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tlegni|il)ir. LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. afejfrjggggr sr- A FIERCK RATTLE FOUGHT. ENGLISH TROOPS DEFEATED. ADVANCE IN COTTON. New York, Nov. 16. The steamer Asia has arrived, bringing Liverpool dates of November 4th. On tho 25th a foree of 30,000 Russians attacked and captured the forts in the possession of the English at Balaklava?a fierce engagement ensued, which resulted in the withdrawal of the. Russians, after great loss oo both sides. The operations of the siege were said to bo progressing favorably for the allies.? Two Russian ships had been destroyed in the harbor, and the Quarantine batteries, as before reported, had been silenced. The buaton of Fort Constantino had been damaged bv the explosion of a magazine. At Xjverpool Cotton was in better do. mand, at Is. 16d. per lb. advance on middling grades?sales of the week 47,000 bales,including 7000 to cculators and exporters. hj; Second Dispatch. The Russians attacked tho forts at Bal.iklava unexpectedly on the 25th.. The Turks inglorlously fled, when tho Russians seized their guns and turned them on the Allies. 'The .Scotch troops remained firm, and other forces arriving, tho Rnsshms w?r?< mmttoll titc mKill of n fond father and the affectionate offices of hi* family will alleviate the < pain and distress which are now his misfor- | v tuno." Death oh the Railroad Cars.?One of our old and worthy citizens, says the York- J ville Remedy, Mr. John Purdue, died and- 1 denly on the cars of the King's Mountain i Railroad, on Thursday last, tie ran nhout | 200 yards, as fast as he coald, to he in time for the cars, and in a few moments after | taking his seat, leaned hack, ami expired 1 without n struggle. Mr. P.'s death was, I evidently, caused by syncope, produced by rapid exertion of his lust' race on earth.? The health of the deceased had been good up to his'dcath. He was about G4 years of * age. H "Death's but a path that must be trod, ( If man would ever pass to God." 1 ? ?? i Advertising in the Weekly Tribune.? < A. business firm in Bourbon county, Ky., t whose attention has been attracted by a recent long advertisement in the Weekly Tribune, wroto to inquire whether we make any deduction from our usual rate of fifty cents 1 n line. We answer for their information, ' and that of any others who rosy wish to 1 make similar inquires, that we do not. The i advertisement referred to cost the advertiser the round sum of $851 for a single insertion in onr weektf^paper alone, the largest sum, we venture to say, ever paid in this country 1 for one insertion of an advertisement. And yet the advertiser inay well consider it the I best investment he ever made for the pur- 1 pose of giving publicity to Ids business.? ( Afew York 'lYibunc. ( ' Polite asd Considekate.?Au old lady being lately at church, entered as (he congregation were rising for prayer: *La !" said she, eurtesjing "don't get up on my acconnt." Hogs are selling throughout east Tennessee as far as we can learn at 1 cents gross, wo have heard of sales m.-tde IiIaIv at that ?rico, though some wo bolieve are nuking Igher rates, but wo have not hoard of an) aalurt tnado above four Cents.?Dandri^r Herald. ? A Lakob Produce Bu-uaes*.?For the last few weeks our Cotton and Flour Mercf) tola have dono a larger business than they h ivu boforo done. Our friend A. L. Williamson bought in two days over six hundred bales of Cotton, besides a largo quantity of Flour, and ot her produce. The priNf ees have boon unusually high.?Chariot I Whig. r Hogs.?The Louisville Courier of Saturday says: "The weather i* unfavoiablo for parking, and the terms are too hard and too precanoux haying, and tho farmers generally InllinpRv i.f Mih t\t wliifK in wnny h-ird hiiv>>-Jason Mild, there *fe rhveh cnngfflgationa, tmhracinu niw- religion ia ?U ifladed tof?h*e sr-mnallv dimiuiaiien in ?!? * +4 goldeneftjr :.j' . 2* ? J jgtL: ' W ed to yk'ld. Ihey, however, retained possession of two for Us, from which they tired upon the Allien. Three Regiments of Kuglish ea"jdrv, which were exnosed to a cross lire, suffered terribly. On the succeeding day a simultaneous nttnek was made by the Russian forces, voider Mci.chikoff, and the garrison of Sebastopol, upon the French position. The French say that the Russians were repulsed with great loss, but the Russian accounts i say that they destroyed the French works, and spiked all their guns. They also say i that the English lost 600 cavalry at Dnlak- i lava, and claim, generally, to bo successful, i In Sebastopol, the loss of life is said to < be so great, that the unbnricd corpses taint the atmosphere, l.ord Raglan prefers a | long bombardment to a sudden assault.? i Roth parties are being largely reinforced, i The Chief Interpreter of Lord Raglan was discovered to be h Russian spy. > I The Soule affair was largely diseussed in j the French papers, and it is said