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Cholkiia.-?A farmer anil four of his family, living in Otsego County, were attacked w th Cliolera a few days since and two out of three died. The neighbors were Astonished?they did not believe Cholera' could rage in their high, opon, healthy region. But an examination of the victim's 1>retnisea solved the perplexity.?The eel- i ar bottom was saturated with stagnant, < bad-smelling water, in which rotten pota i oes and other decaying vegetables were inbeded ; and the family were drinking i water from a foul, offensive well. Of < course, here was enough to create Cholera on the summits of the White Mountains. A (rood many oeottle evince fear of the 1 Cholera, and some are flying before it from one locality to another. This may be well, provided they are certain of purer air and water in their temporay retreats than in their regular homes. But it is airsurd and perilous to fancy that you escape danger by merely getting out of sight of brick walla, and tliat you may indulge every caprice of appetite wherever you have green fields around you. Let us assure you ruralizing cits! that lobster and cucumbers are not wholesome under a hot Julysun, even in the Great Wilderness, and that pine apples and icecreams at midnight will bother your digeston in dog days, though you are on Lake Superior. Whether in town or country, these rules will be found salutary for at least a month yet. 1. Take exercise daily and amply, hut avoid excessive exertion or fatigue; 2. Eat regularly and temperately of wholesome nutritious food, but avoid everything which tends in ordinary times to produce indigestion or cholera morbus; 3. Be careful of the night air, avoid physical effort after night fall, and keep good hours inflexibly; 4, Never let a corrupted appetite seduce you into a seeming belief that brandy or any other stimulant is a preventive ofCbolera or any other disease, nor be persuaded to take one drop of an intoxicating beverage unless it shall he prescribed by a physician whom yon know to be capable and strictly temperate; 5. Keep a light heart, a cool head and a clear conscience. We Biiggest these rules as applicable alike to city and country, and believe they will be found sale and salutary under almost any circumstances. Half a Century in Bed.?The New York Obaever states that Susan Pierson, of Biidgehampton, Long lslatid, died in February last, at the advanced age of seventy-two years, during fiftytwo which she had not set her foot upon, the floor. During that period, the extent of Iter travels, with the exception of a year spent in a neighbor's house, was from one corner of a room to another, in the arms of some strong man. This change was always attended by a loss of voice, from which she did n>*t recover until a night's repose. The best medical skill was unable to restore her health, or even to enable her to sit up in bed. "Aunt Susy," as she was called, an hutnble truthful child of God. Knitting was her almost constant einploment, and her Bible was ever by her side. During the entire term of her confinement, she received the untiriug attentions of a sister, who survives her, and is now 80 years of age. A Smart Bot.?Dr. Wayland, of Browu University, had a boy about six ?ears old, who was anything but a fool, he doctor placed him under the care of one of the students, with the charge that he should not go out, without permission from his tutor. "May I go out?" at length inquired our hero. "No." was the laconic reply. A few minutes, pause followed. "May I go out fagain inquired the boy. "No !" was again the response, The miniature edition of the doctor I slowly rose from his seat, took up his cap, and pushed for the door. "Stop, do you know what no means?" i "Yes," said Charley, "it is a particle of a negation, and two of tbem coining together are equivalent to an affirmative/* His wit was hia passport. The Ppringfield Post says: "Slavery exists here?slavery which is involuntary ?it exists among the laborers of the north. Thousands are compelled by circumstances which bind them like fetters of iron, to yield their independence of thought and action to the rule of other men. To redress the wrongs of such, and to elevate their condition from one of galling servitude to the indepen- ence which bents American freemen, affords work enough for our philanthropy; if we succeed our exarapla would be much more potent in persuading the south to dispense with slavery, than if we indulge in harsh denunciations against negro siaveiy, and negleotto apply correctives to the various forms of oppression in existence among obwllvw," Singular Case or Insanity Produced ht Intemperance.?The following nariation of an extiaordinary case of insanity at Angle Inland wm furniahed us by Coroner Whaling, who had occasion to visit the island yesterday, and board thg facts as stated by the residents. It soems that a tnan named