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Partoa's Life of JacksonWe iu;?lie llio following extract fruiu an interesting critique in the Charleston Mercury upon this new work, having reference, principally, to the Historian's or- ' ror in assigning North, instead of South Carolina, as General Jackson's birth , place : The early life?lite boy life?of Jack son is lacking in material. Nobody knows anything. One man, or woman, reinem bers that he was called Aspv, and (he tradition shows that he was a wiidisli j colt enough. Lint the details are wretch- t edly meagre. It is even left '.o a very te- ; Cent period to discover a report that Old I Hickory once kept an old lieid school hi South Carolina. As respects the evidence. filler all Mr. l\?rton's gleaning, it is hard , ly worth a copper, in a single instance, | where u reguds Jackson's childhood and youth. Wii it was imposing in these items was long since gathered, and pot on re cord, by Elton, and C Jibuti, and 11 wi dall. The strangest thing of ail is, that \ the excellent loik ol the Carolina borders, wlio can remember hardly a half dozen incidents in the boyhood of one whose boyhood was yet so remarkable as to im press everybody?.hat i.?, to remember it after he became President of the United ' States?are yet very positive ,jn .knowing j better liiau Jackson himself, as to the I s,>ot where he was lirst swaddleq into j clothing. The amiable old hero, during ] his wljole life, was sure that he was born in South Carolina ; and nobody ventured j to contradict him. lie perpetually alarms ! it. Not only does he declare this in one of the greatest of Ins public documents. ,ihe Proclamation versus Nullification, but .he writes it in scores of instance*. Tj i the Union party of South Carolina, dated | Juno 14, 1831, lie speaks of the gratili j cation lie should feel in re visiting "the | State of which L feel a pride in calling j myself a citizen by birth and this, at a ] moment, when we might suppose him ' .eager to repudiate Ins birth-place. And it so happens that none of tin* I old ladies who saw him in his swadding 1 clothes, when they themselves were but seven years old ? remembering the whole tiling perlectly when they weie seventy seven?sav, at this time, a singlo wold to '.he amiable Pashaw, to satisfy him that he knows nothing of the matter himself j Apd, no doubt, lie did not. No man can j properly give testimony to the hour, place i and circumstances of his own birth. Put | fie is apt to hear of it troin better author! j tv than nay neighbors or remiuiscents cap possibly be. Andrew Jackson's modi j er liyec! till ber son was full lledged?a | young fellow able to carry weapons and j figni the battles of hi* counliy ; and ait that lie heirrs from mother*, neigbhois, I friepds and relative*, satisfy him. to the list hours of his life, that ho was horn I near the borders, hill in Soiiih, and not | in North Carolina. And al sixty years ot j age lie professes to be reasonably proud : ol his birthplace ; was partly disposed to | be hostile to, and rather ashamed of him. j lluw these amiable intelligent!*, who discover bis error on tins snl jeci, on the | testimony of old lad es who remember so i well at seventy seven what iliey s.a # hi seven, forehoru to set him light while he | still lived, is a problem not easily solved. But we.hear not a syllable of these reminiscent* until the party most concerned \ himself, and a!l witnesses, are in their I graves ; until they are safely under j ground every body believed that Andrea | Jackson was a South Carolinian by both. It is only after lie is dead, having achieved j wonderful distinctions, that our amiable ' cousins of North Carolina wake up and | rake up the testimony which proves (<?r ( does not prove) otherwise. And such j testimony. Socliey remembers what Sally said, and Sally, at seventy seven, remembers petlectly her experiences at seven ; in the casts of an obscure boy, an obscure funily, in an obscure d.veiling, of an oh scure precinct; and, remembering ibis one fact, of his lime and place of birth, thfc ilifrtr olil I ill 117 rMittni.tlvuio ? J .^...^...,^.0 I inure. Nut an ace-dent?nut an incident. | We ratlio; think tliat, in tins paricnlar, My. Parton, wlio may, for aught tvo j know, be a relative uf Mrs. Partington, has shown himself credulously lung ol ears. The ualiinoi.y upon which 1^ do | cides this even is such as could not lo lermine the dimensions uf a red cow's tail before a juiy of tailors. Wo note, l>y the way, that even with legal assistance, lie j fails to tirid that the Jackson family |ctid any taxes in North Carolina. Him infer once is thai they were lamentably poor, lie does not lib us that iio inquired in the tax-books of South Carolina. Sup pose now some of our excellent legal faiends of Lancaster District were to ad ill ess themselves lo the labor of supply in-r the deficient records ? There, in the I mac of Lancaster, toil see laid down, on the main road to the Court Home, and within a stone's throw of Waxhaw Creek, "Jackson's Birthplace" And such was j not onty the belief of al', down to the ! period of Jackson s eminence, but