the Gov- 'j eruuient has positive proof of his connection with apian to revolutionize nil of Europe. Mr. Mason had an interview with | t the Emperor, who assured him that lie would give, at the projier time, satisfactory reasons for the expulsion of iSoule, and in the mean- i time Mr. Mason might refer the matter to bis Government. A Spanish paper says that England, France and Spain will send a combined licet to protect Cuba. Dr. I rxstorn Docgi.as.?The Chester J Standard of the 16th says : "The friends ol our young and talented representative, whose heavy misfortune we were called upon to chronicle in our issue before the I..sf. will he pleased to learn that he is now to some degree convalescent, and gives a betrer promise for a permanent recovery.? The injury which he has sustained, however, is very severe, and then* is no possibility of Ids being able to take his seat at the eoming session. He was removed to his home on Inst Monday, where wo trust | LANCASTERVILLE. S C. , Wednesday!1nov, 22,1854, ' Agents for the Lancaster Ledger- < New York V. B. Palmer, i Philadelphia V....E. W.Carr. t Charleston Wm. Dewees East Bay i Camden Z. J. Pellay. 8 Terms of the Lodger. t One copy, one year. ?2.00 c Five copies (each ?1.75) 8.75 u Ten do " ?1.50 15.00 ii Fifteen do "* 1.33^ 20.00 g Twenty do " 1.25 25.00 f Cash in advance always. No paper will c he stopped until paid for unless we choose to. ^ Wo haven fine assortment of Job Type, and are prepared to do any kind of Job Work, with neatness and despatch. p LAWS OF NEWSPAPERS. \ 1. Subscribers who do not give express nolice to the contrary, are considered us u wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publisher can continue fi to send them until all arrearages are paid. c 3- If subscribers neglect or refuse to tako r< their papers from the otfico to which they 81 ire directed, they are held responsible until b they settle their bill, and order the paper b discontinued. Cl 4. If any subscriber remove to another ti place without informing the publisher, and P the paper is sent to the former direction, < tlioy are held responsible. tl 5. The Courts have decided that refusing 1 to take a newspaper from the ofiice, or re- h moving and leaving it uncalled for, is prima c; racea evidence of intentional fraud. * W A lad of about 1 1 years of age will be taken as an apprentice at this office. He ' will be well taken eare of, and his situation, made comfortable. Newspaper Chamois.?Some misundcrstan- |, ding between the parties, the sale of the York ville Remedy to Messrs Miller & Mki.tox, has been recinded. Mr. W. liice, of Winnsboro', lias purchased the otlice, and will cbnnge the " title to Yorkvillc Citizen. J. Felix Walk.es, ^ Esq., will edit the Citizim. Hope they will be remunerated beyond "their most sanguine expectations." e The Cakolisa Times.?This paper now ii under the control of El ward II. Brittou & d Co, after a suspension ^f sonic months comes b to us in a rather improved form. From the f< present appearance ol tbo Times, both in h regard to its typography and the ability t which its editorials exhibit, we have no a doubt it will meet with success?which we c iinccrely wish it. ' ti Keowbf. Courier.?Our friend Robert \. Thompson, Esq , has purchased the Connor ollice and is now sole proprietor and cd* " tor, We wish hiin the success which his stents and persoverance merit. Our friend su candidate for theoftico of Commissioner ^ ii Equity for Pickens District; he hay our jest wishes for his success, ^ . . ? Prices of Nr.iiroes.?We learn from a ' gentleman, who was present, that at the ^ Estate sale of Nathaniel Hough, deceased, )n the 15th inst., the Negroes, 17 in num- 2 wr f.ipiin .'.iui ?..r v J6-20. One Icllow brought $1010, one 11025, nnd another ? 1300, a negro woman . ind *2 children $1785. AnrxnTiSKMKSTH.?Attention is directed to ai he rales advertised by James IT. Wrthorapoon, b Commissioner. In all probal>ility there will not 1 je such anotlici* opportunity presented this f, vintcr for the purchase of negroes. g See. also, the advertisement of Messrs Floyd, ^ ind notice that the agent of N. Maybluui wants cj money. ^ The work advertised by Miller, Orton & Milligan, should attiact the attention of readers. We have a copy which will be notlbcd more particularly hereafter. tar We would call attention to the adver- I tiseinent of Mr. Wm?AJ. Castox. In the ab- E ser.ee of a School at Pleasant Hill, the citizens n in the lower part of the District, should see n that Wood l*awn Academy does not suffer from a a want of patronage. Mr. C. assures ua he will H spare no pains to make hia School ono of the i best in the upper country. n Bora.?We found a little extract, which we ^ have inserted in this number of the Lodger, a- ^ bout hoys. ^ ? ] v iruinuiuy, m u mere lire no boys now-a-days. Once upon a time, a lad of " seventeen or eighteen yearn of age wait coated- a ered a boy?a big t>oy. lie still