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TilE LlXCiSTIiR_LKDUiiR; Published overy Wednes lay Horning ! BY W . M . CONNORS k:?itoh and pkoimuktok. T F. lT\l S: n advance, $2.00 j the expiration ol Six Months, - - - - 2.60 At the end of the Year, 3.00 ' "niTIt'KM!j''T3 Will be inserted at the following low rates: | One square (of 1<> lines or les4?,)oiuun8ertion, i #1 ; or, ii continued, " & cents for the hist insertion, and fin cents for each subsequent inser> ion. Of~ See Fourth I'age for deductions in | vor of standing advertisements. | The number of insertions must be wrjtten on aacli advertisement, or they will be inserted till ordered out and charged accordingly. The Burning of the Pacific Hotel. The fo-lowmg details of the fearful calamity at St. Louis, Mo., will l>e read with interest : Tho origin of the disastrous ronrtarrro - ~ 'b' *" tion is Ht present not known with certain Iy. Ino prevailing impression is llint the flames first hrok? toil in ihe rear of the drug store of I turnout C. Jones, one door front the corner of Seventh street, t>ni how Iihs not yet l?een explained.? Toe clerk, who luu] only hecn three days in llie establishment, and who slept in the buck port, states that when i e was awakened by- the^glare of the light the whole of the western portion of the tun Id I iug whs iii fi tines. '1*11is whs front half ?n hour to llnee quarters before the steam engines arrived. I here whs half a bariel of turpentine, a barrel of oil, and soine other combustibles in that part of the lore where, report savs, the lire origi Dated. From the host information that we can gather, there were about one hundred personssleeuit)"/ in the hotel tit I ( ^ .. .... ?? V l IIV? t Mlic | of the occurrence. h appears that linen'ire building whs enveloped in the ra ging element before scarcely n?v of the lodgers were awakened to full sense ol their (lunger. And when 'lie inmates were finally aroused it was only to find all opportunities of egresi closed to ihem for the staircases in f xnit and behind were a!readly gone, or so nearly so that an attempt to escape by these means would be only rushing into the arms of inevjla ble death. The scene that ensued baffles any effort at description. The rushing of men wo men ami children to and fro to avoid I lie blistering heat, and to search lor ways to reach tin* streets?the shrieks of the ter ror stricken and the groausoV those bound to tlieir rooms by walls of scorching file 1 ? the shonfsot those who had been called iu me spot iioiii the surrounding neigbor | hood?tlie clambering over swaying ami | reeling joist?the tailing floors, with tlieir | loads ol heavy furniture ami their dear burden of bun.an lues? ah this a d more that was inieiiseiy terrible and fearful, it is not given to our j>on to adequately describe. Tne stairs gone, the roof and lloor inch by inch giving way, am] the lurid flames filaioting up momentarily thickei Mid j hotter, many sought to escape the mi ! pending hazard of being burned to death through the scarcely less dangerous pros ' peels of jumping to the ground Iron I 1 their windows. Of those who endeavor ! 1 ed 10 save their lives in this w?e >*? ?' six hI the Sisters' Hospital. Mr. 11. Hub bard, who arrived at St. Lotiis Iroiu Bos ' toil about 8 weeks since, was occupying, ' with bis lady, a room on the ili.nl lloor.? ' Mr*. 11. was first aroused and awaken : ed In r husband. Hardly had lie come to M be conscious of the cause of the surround ihg contusion before he saw his wife leap headlong out of the window on J'oi.tr street. Seeing no other visible means ol ' Having liiiiHuif ho followed her, and both fell, not far epart.on the pavement. Mrs. j . Uolihard hail one of her legs fractured in ] J two places, ami had tho knee cap of the ' other dislocated. Besides this, her low | ' erjaw was broken in two places. It is ^ * not expeeted sb? will survive. [She has ' s nce die1'.] Mr. Hubbard had the ankle j nut of Ids leg displaced, and received a severe contusion oil the fnndo.ud II lioi thought to be in a dangerous Condilion. i Miss. II. 1111 ii tor endeavored to leave ; . t!ie building, after being badly burnt, by j?1111p111?r |u?m the second stoiv. In the L fait one of her legs was broken, and her | beao severely cut. She was placed i.i a ( ftirnilure car, to be taken to the Sister's < Hospital, but before Arriving there she was | a corpse. James F. Geary, local reporter of the , Leader, of tins city, in aWempungto escape , with Ins wife and child, fell to the cellar.? I Besides receiving some bad bums on tlie tape, head and legs, bv some means his right foot was cut lv? the hone from aliout the middle to the heel.