there it ' stood, on (be suhsiantial records of a , Htait). And, in those days, there were not on y a thousand witnesses, hut they j were then undisputed. And the brave old > hully, And) Jackson, believed it fully, as diU *11 llio neighborhood. Hut, as Mi i'arton says?a/tt/ ex pen <J,iug a score of pages on the subject?il is of no sort of consequence. It is not of ! much itio^ifcui where a man is horn, il lie ' < an make n good record of the way lie ! lives and how ho (lies 1 The amiable, facetious Judge (Ji Qper, when twitted by the Union men in 1832 with being a foreigner, an Kenglishinan, sturdily re ! plied that this was all a mistake i That he was an American-a South Caroliniani j That a man had a right to cliooue his own native place, and that his was the gruulwr claim to b* a South Carolinian ; for that, of his own free will, lie had cho I sen to become one, while tho unfortunate j natives c >uld not heip themselves?had 1 no choice in the matter, and were natives by the purest accident I 'Arrah !' quoth j i Paddy, 'if a man should be horn in a sta 1 bfe, would that make him a horse ?' ' I> is verv certain that, whetfier horn in t $outli or North Carolina, neither ?hal? I cajrtuJ a ail pence for her progeny untii he j hecainp famous I They lx?th tied c hii>? down the wind, as reekle-dy a- the f mother alligator, who turns ncr thousand i young ones into the lagoon an hour niter , r ii ] I I hirth, to seek their own browsing places. I Neither Las any claim to him save the mere accident of trirtli. Thay.never help ed him 0110 step in his fortunes?weie rather adverse; and u would he a mere j importance, in either, to assert a claim | now, when they hope to reap pro til by ] his fame, which they never.cured to assert in the day of Ins prosperity. South Caioiitiu did assert the claim xf ter a fashion, and ail parties seemed sat* istied .villi her facts, until red headed ^\nd\, the Jhilly, tiaiohler, ,{lorse racer and D.usllist?for his claims to all these characteristics are not rlisputed hv Ins btogiapher?grew to he the Cterar of his time ! and then, the old ladies brushed up their nieuiories, renew tuu themselves like the eay.1 , ^o that I 'oily, and Siikev, iiiuinhhtig, hi i o, over me chronicles, reculled their experiences of the days of pap Hiid milk porridge! We had the fortune to Lave near and dear relatives, whose sojourn in Lancaster 1'.strict at an early period, Tennessee and elsowl.eie in the West, made tlietn per. fectly intimate with Andrew Jackson.? One of them accompanied him (under Coflee) in the famous expedition into the Creek country, when the voinnteeis of Tennessee were called out to avenge the massacre of Fori Minis How would iliev tie confounded to heir, now, that Old Hickory v as not a South Carolinian !? One of them knew him well, and when, in 1824 Jackson was very much derided as 1'iesideiit C-tidida'.e?derdt'd and de noiinced in South and North Caiolina, as bully and brute, ignorant and profligate ? we lemetuber to have called ijift alien lion of this old friend and venerable tela live, to the charges. 'Are these things true ?*we asked, in the innocence of our boyhood, not knowing the peculiar vir tues of partizan patriotism in the art of lying. 'True,' said the old man. 'Re fleet for | yourself, my son J Andrew Jackson has j tilled every situation, civil and (gilita'V, known to our country, and in eveiy situ ! ation has always proved himself "the master of men.' 11?>w should such a man he other than great.' lie addsd?-'ho is a man of terrible passions ; hut lie can keep them in sub jeetiuu ; and tbe passions are the powers by which the virtues execute their dtpies. Cen. Washington was a man of lernb e passions too, and, like Jackson, is reported to have sworn like a tro per. I have read all the lives of Washington, and the impression made upon me, by my knowledge of Jackson, is that he was /'.tore i oloselv modelled upon tlx* character of Waul ;m?mid without Jrnowiug it ? th;tn any living mvn. Ami their lives have not heen dissimilar.' This was years belore Jackson was 1'resident. The War in Mexico. Nkw Ori.kajrrj, March lit ?The Lib era Is have abandoned Alvarado. A Coris. iracv ha> been disco* eied in the crews of the two tj.ivatiu stm iiiou at fti*al and put. down. I'lio Ijr.^t steamer, the India twin, lias been chart'red by Joures. Lieut." Carter, of tlio Haruloya, is the bearer ot dispatches at Washington, Nkw Okukanh, Match 1 ?.\capvlco advices to the $7ih February have been received, (ieti. A'vareZ had ordered fieri Wheat to Vera Cruz to caminand the fore gn auxiliaries expected there. Mira mull, it was believed, would not attack Vera Cruz. Cnrvajrl with 2000 men had cut oil 1000 of Miramon's troops, and ttheually prevented all commuiiicalion with the Capital. Msrainoti was short of provisions and army supplies, and was awaiting with lililintietlco the sUtmlies evreeled fi.un il.u Havana expedition. Since (lie withdrawal of Mr. Mo La tie, the American Minister, Alvarado had been blockaded by the Liberals. The British, French and Spanish Min islets and residents were earnestly eng iged in endeavoring to arrange a coth , prOutisc or adjustment between Juarez and Mirainon, and ha?! proposed an arm istice for six months. It is state*1 that American influence is 1 declining in Mexico. .Commander Jarvis, U. S. N' , has noli tied Miratuon ttiat iotcrlerencM with | American interests or commerce will n.vt j he permitted. ahoitio!