wore a jacket ' or roundaliout, and no auch idea aa wearing a long tail coat entered bis head until he liecamo twenty-one yea.it of age. Who, in this present f age, this fast ago, ever hears of a boy wearing a jacket? Why at five or sis he must have a coat?ceitainly, a coat I He will soon learn to smoke sugars and chew tobacco; in a very little while he will step up to liquor bars, and with as much importance, call for a glass of whiskey pitnch or s gin sling, as any man In the country. There are no boys these days. At seventeen, or eighteen, they look about for wives, and not infrequently two youig, inexpaafceofiil, persons become united together for life, and when the male member attains the age of t#en fjP-flre or tluily, he finds ha it m hoy. He is a boy In knowledge?for when, at fourteen or sixteen, efforts were made to instruct him, he re* jeeted all overture*, and now he finds that be is a child in those in which he sfaoqld he a proficient; ilie cotmeqnence is he is annoyed awd troubled the balance of hie life to cant a Ww mm.p l . Ik ' " * ' * *4. * * A dp$ 111 many instances, though, this false, erroneous, injurious opinion of self is engendered by the parent. Says the father, observing his boy at the age of eight or ten, playing on a jewslui p or riding a corn stalk horse, "1 will make him a lawyer?it is the toad to preferment." And hew his mind follows his boy up the ladder of liune?lirst, an eminent lawyer?then a judge ?member of Congress?and, finally, President of the United Btates. The sou soon learns his father's notions, and the brilliant career marked out for hiiu by the latter. "1 will be a boy no longer," he says, What is the result ? In nine ?ases out of ten, these boys become, in the end, lrutikards and blacklegs. Sometimes, when :licse high notions are entertained, the pecunitry means of the parent are inadequate to their ultillmeut. Depression is the result to the boy, tnd when his youthful energies arc thus cramp;d, he becomes of no use to himself or urybody ilse. If parents would place their sons as appren .ices to various mechanical trades?give them t trade, which will enable them in alter life to 'push along," let times be as they may?we vould have fewer lorgeries committed and other >utragee perpetrated. Now we have, for seveal weeks, been advertising for a boy to learn he Priuting business. We will give a good boy, vho is disposed to learn, his board and clothes, nid after a few years he will be master of a trade ?hich will enable him to earn from ten to fifteen lo'.Iars a week. It is an honorable, respectable, lean business; one, the nature of which does tot expose one to rain or sunshine; one which 9 obliged, from its nature, to give a lad much ;oncitd information, and at the same time perL'Ct liqp ju reading and writing, and yet we , annot get one. The age is too progressive, 'hero are no boys. Quarrelling. One of the very best short extracts we see assing around latterly is under this head. Ve eonr it iindornivitli nnd immmuiul :iruful perusal to all who are apt to let ' their angrv passions rise1 ' If anything in the world will make a mnn el badly, except pinching his ting, r? in tho I rack of a door, it is unquestionably a qunr- ] id. No man ever fails to think less of himL*lf after, than he di 1 before. It degrades im in tho eyes of others, nnd what is worse ( 1 tints his sensibilities on one hand, and in- | reases their power nnd passionate irrit.-tbili- | / on the other. The truth is, the more ( enceably nnd quietly we get on, the butter r our neighbors. In nine cases out of ten lie better courso is, if a man cheats you, ] nit dealing with him : if he is abusive, quit i is company ; and if he slanders you, take i?rc to live so that nobody will believe him. lo inntter who he is, or how h? mis-uses ' ou, the wisest way is to let hiiu alone; for liore is nothing bottei than this cool, calm, i nd quiet way of dealing with the wrongs ] re meet with. ( lrj?m Dr. J. II. Thompson, an eminent nd popular physician of Columbia, died ' ist wpek at Chestcrvillc. 1 YlVlTOirS TABLE, '.ASY NAT, by A. L. S-nsiso*. J. C. Deh- 1 nr, New-York, This is nn interesting book. Easy Nat onimenced life as on apprentice to the priatng business. Step by step he was led Into ' issipntion, that at last he became a inisemle outcast?a drunken vagabond. His af.ctionate nnd trna hearted wife stuck to im, and at last when Nat was condemned to he gallows nnd saved from the awful fate t the Inst moment, his reformation was omplete?ho became a true, penitent chrisian. The sad effects of tho intoxicating owl is vividly depicted, and cannot fail to arry tho conviction of this truth to the linds of every one. Our thanks to* the 'ublisher for the copy sent us. i Tho Edinburg Reoitw for October we j ave received. Contents : Vestries .and 'hurch rates; Memoirs of King Joseph ; 'he Arab Tribes of the Great Desert ; Railray Morals and Rail way Policy ; Burton's