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KEO W E fi CO U RI ER.T , ROB'T. A. THOMPSON, Editor. J?n TERM$.?$1.60 per annum, In advance. If ' payment bo dolayo'l until nftcr the expiration of ',U!' tho year, $2.00 For sis months, 7<> cont.s, in liill advance. i>oH Adverti?crnonN inserted at the usual rate*. ,. - ? - tllO PICKENS C. II., S. C.: bni ? ?- onh Saturday Morning, May 8, 1858. 000 Saleday. has Soveral tracts < f land were sold on Monday, the at good prices. The rc'il estate of Tiias. Al- J pro kxaxder, deceased, was gi^ld by tho Ordina- 1 gfilv ry at $2,230! This tract lies near Walhallfl, j turn and its 'sworn valuo" was less than $1,000! I nte Two of the candidates for Congress?Cols. Kai Vernon and Ashmore?with several of the ; vilal district candidates, were here. They h >d n j\ thin crowd to operate on. j lv a The Texas Almanac. I "We aro indebted to our young' friend, Mr. | Rn<' T. W. FiizoKRAi.n, of Austin county. Texan, * ",c for ucopy of tho "Texas Almanae for 1^">8.*' '11ls It is a work of one hundred and ninety-four ('10 pagos, with an advertising sheet of some fifty Jou: pages inoro added; and, uuliko the publics- srtV' tions bearing the name, scattered broad cast I f',e over the land, it is fillcu with facta and atu- * tistics of a very interesting character. We ^u" Khali draw on it, for tho benefit of our read- j ers, the first opportunity that is afforded us. *\^'s ? > ? j ci|>l Valuable Plantation for Sale. i jjv A raro opportunity is new offored by Col. i Prathkr for making an investment in onoof j , the most desirable places in the district, llis I ^ advertisement in another column gives such ; particulars ns it is important to know, and to t ) which wc take pleasure in directing the at* ' tention of purchasers. T1 Wc learn that it is the intention of Ool. ^ Pkatiier to remove to an adjoining State.? KC" This has not hecn determined on without a Hceming necessity, but we are coufulont that ' many of our citizens} who know h?s worth, jf ?vill unite with us in expressions of sincere A. regret at his detormination. * - ? hoi: Effects of the Cold. Gei The week just passed has developed fully tho damage done by the late "cold snap." j/'fj Throughout l'ickuns district, the e fleet has Dr. not boon tho same. In some sections tho ni? fruit has boon killed, while in others thero is ' ii Mllfllinrmi?v loft Tlin wlmnt not inimo.l P*" ko much as was ut first supposed, although j Sun u fow fields havo boou nearly ruiu.od. What ja remarkable in this connexion is the fact: E?r tliat two fields, separated only by tho high- 1 >?*. way, have not suffered to the samo extent, Oiio will not make half a yield : tho other cscapod almost entirely. The corn was bit to N. tho earth, some being killed. Cotton, whore it was up, has fared worst of all. In the % low of districts, and throughout the South and ors "West, much of it will havo to bo ploughed up ( f, and planted again. The effects of the cold | . will doubtless advance the prico of grain and WU cotton at an early day. im'< Our columns contain such extracts from a- ' broad, on the disaster, as we can make room |im for- . ? , by A heavy rain fell on Tuesday last, raising ^ the streams suddenly to an ovcrllow of their ' jtU banks, though no damage has resulted there- not from. Since it lias been cool, with a stiff breeze from the north-west. TVuly, winter lingers long in the "lap of Spring." 8|,0 "' Special. ~ Mrs. Knee, ofWalhalln, is receiving a vc- fcn rv Riinrtrmr Snvinrr nnil Summer stnolr nf .T-ir (looda, which she offers at the most reaeonn- the ble firicos. Head her oilvertisement and give H10 her a trial! Mr. Ansel, Auctioneer and Commission Agent, offers at public and private sulo some pre desirable property. Give him your attention Mr on the 15th and 22d. See advertisement. Prc Attention is also directed to other adver- 0,18 tiseiuents in our columns. ! The Parade at PickenBville. (. The first Battalion of the 5th Regiment, S. C. M., paraded at Pickcrsville on Saturday J la?t, undor tho command of Capt. (>*jiriant. | ^ The men composing the battalion did their j ^ ^ duty well and soldierly, performing tho vftri- I ^ ^ oas evolutions with eredst to themselves nnd I ^ the officers in command. Col. Jameson, with ^ ? fnll nnd handsomely equipped staff, was the reviewing officer. 'j A squadron of Cavalry, commanded by an wa) avpallantnffi^r mni vpiptnw rvn**.?