* al. j The Juarez Government have de j n mtice l, as piratical, the expedition from 1 Havana in aid of Mrumon. A large amount of specie was awaiting j transportation from M-xico. Three American war vessels were at | Vera Cruz, the Preble being the first to arrive. All the non combatants have left Vera Cruz. The Virginia Executions. Richmond, Va, March 10. ? We are informed that ll iz'eti and Stevens, who were convicted pf murder, in connection Willi John lirown, at Harper's Ferry, and were sentenced, after appeal, for exeeu 1 lion tlos day, have snflere*! the penalty, j Both met their fate wiili apparent fir^n ness and resignation. Phookebs ok the Stkikk?The Lynn s'rikers mainlain their position, and spend their time in meetings, processions, and visits to neighboring shpv towns ? The female operatives ? the ptjichers and hinders ? have likewise engaged in lh? strike. They have held seveial meeting!*, i AI first, the proposil.on for a procession w is rejected, but further discussion al a subseq iet.1 meeting has seemed in cduvince lliem that such a public conceulra lion o! femaie charms will exeri a power( fnl influetce on the manufacturers.? Shoe ami Leather Reporter, Dhkadpul (Jai.amuy.? We regret to I I -urn liiai on .Saturday night last, mix valuable negroes belonging 10 Mj. Wiley (ilover, of lbim district, were drowned in bin mill pond near bis residence. It appears ibat seven of iheiji wej-e out on a fulling excursion,and were in tbe bottom, endeavoring to croM the pond, with 'be view of fishing on the oppose side, when suddenly 'lie batteau mink, and six of bein?four women, one man and one joy?went down to rise no more This >r< pertv waa valued st near $8,COO. In !< m-non with Mr. Glover's numerous riei d*. we heartily aj mpailnxe with liim it Irs heavy misfortune.?KdyeJUld Ad,ertiser. i .<? ljf Mqfi. L AMU ASTER VILLE, S C. WEDNESDAY MORNING, March,21, I860. Tun Fast.?The Charleston Mercury assumes Jo, have learned from the Ledger that a meeting was to have been held at tais place on Saturday, the 3d in*t, for the purpose of sending delegates to the Columbia Convention, and that the movement proved a con plele failure. Our cotempornry is mistaken. Nothing of the kind occurred, and the Ledger gave no such information. idiiicasicr nas been lardy in the matter, but it is yet time enough, nnd v\o expect her to | be represented in the Columbia ConvcnL tion. S. C. Medical College.?The annual ! commencement of this Institution, as we learn from our Charleston exchange*, took place,on the 10th inst. The^claaa in attendance upon (he lecture*, now terminated. ; amount'd to two hundred and forty eight students. The candidates for graduation I numbered one hundred nnd nineteen ; of these, one hundred and fifteen received tho Degree of Doctor of Medicine. We hnd among the list of graduates, T. Frank Mat-lew, Peter NVylie, nnd J. M. Perry, from this District. Col- C W. Miller. We publish on the first page of to-day's paper, an address from Col C. W. Miller, of Marion, to the citizens of the first Congressional district of South Carolina. It is in response fp a,call serve as a representative in Congress. The fact that Col. Miller ,is a candidate fpr t(iat distinguished office, {tsidefroip its genuine merits, will Be cure for his address U{1 attentive perusal by our readers of this and the adjoining Districts. Col. Miller, we have learned, is a Dative of I<anca.<ter. His father resided^ near the "Twelve Mile Creek" in the upper portion of this District, and claimed the honor of having been instructed in the ru-1 ditnelits of nil education by a no less d is tingnis'iod personage than General Andrew Jackson. The Increased use of Quato. The Cnmden Journal snvs that five thousand dollars worth of Ciiian has been sold at I lint place by Mr. Jntnex Jones, to any nothing of that w liich has been ordered through Factors in Charleston. Much of this superior fertilizer th.it lias passed l||ruitgh Camden, \vp are pleased to know, has found it" way into this District. Many farmers who have not yet tried it. have bought with a view of experimenting this season, and those who had used it before. satisfied with tUo result of former experiments, have bought largely. In this District it is comparatively \ pew manure, and has been used to n very limited extent, owing to the want of proper facilities fo> obtaining it; and should the experiments that will be made with it this season result as satisfactorily as we are joatilied in believing they wil! from the experience of other sections, n large increase over the urdina. iv ycld of cotton in the District may be confidently expected This affords another reason for anticipating success in the railroad enterprise which we have in view. The Convention?Change of the plaoe of Meeting. Our Charleston exchanges inform us that ? dispatch from Wnxliington ?u? received in that city, convey ing tlie iiiforiu.ition, that j the Democratic Committee were considering the propriety of changing the place of met ling ot the Convention, in ttonHcqocoee of the extraordinary and ?liauieful terms of | entertainineiit, which it had been announced J the Charleston Hotels would demand. It scejiis, however, that the Committee have , ru? power to reverse ttio act of the Cine in. I nati ('ynvclition, fixing Cliarlcaton as the I next plav.u of meeting. | It in a pity that the gogd name of <"liar| lesion should be a?s< eiatod implicated in tliese extortionate charges, as it doubtless will be The Courier very properly and earnestly cults upon all who have in appreciation the character, interests and prospects of the city, to bestir themselves that the exigencies of the Conrenlion may be met. The latest upon this sulqeet is contained in the following special dispatch to the Charleston Courier undir date of the I6tn. "The excitement growing out of the reported high rates intended to be t harged in Charleston for the tern: of the Convention, has reached n great heat, and it is considered probable that the Centra, Democratic Committee will be compelled to consider the matter. Deputations of the citizens and residents of Richmond, Vu., have been here, urging w... I ~ I?u..s -*i* -ii - , me imuui yi u,ll> iiih'i 111^ ail nccoiitmodaiions. Active representatives of the claims of Baltimore have uUj been lieie, nod some are t.ow here, promi-iiig. bv authority of the landlord*. thai no extra rate* Mill be charged. The feeling of the people here is strongly in favor of lialtimore. Fastino ior Fcastiro.?Petition* have l?<'en addressed to the Legist a'lire of Ohio, unking the appointment of a day of fasting land prayer, l(j atone f>?r the sin they committed by appropriating fjvp thousand dollars foy 4fdnkenness and debauchery, in that treat givpn to the legislature* of Kentucky ?nd ^'enncssve. The Caifiden Journal regrets to learn that J L. (laile, Ksrj., resident eleven miles from Camden, met with considerable loss by fire the pa-jx ueek. His dwelling was entirely consumed, together with some furniture.? The greater portion of his furniture was saved. This is the second time within about ten months that Mr. Haile has been thus subjected to the ravages of this destroying element. Tbe (harleston Convention. Astiio time for the meeting of llie Charleston Convention approaches, speculation and inquiry ns to who will probably receive the nomination is redoubled, and the question assumes a more exciting and interesting aspect. 'Hie public mind, from Maine to California, is centered uihtn (/harleston as being tlm theatre upon wjijcli a i contest is ooon to be waged, which will in- j volve, not only the success and the supremacy of tbe Democratic party throughout the Union, but probably tlie_._quielude, ntabiii ty and existence of the Union itself. If t the nominee ot tlul Convention be a man j whose principles and predilections are ac- i i ceptnble to the South, and at the same time j acceptable to j^hat portion of the Northern Democracy who claim to feel and act with the South, such nominee will stand a very ' good chance to he elected President ; the Democracy will continue to hold the reins of Government, nnd a dissolution of tho Union deluved at least four years longer.? ,()n |he other hand, should .Judge Douglas, or some pther whom tho Southern States i i,could not support, he nominated, the con- | | sequence will he a division of Hie Democrat; ie party, nnd ultimately the election of s Black Republican to the Presidency. In tlu* iast event, a dismemberment of at least a portion of the Southern Stales from lite | ! Confederacy, U is confidently believed by j ; many, will en a no. Reasoning from these premises and can- i I elusions, it is but natural that the action of the Charleston Convention, having so do- 1 ... .1 j cidcd an influence over the future destinies of the country, should be looked for ! ward to with an unusual degree of interest by the people of nil sections of the Union, j This view of its bearing and influence tip- | ; on future event*, likewise suggests to eve- i ; rv State, which desires to witness a tiiuinph j ! of tlie Democratic party over the Republi- ] i can, the propriety of being correctly repre ' sen ted in that Convention. Of cour-e i I those who desire to see a dissolution of tho Union under any and ail circumstances, feel j an indiftcrcni'O to the action of the Convun- : lion. Tho election of Douglas would fa- | vor, rather th.-ui oppose the ends which they j a..