lintory of Scotland, from to n.ift laenulcy'a Speeches, &e. Terms 83 a year, with Blackwood's Magaine or any other Review #5. All four Rciews and Blackwood 810. Leonard Scott k Co. New York. lRThur'r Home Magazine. The December number received, which is n excellent one. This is decidedly the est number wo have socn the present year, 'he editor, T. S. Arthifr, promises to make iture numbers equally attractive. The beionir.g of a new year is an excellent time > subscribe. Price only a year. The lienpest of all the magazines, with the ?dgor, we will procure it for $1 60. T. S. Arthur dt Co., Philadelphia. Iodey's Lady's Book. As usual, we have received the lady's took for December, in advance of the lonth. This is certainly a very handsome umber. "Praise God from whom all bloaings flow'* and the fashion plates are hand, omc engravings. This number also consins much interesting and useful in for maion. Magazine publishers make great efort* to equal Godcy?they cud never excel lint. Now is the time to renew eutacripions for the next year. When you pay us or thu ledger, hand us fltf and a postage tamp, and we will procure the Book. New ubacribers will also get the Ledger and Ilrw.k r... ?,VI L A. Uodit, Philadelphia. Auggcationa on the cause of the present scarcity of money, and in favor of essential reforms in our Banking System by John Cunningham. These "Suggestions," which are now ora!>odiod in pamphlet form, appeared last Spring and Summer ss editorials in the Charleston Evening News. In thess proAuctions, the subject Is treated in an able manner, evidently by one acquainted with the difficulties attending it These artistes in (tie New*. gave general Malefaction in Charleston, and Cel. Canning ham headed the ticket for the- Legislators. We hope the tpppamoeo at thla time, oa the eve ot the fitting of the Legislated, will exert a ivholeaome infltuwn on the minds of -Mors,and act angn in the money market for IftP^Rtr. ho the reauJl. Our thanks for a opy. fP^# v - '' 1 ifk, . m '? -n ^ COMMUNICATIONS. For the Lkdoek. Amusements of Kershaw?The Rolling Target. November 18, 1854. Dkar Daii.rt : Whenever Anything novel or interesting comes in ray way, I think of the Jjrdffer, nnd a strong desire seizes mo to couiniuutcute such novelties to your columns. To day I was present at n match with double-barrelled guns between Liberty Hill ; and Flat Rock. The distance 40 paces at a rolling target, buck shot cartridges. In sporting with the gun I claim for myself no little experience, yet I admit tho roiling target is a step in gunning, that threw my skill altogether in tho shade. The marksmen select a suitable place, unold field for instance, and plant two stakes ten feet apart, theu at a right angle measure forty paces whore the parties aro stationed, on either side of the stakes one or two are placed to roll the targets, which are circular planks, 1 ft. iu diameter, with a cross descried upon them, in the centre or on any other point of the face. Ivieli marksman has his own plank and also has two shoots, thus, his target is rolled from the right to the left, and then lice irrxn, the person who robs tho target after each shot marks the nearest to the cross, the nearest being about one inch from tho spot. After the shooting is over, the best shots are measured and compared, like those at regular matches. Last Saturday, the same parties, Liberty Ilill and Pint Rock, shot fbr 8~5. Flat Rock won. To-day a beef worth $'20 w;is the prize, Liberty Ilill got the two first choices and Plat Rock the other three, there being only ive as the lead in this case is, as they say, in he oltl field. 1C _ t a * ii, .nr. jv.uiur, you nave ever sai waicning "or the space of an hear or ho, until n huge juek with branching antler* conic within ango of your double barrelled, you may conceive partly the excitement that accom>anica these matches. There you stand ingeron trigger, eyes right, and a full determination to drive the board as it rolls by with the whito spot upon it, but often the roungster ia disappointed, for upon exaiuiintion the judges cry out "no board.'* Whore is Co >ke ? I have aeon him throw Mrtridges, pheasants, &c., with No. 8 and 10s, but I doubt whether he could spatter i rolling target with Blister Blues like A. ii. J. or W. E. J. of Kershaw. There are icveral good shots both at Liberty Hill und Flat Rock. There appears to he very little iitTerenco, if one wins to-day, the other is ipt to win next tiuie, by this means they ire encouraged to make frequent trials of dieir akill or luck as it may he. On next Saturday another ui.itoh comos iff at Patterson's Tan Yard, I think there will be some close shooting, because they ire getting in good practice, and will eerlaiuly try hard for the prizes, which are jencrally Valuable. These men do not thoot for triilca, as an instance a widow offered aline white quilt valued at #10, bnt it was too small a prize unless the widow feorsclf go