*larl fi\i* i V ,, .... pla review at the same hour. The performances fro, of the Cavalry were very creditable to this arm of the voluntoor scrvioo. C1 j Tho candidates for Congres? were present, vj|j and addressed the people on tho topics of the w;j day. They rverc attentively listened to. j,;,, Tho sjldiors and spectators, with quite a number of tho fair daughters of the vicinity, tju, numtiAi'Pil Tftrf V At nn r>nrlv hour a general diapomon for horae.occurrad. 'j For the Legislature. of I In Andoraon district, Messrs. J. L. Siian'k- t i.ikt JoilS cunningham, T. h. russem., j. out V. Mookk, S. M. Wilkes itaa II..R. Vandi-' ot'' vbr have b?en announced or nominated for the House. Rumor also designates others I who aro or will be candidates', making only gon i... * _ 11 . ?> i. \T^ ^..1 _ _ ion ill an; iuur iu ue t'lecicu. vtu regular ( ovc announcement for the .Senato has yet hoen Mo; iuad? in Anderson. Diov't Taketiie Papers.?In Cincinnati, the* a few <!nyfl since, a man who resides within woi twelve miles of that city, walked into tho Git- #yn izens' bank for iho purpose of obtaining a P?* sum of uioney which ho had deposited thore of t weveral years ago. Imagine his feeling* on Flo Iaamtiam fhdt th. Ixm.'* Ikfifl ftkiloil AtV ntA?4lta. T H.-1?vnv ' <*** laiHn* OlA JIIUiilMt I * ago ! ^ He had liot oven heard of tlio oxtraov-1 ape <h?ry flnaacUl panic which rcoontly swept I mm wv*r *h* country with such a lovollinjj influ. j ban *><*. . "j J?? M 4 . l-'l.* - * . " Kansas. 'he bill reported to Congress by tho Con;nce Committee, of which Mr. English, of iantt, is chairman, for tho admission of iisas under tho Locoinpton constitution, parsed both houses. It differs from tho whioh pivssod the ?Senate in only one initnnt particular. Tho Senate bill ceded to new oiate la^us worm yzo.vw.uw. nic reported by the confcrence conunittcc g'ves to Kansas a domain valued at $5,,000, and this is the Koction that i.s to he mitted to tho neopio of Kansas. Slavery: nothing to do with it. If Kansas accepts ' land provision tendered by Congress, the iidowt admits her into tho Union as a e State, under tho Lecontpton constUuShou]d tho people refuse to incorpor mis grant ot uvuu int>< imur constitution, isas is to remain a territory until her pop:ion shall number ono hundred thousand, is we have said before, Kansas is virtual* free territory. Slavery exists it is true, a majority of the votors are abolitionists, I they will change at once th<j charaotor of | ir institutions. The result of the contest been barren of fruit to the South. Alugh she has been successful, yet sho reeth not. The administration has been ">d a defeat, nnd we trust quiet restored to country'by this disposition of the matter, 'he ontirc South Carolina delegation, in Lgiu.-v*, auppurit'u iiiu muutmrc H9 11 pnssen, spt Gen. Bonitam. Gen. Quitman', of s., "a Northern man with Southern pr'u> osMessrs. Davis, Harris, Kic.\cDund df.itwooi), "Southern know-nothings," and . Blair, of Me!, a " Southern black redican," voted with the abolitionists against bill. The democratic party, with thoadlistration successful, has again been true principle, and the rights of the South. he Southern Commercial Convention. Jov. Am.stox bas appointed the following itlemen delegates nt large for ilie State to (lie nmerciul Convention, which is to assemble Montgomery, Ala., on Monday next: !,\-Qot, J. II. Aduir.s, W. Gilmorc Sinims, 1)., Hon. A. Burt, IIonG. Cunuon, Hon. J. Woodward. lion. It. F. Perry, Hon. Jn? II. y, Hon. J. Marshall, Col. A. 1'. Calin, Gen. \V. \V. H.Hloe, G?n. James Gadsden, 1. Wni. E. Martin, Col. A. 1*. Itaync, Col. in N. W illiatnp, Gabriel Manigault, of YVini, A. W. Dozier, I)r. Jolm Douglas. Geo. P. iott, Samuel P. Manor, 1?. W. WiHingliam, U. W. l.ftwton, R. J. Davant, E. Span 11amnd, R. W. Walker. flie Town Council of Wallialla lias also apntcd the following delegates to attend the ic body : 'ol. A. P. Calhoun, Col. Win. Sloan, Col. M. Norton, Klaia Shavpe, Kuq., R. S. Porelier, j., t;oi. k. M. Keith, ltoOcrt iviaxivell, Jr., Tlioraas L. Lewis, Col. J. A. Doyle, Gen. F\ Garvin, Joseph K. Shclor, E. P. Vornor, W. Strihling. Lewis Morehead, Dr. I>. A. Henry, 11. J. Uillilund, Ed wind Hughes, Esij., J. F. l'orry, Esfy. The Palmetto Regiment. speaking <>f tho eolebration of tho survivflfthis veteran regiment, in Columbia at iture day the Carolinian says: ' We also learn that part of' the ceremony ! be the presentation to the Palmetto HogJi?t, of tho silver vaso. that was presented ;ien. Jackson by the ladies of Charleston; 1 a largo picture, representing tho unfurl ; Dt tnc American ttag, presented to turn the citi/.onaof South Carolina. They wero in his will to his adopted son, Andrew ikson, with the instructions that, as it was probable our country would always he ssod with peace, and in tho multiplicity of relations a war would be likoly to occur, so "inestimable" relies, as lie termed them uld be given to the citizen of the city or te, who 'ho ladies or citizens might dotcrio had bonaved moat gallantly in the dcco of his country'* right and honor. Mr. jkaon has determined to prosent them to Palmetto Association, as a lenacv from old Hero to the horo-Rogiment of his mi3 State. In carrying out this appropriate entiorr, he has sent tfiein to Governor A11r?, with tho request that they he by him rented to tho ltegiment. We regret that . Jackson could not himself have been isont to witness the coreinonion of tho-ycion;" " ?? ? ? ??? 3reenville and Columbia Railroad Vttho Annual Mooting of the Coluiubiaand jcnville Railroad Company, held at Cciibia on Thursday, the following gentlemen ro elected Directors for the ensuing.ye&i ; r President, Thomas C. Pori'in : for DireeVardy Mo Hoc, <1. N. Whitnor, Charles lit It, J. R, O'Nertll, Kolicvt Stewart, Daniel' ike, T. M. Cox, J. P. I Ice J, J. F. Living11, Simeon "Fair, J. M. Allen, C. G. Memiger. I'll? Anderson Gazette says that a measure < introduced by Col. J. P. Heed, of that ee, to extend aid to tho Air Linn Railroad Atlanta to Anderson, and wo avc gratii to state that it met with a cordial approv>y a majority of the mooting. TheGrccu0 ami Columbia Railroad Company, it 1 be seen, guarantees tho bonds of the Air e Railroad Company, to the ataoont of 0,000, with tho condition, however, that bands thus guaranteed shall be used for i>thc> purpose than to obtain tho iron. 'llO Sl/inblinlilnra nUn aiillwiri?n<l ll.n ion<la to tho cxtont of $2.30,000. Jol. Uknj. IIacoou, of Pickens, wiw pros-at tbo meeting, representing himself and er?. General Intelligence. t is stated as truo that Col. Kinmky, oneo lething of a filibuster, is negotiating, with rjprospcctof success, for colonizing the sqoito coast with English Mormons, untho Nicarnguan or Musquito (lag. &houhl <1olonel not aueceed io thai quarter, wc il<l commerid (o h<? kindly feelings and ipathioH Hrioii am Yoi'Napnd his "saint*." hap# L'nclo Sam would part with a few hem ft* a trifle h>?s than he paya for live rulft Seminolos! ho Augusta and Savannah banks roBumcd htA nawmnnta Art Sohiflrttr 1 r?4?f XT^v -1a. l-v ??? J "? uu~ ml was mado on tljem for specie. Those iks refuse to receive the hills of the sunned back", eloquently tb? bUI? of the il ' Wf. non-specio paying hanks of tide State aro at I a discount of one per cent! A steamer front California brings one million and a half in gold, and five hundred passengers?Now York city received both. By this steamer South American dates aro rocoived, informing us of the defeat of (Jen. Vivanco with great slaughter. . All his steamers were captured?ho (led to Bolivia. The steamer from Etlropo announces the decline of 1-Id in the pricc of cotton. The political news is not important. A court martial is in session at Cincinnati for the trial of Ma\. (len. Twines, U. S. A. The offence charged is not a very grave one." A noto to the Petersburg (Va.) Express, dated Favettovillo, N. 0. 28th nlt.r givof nu aoc<jv.nt of a most diabolical quftdruplo murder perpetrated by a crazy negro fellow belonging to J no. Cuaitkm*. The first victim was a child of Mr. C.-?then tho wife*? then another child, and then Mr.'C. himself. \ The negro nad to bo killed before he could be subdued. Tho I .aw and Equity Court of Appeals are . in session at Columbia. | CSen. Wauoy Thompson, of Groonville, lec; turod iit Columbia hist week on Moxioo, and | hor future prospects. Tlio Newborry editor, after declining tho j rac.e for the Legislature, says: " A friend ot ours after hearing wo were a candidate, eolloctcd together his grand children and sent us word to come down nnd bikn i a d'mnor of kisxcx. Our kindest thanks to . j our vRiiernblo friond. As wo have withdrawn | ; tvo will send a substitute in our place, who I is oat, and whose mouth is nicely arranged j to enjoy luxuries. If, however, nothing will ! do save ourselves we will " be thar." and do I tho best with our hill that we can." Exchanges. Rki'kints.?The April number of "Black wood's Edinburgh Mngnzino," has boon rcooivcd, with content* noted below : 1. The Missionary Explorer. 