Hill, who has lived with his wife on the Island for some years, recently picked up adrift, a couple of casks of liquor, a part of the wrecked ship San Francisco bp since which time, they have, to all appearaneo subsisted entirely,upon the liquor. The residents of the Island bare often found both Hill ami wife lying drunk upon the beach, divested of every particle of clothing ; and unless removed from that perilous situation would remain until sobered by the sea dashing over them to the imnsioeut danger of being washed away by the waves. Mrs. Hill is now I , a raving maniac, wandering about the ieland in a state of nudity. She is often wen pulling up roots and grass which she devours with the avidity of thebrute oreatioh. The h-ishasd is also at times raving, but hi* ra*dn?M do** not part* k.l' of that farocioua character m ;nifoted by tbn > wife.?3mm Fhvumo Bvtmmg Jomrntf, 4 f*7trfy1. __ t Saiuot^Aafc? v+o* 8m-wrt Prion ^ Bobtnaon, for tha purpoaa of dalWariug J bar toaaf aa omit, wlthotrt any proroca P tfeo t? a word paaatng 1 Mwaan th?m * she seized a brass candlestick with marble bottom, and struck the sheriff a severe blow with it over his eye, knocking him down, and inflicting a considerable wound on his face. Because of the necessary disci pi no enforced by Mr. Price in her case, she had become angry with him some time since probably this enmity, cherished by her secrtly ever since, induced the assault. Immediately on recovering, Mr. Price properly directed the murderess to be hand cuffed and chained fast in her cell, were she may now realize luoie fully her awtul situation. She is ugly beyond endurence, and makes great disturbance at the jail. It is right to "ribbon" such a deperate character,?Trog Times. T h T T F! n no i 11 LI J_J U U U U II. LANCASTERVILLE, S. C. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 1354. In Luck.?Whilst nil the other editors are receiving presents it would bo strange indeed if ice got nothing. Well wo did get a present last night. A present perheps which would rejoice some of our cotcuipo* rarics. What is it? l'lense tell us! Hugh! Why it is a livo trim nnd true baby. Yes a baby. A veritable gall. Now come get us subscribers. It puzzles us to feed the old stock, but when they increase this way our poor head is scratched more than once. Health of Lancaster, &c. While the whole country is scoured with plague and pestilence?when not only cities and towns, but whole sections of the re* mote interior of our country are infected by Cholera nnd other diseases disseminating its poisonous and devastating fangs, depriving families of half their numbers. How much cause huve we to thank the giver of all good for the almost entire absence of sickness throughout our district?how our hearts should attune to his praise, in magnifying his goodness in thunks for his preserving care. Perhaps the people of our village ore more remiss than they should be in their religious duties?there does not sceui to be that spirit of devotion which the manifold gifts of nn All Wise Providence should call fourth from his children. Why have we not service in our town every sabbath 1 Ther must be fault somewhere, and we fear many have been like ourself,too remiss in this particular. Let us stir up, animation on the part of the loiety will give courage to the clergy and we will ha?e a different order of things here, after. Let us try it?it is a duty we owe to our God, to ourselves, ar.d most certainly to our children. Palmetto Sua.?We have received the prospectus of the PalmtUo Sun, a paper to be started in Cheraw on the first September. W. B. McCreight will edit it, Mc. in a right good fellow but whether he is suited for the vocation he is about to assume rernaius to be seen. fW The extreme illness of my wife prevents me from writing more. Telegraphic Interruption! The Columbia Carolinian of yesterday says: It is well known that at this season of the year the electricity of the heavens plnys the mischief with that in the employment of telegraph companies, and stops its regular flights. M We are gratified to learn that J. N Gamewell, Esq., the poslmister and operator at Camden, has made a discovery which, it is stated, will obviate this difficulty, and set the elements at defiance. As he is about to proceed to Washington to have his discovery patented, we will probably know in ? viiofl time its skta.i!? ?nd principles. " If our information be correct, Mr Gamewell, has certainly made a discovery of great practical benefit. We congratulate him on the result of the researches of his genius, and trust that he will reap its substantial re-' ward. Gamsliso Den Broken Up.?On Sunday last, about noon, officers Schouboc, Levy md Jowett received such information as led them to suppose that the grocery store it the earner of Archdale and Berresford itreets was occupied for gambling purposes. Acting on the above information, 'these truly