(Since dead.) Kharpe, night clerk at the hotel, was aw fully burned in tlie face, head and extreini- j lies. 11 is hair is all singed off, and Ins face blackened and blistered. Iiisexpec | ted thai be will recover, trough consider- I ably disfigured 4Kiitin Hayes lias a broken thigh, flnd ' is-very inttcli injured on the head. One j _r . >ii iiis eves lire burnt and swolen exceed ' ingly, and Ii? is otherwise luiit. Winn ' saw liim lie was in nincli pain and 1 laboring under concussion <>f the brain.? I He was una bio to answer questions As ' far as we can ascertain from various sour- j ccs, be i? a stranger in tbe city, from' (Wisconsin. T Loire is little or no lo>pe of liis leeoverv, Tbree men were seen to jump from tbe second story of tbe back part of tbe bull ding at tbe same tithe. Two Q|" litem got off without much injury. Theotber was taken On a plank to a fruit store on sixib street, below Poplar, wbere be died at about 8 o'clock. Tbe latter wo under stand to be T. llarl Strong, lawyer of \ tliis city. At K ng's Hotel we found tbe family I of Dr. White, wliose escape was indeed I miraculous. Dr. While himself leaped > tbioiigb the window of Ins room, and I jumped to tbe ground, whence eucourag- ? t ing bis wife, three cittblren ami nurse, ? they, too, followed bis exa nple, be bieak- ,? jpg tbeir fall, ami nij readied terra fjriua 4 in safely, having only tlie record of danger perceptible in a few skin deep wounds. The dead bodies recovered, as yet, from the ruins,so charred, blackened and burnt that their nearest relatives could not idem tify them by the ordinary means, number six, which have been taken charge ot Lv the coroner. AH of these, or nearly all, J hail their clothes on. Five ol them were found on a piece ol door in the second story next the fiotrt the hotel. They appeared to have been all sleeping ill tbe same room, and were literally roasted in their beds. The only means of indenlif)cution of the>?e bodies will be bv papers and other article' found upon tliein. On one there was a letter addressed to Ephriam Doatie at Chieaoo: also n i.uiuni i - > ! Kphriatu Donne uhd William S. Fanner. I Helow the shift bosom of a second was written the name of K- M. firi'pg, On a I It>in 1 was a lot of letters addressed to Kvai> J WatkitiH, one which contained an Odd Fellows' traveling pass. The wife and child of Joseph Jones, of Uirch's Minstrels are among ihe wounded. They were let down out ot a window of the, third storv l>) Mr Join s, who enveloped them in ashee', having first thrown a matrass to the balcony to break their fall. '-The sheet slipped, and mother and child, the latter only eight or nine months old, striking the edge of the mat ra-?s, dropped to the pavement and were dangerous ly injured. 1 Meeting in favor of the Policy of the Administration. The people, we aie pleased to observe, are moving in all quarters to sustain | through popular demonstrations the policy of the Admini-lrut on in leferenee to ihe immediate admission ot Kansas as a Siaie. The people are awake to this suh j'-ii, '.lie* are lieailUV IIIVU Ot tills eU'1'llal Kansas brawl, ;%11>I 11n?y desire to sec her inaugurated as a Sia e that she may manage Iter own affairs in Iter own wav. 1 wo or three meetings are on the tnjii.s in this citv, none of which will interfere with tlm other, ami we should like to see every Democrat among us attend them all. * We have felt the necessity of am! urged an earlv movement in reference to these demonstrations, and we are gratified to learn that the preliminary movements are now in such asiate of forward (less that we may look during the coining ' week lor a L'teali-r display of popular en ' ihusiastn for an important measure than * was ever before witnessed in our city.? The Tsuimnnv Hall Democratic General i Committee, through their Commi lee ot i Arrangements, are now making rapid ( |iriijjrcss, Htnl will hold their meeting ;?t an early day next week. The rail is dirtied hv a large number of our lir.it and niusl niOitiinef.l citizens, hiu! we expect ' to see an assemblage within the o'il Hall i<> unprecedented!)* Irnvr a< to entirely do away with any doubts which 'may ex ' in in reference to the popularity of the ' measure. i A call for another meeting of the I)em < ocraey will bo found in our columns, to he j iield at MoZ >rl Hall, on I nc^dav, the 2d" , March, of which William Coulter, Ekj , is Chairman of the Committee of Ar ranoemeiiU It is called to indorse the Iv divas policy of the Administration, a ml all movements having this object in view, I * we most heartily commend. This is in ' the hand of ahle and active Democrats, :l and hid. fair to be an nverwheming tie- i nonstration of populat" feelin<y. I Another inovement is in progress for t die evening of the 41li of Match bv the tl Jentral Democratic Club f..r a grand ban- 1 ,| pii't, and to indor-e and approve of the I .1 i'al vear's action of the Administration, I mil i mperially <>l ii> K. msas policy K A. I * K"Zl>i v, Ivij , is i he Chairman of ilie Coin !1 nitlee of Arrangement*, ami a more ef J 1 l.