotlowing going the rounds of th< westerni journals : Horace Greeley, at Leavenworth, met a gentleman who expressed great pleasure al seeing so distingu'shed a philanthropist, anc in wishing him teccess. -" Indeed," repliec Mr. Greeley; "1I am happy to hear such sen. timnents, and to see suchmen as yourself; whern I did not expect the least sympathy, in thiu land where the iniquity of the nation is sc firmly rooted. God be praised, the work goe bravely on." " With your aid," returned Mr W., " slavery will soon cease to exist in Mis souri. The number of slaves is now fast de creasing. I am myself doing something towards removing them. Omily last week]l took away thirteen." " My good friend, howlI where to ?" "To New Orleans." "Grea God I" exclaimed Horace, " what I a dealer ira human souls I" "Yes, sir, if that is what you call it. 1 buy and sell negros. I am in debted to you for the profits of my business, Slaveholders here sell me their slaves for hal. their value in the South, to keep your disci ples from gtealing them." WOrTu KNowmNG.-a young lady in thuis city, say the Philadephia Morning Post, while in the country, stepped on a rusty nail, which run through her shoe into her foot. 'The infammation and psain were very great, and lock jaw was apprehended. A friend of the family recommended the application of a beet, taken from the garden and pounded fine, to the wound. It was done, and the effect was very beneficial. Soon the inflammation be gan to subside, and by keeping on the fresh beat, and changing it for a fresh one as its seemed to become impaired, a speedy cure was elfheted. Simpluadeffectual remedies .s &rom me unarieson Mercury. g To the People of South Carolina, y FELLOw-CITIEF.XS:-There are three great r- duties on earth which we are, each and ,y every one of us, called upon to perform while r, occupying a place on it: our religious, our it political, and our industrial ; and each of I- these duties requires an equal portion of II our attention. It is.too often asserted that Ll there are certain individuals of society who s are required to discharge these duties re spectively, and that they should be held ex I- clusively responsible, no interference being 0 had between each other. Had this been the t, case, we should have had no Archbishop Car e roll engaged in the organization of our politi cal constitution; no Alexandaj Hamilton, ) engaged in its administration ; Mit all would 8 have been left to the wild speculations of h the exclusive political champions of the day -the JEFFERSONS of our new era-and an illy-balanced machine been permitted to hold its sway over the destinies of a few people, t to be replaced in time by some one of the a effete systems of government prevailing in 0 the old world. Yes, fellow-citizens, a church a man can understand politics, a merchant can t administer governments, a politician can ap 5 preciate moral restraint and civil enterprise 'f in his turn, and thus all three be employed 8 in the advancement of the interests of the e nation, each depending in good faith, upon 8 the efficiency of the other. I have assumed this general proposition as a necessary prelude to the subject which I e have to la before you, viz: the part taken 8 by John C. Calhoun in the Rabun Gap or Blue Ridge Railroad, as it is now called. s The facts which I shall present will show him to be the first instigator of that track for our daily intercourse with the great West, and to the hour of his death its unceasing suppor ter. It is for you to appreciate these facts, 9 and, in doing so, commence by reversing the decision of the majority of your Representa f tives at the last session of the Legislature, by which the State appropriation to this great work was witlidrawn. I take the liberty to make an appeal; but if it be true that my immediate neighbors of the -parishes--the seaboard districts of the State-were the cause of this vote, they have already forgot ten the man whose reputation, even now when he is dead, is defending them in their dearest rights, and will continue to do so un til, by uniting the Atlantic slope with theval ley of the Mississippi, through this wonder ful pass in the Blue Ridge mountains, we shall require no further. aid, in our industrial status at least, from the rest of the world. Mr. Calhoun would, placing one hand upon the singular indentation of the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of South Carolina, and the other t on the upper waters of the Mississippi, ex a claim: " Unite these, and the future is suffi a ciently ours to make us industrially indepen a dent at least." But I must not anticipate my facts in their regular order, or forget that I am not pleading a cause. Duty, as having s been an engineer in the service of South f Carolina at the period to which I refer, alone instigates me to effort, in carrying the great t object now presented to every man born on the soil of South Carolina-her railroad to i the West. t To many of you it ipknowi that Mr. Cal houn spent much time and some money upon tbeold regons of Georgia,.North and South Carolina. These regions.