efficient officers hastened to the place and i round no leae than fifty or sixty colored inli vidua Is and some white persons, playing u cord*, and indulging m other amusements, txceedingly offensive to the aentiinenU of ?nr community. The officer* succeeded in arreeting six of the eolored party, and also the proprietor of the store and his clerk. The other* effect i their escape by leaplag through the windows, and some are aaid to have got on the roof off the house, and from thence to the ground by the lightning rod. The parties rere arraigned before the Mayor yesterday naming, when eaeb of the eolored individlale arte sentenced to reeeWe twenty pad* Ilea J, A. Harbere, the proprietor of the I tore, eod hia clerk, John Pope, were eaeb ned one hundred dollars. ?-ChmrkMon ftn < drd; & '* '* J +''r* >r - A 4 m > v* \ * r ' k> # . -v nfi ' '"* * i COMMUNICATION. For the Ledger. CANE CREEK ACADEMYMr. Editor :? Although we have a natural aversion to being esteemed the victim of that disagreeable malady, commonly known as the " caeoethes scribondi," yet we cannot resist the strong inclination, which induces us to offer to tha public, through the columns of the Ledger, a few desultory remarks in reference to the examination, die, of the students of the strove Academy; which took place on the 28th inst., Feeling, ns wo trust we do, in common with our fellow citizens at this time, n deep nn J lively interest in the cause of education throughout our State, and particularly in Lancaster District, we determined to lay aside for a day at least our usual avocation, and to attend and witness for ouraelf the perforinouces of tho pupils above alluded to. VVe, accordingly, at nn early hour, repaired to the scat of the Insitntion, (distant some four miles from the Village) where we found already convened, a large ami respectable assemblage of ladies and gentlemen. Tho exercises of the day having previously commenced, we quietly took our seat under the ample arbor erected for the occasion, and with nn anxious solicitude and generous scrutiny, attentively noticed the proceedings ns they gradually advanced. Casting our eyes toward the seats occupied by the trustees, princip ?1, and students, we discovered standing near the " black-board," a young and fairy figure, who, with chalk in hand, gave evidence by the rapid movement of her tin. ny fingers, that she was passing through the trying ordeal of a searching examination in the abstruse science of arithmetical calculation. And when, having successfully and triumphantly stood the teat, she gracefully and modestly resumed her seat, we found our bosom unconsciously pervudcd by the devout nspiration, that the like saccess might ever attend her in every future conflict with the sterner realities of life. The same trial awaited others of these tair creatures: and the same good fortune attended each and all; not only at the " blackboard," but also in their examination in the various branches, which constitute the preeminent ingredients of a solid and valuable education. What wo have said in reference to the young ladies, justice requires we should state, is equally applicable to the young gentlemen ; who evinced an acquaintance with the different departments in which they had been taught, alike creditable to themselves and their worthy and accomplished teacher. At tha close of this part of the proceedings, a short recess was given, at the expiration of which, a scene still more interesting to us was presented in tho following order viz : reading of.original compositions by the young ladies, delivery of select speeches by the sm.dlers boys, and original addresses by the young gentlemen. And here again did the young ladies achieve a victory, if possible still more complete and triumphant. The matter and style of these juvonile productions would have reflected credit upon those of riper judgments and maturer years. The smaller boys acquitted themselves tnanfully in the part they were now called on to play; and afforded ample foundation for the indulgence of the fondest hopes nud the highest expectations in reference to the future. Next in order,came the Original Addresses by tfte young gentlemen : and of these we coufess we aro at a loss for lunguageto fully express our eoiuineodalir o. We feel. thut to say these young men, without a soltary exception, did u>ell, would fall so far short ot the'r jusl due, that it would amount to undeserved detraction. It has boon our fortune to have been permitted to attend similar displays at Institutions of higher sounding titles, than that of Cane Creek Academy, and under more imposing circ urnstances, than those which surrounded us on this occasion ; but truth and candor compel us to say, that the oratica! diaplsy of these young gentlemen, in connection with the substance of their several productions, would farorably contrast with any we have ever seen exhibited by any Sophomore, Junior