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Camumnirotiann. Correspondence of the Ledger. Camden*, August 19, 1852. Mu. 15 a i ley?Dear Sir:?I perceive j in your paper of lust week, in sneering at our Plank Road project, you have made a statement which is well calculated to prejudice the enterprise, which sooner or later will be carried into execution. I feel Mire that the statement was made in good faith, and believe you will correet it, as oon as convenient, of its error. Wo have never expected to charge more than two cents per mile for wagons travelling on our proposed I'lank Road; so that the journey from Lancaster to this place would ost the wagoner but 80 cents, instead of 84,00, as you suppose. You say, " it would cost for a sin horse wagon about 88,00 for the trip, i. e., 10 cents per mile." Kxeept in the transportation of iron or lead, or some equally heavy material, it would not be possible to load a wagon heavy enough to require six horses on a plank road. Two horses are used almost exclusively on plank roads, and they draw heavily loaded wagons .10 miles per day, for weeks and months at a time without failing. Hut recently, a gentleman of Montgomery, Ala., went on a plank road seventy miles, made a long public speech, and returned by the same conveyance to Montgomery at night. If that is not fast enough for Lancaster, she will have to take the telegraph, a rail road wont servo her purpose. Suppose you got your Rail Road built to Chester, will it cost your farmers less than a dollar per bale to send their cotton to Columbia < 1 ?y the 1'lank Road, if they would have it, they could send their cotton to Camden for 30 ets. per bale; and when at Camden, they arc as near the city of Charleston as at Colum- J bia. This estimate gives them the hire of i their team and driver, as well as the expense of toll. Then by taking a half day longer, they may bring back a load of goods on freight, and clear enough to pay all the expenses of the trip. The fact is, that as an accomodation for Farmers, the l'lank Road cannot be surpassed by anything yet discovered. Now how is it as an invcrlmont of money f In the lirst place, a rail road costs ten dollars for every one that a plank road costs. If, therefore, it does not pay well, it is but one-teuth part of the loss to the community that a rail road would be under the same circumstances. Then, with a plank road, tho first cost is all? how different is a rail road I The truth is, no ono can estimate the expense of working a rail road, because a single collision may involve the loss of thousanils of dollars. Hut compare them as investments of money. Did you ever hear of a rail road paying 40 per cent, per annum ? There are five plank roads extending from live to forty miles, leading from the same place, not one of them completed, which last year declared, in their unfinished state, from ten to forty jter cent, (lien/ends. Now, I will make an assertion, that 110 business, investment, plantation, stock or trade will average as high a per eentage as the money invested in plank roads, in the United States. I have read sonic little 011 the subject, and have never heard of a plank road paying loss than ten percent., after laying up a surplus to re-build. No plank road 1 has ever yet rotted. Every ono heretofore \ constructed has been worn out by travel I before it rotted. Wherever this is the 1 c:ise it must have yielded about (at least) \ O 00 rmr nnnt n uii its nrst cost, anil this I within ten years, for it would rot in that time. So you perceive, Mr Bailey, that! in our estimation at least, the Plank Road is not to be bent, either as an accommodation to the public, or as an investment of' money. There is one thing I have, omitted to ' say. The land in the vicinity of a Plank Bond will bo increased in value to such an | extent, that it will equal the amount invested in the road. If you choose, you may publish this article in your paper; but if ton do not; think it proper to do so, you can return it by mail at my expense, and oblige a subscriber, and a citizen of CAMDEN. I N. B.?I have but one word to add. If: you will build the Rail Road. 1?