-:-.. - - i. . . I ui-oiiv- n> see arccllipiisl.t 0 Extraordinary efforts have been made ho | aeeure the nomination of Judge Douglas, | and certain purtimn prelum* still rate him | as the most formidable candidate before ! the country: but Douglas' strength has [ been overrated ; evidently it is waning : he i I is becoming exceedingly unpopular among ! the better class of politicians, and we hope I | soon to see him forced into that condition | of unenviable obscurity to whiuh his treaohi erous deali no and unscrupulous ambition i i should subject him. We do not believe j ' tbat lie will be the nominee of the Char- j I,lesion Convention ; for should he gut the ' I entire Northern vote (which is by no means 1 | probable) they will not be sullicient, under | | (lie two-Uiirds rule, to give him the noini- I j nation. The Northern States have 176 votes; the Southern Slates l'J7, including ' j the Pacific Stales. Under the two thirds ( | rule, 'JUJ votes will be necessary to a | choice. Supposing that he nil! get all the , ; North, it is highly improbib'e that a sulli clent number of Southern votes will be j cast for liim to see ire his nomination ; u'c ' should he sorry to ki)ow that a single I | Southern Statu would he so regardless of | i the interest and rights of its suction as to I support a man who would deprive us of a i share of the common territories of the lint | Ii*ii Stales The South should nut ii ? n | | unit in repudiating both him ami his doc- | | trine*, for in the l-*?iof the distin1 ifiiiitK'd Senator Fitoii, of Indiunr, in liin ' Into speech in llic United Slates Senate : | "If the Sontli nominate the Senator alluded to [.Mr. Douglas ] ailii hit printout j view*, the entire North will deem the net no j I expression of willingness upon their port ; | that hit views ahull become the future set ! tied policy of the Government; the m i'ed ; Noitli will net upon that policy, carry it out i | to the full, and no aid must he expected by | the South front any portion of the North in I | any effort they Way thereafter make to pre tent the progress of that policy to the end | When hv such net it establishes his policy, | the South, and the Senator from Illinois, [Mr Douglas.] will have done more to nc , com (dish the favorite nod avowed scheme of j ! the HepnUlicatt party than unv effort of that party could have done?the ycheine of surrounding the Southern fctt trs with free tar' ritory. uuj alarming out their institution ; for under that policy, organize a Territory w|;crc yvu oify_, whether it he in Dakota of , the North, or Arizona of thu South, the ; hold, adventurous, nun siaveholding fron- I tierainen of tlie West, whose movables in- | elude no luxuries, whose necessaries are ; remiuy supplied by Die an* and tl ti rifle, I will go into iIim Territory. them- , selves of its legislature, and exclude Southern property, while the owners of that pro- ! perty are packing up their household good* | arid preparing their chatties for removal The South, it woull seem, is entitled to have the next candidate, the three last cant diduica of the party hiving been from the j North, and Southern delegates should insist upon this right. The Southern names i j that have been prominently mentioned in | in connection with the nomination, are | I Messrs. Hunter, Wise, IJrcckenridgo acd j ()rr. Hunter ia n sound and deliberate statesman, and one that would administer ' the (fovernment upon uonstitotional princi* | pies; but be possease.-, not the nerve and ' energy that in all probability will be rcqui- | | site in the next Adminiatration. Wise has nerve and energy enough, but it loo reeW, low, and in deficient in judgment. llreckenridge or Orr are the njen for the limes ; both are young and vigorous and both have filled high poaitiona of publii truet with credit to Iheinaelvea uul to the satisfaction of the country. Aa a South Carolinian, we would of course prefer Col. Orr, of the two last named, but wo^ld be glad to see either receive the nomination. It ia difficult, however, to ^>ru> anything like a plausible idea aa to w^o will b" the successful man. for by the experience of former Convention*, it is just ne likely aa not that soma one will bo nominated whose name has never yet been mooted in connection with the Presidency. Washington Items. "PaliHOlto," n correspondent of ^Jie Sou.|h Carolinian, writes that there is a project on foot to be executed before the end o( the present Session of Congress, which Is to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. The House Commit ti>.. on tin. hij trict have taken the matter in verious consideration, and it is even said that the majority is in favor of the bill for the abolishment. | In the House, the Pacific Railroad bill has been referred to a committee of fifteen. The Chairman is Mr. Curtis, of Iowa.? j Anion}; the three different roads proposed, it is thought that the committee will be in favor of the central one, thus giving the preference neither to the South nor to the North. There seems to be a serious effort making to have the Capitol moved farther West.? In the House leave was nsked to introduce a resolution instructing the Committee of Ways and .Means to inquire into the expe- I dioney and propriety of removing the t.'npito! of tins nation to some conveniently acles-ible point on the Mississippi River, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. A bill authorising the issue of proposals for an ovetland mail from the Atlantic to the Pacific has been passed. The Senate has passed the Bills changing compensation for United States Marsha's, District Attorneys, die., and the enlargement of the Louisville and Portland (.'anal. Ne.W!