along with it. Ons old bachelor Dffercd to take two chances, provided the fair owner would pass along with the beauiiful seraj.it, but as the greater part were married men, the match was not made up, Hid the disconsolate bachelor is lefl to sliiv?r alone in his bachelor's blanket, and sigh Tor the sunny days of April, when like the icorpion he can creep from his w Inter abode, ind husk in the refreshing glow ol returns ng warmth and animation. White Oak. For the /janeastrr Ledger. FRIENDSHIP. \ Oh ! who can search creation's bounds \ * i c-j ?li- l i., e ? /iiiu nu'i nun nuiy lire, What heart vibrates? what tongue rc-1 sounds The tones of friendship's lyro. I Alna! it is indeed "a mine," "A ehurin that lulls to sl< ep, J A shade that follows wealth and f.uue, 1 And leaves tho wretch to weep." Tialike the cool, refreshing dew That glitters on the morn, It doth the sickly plant renew Hut soon to leave forlorn. For lo ! a summer's scorching sun This dew dries in an hour, Before the day has well begun, Behold ! the drooping tlower. So fickle friendship doth devour, \ The heart, the soul, of msn, Its vcnoined sting may in an hour Insert its cherished fang. Ilast thou a friend ??he is a prize Thy Ifeee thou'lt surely bend, And thrxuk thy Ood with streaming eyes Who ia to all?a friend. * T. P. B. October 14.b. ISM. Citadel Academy.?It will be seen by report in nnothor column, that the classes in the Citadel Academy are undergoing their annual examination. Tho visitors present are General" Jones, Gen. Jamison and Col. I Williams; Professor llmne and L>r. Frost are also in attendance. The prospects of this institution are particularly bright. The difficulties inei lent to beginnings have been overcome, and the Cadets evince s high degree of proficiency in the several departments of instruction Accessory to this iastltution, there is" la contemplation s preparatory school, which t#U much advance the range of. its seeomplMtmente. Two members >f the present graduating olaes propose to establish such a school at Vofkvills, in this Stats, and have purchased lots for this purpose. They will proearo accommodations in ths village until soeh time as the buildings proper for barracks can be eoostroshM, where they will sommenee the plan of discipline and instruction practice at ths higher Academies. We loohmviih cajpcial favor npon thls^ciUorpjWt, are nilSlil'wJrS predate the advantages of an I _ wt X) 31 I \ 7^ tit ~ Mr. Cuas. 8. T. Burks, the well known comedian, died in New York, of consumption on Friday evening, aged 32 years. His mother, an eminent vocalist and actress, died of the same disease, and it had been gradually killing Mr. Burke for ton yonrs previous ^ to his dea'h. Mr. B. was a native of Phil* udelphia, and was reared in the families of c the Jefferson and the Warrens, well known to the theatrical world. When only three year" of age. ho represented Cora's child I'izdrro,) At the Che snut-3t Theatre. His ^ subsequent brilliant career is well known B< throughout the United Status. A Scientific Rogue.?The local editor 8i of the Petersburg Bxpress, relates the ex- ^ perienceof a Norfolk lad> at the State Fair. She had entered one of the crowded Oinni- Ml buses of Main street, in order to tueet hor hi friends at the Fair grounds ; and as num. hi hers were there anxious to gut seats in the 1,1 same vehicle, it was pretty close work : A fashionably attired gentleman very distingue looking, took his seat by the side of re the lady. He was dressed in the best black, |,| with a most religious looking neck tie. A ^ handsome talma cloak hung gracefully over his shoulders, while his hands (of most 8< noble blooded symmetry encased in spot- tli less and delicately colored *'kids") rested til tranquilly on his lap. The ladies present | could not help admiring the aristocratic I model of those hands. n? I Undrawing near the Chinese entrance to tli j the Fair grounds, our fair informant felt rc something stirring her dress near her pocket. It surely could not be the hands of i * her genteel neighbor, for they wore tran<juil iu bin lap. Again nho felt something en lingering near her sash where her watch 8'? wan fascinatingly lodged. She put down her hand, and grasped the warm lingers of an unknown hand belonging evidently to *' the genteel personage by her side. l'ho pt idea of a three or four handed man so tor- w rilied the lady? that nhc shrieked nud swoon- . od?right oil! Willi a bold swing of his S "Talma," Uie aristocratic kids disappeared, to and their owner, umid tho confusion, said he'd run and got some water to restore the to lady. He did so, but we presume he went very far to fetch it, for he h.ui not yet ! " been heard of in connexion with said "v\a- at tor." of When the lady found herself In speaking ? condition, she told tho cause mid perceived that her port uionaie and pencil case were gone, und tho marks of a pair of nippers on vo her wutch chain. The nuir of