-1irught the differ e ent passes of the Blue Ridge in these States V respectively in review before Mr. Calhoun. Prior to any definite action had by the peo. ple of South Carolina as to routes, and when ' engineers were -reconnoitering them without any regard to particular State interests or State prejudice3, Mr. Calhoun advised me, in case I shoild be appointed to examine the Georgia passes, to emp'ej the utmost .coup d('wil allowed to the engineer irhaexamina tion; for they require4 bold combinations; and yet they were the only ones offered us for our great enterprise. At this time I knew -nothing of the great statesman's private in terests, and hence personal researches in the r nountain regions; I only remembered that, ras an officer in the Topographical Bureau at Washingtton, I had seen the report of Cap tain, now Major Bache, to the Secretaryv of War, and that thus Mr. Calhoun had been Vofficially informed of the fact of the avails Sbility of the Rbn Gap. But Major Bache's object was a canal, with its lockages, reser Bvoirs, basins, &c. Could these results be r used in the establishment of a railroad, with tit 4 light grades, gentle car and trains, &c.1 I .thought Mr. Calhonn wanted this problem solved. I did solve it ; and my report was made at the early Convention assembled atI Kinoxville to consider this important subject. IBut there was no Calhoun there ; the same necessity for diiference, and uveni reserve, in commumnicating with me, constrained him in participating in the K noxille convention Di visions ini co.uncil he foresaw would prevail, - and knowingi that the great State of G;eorgia, , if separatedl from the Carolinas, could turn Sthe Blue Ridge entirely, by running her lines some bundred amiiks farther south, be feared -that his g:randl "dia..onal route,"' aai he called -it, would fall a victim to the diversion, anid - would nnt risk his reputation, or, rath er, ex f pend his energies ini vain. But was lie inac -tive, even, when every one seemed to despair ? SIt was :n a convea.mation, had at his own house Sat F.ort Hill, and not more than a wveek after ,the Knoxville Convention had adjourned, the SState of Georgia having withdrawn from that :Convention, as he expected, that he made Suse of the grand expression I have already used: " Unite these," (placing one hand on the Mississippi and the other on thbe A tlantic) "and the future Is sufficiently ours to m'tke us Industrially independent, at least." .Deter Imining to retrace the false step that had been Itaken, ho lost no time in repairing to Georgia, at her favorite re-unions, had at Athens at its college celebrations, and before he left, orders were issued by the Executive of that State for the instrumiental survey of the Rabun Gap Pass. But note the precau tion of the truly great man. Were his ideas vague ? Were his plans taken without every investigation necessary ? 1 had been sum maoned to his talIle ; his maps were spread out before him; with pencil and scale in hand he had traced an indelible line diagonally across the Union, and then examining its track, cried out, " I knew it ; there is your gap; there is the great pass; there the moun tains recede, the one from the other, as though they invited the States of this great confed eracy to pass and repass them. And you say that it is available for a railroad. A railroad from northwest to southeast-a diagonal road--wilLgive to our seaboard ill that is southwest of that line, and munch that is northeast; it will compete with the northern markets even at the gates of Cincinnati. We may fail, sir, in our endeavors now, but the -result must conme, and our industrial indepen dence be secured by this boon of Providence -this inexplicable pass, through a mighty range of mountains, unless for some ,great moral purpose, such as is now proposed." We did fail then. The vote of Central Georgia prevailed at the next session of the Legisla ture; and the route by the detour of the Blue Ridge, or the Western and Atlantic Railroad to Chattanooga, was opened by that Stite. But while Mr.