2. Food and i Drink. 3. A few words on Social Philoso| phy. 4. WTt;U will hedo with it? 5. From Spain to Plodraont. 8. Rambles around Glasgow. 7. Mr. .John Company to Mr. J no. Bull on tho rivyl India bills, 8. The now Administration. Terms of Subscrivtion.?Any oho Review or Blackwood, $3 a year. Blackwood and ono Review?-or any two Reviows, $5. Tho four Reviews and Blackwood, $10. Postage on tlio four Reviews and Blackwood, to any Post efiico in (lie United Statos, only 80 conts a year, viz : 14 cents a year on each Review, and 24 cents a yoar on Blackwood. Farmer and Planter*?With much picas ore we announce the reception of this valun| bi-monthly for May. It is the only work of the kind in tho State, and should l>e bund-' s imcly supported;- It is publishod at Pendleton, S. C., by Of.o. Seaborne, at $1 a year.? We will forward subscribers, andactas ujent generally for the F. and P. Pennings and Clippings. The Markkt.?Cotton is still quoted in Charleston at IU to 13 cents per lb. Df.ad.?Col. Win, It. Cannon diod in C luinbue, Miss., on the lf>th nit. lie had sened in the House and Seuato of that State.? Ho was a native of Darlington district. Kansas.?The passngc of the Kansas bill by Congress was received in Washington with ^demonstrations of joy. Oiio hundred guns wore fired. Con viction's At Yoiik Court.?In the oases of the State vs. Bell, for killing Allen.and the State vs. Dickson, for killing Derer, both defendants were found guilty of manwlaugh I icr ana sentenced.?the former to tu& month* i imprisonment and a fine yf a thousaud dolJ lars, tho lattorto two ninths imprisonment | and a fine of two hundred dollars. I No such a Man.?The rotired 'physician " whoso sands of Ijl'e have nearly run out," no extensively advertised throughout the whole country, is discovered to be an imposition, there being no such person as "Old Doctor James." A pied Gang.? Mossm. Kvo.roit. Ttnll n.;?. j tendon, Fillmore, Fremont, and Douglas, have all been named in different directions, by the opposition, for the Presidency in 1800. i A Depraved Rasoai..? Some one entered. ' the Presbyterian church at Raleigh, on Saturday night last, and stolo from the pulpit, the Church Bible and Hymn Rook. ! EntERPHISE.?A Mrs. Mlsklo of FrsintfrsrL Ky., swore out a warrant for her husband and got him in jail, and run away with a lover mimed Bridgeford, taking her thrco children. Baptist Convkihjions.?Tlio American Baptist naya : " Tho aggregate of conversions reported in connection with Baptist churches alone, during the month of March, is over seventeen thousand. TJsr f0l. Okname.nts.?In Germany, cliesuut trcos nfo planted along tho roadsidos, which yield tho villagers a largo inoome, a? thoir fruit ia inuniifacturod iuto starch.? When America gets enconomionl, our ratlroada will be lined in tlio same way. A Ijono Absence.?Twenty-seven years ago a citizen of Winnsboro, in this State, lost five negroes, who ran away from him. A fow days ago he, for tho first time, hoard from one' of them ; hid information was in th? fo>m of a lettor from h?r, bogging to. bo allowed to return to his service. TllEIR VaI.IT*?K irni M/rtvilo avn ??./? ' brightest. flower* of earth { th^y cortvort the hum blest homo into & parailWe ; ih'oroforo \iso them, especially afoudd tho fire aide circle. Purchase op Mrzioan TerritoR*.?It i? Htftted very positively in Washington letter* ! that not oniv Honora. hut filiihimlinn ???<! ? > Lower California will bo offered to our government at a fair value,lion, and that au accredited agent in to oom? to Washington with fnTt )pirm? to'a<rt, A ftult '? ? Mo? Violence iv Peoria.?A mob in Pcorin, Illinois, lmH made a dosccnt upon the houses of ill fame in that city, expelled ilio inmate*, set the costly furniture in the street, burned it to ashes, and sacked tho houses.? Sowio ten or elovou houses wero visited in turn, and proporty to tho value of $7,000 was destroyed. Most of tho cxpolled partioa huve nvw m vunr.jjw, _ ButTuhkE.?There are l>"t thrno revolutionary pensioners surviving in the State of Ohio. Vkuv Poi'jitkl'u?'l i.o report is revived in well iufornted circles in Washington, that Sotiator SliileU.'oF Louisiana, and Mr. Belmont, late Minister to tho llagne, lire engaged in the raising of a loan for three tnil? lions of dollars, to bo appliod in aid of the revolution now in progress in Sonom, Trauk is Coox 8kin'?.?On Friday last. A Chicago Brm shipped direct to tcondnn, I''rleland, by way of New York, eighteen thousand ] Coon skins, valued at $0,000. The.skins wore made up 111 sixty compactly pressed bMo? 