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"TO THINE OWN SELF HE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE NIGHT TUB DAY, THOU CAN\ST NOT THEN HE FALSI! TO ANY MAN." BY ROB'T. A. THOMPSON. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1858. VOL. IX. ^LEOYEE) ipoxrrav* "Ottr Native Land " From Kast to West, from North to South, how beautifully grand, * In mountain* high, In rivers vast, is this, our native lnnd ; a--?- -11? ?--? ?t ...... vicij viiiiiv Mini milii can WISH \1])0II US Roil is found, From splcvSouth where r.ephyra sport, toNorthoru ice berg's bound. Here Freedom chose her dwelling place, at id Piety lins rnis'od Iljcr altars, (varied tho* tlicy be) tlint God by nil be pfrtiri'd, No monarch here or suinptuonslord invades the poor nt will, For Liberty protects us all, and guards the soil we till. From Fast to West, from North to South, whercver rolls a wave, Our siiips convey the ample store< our latest bur vests gave, And (blinders loud the main awake, or still the distant sea. AY here ?hi|>? of wfin our Starry Flag unfurl for . Liberty. Shall iHftpots then, in thicatening tone, uplicM their huiuta in ire ? Shall they insult our Native Lanu while breathes ft there son or Hire ? No, Freemen! know theGo l of all protects cach patriot brave, Who makes his breast hi* country's shield or ventured her to cave. T .1 411.! 1,-1. _!M ! ... m.1 .Hymn ?uuiv Tnui cunning eye cvc sueinvntfc our right, For though wo sprang from her of old, we will the beldame fight ; Our voiim contain nob'.o blood ?h cTer grnccil her laud, And hearts lis '.,otd atii} hands is brave will, I fearless. hid her s.and. O^SMOMJOAYIOMir for tiir kkowkk count kk. "Young Womanhood." Mr. Editor : Wc notico nil articlc in the "N. K. fienriri?n." nntilli'rl "Vmnw. W,.. p ? v",,k,vu AWU,,n " v" j manhood," which was commenced by the ' Gallagher Hyperion," and added to by the "Brooklyn News," "Sunday News," "NT. (). Pienyuno," "Baltimore Sun," "Coff fccvillc Intelligencer," "Natchez Courier," "Jackson "Sholbyville Expositor," "Nashville (iazetto," "Knst Tennessean," etc. And among them all, they have made the most ridiculous compound, and murdered up wit worse than any piece we havo ever had the misfortune to read. Wo nro anton'shed to see men with such reputations ii8 journalists, stoop so low as tu render themselves void of every respect duo to the fair sex. These men surely never had any mothers. They suroly never were blessed with the sweet society of a youthful and gentle sister; and never have been favored with the genial smiles and tender words of the fair sex at all. The O. Picayune'' gives the following : "Young Womanhood?a giggle, something short of a broad horse laugh? small potatoes half-grown?a body and liuibs developed with padding?tho exhibition of bono and muscles enough for a coming matrimonal squabble?substantial finger nails that bespeak first-ratescratching ?a goose. I A goose which in not a jroose, And yet is not a gosling." "Well, now, we don't only consider that the above is not only a picayune article, but a I'ICAYU.nk mau that wrote it, and a lUCAYUNK nanerthat contained it. Tho "jJaltimoro Sun" openw thus:? "Young Wguianliood?a red blackberry, Juf'?greeu enough to be n? s?uur ns vinegar," and compares thenvto a "green persimmon" and wind* np with?"a cat." A cat which is pot a cat, ^ And yet i? not a /.(/An." Tho "XntcliOA Courior" nftor a calumnius and ridiculous piccc of prose, concludes thu?: . ! "A cunning ?hnrp-cvcd little mico, | That would bo dear at any pricc." yvn? ancr various* similar notices from other paper *, it winds* up with the following, which wc Bupposc in from the "(Jcorgian," as there in no authority given : A frog .?? it*n't quite a frog. Between a tudpolo and iv yretn owl." Thot<o editor I p?vsmmc, arc not aware that there haa ^vcr been anything to admire in "Young Womanhood." They arc not aware that the ''Houthcrn Matron" commenced her great enterprise, whivh has fillAti AUK liAtvnKli/. *?* !* vyt VIII i? jiUUIIV ? nil BWIIUUI ill ? UIII1IWmcnt, while whe belonged to the above named claw. They an not awnro thnt Mrs. 8. J. flale, Mrs. Higourney, Mn>. Elizabeth ()jikc?.f,ui|?.!?; Ann 8. Stevens, Alice B. Ntjil ar,<l others, produced some of tho brightest specimens of their genius during their youthful days, and wo preeume that those of the above named editors that arc married must hftvoj?. ^rriod very old muuh, or pretty old wido'V#, and have all got ndrto nnd wo daughters. And we do Hineeroly pity tho woman they got. r I'Vn- my part, I linvo nlw<iyn found noniothing tondmiro in "Young Womanhood," ,?rid, if I were oh old aft Motliuwdah, I would find Homothing to admiro iu for they nre flowed. Yea, ? Nvrftoter tlmn lho ?wftct?^t (lwor.i.^ < Snvo'thow thatgrow 'netvtli VrfWubovroir. "(lAi-r. On AW." t \Vnlhnllo, H, (?? Juno 20, lSf>8i l 1)r. .Johnson w'wclywdd" Ho whowriitn j^> to * ^rcftt dcnl c; good at onco, will inr.o.