neatly gloved hands were . "sham," mere "decoy ducks}" while from beneath the facilitating!)' constructed folds he of tho talma, the rest tlesh and bono were tw wandering insidiously in search of the fair lady's valuables. ^ co Why Pox't Yoo Advertise!?Read the 0" following extract from a roccnt address be- in foro the mechanic^ of Louisville, ami gain- j2( say it if you can : A man may sit in an obscure alloy offering pearls at two pence apiece, and yet find eh no purchaser ; but if the same man were jn known to have pear's for sulo at reasonable S rices, under the shade of a rock in the csert, caravans would be formed, and companies would go to buy his wares. So it fa is with a manufacturer. Ills wares may be yj| ever so good, his prices ever so reasonable but unions ho employs proper uumiis of making tliom known to the public, ho can- sa not expect appreciation. Lot us no longer sit, like the Turk in bis kXn ,pipo is mouth, pronouncing "God is mm grout," while our more active neighbor is cj renpiug the reward of a leas dignified but more remunerative, industry. It is better tbnt, like the Israelite, we should staud in al the poor of our mart, and cull to every pus- 0| scr-by, announcing the virtue of our wures and the cheapness of their price. If our lubor is honorable, the employment of such in means to make it lucrative, can never bo din- tc honorable. Ketneinbcr the beautiful tuoni- jn tory aphorism of Thompson. "Renown is not the child of iml>bnt inven- .v tlon Clark Mit.ur.?We regret to find the y( subjoined paragraph in the Washington , Union of Saturday: "We are pained to hear that the establishment of this distinguished artist has been M visited witli a Calamity by which be sutlers |? severe pecuniary loaa, and whieh will delay the completion of the great w orks which he had commenced?the .spiralrian statutes ol 1,1 Washington and Jackson. Yesterday after- t* noon, whilst his furnuce was in full blast, at the roof, from some unexpected cause, took p firs, and, nolwithsiunding great efforts wore made to save the model of the statue of | ' Gen. Jackson and the building, they wore, in an incredibly abort time, destroyed by b; the flames. Several castings of the statue pi bad been taken and placed outside of the y foundry, and were saved. Tin: loss sustained by this tire is estimated at six to ten 111 thousand dollars, oud the destruction ot the model for the statue is particularly to be re j>( grettod, as it cannot be re-produccn but with great lubor and heavy expense. Tberw was a' no insurance on the property. tt "We give place to this intelligence with w sincere regret; but, knowing the indomit Bt able energy of Mr. Mills as we do, we do not entertain a doubt that lie will oriee like * the fabled bir I of antiquity, and pursue bis *' business with renewed energy ana euccess. lie has been tried in the furnace of affliction, but ultimately be will come out unscathed." 01 w Suicide or a Uovebumemt Orr:cRB.? a( Chnrles W. Stuart, an officer in the House of Representatives of the United States, committed suicide at Washington on the v< 13th last, in the Speaker's room, at the Capi- ir tol, by taking poison. n mm m mi l} Mr. Chas. S. T. Burke, the well known c| eommedian, died in Now Yerk of eonsump- . tion, on the loth inst., aged 33 years. ^ |rjT Hoary Meigs, the California financier, who is reported to hare suddenly din- ^ [ appeared from Son Fnyicisco, after commit- j ting forgeries to the amount of, sons eighty ^ thousand dollars, foiled in the lumber busi- p ness si Wiilioinsbsrgs few years ago, after baring built an KpieeopaJ church with his own funds. He subseqssntly organized the "Ifssisol Fund |rutilute," ran La debt ten or * twelve thousand dollars, mysteriously die- * appeared, nod was tut beard of as a California banker. ,|1T A ventriloquist and bone player, h named Mlotte, *m arrested la New Orleans si and committed to the work-house, the other ii dtf, ob a eherge of being a dangerous and # auspicious vagrant During Me examine* I lion %t>me excitement was oeeafiooed by C strange and curious noises, apparently ieeo* ing from the Recorder^ ohair, whieh were ?iennntsftiln till it was explained that the 0, prisoner wee a ventriloquist () HT At an election held on Monday last ei < Mr. Hmiil Yomgbtood was elected sheriff, T ; of York, to Mm vacancy occasioned by hi theAb of W.S Mey t; * . WfM NEWS ITEMS. Cor victrow ard Sertkrcr.?Peter Uosiell, who was tried at the lute term of S paranburg Court, for the murder of his fathera-law, has been found guilty, and scutened to bo hung on Fridny, 5th of January ext. PT The emigrant ship New Era, from i reman, with three hundred and eighty pasengcrs on board, ran ashore on Sunday ight, during a heavy fog, on the Jersey oast. The captain and twenty passengers ncceedod in reaching the shore in safety, ut the remainder are still aboard the ves I, whicn is fast going to pieces. Nearly alf-of those left on board.it is thought, nve been drowned between the decks or uen washed overboard. 