'Another Duel.?A duel was fought at I Augusta,. Ua., on the 28th ulfc. between two | mou?Hilaekmcycr And I'ollard. Two shots wore exchanged without injury to cither party Extinguished.?An old suit, oommonoed nearlj'twenty-eight years ago by the United States, against Gon. Harrison, upon an official bond which ho signed for.n public officer WiisrAP.nnt.lv nr<1m*Ai1 tn ufrnolr #)%/? ..J ?" "V.MV.X "V?? V ? I V? docket of tlio United Stntos Circuit Court at Cincinnati. Paper Mu.r.s Bl'kned.-?The Chronicle utul Sentinel, of Sunday morning learned from paftsongors by the Georgia Kailroad yesterday morning, that tho "Pioneer PapQr Mill," near Athonn, was destroyed liy fire Friday afternoon. j. ex as urops.?Tho 10xu3 papers, without oxcoption, speak of tho flattering pfospocts of the crop?, in thoir respective sections of thoooqntryj though tljey will occasionally relieve the sunshino with a growl about the. grasshoppers, tho nipping frost, and "too much rain." Cosscirscf Stricken.?Tho Secretary of the Treasury received, a fW days since, $1500 in Treasury notes from an unknown individual, who states that ho had cheatedthe Government to that amount during l'terce's administration. Anotiikr State.??A bill to admit Oregon law already been reported, and will come up next in order. At tho oloso of the pjesent session of Congr'esa, tho Union will probably embrace thirty-four States. Que at 1'i,ood.?Heavy rains fell at IIuntFvilln Mil nn Ihrt <KM ..W Vl .l~l.. ....... ...... S" \ IIIohes of solid water fell. Tlio railroads have been injured to a very considerable extent. New York, April 28.?Win. Fuller'' hup beeu arretted here, clinrged with forging a Government draft for $<">,000, purporting to bo drawn by James Roeside and accepted by O. P. Brown, Treasurer of the PoHt Office Department. Four drafts of a similar nature have been- already paid at various periods.. Austria-?I" 18"?6, according to an official report 84,774,371 lbs. cotton wero imported into Au&tr'ui. In L^51, 189. establishments for iotton manufacturing wore iu oporation in Austria, consuming (estimated) 143,000 bale?. Important to Younu Farmers.?Effectual destruction of weeds?marrvinga widow. Lotteries.?Wo see from the -Xatioital American, published in Atlanta,Oft., that the Grand Jury of Fulton county, in that .State iii speaking of lotteries, say that '"the .system is <Hangorou;i to tho interests of the community and demoralizing in its influono$." A 1)f.\it Act.-1-A few days since, a farmor living near Galena, III,, carried a load of potatoes to that place. The highest offer ho could get was tenoents a bushel, and rather than bjII thorn at that rate, he tipped them into Fovorltiver. The result whs that ho thus obstructed, navigation, and w.lm flml $l.t. Votisci in Kansas.?Tho negro worshippers of Kansas havo passod a law, giving nogrooa of that territory tho right of MiQYage, and making thorn socially and politically? a* no doubt they arc morally?tfqual to tli?i froodom shrickors, with white skins, b^f black principles, Govern men r Fikancps.?The receipts into tho U. S. Trcrsurv for tho throe mifirhora itf tho prosent fiscal your, amount to $09,238380, including $31,931,220 from customs 601,407, from sales of prtblic lands, and $1,fi94,692, from miscellaneous sources. Shochno A.*taih.?A little girl, about 7 y<<arn of ago, named Anna Reyford, was run over by tho citrs at Syracuse, Friday afternoon, near (ho cofnor ofGenoseo and Montgomery streets. Tho girl afterwards .lied. Last Excuse.?Tho last excuse for erinft line is that tho " weaker vef.sels" ccod much hooping. t w Thk Latkht "Or katAtt ft action" in New Yokk.?A corrcspondoutof tho Boston Journal, writing fromNcw York oity, say*: . ' w? n ill . !l- i it v iiwiu i? mm y^j iu vuin Oi! y 111 the person of a boy prcncher. Ho is abdttfc fifteen ycarsof ago. His name in Crannfond Kjnngdy. lie is a Baptist, and belongs to tlio ohutrcli of llov. Mr. Aduuut, on Christophor-streot. Ho is a convert iu the Into rovivai, nag nircauy ooon uoenged to preach by thai church, and i? juet now ntt railing large crowds to hoar him. His stylo k "vehement; his aoi-mon? have iw ,thefn in;'ch method: he|poak? wholly ex teuipora aoously, and hio system of theology ?coin? to he ruaturo and after tho school of the sounder and fciorc conservative schools of tho day. IIo prctohea and speakh nearly every nigh"#, fltl houJKJft arc crowded to overflow irfg, and for a season h? will b? tbc great attiuotjoti <*our<j{#5% ' V,". . .. . ... & A fcJV + The Late Frost. Wo, compile from our oxulmngox tho subjoined items concerning the effects of the recent frost: Tho Chronicle & ScfttintL of Augusta suys timt a planter writirtg Frtrtn"Covington to his 1 factor in that city, dating his lettor Wodnon- t day. says: 1 am just about starting with nil my hands for my plantation. My oversee* tolls mo it' will bo n?co.