or Senior. And we were truly astonished, wh. n informed thut this wi\? IhoirJirsl appearance before a public nndience. So deeply were we impressed with the excellence and beauty ot several of these addresses, that we had intended to have favored them with a special notice; but upon weighing, according to our judgment, the merit of ei?h, wocarne to the conclusion that it would be invidious and unjust in the extreme, to make a selection, where the claims of all wsre so grett and so nearly equal. It is true, *vo ?? ? nether a rtr/vnkal nor |Ka son nf n ne/vtvknl " >>,. UWI ?IIU WII vs u pi UU? WO venture to predict, that should the live* of the?e young men be spared, South Carolina will yet be proud to claim as her sons, a Lindsey, a WiWismssn, ? Smothers, a Twittjr, a Perry, a Hanna, a Belk, a Chcnrt and a Carisle. We are not using the language of unmeaning flattery and fulsome praise (to us abhorent) as some not prexrnJ might suppose ; but we speak th it which we feel and believe; hoping that these promising youths of our District and State may be thus encouraged to renewed exerliont and determin* I perteverance in the noble career upon which they have just entered. And here our feelings wilt not permit us to pass in silence an ineident which to us is pregnant with deep eoncern- After the youthful speaker* had left the plat-form, we approached one of their number, and introducing oureeif, enquired if he intended remaining at the Academy : he replied, ** I sbonld like to do eo, Sir, but I am afraid I will not be able." Of eooree delicacy forbade our interrogating him further, but we were afterwarde told, that the difficulty doubt'.eee lay In Ms limited means. If there is a man within the bounds of Leneeeter District, baring surplus cash at bis command, (sod we know there are many) to thmi men we any# hare Is as opportunity to make ?a inrsetaent which yee will nerer regret, nod . ^^hs ' h v 'sjC ' r Mr- rr% which wifl yield a sure and incalculable interest for all time to come. Recollect oar C own McDuflSe, and imitate the example of prir his benefactor; and you mny yet live to be- lloi ho'd this young disciple of Cane Creek Acad, of t emy holding Senates enwrapped in silence due and in awe. Then will you, indeod, bo re- j!?m warded by consolatory reflections, of which T befdre you had never coneicvcd. But to dis< return : the intellectual exercises being over, Ho the large company present were invited to I partake of a bountiful and sumptuous picnic, prepared bv the ladies of the adjacent 1 country. Wher. we say, that this part of and tho " days proceedings " was under the su- all pcrinte'ndeiice of the la lies, all that is ne.ces- pla< sary has been mid. Tho company having regaled themselves with the viands, under ^ which the table litterally groaned, rem linod cre' u short tiinc in the sh:uly gf?v<\ indulging IB 1 in free and social converse ; until the doeline of tho sun admonished us of the hour ,nc ofseperation, when each departed well pleas- ity ed with himself" and the rest of mankind." fifk We would not omit mention that the dre pleasures of the day were greatly enhanced by tho sweet music afforded by several young gentlemen, who generously contrib- den uted their valuable scrvics. Although we 8ev have been for several years a citizen of Lancaster, this was our first visit among the people of this neighborhood ; and sueh was tho unaffected kindness and generous hospi- P'a tality so freely lavished upon us, that we are sure it will not bo our last. In conclusion we would state, that this ] Academy is under the control of Mr. J. T . sot K. Belk.a gentiemnn and scholar, In every Ce rospect worthy of the coufideneo of the com- ty m unity. the Our best wishes attend Cane Creek Acad- din emy, its accomplished principal^ind promis- j ing students tim A GRATIFIED VISITOR. ere July 31st, but ?????mmm injl T KI.RflR A1' HI R. ",d _ " -- Lily ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC AND ILLINOIS At New York. qu' HIGHLY IMPORTANT. ^ ( New Nork, July 34, 1854. ^ The mail steamship Illinois arrived hum mm to-day from the Isthmus, with over one mil- . lion of dollars in California gold. She brings the startling intelligence thst ^ Com. Hollis, of the U. S. aloop-of-war Cyane, had demanded satisfaction from the QiiU authorities of San Joan for the insult offered . to Hon. Solon Borland, Minister to the Central American States. An apology be- ^ ing refused, the Cyane bombarded the town fQf on the 14th July. The inhabitants were spunky to the last, ^ ana rcsoiuieiy reruns? to apologize. I 0r< consequence wn? every house in the place ^ wm destroyed. The European Newt. on< The steamship Pacific, Capt. Nyc, arrived ^ with advices from Liverpool to the 13th July. Wing four days later than the previ- ^ ous news. BOr The political intelligence by this arrival { is of n rather less bellicose character than j ^ anything we have