-ienl ami active Democrat we have not J' rtnong us, ami we mav reasonably expert ' brilliant ami enthusiastic audience to it present on tliin occasion f Keep the bad rolling. Let tis have no <, ealousies, heart burnings or suspicious of 1 j. ?ach other, but let us all rally as one man |t o tbe support of the administration of | lames Buchanan. On that point t? e j National Democracy have but one voice ?New York X< wn, ^ * cllarlks Lamm's War.mso.?Charles | Lrtmb tells his sad experience as a warn- 1 ng to young men, in the following Ian- 1 juage : "The waters have gone over rne. But mt of tbe black depths, could I bo heard 1 [ Wf\ul?l pri* mil Di ull lliousa w ! '? * [nit set a fool in the perilous tlood.? Could the youth to whom the flavor ot liia first wine is delicious ns the opening 5 uenesof life, or tlie entering upon some I newly discovered paradise, look into my \ desolation and he made to understand , what a dreary t|tii.g it i? when h Uihh , hall feci hitfiself going down a precipice . with open tves and a passive will ? to see his destruction and have no power loslop it, and yet feel it all the way emanating ( from himself; to see al! godliness emptied ' out of him, anJ yet noy able to forget a ' time when it w as otherwise; to bear about ' the p teous ?peptacle o' his own ruin; couhl I he see my fevered eye, feverish with the ( last night's drinking, and feverishly look ing for to night's repetition of the folly; could 'lie hut feel the body of the death | out of which I cry, hourly, with feebler outcry, to be ielivered?it were enough to , in ike hiin da>li the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mailtlling temptation." j If you have a young friend who ma) '( be ill danger of acquiring an appetite for ) | strong drink, invito Ins attention to Chan. !j Lamb's dreadful experience. ! 1 C A PT. J. K. li(^VU, Of K AN3AU?A.I friend I it a liirnished us wjiii ;t ?ery 'nter j ' eating letter jt:M received IV??UI ihi?) onng ' gentleman, ilia only emigrant now in ( | Kansas froin tins iJistrict. VVe regret i , iIinI w# have not lima to make extracts | , from it litis week. (Japt. Uuyd'? many | Iriend* and admirers will L>? pained to r learn lliat a ah rt lima since lie wm at tacked I?y a party of Abolitionist*, ill I4* ifflce, a I >0111 one o'clock at night, hi* life liien'ened, and his office set on tire and ' mtirely consumed, with all hie hooks, ' dothmg and nearly everything he jam ' leaned. We w|l give the particulate to < Hir ayit issue- ? A'mjtLre* Star. J l)e jfttapt. lawuasterville, s c. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH in, |8.%8. (Hj?' .Sickness h is prevented the editor irum attending Jo his duties f'??r the past week, and hetict: 11?*. luck of editorial in this issue. Minority Report. We are indebted to Hot;. S. A. Douglas, fur a copy of the minority report from the Committee on Territories upon lite mailer of the admission of Kansas Smrtll Pox in Charlotte. We have just learned, from a source ?n* titled to credit, that the Small Pox is in Charlotte. The liud, only, has been furnished ns this day (Tuesday) from our own office, aeeompanitd with no particulars. More Sno?r. Again on Monday evening last, we hurl a vcf v pretty fall of anow, covering the groond to the depth of one or two inches. The weather throughout the past week lots been remarkably cold and unseasonable?at lea?t so we have been informed,f'?i personally, our observations, during that period have been confined to the limits of ou? chamber. South Carolinian. Dr. It \V. (libbes, of the Carolinian, an- ! nuances bis withdrawn' from the editorial i charge of that paper, and that lie will he ' succeeded by franklin (Jni.lnrd, U?q . late | >1 the Winnsboro Register. Under Ur. iihbes' charge the Carolinian hns deservedly j naked among the first papers in the connry and, evidently. it is one among the few ihat is making money. Mr. (Jailbird is an iccomplishcd w riter, well posted in politics iml equal in every respect to the extended ] icld <1 labor in o which he in about to liter. Col. Orr Declines Re election.?We iav'e seen (s:i\h ilie Spartanburg Kxpre**.) i private letter from lion Jim L Orr, in >\ liicli be * : "I have ^dres-ed a form:.I ! lominiinication to a committee (it Anderson. I a which I have positively di lioud a re oloc j ion to Congress." All those, therefore, j vlio intend to offer for the honoiable mul , espon-iible position now occupied by Col. )rr. as Representative from this Cotigres. ional District, may enter upon the unuvoaa n good earnest, with no fears of having my opposition from him. We understand, from private sources, luit it it likely that tl.ere will not be more han three canhlate* ; Col. 'J'. <> I*. Vernon ' if this district, (ad. J. D Asliinorc of An. j lerson, and Col. K. I'. Jones of Greenville. j I'licsc gentlemen have e\pressed their jjju-n j ion to be candidates it Col. Orr should ?! - i lino n re-uleuiioii. We suppose therefore | lay will now declare themselves uncoudiiupally. Thk Slave Tkadi?The telegraph in j iirinn us (says the Carolinian.) that a cargo ! if negro* lias been landed and sold in l.ou [ iiann. Wo regret to liaar that, w bile there xists a law of the Confederacy against it. t should be connived at (if it bo lite fact) n the South. The South lias ever been n nvv-abidii g people, arid we are puinud to ee. in the face of law, any violation of our propriety. We Mill defend lo the IiimI the xUting rights of the South and her present | Inims, but we believe the renewal of the ilave trade injurious to her best interes t, ind likely to cause seriou? division in her iow numerous ranks We trust there Is lOine mistake in the telegraph report. The Carolinian regrets to learrj that, on Saturday hist, an in cident occurred on the Union and Spartanburg Railroad, from a , pheel running off from one of the box j iars. The passenger ci?r was thrown off. md several gentlemen injured. Among liiem, ihe |lun. Judge O'Neal received ? severe cut upon bis head, and was otherwise njured. Me was orried to Union, and on Monday attempted to hold court, but was .hliged to adjourn It. 