1^7" Alex. Robinson, Esq., an old and spec ted citizen, died at the residence of Is son, in Charleston, on the morning of le 11 (h inst., aged 72 years. Mr. Robinin was a native of Lnrne, Ireland, but for te greater portion of his life a resident of lis city. Jr&~ Solon Borland, being no longer joded in the United States Senate, or in te diplomacy of the country, seems to have nounccd the title of "lion." to have reisuiried tho title of "M. 1).," nnd to have rsceuded plump from national and historiil renown to the practice of physicking the irk, or to the hope of such practice, in the 11 age of Little Rock, in Arkansas, towards e setting sun. The Democrat, n paper in ted there, announces that, in partnership ith another doctor, he has opened a drugore, and "offers his profession*' services the citizens." , l-W Some sacreligious rogue broke intbe Catholic Church at Oxford, N. Y., e other night, and after doing considerlie damage to the property therein carried f the silver nix. a vensfl mhJ will, 1 ' ?" -? r containing the blessed sacrament. William, a negro belonging to Mr. \Ve.v r, of New Orleans, hits been tried, found tilty, and seutenced to the penitentiary for ur years, for burglariously entering a use and ens onsing himself in the bed of 0 young ladies w hile they were a deep. An Irishman being in church where the flection apparatus resembled election box, on ita being handed to him, whispered , the carrier's ear that he woa not naturaU i'd, and could not vote. As an inducement to subscribers, the CirDvilie Journal says, that all those paying advance will be entitled to a tirst rate >iluary notice in case of death ! Six-thousand pianos nre annually manuctured in Boston. They sell at prices Tying from 8-ioo to $1,500 each. In the town of Crock, It, Texas, there is id to be not a single marriageable woman. Charles Hinckley, Into editor of thoChick* ay Intelligencer, recently committed haide, by stnbMng himself at Fort Arbuckle. President Pierce is represented as being ready busily engaged in the preparation f his forthcoming message. Tho largest newspaper sale ever known 1 this country, recently took place in Basin. Mr. Gleason disposed of his interest Gleasou's Pictorial and the flag of our nion, for tho round sum of two hundred lous.m I dollars. About a mouth since, a buy, four or five MMkof age, was pick d up in the streets T ioston, and taken to the city crier's of;e. lie guvc the name of Charles llcnry [urray, but could not tell where he bemged In his conversation he frequently >oke of his sister Polly, whom he was very ixinus to see. On Monday a little girl, vo or three years old, waa found in Ihe recta by ono of the police, and taken to io bouse of tho city crier. It?soon apiiired that stie ivu (K., P.,ilw tlu. k.... nired to see, and the pleasure manifested ^.tlietn nt meeting was affecting. The irl only knows that her name is Holly.? /here these children came from remains a ijstery. er Mount Hood, in Oregon, is said to ? fully eighteen thousand, throo hundred id sixty feet, being the highest p int on lis continent, and one of the highest in the orld. It is of a volcanic character, snd noke is seen to issue from Its summit.? [ountain tops five hundred miles distant, re said to bo distinctly visible from its top. Lately, the Judges of the Supreme Cour* f N. Y. made a rule that while examining Unease* in Conrt lawyers should remain anding. The object of this was palbably > give the lawyers a taste of the inconanienco they occasion to witnesses by keepig them standing while they bore them uninson ibly with questions. At the term of te oourt last held at llinghamptoo, all the vil cases on the eatendsr hod to be *dmrned.as none of the counsel would obey le rale Then let witnesses be seated. Col. Hoary C. Im, one of the oldeet and nat citizertH of Marion, (4a., diod In that lace on lb? 7th inat. At the time of hie oath he held the office of Solicitor for the irat Judicial Circuit David Hoffman, a distinguished member f the Baltimore bar, and an author of eSfidcrahl* repute died of Apoplexy in the sventieth year of his age, in New York on htnrday. It In competed that the number of hlsaka eld in alaeeapin different eonntriea la uya nd a half million*. of which 8,096,000 are k the United State*, 9,260 000 in Brazil, OOJIOO la the Spaniah colonies, 85,000 in tarteh coloniea, 140/100 in the rrpcbiica of Central America, and 80,000 in European itabllahmenta in Afrioa. The eight survivors of fopiteen children, f Mrs. Haftnah C. ttogeee. reeentiy aaaeruled around the table of their mother, now ghty-eeee* years of age, at Bath, Ma.? he united ague of the eight amoeat to four ndred aud fifty year*. The eldest la stx> |r-eight, Mfid the youn^eat ??cr forty. ^gM* % W -Jtik ' Hihn 1 - -~5 It in estimated that the anna of twenty0te thousand dollars Was taken at th? Boaton theatre dnrinj