received for some time. , The market reports represent eotton, Iho' unchanged in price, as being rut her in favor ^ of the buyers. Corn had declined, and Consuls hud ngain receded. a Srais.?The details with regard to tho Spanish insurrection are very conflicting. ^rf One account states insurgents maintain alr< tin-in selves, but that the people through the country do not evince a disposition to we rise in their favor. ^ Another statement alleges that Madrid ia Cl>| tranquil, nnd that the rebel* arc retreating | toward* Andalusia. ^ou The London flemld chronicles the arrival , of American Agents, authorized to purchase the Island of Cuba. r Russia.?It ia stated thst the next steamer will bring a Commissioner delegated by ner the Czar to dispose of Citka and other Bn* Rusaii n-Ameriean territory to the United States. No battle of importance has been fought mo since tho date of previous advices. tou It was rnmcfred in Ixmdon that a secret Prussian diplomatist had arrived there. eo? Baron Manteuffcl had left Berlin for Vieiv Brr^ na for th rpurpose uf conciliating the.opposi lion to the new peace proposition. It wm reported that the (.'zar would withdraw all ^,r hie troops into RuMwinn territory during the 1 progress of negociations. aP? Russia was said to be forcing Austria int? negociationv, and, in tarn, the Alies ^ strongly suapect Austria of Ireschery. ^*B The Russians w. re forming camp, nam- mil' boring twenty thousand men, between Bu- mml k.ir.-st and the Danube. reri Owing to the prevalence of the cholera, * P the Ali d fleet, under Admiral Napier, had withdrawn from before Cronatadt ^y The epidemic was raging at fit Peters. CM W, ?*an Congressional Proceedings. Washington. July, 94, 1854. *u<1 In the United Stales Senate to-day, Mr. ^ Petite made a bitter speech to prove that Hon. Thos. Benton was "a thief, liar, and nat dotard. mei The Senate afterward* resumed the cob- 1,01 aideration of the CWU and Diplomatic Ap- ten propriation bill, but bo aetion was bad. A long time wan apent la executive ace- ?r ion) on th? Canadian reuiproeaey and m> Fahery Treaty, and H ?raa received that the ten' final vote should be taken on thia Important mattef to-morrow. The Houa* paaeed one hundred private 1 bills. No The fortification bill was aieO pnsnid, Ace among iu provisions me twsks thousand free dollars Cor Fort Moultrie, twenty thousand wh< for Fort Rumpter, tee thousand for Fort the Maeee, four thoueeed fbr Fort Johnson,end the n Caw than send for npnlw toner eenthmn user Ferte. . - *w 1 ' > > '??' > >, .* M Washington, July 18. iW4, Eat 'ongressinen are expediting the Appro- Star o ition bills with unusual despatch. Both On uses were to dsy engaged on measures into i his kind, and amendments were intro- the si ed making liberal appropriations for *a- log ft. is purposes. retinei rho Sennte was principally occupied in night, sussing the Civil and diplomatic bill, the interv use with the Navy bill. so sei 'roceedisos or the Cholera. &c. people Buffalo, July 36, 1864. the m rhe Cholera has broken out at Ningnra, lasted I the people are flying from there with pie w speed. Thirteen deaths occurred at that the st ee yesterday. their Washington. July 24, 1864 was 1 \s was anticipated, there was a large in- cloud use in the number of deaths by cholera qar,k< Litis city last week. The epodemiu swept d,.r, v one hundred and eighty-f ??r, being an The t rease of thirty-seven. The total mortal- Waa t during the week was six hundred and to be een, of whom five hundred were chil- the o u under ten years of age. since Philadelphia, July 24. rhere were one hundred and thirty-two ?pH iths in thii city instfweek, of which forty- ^ I en were from cholera. tjn_ f tir 1 a T 1 ra a ? vvu-mngion, juiy a-*. jrc M rhe alarm concerning the cholera at Cape wrj(el y is fast driving the people from thnt ^ Cft" mm m* Vigo fht between the Irieh and Germans it is t in Vew York. pione Lest evening as the Society of Turners, ?nd ne 200 in number, were pasting through their nter-street, in procession, one of the par- break in n playful manner put hi? hand about (ion I neck of n young Irish girl who was stan- excep g on tho sidewalk. andst \ friend of the girl who was near at the ing (1 e resented the Insult, w hen n crowd gnth? their d and some little disturbance took place, Hre bi : at this time no one received any serious to dm tries Germans being ont of their lati- Stntei o, and being somewhat uuprepared, has- dinua, left the ground and ran up to the Shakarc Hotel, Dnnno-st. About 11 o'clock ra Turners again formed In procession and jng n rehed from the hotel to Broadway, nnd for #(1 Broadway to Anthony-st. There they ritorv ned down Anthony-st. nnd tnarehed aa f as the corner of Center street, where tj|e Vt y fell upon several Iriahuten who were cjfic n etly standing on the corner, talking to- we flr her. sissipi 'nptiiin Brennan hearing of the firat dif- |jnlnSi