'J'he la est advices lYum him are that he wm improving, and 10 serious apprchonsiun w as had of his :ase. A Half. Old Vltbiias.?Grant Thorium is a sensible old man. On the 18th ult.he wrote aa follows from New Haven, I'onnecticul: '1 have lived another venr in thin f.iNely '( railed miserable world. I verily believe t in the beat world, terreMirinl that ever liod Almighty made. I have never felt head, In art nor loot haphe daring the year |u?t nnnu by ; und thin day I enter upon my riplity-til'lti yewf. 1 wain without a <?t..fT. ind eat my food without brandy or bitter*. I never win drunk in nty lite, and never Und a rheuiliNtic pain I voted three yearn iVliea VVaaliinpton was 1'n-sideht I lived wenty-two yea re under Qeurpe III ; saw he whole reipn of Cieor.e IV, \\ illiiun b'I, and Vieloru thus tar. I wae intimate villi Hamilton, Jay,, Morns, old Governor JJinlon and other prominent aclore in the evolution." The Winnaboro Krpiater states that the mm id' huodrvd dollar* lute Itpen repelv d toward* the erection of the IJuijapn iionnuiciil. TbOne deatmti* of Sending in [ ontribulioDM may direct flitm to Ju?. II.'] lu?0, at Wiouaboro. * , H' ?' Washington Iteau, We arc Indebted to our exchanges for the following itof WnsMugton new* : I Feb. '.27.? Horace Greely was examined j thin morning before the Tariff Investigating . Coiniiiittee. All the members were pres- [ ent. The exnminaHon was concluded with- 1 in forty minutes, when Mr. Greely was inI formed that the committee would not rej quire his further attendance. Ile expressed i his high appreciation of the candor and j I1 courtesy of the coinioittco, and thanked j them for calling him before them. He says that they a?kcd tiini no question which ho I iiil not deem pertinent, and which lie was ' not very glad of an opporiunity to answer j | The purport of his teslimonv is uie'erstond , to be, that no man ever proposed to put i | any money into his hands to influence in i | any way the action of Congress on the ' I tariff or any otln-r question, and no one ; | suggested anything of the sort with his | consent or knowledge, lie never knew i until t| hite fjfiosc in Uoston, tier ever heard or hel'eVed .hat inpnev was paid o? | pr< mined by Messrs. Lawrence, Stone it I CoM or l>y Mity oiic else, whether to memI ber? or other*, to iiiflociico lire action of i the last Congress on the tariff. The Union nl thin morning. in replying I to what it calm the "temperate pro'vet" of I the Riehmomi Koqirrer,against making the 1 admission of Kansas a party i #tic. say* :? "it is no part of nor purpose. to discuss | the propriety or impropriety of holding j those 1 > it! le.at* who opjoi-e admission to I account ami to enforce against them edicts of ckcoijHuuiiti niion. We hold tin dictatorial oflleeol the kioii. We are intrusted with lot such power. "We claim simply to weigh all the facts | of the case, in d lo state the conclusions ol , a lair, candid judgment upon them. The | position of the President and the strong array of Democratic Senators and inciii| hers of Congress on the side ot the admission. are facts which go out to the po? j pie for precisely what they ari worln. Tney ; | arc nut conclusive ; 'hey do n<>t hind the j p n tv, though ?v inHsl tli.it tiify arc villi* | tied In ureal weight with ewrv Democrat wli'i in called upon to t">*rm a judgment upon the question of v\ Itether tl?? admi-siuii , ol Kansas is or is '<ot a party measure." | The Union ttieti argile* upon reeo'd and j I lie merits of the vane. It finds ample testimony by which to claim party allegiance to the measure for a division. The Union savs that the Kxeeutivc lias i done its dot tind tin* responsibility rests , with the Senate lor refusing troops to de- ' tend the frontiers against lioides ot savage*, who are known to bt< under Mormon | influence; and ol jeop irduhig the vaiu- | paign against the Mormons. Henry A. Washington, late Professor of I History in William and Man College. Vir , giniti, was tie rid. ntl\ killed by an air gun ' thin nflrrnonnttl his residence in tins eitv. ! March t.?In the Senate, to day, the ' Kansas Hill wss taken up, and Mr. (irui -n, 1 of Missouri, gave uotiee ot a bill lor the j admission of Kansas and .M unesola tngelh- ; t*r. Il) ).-? spnfcll Upon tllC s|l Itjt L'l h?* sla* j t-d llmt Whitfield -lt d others li .