* Items John Ford, a revolutionary soldier, died in Bibb Ci utity, Georgia, on the 'JSlli of February, in the 15l>lli year of his age. He was married five times, his last wife sur viu's tiiin, ami hit only child is eighty yearn | old. The Superintendent of Baptist colportnge | in Virginia, has instructed the book agent | of the Sunday School and Publication ( Hoard ('1'. J. Starke, of Richmond.) to send ] back all the copies of Spurgcon's Sermons ] ordered for their colporteurs, and now on j hand. A man and wife recently secured one | thousand dollars damages from the city of Bo-ton, for lameness caused by slipping on the jeo upon the pavement She rated the injury at five thousand dollars, but the jury I thought the figure loo high for the pain and 1 results of a fractured ankle. The Standard says: Ml?'int Saturday was Return-day for Chester District, and we J loam tiiat tliu a umber of casus or. the docket is comp iratively small. 'I tie number will j not exceed 15o including acceptances. John Shed, one of the very few surviving i Kiddiers of the revolutionary war, died in Fairfax county, Virginia, on Friday night last, at the ag? of one bundled and two years. , The Marv sville (('ill.) Democrat gives an account of a horrible massacre of a camp < 1 irit-ndly I milling by a party > I I'itl Htver Ranger*, Iwoi.lv in niimnear that place. It is too horiitile lor cred>nee It nee ill* that ilit- lnj;.;n* were coiling hay on contract fur got cry incut, when llicy Wore unexpectedly assailed by tl.jso white friend* and men, w otiu-n. mid children, to the niim her of witty euuaw* wild children and ten men were found tload nu tjic field. After I lie work of death hud been ooillploted. the hut* were tired, and the botiie", a* far as the lire could lo it, Wore cunsuined? filling the air for mile* with the horrible * tel. oh of burnt lleah. ' For the Lancaster Lc-lgur. Mil BntToK : ? A* the time ha* come wlicil-candidate* should be brought before the people of the I*t Congressional |)i*. triet, and its tin* is a high and responuible station, the people of this Distiict should look to her interest in this election more than nnv other. Believing that the Hon John .McQueen, our immediate representative, i* a worthy and good atntesm m. we. the people of Lancaster District respectfully request, that you will place hi* name in nomination for that office. VuTKRN. He no ?The Ocala, home Companion, of the 28(li ult , says : The slave L?*wi*, mentioned in o?r Inst issue hs having been proved guilty of aid ing in the murder of his master, Dr. VV. J. Reitt on the I9.li nil., whs further ex* mil mod, on Wednesday last, and the I most positive testimony of Ins guilt being adduced, he *is itnmdialely sentenced ami bM,!>? He confessed Ins guilt, but re fused to t^jake any statement implicating others, llijpu gh it wap evident that he had not performed tbg diabolical act alone ? fje expressed no sorrow for having com njitled the awful crime, and viewed the preparations for Ins e$ecgtion with t'.ol'd mjiir-reiice He was tried by a commit tee, consisting of twelve freeholders, ap pointed for that purpose by a Lrgj rpeel mg of tlie citifens gf ibis county, >i,Jd on that day. Tlie trial was conducted with gieat care, at the place where the mur der was committed. Two others were committed to jail. A Hklic of thk Kkvolution.? We have recently seen the watch which (ien. Mar<on owned and carried with him dur* ing the days and nights of the Revolution. It is made of silver, ami manufactured iu L(Oiidon, and has every appearance of having seen some service. The precious relic is owned and highly prized by a female descendant of Marion's brother, who is now living it] our town, and who bears the nauje of her illustrious grand uncle. Notwithstanding its age and the trying times it has kept, it is still able to mark the passing hours as cor. racily nk ; and for ?uch UI?ort ii it f\r morn vnluAbU limn tIim watch** lhal ar? inauufaclur*! in V?nk??doin. Creenville Kntrrpriu. LOCAL'S COLUMN. Temperance AddressWe.are requested to state that Rev. L. Wood, will d-diver a public Temperance Address at Monticello Division, eight miles South Kast of '-bis .place, on Saturday,7lh of April, at 10$ o'clock. The public are respectfully invited to attend. .Complete Stock in Market. By reference lo our advertising columns, it will be seen that Col J. N. Crockett, has received his entire new atoek ot' Spring and Summer Goods, which he oilers as low and on as good terms as heretofore. The r??mitfltion nf thu (Vl n? n ntaroKnnt mt\A I " " ..... strict business man, is so well knowo, that it needs no comment on our part. Court Week The Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas for I-ancnslcr is in Session the i present week, his Honor, Judge Glover presiding. His Honor appears to be in the enjoygjent of good health and is conduct* ing the business of the Term with his accustomed ability and dispatch. The business of the Term is about as heavy as usual. The Sessions business is light. A few I important eases on tho fssue Docket are ; on hand nnd will probably be tried, including the ''Great Will Case." The Grand Jury on Monday returned true bills in n