> mim vr... 1 get incorporated into the Charlotte Hail Road Company. Don't establish an independent Company, if you value your dimes. C. [Fon the Ledger. Mr. Editor:?It nppears that many farm-! em have been recognized and puffed through i the columns of the Ledger. I have, not been known as yet; but notice this?I have been using this year's Corn Meal since the 15th inst., corn well matured, and makes good meal. "Necessity being the mothorof invention," when corn was scarce and hard to procure, I planted several ncres of early com, such as will make two crops in one year. I ask, where is Clinton ? his mill cannot talk, but can grind new corn prime. I wish the Rni! Road was completed. II. R. PRICE. Death or Mkh. General Tayi.or.? Mrs. General Taylor, relict of the late President Zachery Taylor, died at East Paacagouln at 6 o'clock on Saturday ni^ht, the 131li innt. * [For the Ledger. Mr. Editor:?I notice in one of the late numbers of your interesting paper, a cull made on the different candidates for seats in the Legislature, for their respective views on some three points, signed "Many Voters." As I am one amongst the number who are aspiring for a scat in that honorable body, I will give you my views in a short form in relation to the same.? The election for Electors for President and \ iee President of the United States are now In the hands of one man in the State, to wit, the Governor. After the election for members in October next, lie will convene the Legislature torrothei- l?v liu o . VJ "?" *'' clamatioii issued for that purpose, which will be at considerable expense to the people. This should not he so. I am amongst the number who believe that the election j tor Electors shou'd be given to the people, I where 1 think it justly belongs, as well as | that of Governor of the State. If 1 am tdlowed a vote in the Legislature, 1 expect to vole for Electors who are in favor of casting their vote for General Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, tor President, and lion. Win. K. King, of Alabama, for Vice-President. From all the information I have been able to collect, 1 believe their principles are more in accordance with the true interests of the South than that of the Whig nomination. On the subject of the Hunk of the State, I am now as I was two years ago?1 will vote, if honored with a seat in the Legislature, for the re-chartering of that institution. While 1 had the honor of a scat in the Legislature, 1 neither saw nor heard anything to lessen that institution in my estimation ; but, on the other hand, to strengthen my views in its favor, by its paying large sums of mouey, which necessarily would have come from the people's pockets, by an increase of taxes; for this, together with other rcrsons, I am decidedly in favor of re-chartering the Hank. The F ree School system has been pretty .1! I " 1 luviuuguiy UISCIISSCU. > OlUllK'S have been written on it. All throughout the upper part of the State arc of opinion that the system is very defective, and needs sonic alteration. The sum of?y7 200 Jias been appropriated by the Legislature for a number of years, for tlio education of the poor. This s um is divided agreeably to the number of members sent from each Parish and District to the Legislature,giving to each ?000. Some members are returned from some of tin- Parishes with a vote varying from 40 upwards, and draws the same amount as one who is returned that receives from 400 to 2,000 votes, (in some instances members have been returned who have received the Tise ol tiie latter figure.) From these facts, y u see plainly that some amendment is ! required. I am a warm advocate for the fund to be more equitably distributed. I would prefer it being paid out to the actual wants of each District and Parish? this method I doubt its being effected? then 1 would say, agreeable to white population. While the representation stands as it now does, I fear a change for the better will not be had; although, at the i ?.11 ? ? o iiiiiv, j nuiiiu lL'tuiiuiit'iiu me people to keep petitioning the Legislature for some alteration?they may yet open their ears and hearken to the justice of their cause. Sir, with these views I trust that I have shewn "Many Voters" the position 1 will occupy if elected. T. K. CURETON. ITanraotfr 1 LaiiraNfervillc, N. < WEDNESDAYTAUGUST Vh %')l WANTED IMMEDIATELY. A lad about 15 years of age, as an ap prentice to the Printing business. Apply at this office. WANTED IMMEDIATELYA Journeyman Printer?one who can come well recommended can ltave a situation by immediate application at this Office. Apply at once. 2-if Wc very much regret to learn, that the remarks we made in our last paper relative to the celebration of Hanging Rock Di vision, give some ottence to members ?nu other gentlemen in that vicinity. We gladly avail oursclf of the opportunity to say, that we intended no disrespect whatever to our friends. To show our honesty in making this assertion, we merely observe that we read the proof sheet of the article in question,to twoof our friends, to see if there were an expression in the same calculated to offend even the roost sensitive. One expression our friends did object to, which we immediately erased. The article as it spared in tho paper, they saw nothing in to complain of. Wo repeat, that our notice of the Division, the band, and the ladiea, was .tii/l/t/l aa oliAi*'?nr? anir /I!..4 A ? IIUI* iiii-uiiucu ?? ?nivTw ???i j wiflirnpn i- HI those persons; it wits written more