(I lu'i-n dri- ! veri from lh? Territory by threats of as ' aasinalion. Mr. ('olluuter, (Itlack Repub* liean.) of Vermont, defended the Ktuigru tion Aid S< air ties. The proceedings of the House were unimportant. March y.? In the Semite, to dav. the Sound ])ties Kill was passed. Mr Doug* I I.is tailed up Ids Kansas iufoiinatii.il reso- \ I lit ion. The Katisait State lull Was discuss- I ed. In the House, the bill for the restoration | of the several Ollicers ufTectud l?y the lie- I tiring Hoard, was discussed till the adjourn* inent took place. March 11?The War Department has later ndvices from Col. Johnston, of the artnv in Utah. He uig.-s the earlv nrtival ; of the store trains with a H'rong esenr' ? ' Gen Sent I lias Ordered 200 X.-igiitis, 1600 mules, and seven companies of cnvulrv to start from Fort Iwavenworth on the 10th inst, and has also sent.in the greatest haste I to the ( oniinamler in New Mexico to furnish a strong escort to Cnpt. Marcy, mi his return with the mulct* for I'id. Johnston, as the Mormons intend to intercept him and rob him of his mules. .Match 4 ?Tne House Kan*"* Commit- ' tee met yesterday. Gen. Calhoun's statement in regard to Kansas aflni'* was refused > to be received. A resolution, calling lor tlie census i.lid documentary e- idenccs, was adopted. Mr. Stephen* presented to the j Committee a report tu be submitted to the House ns the views of the majority, which I was adopt* d by the Committee by a t?de of eigh' to seven. It is supposed that there I will be two minority report*. The reports ' w ill he shortly presented to the House.? ' Tho Committee adjourned, to day, tin* itif. In the Senate, K.m-as iillaii* were di*- ( cursed. The resolution to inquire into the .. .... - . *. miegeu iniHicme oi me f,xecuu\e upon the votvh of (lieu.bom wait l?tid <>n tl.o laLie. The volunteer bill w*e nlSodiecuaaed. Cuba.?A Washington correspondent of j the Journal of (Jt/rtimercr my* : "We have ' liciird much utid very vaguely, of the pur- | po-e ot our adiniiiiel'utinii in regard to Cuba. ].? it not improbable lliut aoine ingot, alion, looking to the puachaae of Cube may J be commenced, upon the occurrence of a fuvorable opportunity. If the object be j tavored by the go*eminent* of France and Circat Britain, it ia nut iuipo?aii?le that it will k?e nceoinpliahed wi>hin Air. Uuchanun'a linif." Inof.niou*.? l>r Ihivid Hu e, of la-verelt, MaanuchuartU, has removed a triangular piece of chicken bone from the throat of a woman, by a very ingenious though aimple operation. The bone had lodged edgewise in the gullet, and no hold could by got by the ordinary jt}*lrumeiita; the doctor there* fore foret-d a amall piece of dry sponge flown the throat, saturated it with wa.er, ami when it hud filled the whole canity below he gradually dr?w it out, bringing the offending buuv wi b It. >... J V" " I)r Use, of Hamilton, C. W., the celebrated Aretic traveller, a few days since, accomplished the distance between llainillon and Turoato, more tlmn forty miles, in snow shoes, in about teo hours. The last Weekly statement of the N. York citv banks shows an increase in the specie line of 8> 1.190.000 upon the previous week The. aggregate amount on Saturday footed up ?31,'411.070, being a higher figure than wne ever known before. The accumulation since the suspension hue been over S-J2.0oa.a00. The Catholie IVmale Academy, sHunted about twelve mile* fioin Lebanon. K v , was burned on the 2?)th lilt., together with the ('ho rebuild its contents, including one of the most valuable libraries in the SlnW.? Tl.o loss was about $3D,UOO, nod there wua iiu insurance. Firk.?The Winnsbnto lirginer thus notice* the l ite 'iisustruu* Ins* of Dr. Gee Trezevant ; "FtRK.?The lions* of Dr. Geo. S Treze\.int, on Jackson's (' eli. ?in commuted b? liie ?>M Sunday night. The fire it i> thought v\ m lit at communicated to the red from a spark. K\cry thing wtm consumed ; sueh rapid progress had the devouring , tl iium ni ide, that w hen discovered. the doctor h id h.irelv time to rescue his family.? : Nothing nt all miusaved. We deeply mmpnthi-e with them. They had hut recently settled oil Jackson's ('reck. alld were p'casI ed with the kind and hospitable manner in whieh tliev had heeti treated?had just begun to feel themselves at home, when this tire swept everything front them." Hail I{uai> .Accioknt?On Wednesday night a collision occurred, between two freight Ir:iiti *??ihunt three miles from It ranch. \ill**, on the truck toward* this city. Sev. mil shattered earn, in ciinnci|iicni'P, were It'll n the track, itml una signal n lire was kindled, 11 ii?1 u laborer, Daniel DotT. n Scotchman, Was appointed in keep up the signal, lie Uliloitillilltely fell asleep, and was run over by llie night cxpiciw train from Columbia, which broke one leg and arm. He was living at our latest accounts, which have been procured w ith dillicully and after icpealcd enquiries ?Chatlefton Courier. l>i<nn?iNu Ca*e or IIydhophoma.? Mis* M.ihala Witman. all unliable iiinnn ladv. Daughter <>f Mr. IVter Witman, who ri hidi'H in < 'hf-t. r county 1 *. , died I rout ilu* elfet li ii|' tlu* distrcasi'ijj malady. hydro, phobia, i<n VV eilnesday morning l.mt. Tur Kc.