few unimportant cases, hut a greater number were thrown overboard. More particulars next week. Good Resolutions?Take Advice We learn from the Peninsular, that the Indies of Tamp i, Florida, convened a pub lie meeting on the 'J3d ultimo ? Mrs. M J Harris in the Chair, nnd Miss F. A. Wil on,noting as Secretary. The object of the convocation may be inferred from tho fol 1 lowing : Rrsulvrd That the ladies should have due regard for each other ; therefore, when they go to Church *>r any other meeting, thev should take the seat next to the wall, nnd so on until the seat is tilled. Rrsolird, That if any lady takes the sent next to the nisle, before the seat is filled, that she be left in peaceable p >ssession thereof. Ep.iog Trade. Our Village m. rclinnts are daily receiv ing and displaying the largest stocks of goods we have ever keen <*xliiki'ed at this place. We believe every merchant in tin* District puri'liiiKi'tl tlu-ir stock in (Jhurluston, and art* told by one of tliein, lit almost New York price*. The entire fraternity deserve the patronage of the people of the District, in their undertakings to build up a Southern commercial market. I.et thus* who have declared their intention, **.hwl tlu-y would not jiatroi?i*e a lirm that bought at the North" entile up to their profession* ; spend >oor inotiev at home, t mteud of circulating it outside of thu St ite. In doe lime our advertising eolumnn will let the people tiiroiighout H e District kno a where to buy the cheapest goods.? Our advice is' never |.etro'iiio i iner -liant that doe* no' mlverii-c liberally, for if lie is pieav une in his notion* ahuul adverl'sing. I rest assured, that In* store is nil the place to get good bargain*. Keep wall posted by scanning occasionally our columns, and be 'certain' von dont get in the wrong place, or "shake the wrotg bush " Hard Times Coming. Our Northern exchange* indicate that ! sii.rc.nng distress seem* to await every j braunh of industry at the North. The shoe house* nf New Kngiand and New York are aiitruly siitierino extremely, liy the withdrawn! of Southern trade ; and it it predic| led, that ir. ninety days, suspensions nnd fat lure* of abolition linns, which havti liorti tofore enjoyed an cxlonwive Mmilhtrii patronage, will be numerous nnd destructive. The shoe hu*incna hoc m to tip effected to a greater extent lloin uoy other linutv^, )>!, other* tnu*t itiid will feel sensibly, the sin r't'rt arm of the South if nhe will exert it in unitV. Already the street* of the metropolis re. noiind with tin? cry of "broad or blood" in some quarters, nnd if that portion of true Southern merchants, who have shown by their notions that they are hucIi, by p itronizing home markets, etuilinue to lend their influence ami means in the direction of e?tublinhing c Southern commereinl city, ! it is our opinion, thnt in less than twelve months fanaticism nt the North would fall | to so low nn ebb, thnt its moat notorious advocates could not begin to compote in the election of ? i-nnnloi ?..??.?l-t.l ? Tlie question now naturally arises, will , the South continue to he true to her own interest ; will ?he build up f.?r herself, independent of the North, a commercial marl kel? We tru?t that the black ingratitude which have always been returned from that quarter, will stimulate a feeling of resentipent that will burn and bluze in the heart of every Southerner. Although, it cannot , be expected at tin* corrupt age that the Sopth will he clear of her Arnold*, vet, the power Ilea in the hand* of the people, nnd they alooo ij if, that can demolish their adveraariea North and they Judas' at home, i by strictly refusing to favor either. |-#f~ The Memphis /\iqlanche say* : We received a visit yesterday from a traveling agent of a New York furnishing home ? - ? ~ r V I Jo informed u* thai he ha<J traveled through portion* of Tennessee, Alabama and fjeorgia, fur the purpose of receiving order* fur hi* I) "U?e, and th$t fye had not received qjore th?o twenty order* during hi* whole route scarcely sutfii-ieul to pay hi* traveling expenses lie waa on hi* way home. Hundred* of Northern drummers are meeting with similar success " There are 2500 different languages and dialects spoken by mankind. The Biblf, up to this time, na* been translated into 160 1 only. Hymeneal. Married, on the 90th.-FebrQAiy, l>y Rev. j I). Harrison, Mr. Joseph 11 Hughe* to Miss I llcl??-een, daughter of Col.J.C. Halle, all at' Kershaw District. Obituary. Died, in this District, on the 2nd in at., Mrs. Harrirt Carnrh, wife of ?.'apt. Win. A. Carnes and daughter of Rev. C. A. I'lyler, in the 2tth vear of her age. The deceased connected herself with the Methodist Church when about seven years old, and jnadc an open profession of faith in . Christ shortly afterwards, from which she never s we red, and with which her whoie lite was entirely consistent. Quiet and retired iji all the relations of life, yet firm iti the discharge of duty, she was esteemed by all who Knew her, and especially endeared to lh? large circle of relations and numerous friends by whom she was surrounded, and who now mingle their tears oi regrei ano coranu symp amy with the bereaved hui*bnn<t and two small children left to mourn their loss ns her gain. II?