ilty, nnd anpponing they would return, |}able de preparations to maintain the peaee, yf jM;, I escort the Germans through the Ward. ?bscr V large party of Irishmen from Anthony- very j nnd \icinity, hearing that some of their |y un intrymen were being roughly handled, yie|dg le upon the ground, when a desperate licnjt j it euaued, in which many on both aidos jo bit re severely injured. ry cu| The Germans had prepared themselves good i the attack, many of them having weap- <)n? about them. vnte'J iVhilc the fighting was going on, Cnptnin mnan, with a posae of Policemen, made a )tcrea cut upon the rioters, and arrested nine p^r |j, suns, eight of whom were Germans and duct-f ? Irishman. lotn| | \n Irishman named James McCullough $784. ? severely cut on the arm nnd stabbed in OVer ( shoulder with s knife in the hands of p?,nt?. ne of the Germans, as is supposed. 7' \no!her inaned Paul Planr.ery was severe- hundr beaten about the head, nnd it was thought >|jB*o the surgeona of the Hospital, whether jju, was curried after the occurence, thai the fJlL.i nLul bone was fractured. t^e \fier about twenty minutes hard fighting rert(|v i I'olice were enabled to diaperae the riot- for a ?the Germans being driven from the an(|( , urxi to the National Hall, in Canal- euunt solem i. large number of persona, whose names ctaj,n, could not ascertain, were severely injur- Xerrii abont the head and body. They were doubt iveyed to their homes. begin Upon the persons of the Germ na were Qrwj| ind clubs, gun-barrels, die.? Tribune Ju- ft 2?'h- M ^ now i Arrival of the Prometheus, State Hie steamship Prometheus, Capt. Tur- nersi V from Punts Arenas, with 383 passengers sbolit I $1,000,000 in specie on freight to soil w nrles Morgan, arrived here laat evening. The i The Prometheus arrived outwanl on the and 1 rning of the 15th, ut 8 o'clock, having will a ched'at Kingston for coal. Found in wouh harbor tho U. S. ahip-of-war Cyans, plana otnanded by CapU Hollina, which had stake* ived at Sun Joan del Norte on the 4th in- whon rit, In 91 days from New York, coro-nis- cabin ned to aeltle certain difficulties between icrican citizens and the local authorities, Va Jso to demand a full and satisfactory a few logy for an insult given a short time rock, =* io the ?lc?. Solc-n Boris*?, Imperial psr, u lister to Central America. Theauftiori- Umei i and inhabitants of the (own refused to tats < Ice the slightest apology. After giving The I pie time, end no spology having been speck rived, ('apt. Hollina, on the 12tb, issued hibite _? a _ ? *i *? -? ntcixnimiini ??i uiti niuiniiiin ana IVM- i own its, that unless mi apology was m tde It wai 8, l id. on the 13th, he should pro- ordon d to bombard tho town. So apology h Uis >? In. Hi, in tho meantime, took poo ^HJendon of the TrsnoH Company's steamers, *by I sent them to tho town, offering protion to nil parsons who shone to seoept, ! within ons ininuts of lbs tiras desig- Ui sd by Capt. H. tho cannonading ran* hoses seed, and eon tinned with brief lateralis- New i to S o'clock, p. m. Daring' the la- 000. ral uo disposition was manifested on the astern t of the iohabUante to eome to tense Th? h the earing drtbe property. At 4, p. throuj a party leaded, eoiamsaded by a Lien, credit nt, who bernt the town, and Sea Jeer Greytown, on the 18th, was entire- ?ht lentroyed. One or two osasli buildings of the he suburbs remain to mark the spot ' the lltcs store lost Mr. Meott, agent of the Sebbe oasory Transit Company, tendered a had si pssasys bp the Prometheus to all th? la' > wished to Mset. A few accepted ereryi offer. Ifie Cyane aaila for ioatos on not an ITUi, sod takes Mr. fables, our earn one a eh* agent, home. Oftcsra sni errw which proH . flddsp ITHQUAKE AT PANAMA.?Thu Panama if tho 12th contain* the following : i Monday night our city wm thrown i etato of tho sreatest consternation by t range sensation of an earthquake belt, aflar most of the Inhabitants had, i to rest. Just 15 minutes past midtwo shocks, with barely a second's al shook evory house in tho city, and rere were they, that there were few 0 asleep who were not awaikened by ovemcnt of their beds. Tho shocks 1 about l\r?3ty seconds. Some peoero so terrified that they rushed into reets, expecting momentcrrily to see dwellings thrown down. The night >enutifully clear and?still, and barely a was to be seen in the sky. The enrth>was succeeded by lightning nndthunvhich cootinuud throughout the night, ivorut harm experienced by the shock he alarm it created,and we have reason thankful that it is no worse. This is nly earthquake experienced in Panama the year 1850. ie Rush for the New Territories. letter in the St. Louis Repnblicuo, d:vrom St. Joseph, which is a great cenid halting place for the emigratien, : ey come by boats, stages, carriages ns, on horseback and mulcbsck, and 10 unusual thing to aee troops of hardy era passing on foot, with their axes knapsacks, upon their backs, making way to tho forest of Kansas and No* a to hew out a home. Tho emigrao these territories is unprecedented, t in the history of California. Thous>f study and enterprising men are flock lithcr to st-1 vet the choicest spots for future homes. The ferry bants here jsy in transporting them from daylight k. They are, thus far, nil from Slave i, except a few from Illinois and Inand these nre of slavery prolivitius. bsas.?A zealous struggle is now gon between slaveholders and frceaoilers premacy in this new and yaluuble terOf course the opinions, as to the reire modified by the bias or wishes of irious parties. One of the most spend distinct declaration* on the subject, id in a communication in the last Mispi.