-idino (jazcttc h.ivh : "About uiuo week* n;'n Mi-s Wit man \vai? bitivii bv a ib'X lhdoii|{iiig In her latlii-r. It wan not kujij ? si, at the tiini* that the d,><j was m.i?l ; but the family, bciiii? ji|i|>r?'lioiiNivf tliit Mich iniohl be tin* eii*e, tied him t in in the alible. whero during tin- ni^ht. In* strangled bitiiu'lf with the r ipe by w tiicli Kb wan aocurad. Ton |?ltv- L oiflaiif of tl-v neighborhood ? * tminud the J d ?j? and pronounced him not mad. N-t- J m ithatandin^ t>>i? positive opinion, liowev. er, on Monday, the 141It in*t. the youny lady uiw luken ill, and uftcriv aids wni iwited wiih violent convulnion*, having all the n\ mpiouiH ot hydrophobia, nnd on Wed !. if l. L J' = - mr >n>' o.eu, ill (lit- greatest ] agony Mi^.n Witinnnli d been living with M iMargaret Borcker ?<t a maiitiia maker until within the Inat eight or ten inmilha. it tie! w.ii well known and highly esteemed in *lii-i t il) " Sivkiso uk Watkii ruoM S.v*n. ?livingdone. tins A rit-iin trsveller drU'rilwi un ingenious method by which thu African* t hi am Water in ihe desert : "The women t?c n bunch of graa* to one ei.d of a reed about two led long, and in- . xerI it in a hole dug an deep a a (he urin | will reach,then rani dawn the wet aand lirin-j Iv a round it. Applying the mouth to the free end of ihe reed, tlicy form a vacuum in the grans bt-nealh, in which the water collect*, ami in a abort tunc rite* lo ihe ' mouth.* It will be perceived tftk.it this aim* pie, liul truly philosophical and etVecluat method, n ight have been applied in many | caaca, in different countfiea, where water; wim jirmillt needed, to the anting of life.? 11 aecltiM wonderful ll>,t It ,.l...?i-l i ' _ ...... ...... i? nn"UMi iunr iioril J now fits! made Known to the world, nnd i Ilia' it Mlioold h.-ive Iwn habitually prr.ctU*' ed in A fries, probably lor centuro* It ' hc. iil wmrthy c,t being particularly noticed, tli.tt it tiniv no longer lm neglected from ignorance It may In- highlv important to traveller* on our Wentcru drwrli nnd prairie., in Aoijio p>.rt. oT w l.icli water in know n to exi?t be|ow (he nurfucv. Tits llt/u CnOp ?We pfe.enl to day h complete niMtemeut of the packing t* round til* K?iu. front which It Will humeri that the iiK-ren?e in iitnnhur t* little under 8000 head, while the ilicrnue ill tlie ??' giegale weight in .tpwaid* of four million pound*, and in barrel fork 19.3UU bar rels. The return* from distant point* come in very nlowlj, nnd at man) uf the packing i* not yet cloned, Hint may no', be earlier lli>.n tbe l.t of Maroh.-"? We think, however, that tbe final footing will above en aggregate of 2 . lbO.OUQ or 2,200,U00 against l.tjlrt.OOQ last year, exclusive of (be increase weight, l,i.i 1 " - > <11 mum i"ci 11nilr or tj'iilt! 111 e per ''elll. Adm im-rense ii|miii die preceedinVT \e?r is <pnle Inr^e, dm toinl shows h deticietu-v, computed with the sen-on of 1854 -'65. of no ne 50 000 to 800,000 lin^s, >*in| it|>?in dii< comparison n specuIhiIoii iii dm product 1m* been originnied miiiI the result in seen ill n very Inrjfe Mil* vHiieeinent in the pn*t two weeks ? Whether dim hiIvmiicv will ln? iiiniiitniiied, carried vet furl tier, or whether price* will rectde, is h <ptn?lmii which cause* titucli discussion in the tr*<le, mr,| w|ih|i wpctttf m>t undertake (u decide, The facts we tfive?the proper conclusion tu I* drawn from these fact* we !e?ye to our renders. ? LauitrilU fteriru) A Rami Chaliikoi.? A lady skater on Jamaica 1'ond, near Ronton, recently ottered n kiss to any one who wouhl l*at her in n men. A young dark?y was the winner, nud received bis reward. ? Santas Tlie Legislature of Texas, last Wednesday, adopted tl?e following joint resolutions. The vote In the 8en?te whs twenty two to fivo. The resolutions were reported hy ? joint committee, of which Wigfiill whs clmirmftn on the part of the Senate, mid Col. Bee on the part of the House. The action in a ri^hl one, but it requires to be tftkeu i Whereas there exists, and has existed, o uiitlii.il <liiturtitiliiitii.il nil I Itii tin ft nf u portion of the inhabitants of the Territory of Kansas io exclude, b\ force, the citizens of Hie slave holding Slates Iron) ejus:, equal Hini |**accful participation in the Use ami enjoyment of tlie Cnmi|)u? prop ertyand territory of the members vl the Confederacy. An?J, whereas, this deter niiiiHtiun, owing to the state of politicHl feeling in the Northern States of the Con feilerncy, operating upon Federal Coveritinent, may hero me effectual ami the ex elusion perpetual ; tliere'ore. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Texan, Thai the Coventor ot the Slate is hereby authorized to or iler an e eclion for seven Delegates to meet Delegates appointed hy the oilier Soullieri. S.ates in Conveiilioii, v*heuever the Ex ecu lives of a majoritv ol the slavehuloiug States shall express ihe opinion tlmt such Convention is necessary to preserve the equal rights of such State* in the Union anil advise the Coventor of the Slate that measures have heen taken for the a|'|iouit nietil ol lvlegHtes to meet those of Texas; and litHt llie sum *?f leu thousand dollar* or so inticli thereof as is necessary, be and ilio same m hereby appropriated to pay ilie mileage hihI per divm of such Delegate*, ?Inch shall lie paid at the rule* paid the members uf the United Slates Congress, hi'corJing to the law hi fotce in the \ear 1864. 