-<Sary to re-plant two hundred acres yf cotton, the whole of which has boon cut down bv the frost. ? planter residing in Sivannah, fearing that the frost had injured his crop, pent a I meSfKMigof to hi* plantation, in Beaufort dis-! trlct Snuth Carolina, to leurn the result. lie j returned with the gratifying intelligence that 1 nothing was injured. i .. i ' ..>i n?.v.., i xii tuuvi i\iiu iiiiuuiuuuvi^in inu nyuij utto uo' boon so grcut. but in uppfcr Georgiiithorc ! Cur be no doubt that the cotton uu(ltfritit have ! beon very much injured, uiul in fcomc sections i the w'lieut. | In the low grounds tho damage has beon j the greatest. Throughout Alabama, Mississippi, t/ouiai-; ana, Toiinesfuie and Arkansas,'tno frost, on 1 the high hvnds and the floods in tho Valleys j linve caused incalculable injury. For more than :i month pust i-ho fertile val- | ley lamU of tho West havo becu .iuuudutcd, | and the wators continue high. Tho Montgomery import* rej>ort " a heavy frost," in tho neighborhood of tluit city, on 1 ; tiic ^oth uit. Tho Rutherford, N. C, /wtJtttVcr of the 27th say*: > Wo were greeted yestaYday wirh a full of snow, which continued for Kovoral hours, but being accompanied with rain U i/iel tod as fast ns it fell. '1 his is rather lflte in tho season for a visit of thin'kind. AYe have not seen tho oldest inhabitant, but wo have ho doxibt that lie does not romwuibor a snow so late as this. Fkost.?On Monday and Tuesday nights our section was visited by frost, which we regret to learn, has materially damaged wheat | Itallon Ttmcs, S28/A U((. The Coi.n?Fhost.?Apprehensions wore entertained yesterday that much damage had been done by the fr.jst. Tlio frost liad boon seen in many sections of tlio city, and soihe even spok6 of ice. ? One gentleman a.saured ii3 thut he had seen ice the thieknew of a?ilvyr dollar at Mount PlOflsant. We were at pains, however, to look into the effects upon 'the farms in this vicinity, and wire pleased to And that no damage .ins been sustained. Some elight effect is to be noticed upon eouppefnonp grapo vinos, but tlio fruit has nut I icon injured. More danuipe has been'done upon plantations in the, district, and froQi. 8CVOr.il sor.tioiis tlvf! ronnrl i-J Unit tlm wilftm has 1u?ort killed. Several stalk^/wcre eCiu.bited upon the streets which were quite dead. In tho upper Districts of the Stuto*kkc cold has been more severe. Dispatches to gentlemen in thi? city from ?Augu?tn and Colombia; stato tjiat at both phicos lliero wns ii killing frost. Thoro certainly v. ?h pnow in tho region above the latitude ftp rColumbin, and it, is to be feared that much damage ha* beo,u | ilono. (Jcutlemen whoso statements are reliable, who arrived by tho Curs yesterday | from it reenwoqd and OokoslAify, Abbeville 1 district, report that the cotton in that neighborhood buy boon all killed. A messenger o .1 ed in post haste yettorduy from a plantation in St. John's iferkley for cotton v:eod. as tbut in the ground was considered dead. * Churfytton Standard, 291 ft. The Fiiost.?Tho woather in this vicinity has been mild since Wednesday morning,and all future apprehensions of frost in this section are dispelled. A gentleman from Marlb.iro' district, himself a lrrge planter, nulled at our ollioc yesterday and informed u? that in Marlboro'and Darlington districts tlio cotton hivs boon :jll killed, llo loft Marlboro' on Wednesday a ihrqp o'clock, and bis fine field* of cotton, whlfcn hut a few days before were healthy, and preen, were all shriveled amj black. Ilia object in nothing to the city won to procure seed to re-plnnt. there being nqno in his neighborhood.-. The ground was frozen hard, mid ioo formed an eighth of an inch in thickness. Cotton seed was in demand yesterday, us we have hoard of several 1 Wimri [mines will* WWIIU IT BDIU lit lOW!