asn peice of liumor, and intended as such. We trust this brief explanation will satisfy all concerned, that no harm was intended, and we are glad the opportunity is given us of making our position right before those persons. The remainder of Mr. Crawford's reply to "Many Voters," will appear in next week's paper. General Pierre's Reply. In unotlier column will be found the cor- ^ rcspondence between Mr. DoLcon and Gen. Pierce. Since C5en. 1'. lias denied that he j made the assertions which were credited to ^ ' him, we observe that a number of papers . ... too have come out, protesting they did not credit the charges in the first instance. This ^ puts us in mind of little Johny and the horse?uOh, ma. the old horse Napoleon kicked me heels over head this morning." ' , mel MJust as I expected," says ma. ^ For our part, wo believed the reputed ^ charges, and in publishing General Pierce's ' \ doninl w*."> t. -1 1 nI , .. v- ?< ow mill IIIIICII pleasure, Jllltl ^ are bound to acknowledge that we look ^ upon him : a enndidutc for the Presidency . with much greater favor than we did before. The following from an abolition paper, . the Rational Kra, speaks much in favor of mjj Pierce as a defender of the South : ^ %1 "The Sunny South, a paper published to 1 at Jacksonville, Ala., copies our record of 8i,i| the votes of Gen. l'ierce on the slavery j question. It says: "This is a strong ar- , tide, and brings proof, satisfactory and conclusive, that (Jen. Pierce is sound to the core on the great and absorbing qucs- r,cr tion (slavery) which so vitally interests _ ' the South," and asks what more can be needed to satisfy the South that General i Gh: Pierce of all others is the man to suit the <>f :i times?" "If he is called to account at the the North f??r sustaining the peculiar interests hov of the South, why should he not receive Wat credit to an equal extent at the South?" ?|| | True enough, lie is the very man to suit the South; but is lie the man to suit ; j the North? These Southern men talk as though there were no North?that the "lo slavery interest, like Aaron's rod, should ' swallow everything else, and make the "on truths of the Declaration of Independence S,H'' a dead letter. Mr. Pierce has made his the choice?it remains for the Independent S I )emocracy of the country to make theirs." of |; 35?"" We willingly publish the coinmuni- otlu cation of our friend anil correspondent "(aim- I to t I den." The assumption that 10 eeeis per j 'A\ mile would bo the cost of a wagon on the ! care proposed Plank Koad, was based on the fact j hoai that we had noticed that to be the price on kno some other road?probably the Plank Road Jim leading from Edgefield to llainburg. and A few words about this l'lalik Road, and Cha only a few, as the subject does not deserve com tlinnv. We are verv willimr t'.n- I.... ? ** ? -'" "VII II. build u l'lank Itoad,and ir alio docs, we sin- w he eerily liopo the enterprise may prove of The benefit to the town, and a source of profit to befo the stockholders?but our indignation arises ^ from this. Camden has been talking about tnor that l'lank Road for the last five years, and sire we do not know, that they areasnenr to the rcgn neeoniplishnient of their purpose now, as they were then. If conceived to be so profitable to ci as "Cauiden" supposes, wh\ not build it? lyre When the energies were aroused in eoinpet- ing t ing for the route of the Charlotte Rail Road, men: the relative costs or dividends were not eon- volu sidcred ; but as n drowning man catches at a Cob straw, the city of Camden, finding the other road bail the precedence, then turned her? energies we were about to say?her to Iking F to a l'lank Road. For sometime, the what verb point would be the terminus engaged her vess particular attention ; whether that matter is Rjvi settled now or not, wo know not. "Cam- V den" should consider that a l'lank Road in Yor one State, can be travelled over cheaper than nboi a I'Jank Road in another State, and for sev- we eral reasons, viae.: 1he cost of building not, grot being equal, and the amount of travel cssen- men tially differing. to fii Will "Camden" have the kindness to give grcc us the reason of adding his Xota Henri apiu Why not establish nn independent company? tuini - . still New Cotton. pro8 Mr. James Robinson, has sent us a boll of new Cotton. This is the first opened Cot- calni ton we have heard of in the District. There hurl has been so much rain of late, we fear it lias breo retarded the growth and developemcnt of proi the Cotton erop very much. Corn is now | made, and a harv est will he realized, that will I *. , , ,, , bring cheer to old men's hearts, and stir |,;H ( young farmers to greater and renewed oner- Gf t| ?