2 TIihI should an exigency arise, in the o|iinion <>f (lie Governor, in which il is necessary for llie State of Texas to a? I alone, or liy a Convention leprefceuung '.lie sovereignly of llie Slate, lie is liereUv requested to call a special session of (lie la-gidature lo provide for such Slate Convert ion. 3. Hint tlie (Governor is requested to transmit copies of these resolul:niis lo the Kxeculive of eitcli of tlie slaveholdinn | St nil's, and to our ineinbera of Congress ? Xoulh Carolinian. The Citadel Academy. Wfc find in the Charleston Mtrcury, a long communication fioin h committee ot lilt* < Ihss recently suspended at tin* Militn iy Academy ol the State. Mr \\ lute of iliis Disltict is oil l lie com milt ee of tl? ree w ho*e n sines are affixed lo I lie coinniuni* cation. It is proper that the public slioulil know tins facts. If the st ileiilents of lite 'indents arts correct?ami we have no tjouhl that they think '.hem so?the afi'air iiHiulh in tins position: l'rof. Stevens, who, it ajqiears, is decidedly tiii|Hipular 1 with the Cadets, attempted to introduce t siniid innnViitihite ir* tlm .? - quelle while leaving the recitation ro<?in. I heae iunnvatioiH were repugnant to tlie Ml*pcn-le<l Cailela Oil HCVeral Hd'OIIIlt* Kir*t, they were new?aoineth'ng Hitlerent Ironi what tliey were accualottteil to. S 't'ontllv, tliev were iniro<tiice<) hv h l'ro fesMor, nihI not hy the Superintentlaiii, who el >ne hatl the riyht to change the Hiaciplrue. Tliiwlly, there waa an unpol ilie thnlinctioti ina-ieiii llir Hum ? tlietiiM ' * la-** heing exempted?which distinction, vliile it w ?k perhapH the nnmt offensive f.-Hinre iii the iniiovMlioti, wm in direct vlolHtion of en <j.Mahli?hcd rule?that nil Cadeln nhoulrl he treated alike; hihI fourth Iv, the new regulation* were introduced in an arbitrary manner, hv an arbitrary ] V'l.-M?or. * h?? l?v a little ?yn viler in mixio I might easily li ?v? it UA|(iiriitpil his i tit - j provoinents. This we think is h liue ' *1 element of what gave offence to the 1 Cadets, as j*lt*iue<j from their own state meets. li.-harred from the right ? ( petitioning, as h class, hy the Superintendent, they Miitiiorized their S<piHti Marcher tr ?d 1 dress l'ruf. Stevens uii tl?e nil jeci and reipiesl him 'o restore the old method nf retiring Irmn tlie recitation r.-.m Ti.~.? ? I req-ie>l #i? not regarded, and tliev proceeded in (IcKiiDCd of command*, ''Ki*e,'' j ' Left Face" Ac., to march oat from the auguat presence of the man *Vkill?-?l to rule,' according to theo'd approved ineth o<|. For tin# they were ?u?pended. Thrt 1 immediately petitioned the Hoard of Vis itor*. asking to lie restored to their former J poeiliofi which wax refused, #o lliev were forced to acknowledge themselves in the wrong?which they disdained to df.?or consider themawlvue virtually expeMcd, which latter alternative they adopted.? ,Atiout twenty four Cadets were bunpeildad. 1 We ex pre## no opinion a# to who w as in error. We are, and have ever l-een, an advocate of Atrict di#ciphne in literary a# well a# in military iiialilutiuiiA, and in the latter it i# an imlixpcnsahle requisite ?the tine qua non of their existence.? If ill w Inle i liia irt true, there i* a right and a wrong w ty to do everything. There wa# no necessity for Prof. Stevens to lake the ino#l offensive method of introducing ] what, in itftelf, could not have hecii very | dmta#teful. Prudence would have *ug geated #oine regard, not to the tight*, toil to the feeling* of the Cadet*, The inter nu of the institution required the exer i ci?e of *onta tttttf" f?>e cjTit?.at iaw*t, soma attention to the u?ual method of proceetluig. This might have pievented a disruption onpleaaant to all parties.? Yorkvtlle Enquirer. Uihtpektino Ocovkkknc* ?VYe ore pHllivl IO N||(|UUIU'? 1% ?*d HIllJ <1 mtfHMlitiy occurrence wliicb Ux>k |>i?r? near C'.iiniefi on ih?i J"'nday afternoon. Tbmriaa J. Wither*, Jr., eldeat eon of tbe Judg", wbilal riding up tbe Kirk wood road, b*? bone being mi fu?l apeed, vu thrown NgMintt i\ tree on tbe aide of tbe roaU and dreadfully injured, tioib leg? broken al*OV? llie kn.ee mid bit b?>d) mtverely brutaed. His condition in very critical. Tine dietreaeing occurrence baa n<*ca nioiied greet eynpnhy in our community for the unfortunate aufferet ki- well m f>>r b'a Mhifinnlied Utility Mild bieude.? Cura4** Ju*T>ud, The Sieve Trade?Who Carries it on'Hie New York I/eralJ, in hii article in reference to the recent announcement I of the New Oi leans Prlla that the slave I track' has in tact heen re opened, and that i Blavoe lias l>e?U lauded at l'earl liiwr, saya: ' "The announcement of thia fact may \ ' strike lho.?c alio are not conversant with the subject ms something new ; and a ill, no doubt, create considerable ahum Hilton^ those who are opposed to the revival of the slave trade. Wheher there is or is not star truth in statement ol the Delia, it will furnish a text for muotiieiahle