-Calhoun took the ut-1 most interest in that work, of which he was constantly advised during its prosecution,1 ho never gave up the Rabun Pass. He never regarded the two roads as conflicting. The one was transverse, the other diagonal; the one aimed at southern production, the other northern. The concentration of these two' prodnucnloman n u an mhnardw emtn achs. ];Be nuepenuencu W WUIWL uavV AnUUSU The recent efforts of the citizens of Son Carolina, backed by the State, promised i that Mr. Calhoun had desired and almost pi phesied. The spirit with which the BI Ridge Railroad was at first prosecuted, assur its friends of its success; it lulled them in too much confidence; they had no conceptii of the fearful grip with which a degradii penury was about to seize upon the liber spirit of the State, and drag it down from 1 wonted pre-eminence. I myself received le ters from the most distinguished citizens South Carolina at the time, assuring me th all was safe; that the determination of tl people of the Atlantic seaboard to unite thet selves with the West was a fixed fact, at that the interior or mountain districts wei with them. Under this conviction, our pa ish roads, the Savannah and the Northeastei -the one from the State, and the other fro the city of Oharleston-receivod handson contributions for their speedy completion; i fact, every thing promfed a steady onwat march in the prosecution of the grand feed< which was to supply these lesser arteries wit blood from the great heart of the Union, ti valley of the Mississippi. But penury al proaches stealthily; it is ashamed of itsel that it should have been compelled to clutc at pennies, when it should be spending pound At the last session of the Legislature, I ax satisfied that it crept in when it was sul posed that the doors were closed. The mi nority of your delegates, fellow-citizens, lik yourselves, were taken by surprise ; they ha no intimation that the noble spirit of darinj of determination, of perseverance, of patienci for which she was so celebrated, was gon from her, and in its stead a craftinps, a cur ning, a cupidity, a carelessness of honesty an of plighted faith,- were creeping over th character of the State-were degrading it t the level of those mere expressions of no tionality which are down-trodden in ou daily history with a disdain which shoult make even Soutli Carolina tremble. Sout) Carolina, claiming position on the Atlanti seaboard, with her chief city the mistress c Western, Southern and Northern trade, th lesser arteries of that city permeating ever parish adjacent to her, is the only Soutl Carolina that can claim nationality in thi our day of political centralization. But t return to my legitinate object-the prestig which John C. Calhoun gives to the Rabui Gap or Blue Ridge Railroad, and to the poin immediately before us. The real object whic he saw standing in the way of its prosecutioi was the fact that the county of Rabun, b which that pass lay, was owned by Georgia and in that spirit of littleness which over comes at times the councils of the people'i representatives (he had too much confideno in the people of Georgia to fear them,) i passage through that county might be refuse< us. So apprehensive was he on this score that, taking Gen. Gadsden with him, whils the excitement as to routes was rifest, hi made every effort to penetrate to the Wes through our own territory, but in vain; an h3 even proposed, as a dernier resort, to pur chase the county of Rabun from the State o Georgia, that there should remain no obstacl to the ultimate success of the great work See the foresight, the calculation, the fearles application of means to ends in the true rep resentative of the people. . Mr. Calhoun di4 not live long enoughtom-sethe;iobledisin terestedness with which the'State of Georgi granted to South Carolina the right of wai forever through the Rabun pass. He diem before our people, fellow-citizens, placed thei shoulders to the wheel in this herculean un dertaking. On his way to Washington, i his last illness, I visited him on this very sub ject, but he was too surcharged with politico responsibility to divide his enfeebled puwer. "Sir," was the grand inquiry, "have yoi not followed Mr. Clay in his tour throug the State of New York? Have you ito seen how lie has aroused the people, th yeomanry of that immense State? It is ii politics, and not industry, that we must nov employ ourselves. I go to Washington ta cont end with this awful excitement, threat ening, I fear me, the instant disruption of th< Union. You take up military engineerinj instead of civil, and examine those wea] points in our seaboard, where the sovereigi Sates of the Confederacy have given up ti the General Government certain slips of Ian' for purposes of fortification; we may wan to recover these before we employ omsselve further with railroads." lie did- ward of the political blow, but it cost him his life ie never returned to t be mountains of Sout1 Carolina any more, whence he could lool d.,wn and fearlessly direct her in her physi cal, intellectual and moral necessities. 