- J From the National Intelligencer. Justice to an Honorable Senator. Wc give place with pleasure to the subjoining letter from the lion. Arthur J\ llnyno, and the ncebmpmying papers, in correction of a perversion of his views in reference to the Hank of his own State, by sonic writer for a Charleston paper : To viy Fellow-Citizens of (he iStatc oj C* * 1. Si ' nuiun uaroitna. With feelings of deep emotion I address ! you. Words have been set down for me ns spoken in the Senate which 1 never uttered, and sentiments attributed tome which 1 never entertained. The occasion wan oue of conversational and.desultory discussion, by question and answer, remark and rejoinder, which might have called for leniency of judgment upon words spoken by even si practised debater. I might well throw myself upon your indulgence, therefore. 1 might ask you not to allow to be attributed ; to me a want of patriotism and State pride, j WllllPillUl'tftVV (if t)li> ........... ' - , v.. v..v f? 11V f 1VI vwinnu U1 III y life and actions, mul of all ilio known sentiments of my heart, upon the evidence of words thus spoken, l'ut 1 have no need so to appeal to your indulgence. On the contrary, 1 only ask to be judged by the severest rules. 1 ask that you will scan the words really spoken, and not those substituted for them. My real words will, I am sure, be found to express sentiments of duty to you aud of devotion to the interests of the State. Tho arvor of the reported debate was an unfortunate one for me, and the moment 1 saw it 1 requested its correction, which was at once made. It was one of those mistakes which nt times unavoidably occur, nm! fur J 1 *" which no one should l?c censurcd when i prompt correction is made. ] sun charged with alleging the insolvency of the Hank of the State ofSonth Carolina and of attempting to injuro its crcdit. The charge I utterly deny. 1 made 110 suoh allegation ; my convictions are just the reverse, and any attempt such as charged is inconsistent with such convictions. j My remarks in the Senate were in refe renco to a motion of Mr. Simmons, of lthodo Island, to substitute a bomc valuation for the vidorcm principle of the present tariff, i This motion was a blow struck at free trade, a blow aimed against the South and in favor of the North. In the courao of his remark* Mr. Simmons stated the failures in Charleston in the recent crisis to amount to nearly one million of dollars, and endeavored to show from the condition of the banks in South Carolina at the time of their suspension that the proportion of coin to liabilities had nothing to do with that suspension. To refute this theory was to show that the facta upon which an important part of his main argument was founded were loosely gathered, and would not bear examination, and thus to sap the very foundation of the main argument iUself. Jt was necessary for me to refer to the State action upon the banks, which had been inaccurately given by Mr. Simmons, and to the suspension itself, which T did as follows : " Not altogether, sir. The penalty on the first two instalments was exacted by the State; the banks were required by the Comptroller General of South Carolina to pay, and did pay, and never refunded. I am of opinion that the cause of a portion of our hanks having suspended is to be traced to this fact: wo have a bank, the capital of which is owned exclusively by the State, and must partake of the character, more or lesa, of a political bank, subject to no responsibility, and, at tho period of tho crisis, its circulation was so large it was compelled to suspend ; but if tho Hank of tho State had not been the vory first to suspend?no bank suspensions?none of our banks in South Carolina would have refused to continue to pay specic." You will see that this is verw ?liflfVront from the language attributed tome in the ('harleston Courier in the nrtiele referred to, following the Congressional (Hobo of .Juno 3d. As promptly corrected it stands in the official report of tho Appendix to the Congressional Globe, pngo 4 12, w' ere it is given substantially aH spoken. I cannot imagine how this can be construed in anyway into an attack upon the credit or solvency of the Stnto Bank. T could have wished fellow-citizens, that before assailing me, absent on your service, for strange, unpatriotic Hontimcnts, founded ' upon words reported to have been spoken, thesb porsons had inquired of me in rclntion to tho words. My course in tho past might even hove required that they should nssume there was soure,>nistnke, and have consultffl inn in vofArininn ? T givon an iinniu.w?tc reply. I most heartily regret, fejJuw-citizcnH, thiifc tlicy assumed the wok'ilit io wu iiivisf, uiy MuuiimcntH to bo unpatriotio, and ?o bccame n>y aBaailnnta, and condemned mo without a hearing. 