\ Oil > tlm sanlo important errand. At KantowlM, a plantation- of seventy acres ha* boon plowed up toro-pluut.? Char. /Staiblurd, 3[)th. Thk'OhOps.?Tho extent of the damagfe by the late frost does not scein to bo 90 great in our District m in other portions of the State. We conversed on Mondisy with fat-mew of various sections, atid they informed us thnt the crops have hot suffered materially, except in the upper portion of the District, where the injury is much greater than elsewhere. The cotton in many places will have to be rc-planted, but judging from what our exchanges in the un-aounti-v nav. we nnn?hid? thnt. n*;r u/w?. tion ib more highly favored. "NVo hopo that the unfavorable accounts from other Districts niny ho ?rroncons, nR timo Was not ai4 lowed to tell the precise condition of the crops boforo the*-publication of thosfc reports.?Anderson Gazette. Great Fkkbiik^ in Mississippi.?-Tho Aberdeen Sunny South, of. tho 22d ult., I S3V8 : On Momlu ir ni?rlif !?* . ilw y - - ???p? > were opened, and the country round abo?t PUUtJlloi^!) The '' ohiOr-l iiiftn" Saw something ucw on Tuesday. Matubba creek, flowing into tho river, half a mile above the city, was nWer kuown to contaih ao.inuoh .water. Xho waters re*.. go rapid' ly that by jnoruirig many pernon^ living on the opposite aide of thu creok, wero surroutided. Assistance wns immediately rendered, and all ware saved, ftnvnrnf nnr. Kong uamc Dear being lost a the attom^t to rescue the sufferer*. ; The /ivor rose sixteen feet in twelve hours, Divl at tho present writing, continue# to ri#o. It has already attained tho highest water mark of the reason. Thflre has probably been much loss of property, and some of life. This morning tho river is within eighteen inch's of tho high water mark and still, rising at the fate of an inch ??' honr. The probability is it will roach the highest point. The lower part of tho oity is completely puhmoj'god, and many h(?ve fomikcn their d\folli^s and huitineas housox, fcjuch a rise waa nevor known fron? the ono night's rain. The' destruction to ttock has boon LmmcnBO. Tn* Ttotctiport (Town) News ftaya' that emigration up .the Mi?j\ouri Hivcr t:>U sea con la UQpretcdootcd. ItiKTMimnttdthnt emigrants we pourfn# ipto tlid TfiVfiforjw tt t^jr?;e iffy# >. ffitfupt ? &/.. . * rm * v. , ' FOU'VlI* KKOWKK COUIUKR. The Congressional Eleotion?Maj. T. 0. P. Vernon. ' Mr. Editor!" .As the Atoiiu ami claims of two of tho presont candidates for Congress have been urged frequently j 11 several of the newspapers of (bo Congressional District, it Is but fair, that the oilier candidate, Maj Vkrnon, of Spnrtanburg, should have his claims prosonted in tho sanio \?ay. The writer of this article knows wo'l that puffs in the public prints nro nt? evi IfiK'o o( inorit, Wfcft-days, when vcty often tho.-e least worthy have their names ino<^ uois- ' eil before tho public ; still, ns Maj. Veknox id unknown t?> innny of your readers, it ltirty not be (iini** for 11 frieml to make known, In tiiin way, something of his churncter ami quitlificntjon*. Mr. VniMON has spent the wkolovf ii><< t'/clit Spartanburg. where he id rogtmlitl ne the tiiost popular man in tho District | ami the fact that those who know him bunt esteem him ni^st, in no ' bail criterion ofhis worth. His popnlurltv nml inHniiiii?ii in littt nu'ii ilintrict n r#* llm rnunft tint only uf confidence in his ability mid moral worth, but of amiability, generosity ami kindness of lieaH, which pre-eminently distinguish hi in.? These qualities, h*1?1o?1 to the fin t that he It descended from tin old nntl aroll kilown revolutionary, fainily', distinguished in nil its blanches, during the revolutionary war.'for devotion to the o:uV?o of liberty ; c,hd \?no in the late war again exhibited their hereditary patriotism Ivjr marching against the foes of thejr country, giye Mi?j, Vkunon ii hold on the affections of the people acquainted with these fncU not wsily shaken.? It is conceded on ull hands that in )ifs own District he will get an almost unanimous vote. Indeed It is thought by many of his friends that hi* vote in Spartanburg and Uniou will alonw bo sufficient to elect him. Hut ho will get a i large rote in ll^e other Districts, so tb it?his I okvtion is almost, certain. And it is ?lso cerj tail .nit no one belt* r qualified the position II in an rospects can be selected. Maj. Ykrnon has heretofore led somewhat 'of a retired life, preferring to devote his leisure j time to the poacoiuj pursuits of the student, rather