1I ild not live to see the train which shouli have passed daily, o'er this, by the door a Fort Hill on its highway to the great, th grand, the glorious Far West. It is the memc ry of John C. Calhoun, fellow-citizens c South Carolina, that mnuzt appeal to you oi behalf of your contribution to the great worl that passes by his door. It is a miosmnen to his memory that will be real in its charac er; which will be lasting; which will ideni tify him with all enterprise, all future pro perity, all the changes and vicissitudes c time. On the contrary of all this, sulfer no tis noble road to stop at his very door-ti break down at its first approach to that moinn tan gorge which looks down upon his very house. This road, which owes itself to Caro lina's liberality, which has heretofore sus taned itself upon Carolina's good faith, an' rhich now calls aloud upon Carolina's lhon sty, nmust ndt be suffered to degrad memory o( Calhoun ; to disparage bl e~Yorts to bely is confldence Ia the good sense a his own Carolina. iFellow-.citizens, arousi from your lethargy. I have boldly come u; to my part ; I have fearlessly stated thosi facts which crown Mr. Calhoun with all honoi for the very incipiency of conception, desigi ad execution in the great work before us You perform yours. Instrnet your delegate: o come to the rescue of the private stock olders, whom you encouraged to take holi f the plough, and have now deserted; o the private stockholders who are still engaget n the work, and who will not, I am confl. ent, allow a dollar to remain in their treasu y which hss been pledged to the prosecutiox f this road; of the private stockholders ho, like you, are citizens, and not elector. ized men, if I may coin a word upon so grave an-occasion. Oh l that the electoral privi leethe palladium of our~rights as freemen, mozdcost us so dear-should metamorphose adingenerous, original, into.a fearful, arsimonious agent. But, thanks be t3 the roundera bi our constitution,, the originals an reverse the decisions of their agents, and it is this that you are called upon to do. I ould even suggest that, upon the next fourth~ f July, each and every District and Parish~ ,f the State send a delegate to the Blue Ridge Pass, and examine it for their people a person. If they are satisfied that It be he hand of Providence that has offered us bis boon, God speed it, with our instrumnen ality. I'f the Rabun Pass prove no igpigy .n their united opinion, give it up. Ifeel iatisfied that the various railroads now con itrcted in the direction of the mountains will grant free passes to these delegates, and hat by their joint hospitality the mountain relkin will ring to their unanimous acclama. ion of what has been done, and what Is now iroposed to be done. But this is amere sug ~estion, and made to prove confidence in the tnterprise, whichlisust be ever identified with Jo.i nnpu at i n of - Calh'oun. as lont. th and even should our people fil to sustain it L11 at the cost of a few dollars from their treasury. 0- A. H. BRISBANE. i6 From the Savann'ah Republica. to Use of the Camel in the South. M. Having briefly allided, some weeks agoto ig the practicability of using camels 'to an ad-. al vantage in the various departments of labor to now occupied by the horse, mule and oz, we t- felt somewhat interested in the subject and of addressed a letter to Mr. Benj. M.Woolsey of it Ala., who had purchased a number of the ani ie mats and was experiment- with them on i- his-plantation, near Selma., He has courteous id ly replied to our enquiries, atid hisiee,. - which will be found below, will be read with r- interest: ARTSs, -Near -Selma May 22. A Editor Savannak R&publican: 'e Yours of 17th inst., reacbedhere onthe 20th. n In reply, generally, the camels have proved d equal to althe demands made u them. r They have been oh my plantation forthe past h week, plowing and carrying burthens to entire satisfaction, tho' I have not been - to give my personal attention to the making and ftting of gearadapted'to the peculiar foru of the an l, having been engaged on the Gr and lury, and only at home f on down. to san rise. Besides, the long voyage from the Can . Islands here and imp er feeding-sinca their e arrival, have reduced t am very much, so that they are really too.poor to wo . With, more flesh and proper'fitting harness,I hasard nothing in saying that a grown camel wilt B draw with ease, one of our two horse praiMe turning owa. I am now breaking out cot ton middles with a winged sweep oU24 Inches. from wing to wing-the camel poor and with a two years of growth before him. - On Tuesday last I sent twelve buaheli of r corn to Selma to be ground,- on the asbe i canel. The corn was plced upon a ad i weighing 150 lbs, and the camel driver 16 a lbs., mating burthen of 1,002 lbs-s very.good. f mill wagon and team, I think. a The price at which camels can be iold here, varies, according to the age and size. Thb extrem s are $150 and $450. i The camel will eat almost anything that tha ) goat does not refuse. They are fed in 'the ) Canary Islands on harley straw and barley 1 ebaff, and occasionally, but very seldom, bar. ley meal is 'ven them. I think the could soon be taug~ to eat cotton seed.