1 appeal to you, and ask that hearing from you which they havo denied me. While I havo over been opposed to the bank on principle, upon expediency, and upon policy, J novor imagined that the Hank of fcho 8tato of South Carolina waa not a? Round a? any other in the country.-~ t\.. it-- *? 1--1- i * ' ,\/n ii)u ouiur^jr, iiiu wiivifj capital OI tl\0 Htato, the wealth of every man iu it, is pledged to * ^taln tho bnnk and to moko good its onpltal. No oxmowion of opinion by jiiiy individual coulu hurt tho orodit of an in??titutio? so f?ii?t?ined< ; Hut I expressed no doubt of its perfect Holvcuoyj none whatewr. That my remarks did-not produoo any such impression upon the Senate will appear from the letters of Senators Simmons and Kitzpatrick, copies of which I append, with that of my letter to which they are replies. Senator Simmons, being engaged in the discussion, was of course alive to all that took place in the courscof it, and he expressly says that "nothing was said by [mcj on that occasion which could be regarded as reflecting upon the character of the State, or upon the crcdit of any of its moneyed institutions." Senator Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, who occupies the scat next to me, 1 1 i * naa no such impression made upon him.? In fact., nothing contained in my remarks would hear suck a construction. I feel that I have been deeply wronged in the course which has been taken thus to condemn me hastily and without inquiry, when doing my duty at a distance from my home and battling for the principles of the people of South Carolina; and 1 confidently appeal to you, fellow-citizens, to repel by your might this ungenerous aiul unpro Yoked assault. 1 am, with high respect, fellow citizens, | your obedient servant, A. P. IlAYNK. Washington, June lf>, 1858. Sknatk ClIAMnj'.H, Washington, June 12, 1H58. My Dear Sir : 1 have your note of this date, inquiring if, in tho course of the dehate upon a proposition for a homo valuation of foreign imports, you said anything which, in my opinion, "was injurious to the character of the State of South Carolina, or to the credit of the Hank of tho State of South Carolina." In reply 1 have to say that I then regarded your allusion to the Dank of the State of South Carolina as having reference only to the Koiindnnsn nf'tlir. r,f' I iii placing nu institution holding so large tin amount of tlic fund$ of the State under the control of directors having no individual interest in the successful management of its j affairs. It must have been apparent to you I j and to the Senate that I regarded the liberal policy pursued by that Hank during the late monetary troubles as highly creditable to that institution. Nothing was said by yourself on that occasion which could be regarded us reflecting upon the character of the State, or upon the credit of any of its moneyed institutions. T am, dear sir, with high respect, your obedient servant, J. F. Simmons. non. a. V. havnk, j'resent. N. J}.-?The institution referred to being .supported by the whole resources of the Stato, its credit must of course be indisputable. Yours, J. P. S. Sknatk Ciiamdku, June 12,1858. My Dear Sir : Your favor of this date has just been received. 1 was present when you made souio remarks on the home valuation bill in the Senate tome time since.? I did not tax my memory at the time with what you said; nor can 1 now undertake to say what your precise language was on that occasion. As well as my memory enables me to ppeak in regard to the matter to which you refer, [ oan say that there is no impression on my mind that you said anything injurious 10 1110 cnaracter ot tuc tilnte ot South Carolina or to tho credit of South Carolina. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JJkn. Fitzpatrick. Hon. A. 1*. ITaynk. Vv asuington, June 14,1358. My Dear Sir: In reply to your note, received to-day, I must say that, in your (lis : r ii - i * uuroiuu ui uiu nomc valuation Dill, ' I understood that you were resenting what you supposed to be an imputation on South Carolina. Your scat being at Home distance from mine, ami your back towards me when you spoke, 1 did not hoar all that you said, but I have read it since, and tho impression then made is not removed that you referred to the bank as a political as well as banking institution ; and that, having a controlling political influence, it was managed on different principles from othsr banks; was not subject to tho same responsibilities, and was for these reasons lost* able and less willing io hold out in a financial c-iais. I <|iU HOI lillUuintiiiid Juu, niiu do 1501 think any 0110 here did, as putting in question the ability of the bank to redeem its notes, ultimately, or the faith of the State, whioh everyone knows is pledged to their redemp tion. Very truly and respectfully voun4, J. II. Hammond. IIont. A. P. IlAYNlS. Warhixgton, June 15,1858. We, tho undersigned, concur fully with the Hon. Mr. Simmon;* in tho impression made by tho remarks of Col. lloyno In tho Sonate on tho 21st of May, that nothing was said by him whieh could bo "regarded as reflecting upon the character of his State or upon tho credit of nuy of its moneyed | institutions. lu Tact, tho tone tuktuj by Crol. If ay no in tho various discussions of tho Sonato haHnlways boon of that olovntcd oharactor which should belong to tho body, and which makes tho true representative of a great and ohivalvons 8tato. K. M. T. UuNTKit: Jkff. JUvis. J. J. ClUTTKNDKN.