i the recent engagement of four weeks of Miss Dean. Hogs are more plentiful and somewhat cheaper in soino parts of the Wept, than the scarcity of grain had led dealers to anticipate. Several thousand corn fed hogs are said to have been lately offered to the packers of Maysvillc, Ky , at three dollars per hundred, nod the sales were dull even at that price. A convention of the survivors of the war of 1813, is to ho held in Washington, on the 8th of Jandary next, to adopt such treasures as \t ill induce Congress to do justice to them and to the widows of those who have gone to their Inst account. One Alonzo D. Bartlett, of West Herkimer, N. Y., advertises that his wife has eloped with a man named Crumb, and left him with three little girls, who grieve in. cessnntly for their mother Thinking that she may have repented, he says he will forgive her if she will return, and that if sho has not the means to get home, he will forward them. Tlio last cose of jealousy is that df a lady> who di cnrdel her lover, bccairao in speak, ing of his voyage, ho said he "hugged tho shore." A very steady old farmer was once found betting against a roulette table. Upon his friend expressing very natural surprise at this sight, the old gentleman assured him. "upon his honor ho didn't want a cent of their money." "What are you playing for then ?" "Because they have got about fifty dollars of mine." Which travels at the greatest speed, iicni or cold 1 Hont?because you can easily catch cold! Ifolltrw-iys Piih again CJfirnrinux in Curing a Snere Can of liheumatitm ?Extract of a letter from Mr. William D it vie*, of 30, Regent-road Salford,dated April 13th, 1863. "Ti Professor liolloway. 8ir,?I was troubled for some months with rheumatic paius in all my limbs, and tried everything I could hear or think of wlthoat any good effect; at lust ' was recommended to try* your Pills, a few doses of which relieved me, and before I had finished the tocond box 1 was quite will, and am still in the enjoyment of sound health. Mr. Whitaksr, ^ druggbt, of this place, will verify this statement." SYMPTOMS^?"DISEASE Should never he disrcgarced. They are* unerring indications that the vital functions of nature h ive been interrupted in their healthful action, and that serious evils must inevitably follow, unless the system bo again set right by the timely use of proper remedies. ? Bear in tuind, that nature is ever endunvoring to expel disease when it invsdee the animal economy, and only nooda the assistance of some genial restorative?thorough yet mild in it* action?that will give tone to the system, act upon the blood?which is the principal of lifo. Gl'YSOTT'* YELI.OW DOCK AMD SARSAPARILLA As a purifier of the blood, a renovator of the system and a supporter and preserver of the powers of life, it has no equal. Take it, on the first indication that disease is upon you. and you will avert perbnpa weeks and months of sickness and sufferiug. EST See advertisement. Sold ?y MAQILL & HEATH. MARRIED. M ARrTbD. on the 16th iusC, by Rev 8uinuel Williamson, D. Dn CipL J. B. Cousakt, of Lancaster, to 111m J are b. daughter of Akskew HIRIRGR, Esq, of Mecklen-. burg County, N. C. Our thauka for the present of eakc, and we aincrrely wish the happp couple their full ah are of uninterrupted happiness, OBITUARY. Departed this life at his residence on GUI's creek, in lamcasUsr District, on Wednesday evening loth instant, Mr. Hooa Hood, in the 73d year of his age. With A pious reaig. nation he obeyed the summons which called him to eWruity. He was a confiding chria? tian, and a worthy cltixoa, a devoted husband and Mh? r, a sind master s benevolent neighbor, and. a pmatleal and Industrious farmer, and in all the various relations of a long life of over "throe score and ton" years his whole purpose was over to do right. The living may learn much Slid bo profited by ? reflection on his life and eg* ample. J. H. WNBW IMRRTISMBNIS. ao LIKELY NEORO^a FOR SALE. Twos Ball aed, AJmr."] In fSa^ty, Iabma " a, . 9t. I tor. WIT McKERMA, V w* PleasaetM. Qlam A I wife, and other* J , IN Obe,lienee to the derree oftti* Co art of Equity made la above ease, at June Term, ISH I W'U aeU, at Laoe&ater Court II ones, op the firat Monday,the ft rat dav of January, 1865, Twenty choice and valuable Nrgrooa allotted to the hetra of William Miller,(deo'd) In abovecaee Jl? NeffTbo.nj eon, Hannah, Viaey, A*And?,Rooe, Joseph, Diana, Ellaa, Alley and child. Soma, Bob, John Monroe, Old Jioa, Naqcy, Ellen, Anoa, Mary ard Roue Alice?Among the ber la a good SoaroatreUa, two good C?pka9l^ one very likely girls, a Ne. 1 wigoper and Oiler, aad ether valuable negroeaj thewhole likely end deeirable, Taauc?A credit of it months, and pu?0P < "a * ehnaers to gt?e Bond* with two goed S*r?- iV Uea. with interest froet day of o do 4AMES H. WITHEHSruON <Wr i* /?, h D. No?. 29, ttN. 40?7t fi CO ] WFf'tfVi JoanMj. ChwU' Standard 4^ dr^'t"' "4 *f i".p!r | otike&S ' :