>' _ t m f 1 ton. C-*r We would particularly request Post I ^ Masters to inform us, when our paper is not -l0^' taken from their offices. We have already ' lost by this neglect on the part of Post 8 Masters. Remarkable Case of Longevity. "hi sur< Died in this District, on the 17th inst., Mrs. ff(>, Rebecca (Jf.nt, aged one hundred and ten gno years, a native of Lancaster District. She ou^ enjoyed good health until about two years ,iu.t past, and supported herself by her industry fwlq up to that time. Four months after her 8tK.i marriage, her husband enlisted and joined pUt I the Indian war, and served five years ; he I jn 0 then returned to his wife and lived with her the remainder of his days, and reared a large antj family, of whom three of their children are MO j, alive nt this time, the oldest persons known Q?t in this District perhaps. n)ar Arrival Extraordinary. < hllH We have noticed some time ngo, in sov- nn<' ernl of our exchanges, the very reinnrkatdo ^ circumstance of the arrival at somo place, of t''?' the man who never took n newspaper?con- 81 r" scqucntly he was much Riirprmed to hear that Millard Fillmore waa Presideut of the Uni- " ted State*, he wa? firmly under the imprca- k>fd sion that Andrew Jackson wiov?several car(^ other matters he learned which Wfcrc really 1 news to him. t turn We lmd an arrival a few days ago intoour the little town of I.anra*ter, almost as extmordin- veei ary as this waa. We allude to Mr*. Power*,a diat lady, who live* some four or five mile* from inr*. ** ?, town, who brought with her, her aeivm child- rent ren, the tery jrrolific yvll of four year*. This tip t ia fact. Mrs. Powers has given birth to sev- set en living children in four years, huving had inib twins three successive times, and the fourth no year tho odd one. The State should certainly oun moke some provision for this family, as wa nngi believe all seven are girls, therefore not ca|>- ail < 1 able of working their way through life like V boys. dsyi Incidents of Travel?No. 3. t was one of (hose lovely nfternoons in itcmber, when Summer is about to depart. I with a reluctant farewell yet lingering lind, and Autumn unwilling (o intrude nmoinifniiulf ?!???* fVmswl no 4l??. |'?vvi|'itviioiT? t IUv (VUIIU un VII IIK" J1TU" nado deck of (lie fine packet ship S , >ut to leave the port of New York for arieston. At that time, no stcamvcssels ro running between the two ports, and the lancholy reflections caused by tlio wreck the Pulaski and Home, by which awful unities so many fond hearts in Carolina [Georgia poured out the gushing* of warm ction?some for fat' rs, some for mors, daughters, sons, sbands and wives, 1 not lead one to the presumption that 1 se noble vessels, the Southerner, Marion 1 1 Union would now be on the line. A nber of passengers had therefore engaged ir passage on the S., as she was known tj lie one of the best, if not the fmest.pncket t > trading between New York and Char- I on. I ind there we stood with arms folded that t moon, anxious for the noble ship to leave I moorings, yet interested with the scene. ?j . re was the married sister of New York, ling good-bye to the single sister of ^ irleston ; the former with the warm tears | itfcction str mting down her cheeks at fl thought of her sister leaving her, yet r soon dispelled, when she departs to ^ eh her infant boy, in whom is centered lier hopes?the latter, inconsolable at the ^ i of leaving her sister Mary, yet when left to, and the images of her father and | ^ her. her other brothers and sisters were o icntcd to her, and all the associations of 10 and friends came rushing to her mind, lt Mary was left to pursue her \igilswit|i little nephew. ee those two friends?both young men 1 " .. .Is cards, and at whist we went, regardless j lie harsh looks of an old l.idv of Charles- j fl j1 t'e finished our game, and afterwards en- t| d a pood supper, w hen, in company with ! t, rest of tho passengers, retired to our ; e room. J (| 'he weather had become hazy, and tnore j d a slight sprinkling of rain, and the shrill 1 2 all e of the wind through tho ropes, as- ' ti >.d us that the scene hail changed. We J it to bed, however, and slept we don't w how long, w hen we were precipitated 0 of bed, and unknown to ns the pitcher * with tho s;iine mishap, for we found our in wn.er, and succeeded in finding our v <s floating about, which w ere too wet to i , ,, on, lint for greater security we deposited (I ur pockets. We did not stay long in c room, for bung bang, went tbc ship, c! certain, thought we,she ?ill go to pieces, d i t us out and see what is to be done.? we went, and there we witnessed the n liTested tenacity poor mortals have to The wife in disubille clutched her ^ bnnd's arm. the mother grasped her child, then enquired where, oh ! where is your ^ or? Decorum or etiquet was not ft jght of, but each apprehending death, ggled for iife, yet unsatisfied to leave n n r one behind. e Oh," exeluiined our old lady from Char- I' on, " I was afraid of this, when I aaw 1-playing going on." 