* Wile at L work I feed them upon hay and wheat straw k -when at rest they are turned into -a ry pasture, and they are improving everyda i flesh and spirits. There are now ten in an I old field where a mule would starve; luxuria. ting upon the weeds, briars and shrubbery. Two of these camels will be retained by me, I the others are owned by J. A. Machadoand for sale at the above prices for exchange on Mobileor New Oileans, payable in six months. I induced Mr. Machado to bring these cai els over for the purpose of satisfying iffilfif I thev would answer for plantation pirpLosus. I believe the will, although I have inot yet r harnessed thfmto a Wagon . I I am not interested in the sale of1t4e,4o .ept as a' anter, desirous 'of cheeking- the immense draught upon oar cottoit for mules by substituting a procresting dniuml li ior I power and greater 'longvity an' I condition. - r If the camel reaches this point, I shall feel t amply repaid for the outlay of time,'money adtrouble, which I am now doing to adeer. -tain it. k In my experiments thus far, it may be - proper to add, I found the camel awkward of I course, but not restive or unwilly or untrae table. I In conclusion, let me say, that the above is I the result of my oyerations with "the animal ! of the Prophet" up to this time. I will write 01Youi when I am better posted. Jn the meantime, with the warmest wishes for your properity and happiness I am, dear sir, Yours trulys -BENJ. M. WOOLSEY. THE WHATr HAarIsav.-Th~e wheat growers ofthis nad the adjoining States are now en ' aged in cutting the valuable crop-some y having completed their harvest, and. others in IJ the upper part of Georgia have hardly com t. menced. F rem all we can learn from the I public prints, and otherwise, we are happy jto say that the' yieid'will be about a- far aye ragre for this section of country. Themre has b1 een a steady increase of area sown to wheat ~at the South for several years; and there is a good parospect that this branch of agriculture is destinedl to extend and improve among us, for a long~ time to conme. Our knowledge of the serious injuries done lby the wheat midge at the North, dimi'nishing tlie cultivation of -this cereal in the Gene.'ee country and West rern Staten leads us to believe that the South, Swhere it is unknown, will soon find wheat a Sprofitable staple. Deeper earlier powing,' to tprepare land far better for the see, will make . wheat-growing more remunerative in the . planting States. Naturally, our soils aire too .1poor for this grain, - and we must learn to. . Senrich them at the least possible expense. SWhere the land is rich, a good farmer wili ,hardly ask for a better business than to 'grow -wheat at present pricePe. We trust that no readerof this paper will ha so unwise a to let his wheat remain ian fi.-I- to be consumed by birds, mice and other d-pr dators, a day longer than it Is well eur. d.--Field and Exxsu roa SemaT Fsva,-A lady, who habs had somec experience in the treatment' at Scarlet fever, and seen the folilowing teod used with never.ailing effect, aks us to.pub lish it for the benefit of our readers. It is as follows: " Immediately on the first symptoms of sparlet fever, which is sore throat give a full dose .of jalab, to an adult 60, -red -epper tea, from a tea cup full to a pint, .codn toage and violence of symptoms; the next dygive a small dose ofjalap, say half the pepper tea at night, on the third day, if there is and soreness remaining in the throat giea doss of salts, which will- generally eet a cure;J the dose must of course be regltdsoco ding to the age of the patient.'. . The above remed was used with great sue eess in SouthCaoi, some years ao, b Edward Chaplin, who ten furnished itt t e public.___________ The citizens of Vickaburg held =a -nias meeting on the 21st.ult.,-to erssthe publi. sense regarding the course . . the late Ca vention in that place in reference to-the-oe. ing of the slave trade. Her S. Foote cle. the meeting to order. W.L. Sharkey was. President. Strong resolutions- were passed. T he Whigsay:. " The spehsof Judg 'hrk Wm.C. Smedes, Ea., CoL T. S.MartinoyDr Marhland othes were ratruly ap.. p lauded, which plainl sh owed thtthe popa lar heart was with te conservative sanse, in favor of maintainin the laws.of~ the land. and respecting the 'a of humanity, s well as against the intord'tonof. "Guinea nig gers" to reduce the price of lab'o.. - "MY lad,".aid a traveler to a ittle -~ whombhe-met, clothed. in. pasts~sand jacket, but without avery neceogay pl~ anae, "my lad, where asorsiE" other?" No otlair e1 h.B in urpri "woud poutsaa a