* J. M. Mason. After asking your nanio in tho State of Arkansas, the natives nrc in the habit o?l aayiug in ft confidential tone: " Well, ifo$n %'nat wcr yer name boforo yer moved, to theso parte ?" ' From England?Debate In Parliament. Mr. Wilson also asked whether there were any objections to lay on the table the correspondence between the British Government find that of the United States respecting the slave trade. Mr. Seynioro Fitzgerald replied?That the government had received 110 official information of the arrest of Captain Jenkins. Will. 1 41? -it.? ?!-- ' .i .?n ivjyuu i<j mu inner question, Uie American government had made grave charges against certain British officers; but i 110 official account had been received from ' these officers. 1 lc could only say that, if occurreti?c? such aa those complaincd of had occurred, they would he viewed with the deepest regret by the government, and immediate explanation given. The fullest information should be laid before Parliament or early ?8 possible. In the meantime, ho had only to add. that orders hnd been sent out to the officers in couiinaud of the squadron in the Cuban waters, to make every inquiry into the subject, and that the greatest caution and forbearance should be exorcised towards vessels bearing the Ainerieafi Hag. The London Times, in a leader 011 the searching of American vessels, reiterated its objections against the policy of maintaining a squadron which has proven so ineffectual for the end in view. It says, "whatever the right of the ease, and however far Americans may be ready to go at present in compliance, for peace' sake, we cannot ijui iook iorwara to a uay when it will be more disagreeable, and at the same time moro unnecessary for the Americans to submit, and a still greater let down for our own pride to give way." After passing some censure upon the apathy of the American Government in the suppression of the slave trade, it concludes as follows : "We do not compel licr to the virtue alio has not; before very long the mere attempt must bring on a fearful \r?r. Is there no such thing ns giving up a crusade, which began with being optional, and is found to 1.- fT -i t O * .1 oc irjuiicciuiu : is notmng to be surrendered, cxeopt after the loss of 80,000 lives on both sides and thirty millions of money? Is there no other use, equally benevolent, to which we could put the half million and valuable lives annually su;'k in these squadrons ?" In the city article of tho Timrs, some reflections arc made on the sauie subject, and it is asked, whether, supposing America unwilling to send ships for the suppression of the slave trade, might there not be an agreement for one or two American officers i. L- .. 1 1 uj on rccoivcu as permanent guests on board lirit ish vessels, while serving ou such duties, and all searches to be conducted under the auspices of such American officers ? The Dai/i/ News' editorial on the same subject, regards the affair as a disagreeable one; but thinks it premature to jump at conclusions without hearing both sides of the question. It discredits the reports made by somo of tho American captains. The same paper draws a contrast between the serf emancipation policy of Russia and the slave policy of America, and incidentally reviews the career of Tourgcneff and Kdwaid Everett, upon tho latter of whom it casts some bitter reflections. The London Pott thinks that, if injury has been sustained, England cannot refuse the reparation demanded by Secretary Cass, and calls for such forbcayance in tho mat ter complained of, as will not endanger the friendly relations between the two countries. Tho London filar thinks the danger is imminent, unless tho British government recede from its untenable position. ThkTimks on the South.?The London Times, in a leader on the present difficulties between England aud this country, says : It is peculiarly unfortunate that the Anti-Slavery crusade should alienate from England the portion of the American community which would otherwise be drawn nearer to lis hv intftrPJit, nml l?v innlinntinn During the enlistment dispute the only temperate or friendly language used towards England proceeded from the Southern SenAtom, and tho journals of tho States proclaimed with amu.sing extravagance the