'heship, (to one the nautical prase,) "in ling a point," had atruek the bottom, and wind blew h?r further on n? soon ns she 11 ed round. Finding there was no imme- ri b danger, we waited quietly until morn* j, ifhen it was determined by the conrur. voice of crew and paasengers to run her ih far as she would go. We therefore up all the Hails, but she wiui ho firmly J' eddod in the sand, we could run her up ^ farther. We then set to work to get wives wifely on the barren waste of Bar* ^ itt, which we finally accomplished, with t) ur baggage. aife may inform our readers one of these hj ? what l?efol us at Bnrnagntt. U EDlTOIt'S TABLEPfk Wk^tmirster Rktbw: The number for July is before us. Contents : 1. Secular Education. 2. England's Forgotten Worthies. 3. The Future of Geology. 4. Lord Jeffrey and the Kdinburg Review. 5. Tendencies of England. 6. The Ividy Novelists. 7. The Political Life and Sentiments of meoutir. 8 The Restoration of Belief. 9. Sir Robert Peel and his Policy. 10. Cotemporary literature of England. 11. Cotemporary Literature of America. 12. Cotemporary Literature of Germany. Note to the April Number. Terms?For the Westminster Review, ?! 3,00 per year; for two Reviews ?5,00; for hree $7,00; for the four, viz.: Westminster, iondon Quarterly, Edinburgh and North British, 88,00. Blackwood's Magazine and he four Reviews. 810,00. Addross the pubishers, Messrs. I.eonnrd Scott & Co., N. Y. I'lle London Qt'ATtTF.itr.v Review: Vol. xxxviii., No. 1 we have received.? Contents: . Art and Nature under an Italian sky. !. Kayo's I Iistory of the war in Afghanistan. I. New Reformation in Ireland. I. Count Modioli's Memoirs. >. Lord fockburn's Life of Jeffrey. I. Cotemporary History?Mr. Roebuck and Miss Martineau. '. Lady Theresa I?ewis's Clarendon Gallery. I. Lord Holland's Memoirs of the Whig Party. '. l'osteript. Ixionard Scott & Co. New York. Our thanks to Messrs. L. S. & Co. for] ending us Blackwood's M. g.izine as rtuested. Farter's Macazi.se : The Publishers have kindly sent us this lagazine, which, from what wo can learn, as the longest subscription of any magazine j i America. This success is deserved, to I ? r?VMfcV',M I embrace this opportunity of renewing iy assurances to the public, that my ef>rts shall continuo unremitted to redeem lie issues of tlie Hank?and that ho far 0111 its Iwing insolvent, it will l>e able, rithin a reasonable time, to redeem, at ar, its entire liabilities, her good asset* mounting to more than double the jrernt indebtedne*n! It is liopod that this otice will secure the attention of all such ditors an may be disjxised to guard the eople against the sacrifice of t'ie notes of he Iiank of St. Mary's. JOHN G. WINTKU. a son of a Mr. Waite of Cinemas; .a ? i *? " ?? "u ii iruin mo uazotte, wm scently ncized with hydrophobia, but by idicKMM treatment he hae entirely recovred, though a running wound w intendd to 1>? kept up where the lad waa bitten, ) order to prevent the noMibility of a retrn of the ?ymptom?. The veaiclea which irtnod tinder the tongtie rapidly diaat>eared under tlie adminwtr?t*n? rJ VI MWVH w, a medicine prepared from the virus of ic lance headed adder, which was given s an antidote to the poison, ana the >asms were prevented bv the use of belidonna and other remedies. r # upii expectations?iin- iinc a resident ??l" v York, in :i larpc importing house, the r n native of Nnv York, hut on his way ' ill a similar situation in Charleston.? ell, Charley, pood-bye old fellow?take ^ i of yourself." "(iooil-hye, Jim?let's ' r w hat ispoing on soinetiines, mid let ine | 11 \v if ever enquires after inc." ! J1 leaves the slcp. passis up Hunting slip. l" in a few minutes forpets he ever saw " rloy, Charley tries to make himself (| fortahle?p::eks awav his "thinps"?ofus a separ?proposes a paine of w hist (; n wo start?Jim is not in his mind.? zj so younp men wi re boon companions ^ re. at neh is the world, and every day serves s, o conclusively to show us the sellish deof men to promote their ovv ii eomfort, i,| rdless of llmir fellows. In f.iet, in rvinp this preponderating desire of men antrihute to their own interest, scrininppardless of all other considerations, fc irliey may he cut oil' without their full sure of earthly pleasures, we arc led inntarily to excla'm, in the lanpuapo of ^ Umitli, ei " Man wants hut little here below, r< Nor wants that little long." inally "all aboard" was sunp out and relerated throiiph the ship, and our noble i el plided into the channel of the East r. i*e vv ill never forpet our lirst visit to New k. Our pilot hoarded us oil" Sandy Hook, ^ it dark, and as it would he late before would east anchor at the <|U.'irantine J ind,we retired. What was our astonish- ' t the