than to tho excitement of political lite ; and in that rol-ii-ciitcnt lio has 8torc\l Ins imml with learning and knowledge, which his fricn<i? think should now be applied to the public service, and which would be of jtroal advantage in giving him poallion and iutluenoe in h legislativebody. Politics h:ivo formed a lavge proportion of his studies, and 110 one iu tho Congressional District in better informed and onturtnins more correct views of the political questions of tf.AH.lv II OM .? Ut.nnb,... will m..n ^Ivn ? ""'V * U??.. b. . ? him a high position in Congress,':* position which will justify the wisdom of liis selection?whilst his unblemished cktritcttlund high moral worth anil integrity afford to constituents a suro guaranty that tho corruptions of Washington will nover cause lilni to vary frotn tho path of duly and devotion to I lie interests nud honor of his tUatc. 1 have no" desire. Mr. Editor, to detract from the other candidates, and I have written of Maj. Vkuno.n nothing hut what, will he ndiniite?l to j be true by all who know hint. Thjn, too. Is .published without tho knowledge of .Maj. Vkkxo.v, and without tho copsultnthin of friends, and should it not meet th<) approval of himself and othei; friend*, I hope they will attribute it I to tho tvuo cause, a desire to promote uudpsum mg mrrii, r.gi'Ai. twuilTH. ?? fpll thk col'kikk. XTr. Kihlor : The celebration of the 1st of May, by tlie Modern Knight Templars at Twelve Milo Camp Ground, came oil'on that (lay, with much credit to the order and to tho cpiuiuuuity at lar^cThe mciubwu of tho ordqr convened at their Temperaiico lfall, and wore there formed in or dor of procenainn by the marshals of the day, A. J. Kt'uiixs and I,. J. Await,, and were front t lie nop conducted to lit" church, where a vca peeiaoie miuicni'c jiou uireaqy usscmi>te<1.-?? >Ve were then addrosncd on tho subjcct of Temperance, in a cliuir. pointed an it feeling mun.ier by thcllev. J. M. Mai'M>rn. After taking nomo refreshments, wcjigain assembled in thechnreh, when Rev. .11. lloijii'.b delivered a very able nnd comprehensive address on tho subject of temperance, producing arguments which wo eonsidfu* to be incontrovertible^ nnd which were listened to Willi grtaf'ncrlnusAcss arid attontiou by the audlenco, evincing an interest in the temperance Oftuto which toll* well for our community, After which the meeting was dismissed. At night tho order again assembled at their hull muI received nn acconfion of twelve to their number-by initiation, hcaidcH Home applications for future admission. Onr ctuise is looking up anil wo feel tlmt a t?ettor day ii? dawning. May God #&nd ti speedy and gcneml reformation. * I. .1. A. JMJ-JJ-' I.11-J. J! -J.! -!-.- JUL?i-Lfffi!l-JO >- From Washington. "Wasijinoton, Ajpri.l 547. a joint resolution for the relief .widow of tho late Connuanderjfij^BBf^wuH read twioo, and referred t<|jN^?pmiu.Utco on Navh) Affaire. 9 The Kansas queation wij^HHfiMfincd, and tho debate ?till contiuU|SflBBftWten den pointed out the diflore^^ jSjKveeri tho Committee's subatitute arcWBjpDwn. Mr. Hunter luadd an ublc-rcpk.^Mr. Crittenden, Mr. OoHmucr mndn ?. IvHumm Mr. Wado aj^ofce for nu hour, characterizing tho Administration as corrupt. .Mr, Orcoii) now at 5 o'clook, P. M,, defending tho Administration, and tho Committee's roport. Tho Senate adjourned without titking notion. Tho House roceived from tho Secretary of iiho Treasury, a statement of tho condw tion of t)io Banks of iho wholo country. mo JTOrt .duelling Committee made two reports. .< A. rcHolution. wftfl adnptod, .authorizing evening 803.S10U8 for debate only. Tho Houa? diseuuacd a bill to allow pensions to the soldior? of tho war of 1812, Washington, April 28.~fcJn tho Senate to-day hut three apooohos were umdo on # tho IvurtsaB nucstion?Settoton* fctunrt, P'ltrh and Dooiittlo. dcliver?fl The Httbjcct will bo finished to-morrow.? Sowrai others hove yet towpouk. In the Iloiuto Kniifws wan discussed.?. Messrs. Howard and Bingham dctuiod , their positions. Mr. Davis opposed the report, because it imposed conditions on the admission of Kansas, ?nd interfered with Stato llights. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, eloquently re^l!.l A 1- ^ a .? ^ ptieti, snowing toac otncr ?tato? bod been admitted on the wwie Sedition#. Mr. Koitt anid ho would vote for tho report, n?d then proceeded to reply to Darvin* objections.. " The Hons* adjourned without taking % ' v -' '.S ?r * #