articles from the Abolition press, and for feroc'ouK diatril>es Irotii the Abolition and lllack Republican Oiators and preachers ot all denominations. In view of the statement, and of what may be ('AlUVifti t() ftillllM' (ti till it-i ? ?I - - - I I 18 as well to look Nl tint lacts in tlie case. J In the first place, then, it is notorious 8 to all who are >?t all ihfcrmed upon the subject ilia'. * lie slave tiade lias existed in j tins country for years past ; thai it was 1 and is carried on cliieHy bv Nortlierit ^ citizen* of the United States; the Nor iliein capitalists have invested more ex- ' tcnsively in it titan the citizens of any other portion of the Union, and consequently src more deeply interested in its maintenance and success. The vessels which Save been employed in tha trans- 1 port at ion of si tvcs have been lilted out | matt ly in New York, Hurtou, i'oiilaud I and tfriMol, hut of these New Yolk is fl the favorite point for the operations ol the dealcis. Within tlie l.ist twenty tears over Hfty slavers wcte capttueil and brought into this por?, nearly all of which wcie ?quipped and fitted out with Northern capital. The numla-r of vessels captured and condemned, however, hears hoi a veiv small tuoiioi lion in t num. ? i i ...? ....... Iter tilled out from the porta we have iiHitie'!. The sieve fleet which leaves i New \ ork, Boston huiI oilier sen pons in the course of a single year consists of about forty vctsels ol vaiiou* siaes, tanging from otie hundred to live liunilreil tons, iind capable ol carrying limn lour li'ii- I?e?I to six liunilreil slaves each. Every slaver is manned by crews of 'loai til tee it to tweiitv five men, including li e captain and olliceia, inakm^ a total l?>r the whole fleet ol about a thousand W ' lien. I its whole of the capital invested does not probably exceed four millions of ! dollars, upon which a pi..|it of something I ! ncirii millions is rcHlUi'i|. II- re, tlii'll, Ul litis MMI of furls Wit li.?vu mIiudiImiiI proot that the nt ivn tmd? 1 It?*- eXI-ted, doe* at | rescltl cXi.-l, allil is ^ in ? inH in-.I chiefly I>\ Northern men and Noilli?*rn cmjiiimI. Tim reports of the m'vcl Ooiniin-Moti hi 11 iaiih present -till further evidence on th s I r*??.I ; hut there is no want of proof wliiit* the r<cords of tl (i United S itt(,!'i|ir|< in this **ity chii In* presented. There * mi* other fact which may ho Hh e<i in 'Ids connection. I lie landiiitr of slaves nlocjr our Boutlieln.roHst can t<o elferieu wit little or no dtti.uliy, and without tlau i?er of detect on, us there i* im Mixed Commission, fke that of C'oha, in tho Sou'h, and no one Miflleientlv in eresied in the Hilt fer 10 fnrid-dl the infoiui \ rioli to the ptoper authorities. Auout Nk^si-AfKiis. ? It is due to our friend-, the I' *!masters, to state thai tho I'lmtmas'cr (reiisrtl lias recent Iv decided that il I'littini s'ers do not j{:?e publishers of net??p*peia notice that their papeis remain in the po-tolHce without hemy t.lo u mil hv the s.ihscrihcrs, wit Inn five week*, tlrev aie liahle lor ptv. Speaking of newspapers, we olwerve .1.1. - - >ihi vmicn tj'twaer, ?>t ili>- 1'iulate I'unit, >f \\ uiilftor, \*l., Im* decided tlinl h ijood Iniiiitv new-paper is oiie of il.e ntH'fctxiy article* f.<r 11 .Mippori a I m 11 i I \, iliiiim; t lie M'ltloMielll of ill) estnte, Hliii, Ml" ll, ll.O mlniiiiiMrslnr, in ?i?m<e*?tate>. jiiMiflable in patin^ fir one?lliu widow t<? in tike 11 r own M'let'tinii of what j ?>* j h r olie ?ill It ive. \\ ? , tin.renter, iilmrriH that a iihk Ihw on lli*> |-reft* ha* come into force in I Ion mark, j'T" lnl> lino ne?\Mntiiei? toon co| vin^ t tie article* of other j >tirnn'? without, | credit. All ilie?e deei*ioin? will meet tlio J unqualified approbation of the |ir??l,-r| (*tIK-Iiml Tunes. Receipt* I J I) Johnson .May lit '68 Oiarleatnn Hotel May 18 '68 \V F Kiitledg* July II '68 Jo* ?*11rke Autf 3 '68 J C S4tiv.ll, Kaq April II '68 Jo* A < 'ufiniiiolmin Julv 31 'A? ,} 0 PtfTrY July 7th *69 John McCorklo Feb |jf '59 K II Crockett JM0 ia *59 It llMiniuond Auj1 11 ;aa Jainea Fuoderburk Jun tith '69 i J110 A (luiiibi* Feb 12 '69 j I. A U'litaoa Jnn I mi '68 . RY HTwittjr Feb2-t'59 (apt N Yanbuitiinifhnn Ma'ch {i| '58 (i M Cuakajr th.i 81I1 '68 .? N Dun I up jrtn lit '59 B II Masse y Fi-b 19 '69 I W 11 unt?*r Jun 16 '68 J T K Bvlk March 18 '69 T E Mc.Myjoo Kept lu '68 A J Sisal lira March 26 '68 Jarral lljll March I-t 68 l)r T N Weddington Feb 12 '68 J K Hunter * 12 *69 Prof C P I'olhara March 16 '68 II R llood PVh 19 '69 Andrew Mill* sin Jan 5th '69 E 1) Crockett Feb 12 '69 VV 8 tl.irp?r. Jan i t I '5tf M I' Cm* ford Jan 12 'ifl Hymeneal. MaMKUD, oil llie rTrllllig of ihf JUi mat , bj ln?s K? v. A. J. ( MUiiit-n. Si*. Ltdfcitc A. Vutsut, of K?n?li?w m il Mim Jut Si, McDuw, of tfiU Duiricl. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrn Obituary. Ui(D,in Iai.?ii4rr Uimmi 01. day ^4th oil , MahV LMMAI Hki.k via* I wrl of f i'iu?a Al. lioU. K-?| . in 62?d J ) ?/*( l??l ugli. ||?*r di**.** Wan ^ inonia alid it. m rk wait n<-?*ompli.h?d III i f?w <U|?. bh? ealioi^eied Ha/ 4jmo1?Uu4,^^H 1