next morninp, on coming on deck, nd our ship completely surrounded by | " n fit 1<K mm! flowery licit* ? Really it I iiroil like enchantment, after leaving the !" ult'ius ocean, to lin'l ournelf j*?rf\-ctly uiiii ciiiiu morning, Willi llic lie-Ulltlllll |>('Ct around us. > did \vr enjoy lids lovely scene as wo B ily glided out of New York's unsurpassed vi tor. On, on we glided with a gentle \* ze, and soon, were fond friends, line r< lienudm, excellent Hnviui&s, and coolpunehes, left behind. ur new friend Charley now brought out | idge Irom the number before us, which j Itutains much useful and entertaining Miat r. See advertisement. Ikaiiam's Mac;a/ink: The September number we have received, irabain makes n? great fuss about his inngaine, and lie need not, for wherever it is nown. It is approdintcd. We notice soaoriI rtieles in this number which appear to pos ss considerable merit. Terms ?3,00; (Jeo. It. (irahatn, I'hil.idcU Ilia. oiikv's Lady's Hook: The September number, which we have eei\e?l, contains several handsome engrnvgs, bes'des the usual amount of reading alter. -The Maid and the Magpie," -life's Sunjams," and "The Wife," are well executed igr;n ings. (iodcy's watchful care gives us Kison to believe the reading matter of the cptcmber number is of a character worthy ie reputation of the "Book." Terms ?3,00; .. A. (iodcy, I'biladelphi.i. Ladies' Wreath: i monthly magazine, published by J. C. lurdick, New York, and edited by Helen ving. The subscription price (?1,00 per ear) places the Wreath in the possession of II. and the price it is really worth. Mr. Win. Robinson of this place informs s that he is agent for the Wreath. Mr- J. B.?Send us the bound volume, wording to promise. >4 Lancasterville Rifles. At the election on Saturday last, Calvin telle was elected Captain of this Company, i. A. J. Sec rent, resigned; R.J.Crockett as elected 2nd Lieutenant, vs. J. It. IJoyd, signed. Bank of St. Mary's. We find in the Montgomery Journal lie following card of the President of the lank of St. Mary's which we publish for lio benefit of those holding or being inTested in the Hills of that institution: For the information of the creditors of lie Hank of St. Mary's, I subjoin a conensed statement of its condition on the j 3d <?f April last, when it suspended payicnt, and of its condition on the 13th illy ubout 80 days subsequent thereto. < >n the 23d of April, its entire indebtdness, including circulation, deposits, outlauding checks, ?fcc., was $585,888 04. >n the 13th of July, the entire indohtedess (embracing every form of liability) nis $251,115 32; thus exhibiting a roemption, in 80 days, of no less a sum linn $334,77a 32?which does not inlude nearly $100,000 of my own small hange hills tuat havo licen promptly rteemcd in that period, ns nnwnin.1 Congress. In the Senate on Wednesday, Mr. Gwin introduced a bill granting land to California to aid in the construction of a canal across the Sierra Nevada Valley. Mr. Hunter reported back tho bill to extend tlio warehousing system, by establishing private bonded warehouses. The Michigan ship canal bill was passed. Tho Senate then on motion of Mr. Davis, took up tho river and harbor bill. A bill regulating the payment of the expenses of the Cnyu.se war in Oregon was taken up and passed. The river and harbor bill was then tak en up, and debated until the hour adjournment. In tho House of Representatives the Wheeling bridge case was resumed, and j debated until tho expiration of the morning hour. Tho House then went into Committee of the Whole, and took up the bill making appropriations for the Navy. An amendment, proposed by Mr. Stanton of Tenn., increasing the salary of tho . : Navy Agent at Memphis was adopted. Mr. Stanton then submitted the amend- i ment, to which lie s|>oko yesterday, relative to building shij>s of war, to replace unserviceable vessels. After some debate the amendment was adopted. The llouso at four o'clock ad' jo timed without taking a voto on the bill. Outrageous attack upon a Southerner. Ocean House, Newport, Aug. 0, 1 Ho'2. This usually quiet village was this morning full of excitement, occasioned by an attack of waiters upon the person of E. M. Yerger, Esq., a young planter from the South. The circumstances are as follows: On Sunday, at dinner, Mr. Yerger was helping some lady friends to a dish, when a waiter attempted to take it from his bauds. He very promptly and properly, raised bis case-knife which be held, and struck the waiter's face. The waiter was taken from tho room, nn<l dinner went on as usual. Tho next morning, Mr. Verier weut to breakfast, and, being seated, discovered a movement among the waiters, and having armed himself in anticipation of an attack, he prepared for self-defence. He held a pistol in each hand, and, us the mob ndvunted, he told them he would kill the first man who came within five feet. By this threat, I believe his life ( was saved, for none of them dared to overstep the mark. 