* List illness w:rx most painful, but borne without n murmur. A few hours before death?being conscious to the lash, and fully apprised of her condition?she cnllui iter friends to the bedside and nssured tlion* that she would soon be at home. On receiving .1 tumbler of water from her father she remarked. "I shall soon drink from the fountain above, nod thirst no more." In her last moments shn said to hur mother, "I am almost home." 1?. W. THE MARKETS March 16, 1860 Charleston.?Cotton, there was a verv fair demand for this article to-dav, and tho sales reached very nearly 2000 bales. The market sliows no uhunge. Tho sales rang, ed from 7e. to 11 ?c. Nkw Ohi.f.ans, March l">?Kiglit thou, sand bales of Cotton have been taken to. <lav at I O.J a.Ilc, for Middlings, the market being quiet. Sugars are steady at 6 a 7Jc. New J erk, Mareb 16.?1000 halo* of Cut lop have been taken, and rates are heavy at |||e for Middling Upland. Liverpool Cotton Market.?The sales of Cotton for the week closing with Thursday, l?t March, were A.I,000 bales, of which speculators took 1800 and exporters IK,00 bales. The imports for the week were very heavy. The market was quiet and steady. The stock of Cotton in l.ivorpoci' is 752,000 bales, of which American Cut. tons comprise 610 000 bales. Some of tho ciiculars report a more goncr.il demand at the close of the week. Spooial Notioes DAWKINS & WYLIE, Attorneys at Law AND SOLICITOUS /.v uqvrrr. Will pinetice in Lancaster ami the surrounding District''. OrrtCK IN Til a t'Ol HT HOt'KK AT I. A N <J AST K H V I I. I.K. s? . <\ Particular attention (given to collecting claim*, rill.. THUS. K l>AWKI*?. VI K], JOHN u. vv 11.IK. I'liion, 0. II., S. ('. Lancaster, 0. II, 5, C. March 11, 180", 5?tf IIoi.uivvay'h Dili.*. ? Astonishing Cn.-e of t Itilious Complaint.? Mr. D.itrick M'vcnnan, <>t Columbus, Ohio, sufleteJ Tor upward* nl throe yean from violent pain* in tliu head, n (o;|l J stomach, bad digestion, disordered livivr, and ' general nervous debility. lie tried various remi edies for the mitigation of thin compound disi order, hut lie only became worse instead of | better, allbongli iie also consulted several doe* tor* Finding that the medical faculty could I not cure liiin, he had itonitrM to llolloway'a 1 Till.*, by continuing with tin* remedy for a few week*, he cutirely regained In* health, and ever atnee then he haa not had the idighteat return of Ida complaint, Fmtmpui, MwiaTttnaopIIkalth. In exuntitling the veaacla at tSe varioua wnarvca ( we tind among lite c.urioailiea of our cuii|< tneree the brig Miranda, jnal in front *l*rtit? ; il|o with a cargo uf llonduraa Sar.aaparill t lor l>r. J C. Ayer, Si (}<? , of Lowell. So i parti :nlar are thia n.ma.ato the Articles uaed in compounding their varioua rente, die*, that they h tvo thi? drug, like aontu oilier* they cmiauiito. gathered for tlieni by a nki111'u 1 agent of their own in 'ho tropical region* of it* growth. lie infirm* ua that there are many ?pcciu* ofliii* pi mt, but two of which arc really valuable in utudi. eine ; the ipialitie* of tlie*e are al.ao alFecte>l hy the liine of gathering, mode of curing, etc. ooer.itioll* which III lint r..f?I..n ???' on. te liable workmen imposes n heavy labor upon him. On* ofthe inert varieties of SaraxpirilU grow* wild in our a\yn forest*, while StfVvml o!hur?, nearly woi title**, a. bound in Central nnd South America. The intelligent agent assured us that the virtues of this drug had never hern fully told, and that the reason of the low esteem in whict) many hold it is miinly due to the import** tion of Much immense qtttntities of the worthless varieties His accounts of his liips t> Honduras and his business excursions along the Hulf of Dale* and the rivers of Motagua and Santiago and among I the adjacent mountains were of intense interest. We enn but commend and honey 1 his ruipl >y?*ra for tho faithfulness and en| ergy with which they execute their trusts* ministers to the public health. And we suspect that this course is at least one of the reasons why their medicines are held in nil-1) extraordinary favor throughout the % i civilized world.?\ew York City Yew*. Chills and Fever! Chills and Paver ! I ?One of the greatest remedies that ha* ever been laid before the public, for Fever and Ague, and which have received the highest encomium* from the pre** and the people, I* UK J. HOSTKTTKR'H CKLKKKATKO KIT' T?Hd. Who would endure the torture* arising from thi* terrible disease, when it can be O easily cured t Who would endure steeple** Wight*, burning fever* and icy chill* alt*r::at*' I/, when ? rea)edy can be obtained for a mere trifle f And yet how ntgny families linger out ; a painful exiatenoa gtpior this deadly blight, and do nothing but glub down quinine, until , it become* a* common a* their daily meal*, and yet they are not relieved. None but Uta foolish and weak would heeitate to procure these valuable Bitter*, and aave themselves intent* agony. March. Sold by dmggtau and dealer* generally, , everywhere. Qp deo dvertiMineat in anoth* j *r column. m #