-in from the pen of Dr. D. O. WiU s large slaveholder, and a shrewd, round practical citizen of Hind's county, tsippi, founded on his own personal ration. He describes the country as Vrtile, of a prairie character, aufHvienU dulating for thorough drainage. It from 60 to 60 bushels of corn to the J00 lbs. hemp to the acre, and about shela wheat to the acre, under ordinativation ; with a good culture and a season, the product may be doubted, pod hand, the ' octor says, will cultiiO acres in clover, product 1,000 bush20 cents per bushel?#2o0. Eight in hemp, product 6,400 lbs. at 6 cents #384. Ten aeree In wheat, proioo bushel, nt #1 per bushel, #200? product for the labor of one hand, The same hand will make largely nough meat and stock to pay his ex. s. This is what may be done in Kanerritory. It ia what is now done by cds of farmers on the oth*r side of the uri river. t the mo?t interesting and important fated by D*. William* is thai "all of est locations intlie Territory have albeen staked out, and the foendation log cabin laid, by hundreds and (hoesi>f slave owners from the border slave :e* in Missouri, who have entered into n pledges to protect each other in h'a , and to keep all abolitionlats from the lory. rnerc remain* no longer a , but that KnnMM has already mada a ning which ensure* it a Mare Stale, ey and lb* abolitioniata may flounder utter until th?y are aatiafied, Kanaaa in i Mure territory, and will be a slave There are already enough slave owntercated in Kanaaa to whip out all the ioniata who may dare to pollute the rilh their baae and incendiary feet, ilave owners of Virginia, Kentucky, 'enneaaee, by hundreds and thousands, oon a-, ek thai delightful country, and i yon believe it, Mr. Editor, Missisaiphare already bees la the territory, and I out claims in the unmes of men i they have taken along te erect a log on each pre-emption V i.uabf.e Discovkru.?We war?shown days fines, by Rev. T. K. Pursley a said to contain rich doposites of Coprhlch was found two miles south of itone Springs, on the isnd of the ??>f Smith Upscomb, Esq., deceased, lev. T. K. Parsley informs us that nen from the same place b d been eid to Mr, Praetor, the Asaayur at Duck, i Mines, in East Tennrsnse, by whom i pronounced excellent. The land is rd, by the Court of ftqoHy, to be sold Utter part of H-pteu)bor next for Par?and these Indicat ions may be wor r wm? investigation.?Carolina Spar. ' ' /v; * ' - u. ., I mb Failure ib Nbw York.?.TV > of Clnrfcn, Wiltm and Co. Breed way. York, faiM on Wednesday for |4Mr The pertly bare been long known as tire importers and dealers in ?i!h food*. oum i? n rery old one, and went jh the ertnte of 1836 and 18OT with ? Pari* Moniteor disclaims, on behalf J 4AWAMHMIlt eue net inn telr.?f..ien?ia 1 wrgmwpwB| "nj mmvv tiiicnfi?iifrr qoeahon of the obeerranee of the th. "The Oovernaent hen newer ty idea of no doing; It desires that re of religion may be obenrrwd; it .< 'here aota th? ettorpte of it, kit will id cannot do mora. It ie tor arery -1 question of liberty* of eooarieneo, 1 admits or neUh?r reatf ?!nt nor intl- ' %m ' ^HPukT' ' " SSr i " ' .r.f - Slaver /, the Proper Condition of the Vegro. Io view of the tremendous exertions now mnking- in the North and Northwest to exeite a popular sentiment against slavery and slave-hold ?**. it becomes Interesting to ask ftpk calmly and dispassionately whether slavery is a cursetothene. ro. Pathetic appeals to huuinn passions, pompous Apostrophes to the blasphemed name of liberty, and the meretricious appliances of the demagogue, will serve so useful purpose in determining a practical question. That condition is best for any man or uny nation of men which secures the man ro men most happiness. If the French people are happier under an empire than under a republican form of government, it is been use and only because an empire and not a republic is the better government for them. fcJo if slavery developes the negro, socially, moraly, physically and mentally with more rapidity and permanency than freedom, then slavery and not freedom is the best condition for the negro. We may, if we pleaso, deplore that condition of things which renders slavery superior