'Hid <ry of "South- i rons!" wat immediately made, whereuponCol. Christy,oCKentucky,.Lieut. Nelson, of the Navy, Mr. Pollard, of Alabama, ( and many other friends of Mr. Ycrger, i came to the rescue. < The mob was kept at bay by Verger's pistols until he was surrounded by his j friends; he was thus deprived of the use ( of his arms, and the mob closed upon < him. A pistol was wrenched from his right hand, tho guard tearing his linger severely. The waiter who got possession , of the pistol made several attempts to fire I upon Mr. Verger, but was prevented from 1 fear of killing some of bis accomplices.? 1 Mr. Verger was taken from the room by ' bis friends, i?t ri arm it, and the waiters , soon expelled by the remaining Southern- i ers. They gathered, however, in another 1 part of tho house, and being in number 1 aUnit a hundred, created great consterna- | tion among the lad os. Mr. Verger was j compelled to leave the place by advice of | his friends, about fifty of whom accom- < panicd him. Mauy Southerners are still preparing to leave. Mr. Woaver did all he could to arrest the movement, but l>e- , imr h innn <.f nni miwli 1 ...p ? ....... w. ..WW iiiuvil UUViniUII, IIU OI 1 ourse failed. I 1 must say that if guests are to be thus J treated whilst visiting Newport for their , health or pleasure, it would he wise for i them to remain at home. I understand 1 the mob have threatened the lives of Col. 1 Christy and Lieut. Nelson, who were warm personal friends of Mr. Yergor, and , stood by him in the midst of the difllcul- > ty. Several waiters were knocked down while attempting to follow Verger to his ' room. Altogether we have had a excit- j ingtimo?truly disgraceful and outrageous | ii|K>n the feelings of the visitors. NotJi- I ing new or important in the fashionable ' world?the same routine of bathing, rid- | ing and hopping, occasionally enlivened by an Irish episode.?Boston Lost. , Letter from Judge Butler. ' Washington, August 7, 185-2. ! My Dear 8ir.?It may be, porhajw, iny < duty, in reply to your letter, to express I some of my opinions upou the more pro- i minent |>ofitical questions which uow en- I gage the public mind, (specially aa they 1 may att'<*ct the State of South-Carolina. I with a firm belief, that the Constitution of the Uaited States has been undermined by construction, and the interests of the South sacrificed by compromise*, I can entertain no opinion that could favor either one or the other. When the Missouri Compromise waa adopted, I believe a fatal br< ach waa made in too Constitution, ami ' that theeleineut* of the dominant majori- ' ty were then introduced into this govern- , ment, which now assume to rule the dee- | tiniee of this country. This measure had the sanction of great names, and pure * patriots. I nevertheless think it a fatal error, influenced, perhaos, by lights which time and events have shed upon its opera- L tfon, and which were not apparent to thoeJL who adopted it. It was regarded, how- T ( ever, as a nart of the system of this gov- !, eminent, for a long time; and if it had I, lion among the States of the Union. I I am, dear air, with very great reaped, Your obedient servant, A. r. BUTLER. Col. I. W. II ay sr., Charleston, S. C. IIoMicinR.?A man by the name of VfrOilvary doing* waa shot yesterday by William Uabun. He died ahortly after '(i receiving the wound. Kabun at once delivered biinaelf up to U>e proper authori.ioa.?Cmrvliuian. i DairTRt ctivk Fibk.?Tlie Store house >f the Conway Manufacturing Company ' it Springfield, Massachusetts, waa burned >n the morning of the lfth of August, with all ita contents, including f>0,000 lis*, of Wool. The k*w ia #20,000. I . B 4 been observed in good faitli, perhaps tho South ought not to have disturbed it.? | But its spirit and principles have been no- I toriously disregarded and violated. With I this certainty before me, I would have M been false to iny own convictions if I had H been willing to adopt any compromise in- jg volving any concession by the South.? And I am not now willing, by any opinion which I may express, or any course of pol- ' icy which I may pursue, to give any sane- J tion to tho Coinpromiso measures of tho m last Congress. Time has not made them more acceptable to me than tliey were at 13 tlio beginning. They met with my op- fl position which they were uuder discussion, |0 and my protect after they wore parsed,? ? and my judgment can never be reconciled /fl to approve them, They afford no seenri- fl tv to the South against the agitation of the Slavery question. That agitation is * doing its work every day?in the school- 'fl he use, pulpit, halls of Congress, and in the assemblies of the people and State Ll Legislature of the non-slaveholding States fl| ?not only unchecked and uncontrolled, fl by compromises and platforms, but, in every successive stage of its aggression, is ratified and sanctioned by them. With regard to the admission of Cali fornia, my views upon that subject have I teen frequently expressed, and remain unchanged. That State having been admit- ; te t without precedent, it has opened to the majority the power of making and moulding States, rather than admitting new States into the Union according to the H Constitution. J ustice and candor, lmwev- I or, require me to say, that California has no temptations from interest, that 1 can see, to be against the South on the doc- M trines of free trade, and at present, perhaps none on the subject of African slaveWith these views, it is impossible that M I can take any interest in the Presidential fl|fl election, so far as to give any positive 19 countenance to the doctrines and measures of the compromise; and, I cannot overlook, or disregard the fact, that both the um candidates for the Presidency, stand upon tffl the Compromise, as a part of their platform, each of the great parties having solemnly incorporated it into its political ifl creed. I cannot abandon the principles ) .1 upon which 1 based my opjmsition to < i| tlie.so measures, or approve now, what I disapproved and denounced a few mouths ago. Notwithstanding toy personal regard J for (Jen. Scott, and my admiration for bin ?, high military fame, I am the very anti- ( pode of liis school of polities, and would be compelled, if he were elected, to take an active part against his adnrnistration, if it should be conducted upon the doctrines w hich he maintains, and guided by the associates with whom he is allied.? ' With (ten. Pierce, 1 might have, |>oliticnlly, nearer allinilies. In doctrine, he is a strict constructionist, of the State Rights school, and so far as it regards the South, I believe he has no piejudice or bigotry, mid would do his duty to her according to the Constitution. But hoth my experience and observation, teach me, that it is in vain to lonk nfrnE/f>r the refrtfm 6f this i/ovcniment, or to hope for the security of . the South, ax the result of a Presidential 9 tlectioH. The disease which wo would heal, is radical, and unless there be up- 9 plied, soiue euforcible power to confine the ^ federal government within the sphere prescribed by the Constitution, it must l>c- |1 come an elective disposition. In tny deliberate judgment, this ctiforcib'e power * w ill never be found in any Chief Magistrate that will ever be elected. The pow- ' 3 cr to regulate commerce alone, which mav be so used, as to exhaust the means of one section to build up tin* prosperity of another, unless controlled,w ill, like Aaron's rod, swallow up all the rest. These Wing my convictions, I do not desire to see South Carolina alworbed in any organization looking to a Presidential contest. If she cannot be the champion of the whole South, let her assume the humbler and more unpretending office of j J being the sentinel of her ow n honor and interests, and the firm and consistent friend of lii-r nntnial ..n:.v. r. ? > niivn* it may i>c cotue her duty to vote iu the approaching Presidential election, and if so, that duty, though disagreeable it ma\ be, should^ performed; but, iu doing so, I should bo sorry to see our State descend to wage an internecine war at home. When the time *. to vote shall arrive, let her take choice of I the alternatives prosemcd, and vote for the candidate least offensive to her selfresjiect nnd political principles. Impressed, ns I am at present, I think the Statu ' j should vote the Democratic ticket, in pre- J Terence to the Whig. It is her duty to I maintain that this is a confederacy of sov- J ereign States, instead of a consolidated empire, subject only to the wil! and wis- . dom of a hare majority. I would not have South Carolina to forget that she is one of these sovereign States, and to sup|h*kj herself bound to conform, in all * ' things, to the policy of parties in her sis- I ter Southern Slates; yet I think it is her Iruo policy, on questions of great and vital I interest, which involve the public safety, I no to wholly laolato herself from tiio .1 States with whom she is most nearly iden- -j lifted. Iu the practice and oWrvanee of * this policy, she may find a motive and jus- . j ? /- ???-- - * huuiuvii iur casting nor vote in the approaching election for President. In deciding uj?on her course, she should he governed, not by those partizan feelings, 1 which too often constitute Ihe elements which enter into a contest like that now before the country, but by those high considerations of patriotic duty and devotion to principle to whi? h kIio is indebted for lier present rank, position, and eond.1nr.i