to freedom, just as we may deplore those national or educational peculiarities which Itlfit tK.. Prnn.l ~ 1 - t. lr ...... ...v w.n.m jn .'pic iur jcpuuiicnmsm, but tho fiict i? none the leia truo for our whinnings. Here in a question which enn be easily settled. In the South the contrast between tho aocul, mental, moral condition of the free ard slave blacks, is the subject of universal comment. It is tho free negroes and r.ot the slaves which crowd our jails? the free and not the slaves who lives in most loathsome wretchedness and filth. So potent is this contrast that there is scarcely a legislature in the South which has not had before it, for consideration some flan for removing the nuisance of free negroes from the boundaries of its State. Nay more, so well known is the fact that freedom deteriorates the morals of the slave that some of 1'ie most rampant abolition States in the Union have forbidden free ne. groes to enter their borders?in only one or two are they allowed to vote, and in none are they or can tliey ever be placed on sny approach to equality with the whites. _ The ratio of increaae of population is one of the best indices to the condition of a people. If they are happy nnd prosperous, the fact will make itself apparent in the increitao of their niimiters. Turning then to the census, we will find that while the slaves hare maintained s steady increase of about 38 per cent during each ten years from 1790 to I860, the free negroes have declined from an increase of 82} per cent from 1790 to 18O0, to one of 12} per cent from 1840 to 1860. This striking contrast becomes more remarkable when we reflect that while the slaves have received no new increment except by natural increase, the free population is continually being augmented by manumissions by the inhuman **body sellers" of the South, and whole-ale robbery by the immaculate saints of New-England. Tho difference between the increase of the whiles and the slaves in the Uuton is leas than I per cent per annum in favor of j?| the former?a difference which the immense mmigralion to our she res easily accounts for. If to *11 ihi- .JJ a. .e . .. ? w.. * u ouu ?iiO ItlCfc 11)11 I DO slave* have been confined within n circumscribed are i, while the whites have h id the continent befo'e them, it will become evident that the slaves have, in their rate ?fincrease, excelhd their abolitionist syinputbixcr*. The*? f.<cU, a mere drop In the ocean of testimony with which our census reports and criminal calenders for 00 years have been teeming,conclusively demonstrate that socially and morally slavery is the proper condition for the negro. It would be idle te advert to the mental improvement of the negro. The most earnest, strenuous and protracted efforts havo heen made at the North to educate the race with uniform, and it would seem disheartening w ant of success. The negro, for we are peuking now uf the negro and n ?l the mulatto, U perfectly incapable of any degree of mental eoltdrc above the lowest. If there is an exception to the rule, H is so singular as to aflord ground for Astonishment not for argument. For four thousand years the me* I as existed in Afirira in freedom, and has enjoyed all the blessings Which liberty brings, yet m here is the result as detailed by a recent missionary among them: "Scarcely haa one of their bar borons and bloody customs boon abandoned, from the eariies period of which anything U known of them. They still pave their court yards, palacc-a. and even the enwlsw ts-t- -in in iowtia, Willi '?!,? * uli? of I'iOSC buUi~ied In warn, at feasts, Amoral*, or a* sacrifice* to Boaeum. Still their wire* and altvaa are hnried alive with the deceased husband or master. When Adaiurozon died, two hundred and eighty of hi* wives wore butch red i?efor* the arrival of hie successor ; which pot a stop to it only to loaroose the flow or blond and the number of death* in n oilM*r ways. The remaining living wives wore buried alive! amidst dancing waging and bewailing, the noiae of horns, drama, muskets, yells groins and acreaching!; the woawn,.marching by bcadleaa truuks, bo* daubed tbemaslves with earth and blood.? Tbair viatiuis weremarehvd along with largs knives pureed through their ekaak* ? ? *- * - ?- " eiscutiooers struggle for the bloody ofiee, while the victims look oo and Md?r? with pnlhy. They woro too CuaUiM with tb? Horrid sacrifice to show terror, or hnngtiw that sit wm not m It should ho. TWr hands Were first chopped off, sod their heads sawed off, to prolong the amoocaaot. la it not charity, la It not philanthropy, is it not ths dictate of tho most enlarged ha. manlt) to change this picture for that afforded by o souther* ptaautioa 1 No, yo * hit* cravatied, nsssl toned ahnrrh huioeru sod widow swMlers (mtrroseopie It must h?} I* your hearts, ho miadfhl of WDWty adage whleh infbrtms as that a serlain virtue fkfkh ?t home,- *hd jtrsiwt fP1^ ~vT^7 ' ^ ^