superiority of the old country to the hated Yankee territories of the North. Anglophobia is adopted by conflicting orators and factions principally becauRc it is supposed to involve a sentiment of unanimous suspicion and dislike, if the cotton growors were, by the suspension of the slave trade agitation, left to the naturai operation of their sympathies with the cotton buyers, fjuarrcis witu England would bccoiuo doubtful party questions, instead of furnishing a common fund of popularity to conflicting demagogues. It will be highly desirable to confine tho impending controversy to the facts of the alleged aggression. And gen oral discussion of the policy of America ifi regard to tho slavo trade will onlygivo unprofitable oft'onco. It ii ocrtmn t'nt the existing treaty has not been vigorously executed, and still more certain that no American President will offend the most iufluoutial ])ortion of bin constituents by omulating the zeal of the English cruisers on the Coast of Africa or of Cuba, but prudent Governments, like men ofxcnscin private life, look for no efforts of extraordinary zeal from those who comply against their will." " Doctor." said a despairing patient to his (.physician, "I am in a dreadful'stato; T can tttofther lay nor net what shall I do?'' "Why, flion," vopUml tho doctor, very gravely, ! think you hatl better?rooet I" 1 I Col. Keitt. in the House. The "NVnsliiugtan correspondent of the ; Charleston Courier };ivcs tho following de- 1 scription of Col. Keitt: " Col. Keitt, of South Carolina, followed | in u few forcible and telling remarks, his frowning brow unci curling lip plainly expressing the disdain which he felt fori one whom he evidently regarded as a trait- ' or to the interests of the South. The Black Republicans accuse this gentleman of hav- ; jug established so alcoholic a standard of party speaking in the House, that anything ' short of a division of the Union passes for milk and water, lie is certainly oueof the most interesting speakers there. The con- i missions, the starts, the spasms of his manner, give to his speaking a strong spell of interest, and quickens the spectator's curi- ! osity. An intensely Southern feclingscems |/vviuiuiivjr ill mo V/iiumutUI. I The l ights of the South ami the defence of her interests seem never absent from his , thoughts. If he hns the most dry and ab- ! stract subject to speak upon he will contrive to interweave an episode upon the slavery j question, lie has, too, a fund of restless propensity, which seems quite beyond his 1 power to control. This over-weening vi- ; vftcity is conspicuous in his whole manner j and movement. At one time tlic visitor to ' the ' House' gallery will find him indul- | ging in a little straightforward talk about j lCmmna mirl limit nnrl 4l>r> pages passing his ?.l?vsk as charily ns Queen Emma creeping among the curving ploughshares. The darlings! They seem to be perfectly aware of the gunpowder texture of the honorable member's temperament.? Another time you will see him jerking with j irritation, favoring the 'House' with an oratorical burst of indignation, and nourishing his arms in a manner cxlromcly significant towards the Republican quarter of the House. " Ajrain VOU will find liini nronmino.iiirr ?_ v # i ; r? a verdict 011 their transactions, giving a eat- j aloguc of their enormities, and thumping, the innocent mahogany at a rate which cau- ; ses the little pages to treinhle with consternation. Why, after one of those speeches it must cost the honorable member his day's salary at ' GautierV for lozenges to cure his hoarseness. " You at once perceive from his v 'iner, when speaking, that he has detent: nod to avenge the wrongs of the South. 11 is very gestures indicate it. lie flings out one foot before the other, as if the Union were already divided and he pushing the Northern ascendency before him ; while occasionally an indignant, broad-shouldered shake of the upper man is manifestly an indignant effort to shuttle oft* tho. North. Tf cittiiwr in a acriouu mood, lie is probably sketching on the margin of an amendment, at a rough calculation, the number of pro-slavery men in Kansas capable of bearing arms, according to the latest returns of the population. " The North seems to have set this gentleman up as a target for their shafts.? We should think his ears would be excoriated by the sarcastic diatribes of the Republicans, who arc perpetually harrassing and taunting him. 15ut lie raps thorn back, and the opposition find they can neither sneer him into silence, or control him by scrape, of the pen." Will Still rk Black Rkpujilican.Tlifl nrnnlfl linn unnlr.-n All io vninr> ilmt ? .,t b"'"v comes into his net, and when the trenchers of all the original "Republicans" arc filled, perhaps the camp followers, the "eleventh hour" men, may have the fragments, if any be left. Hear what the New York Tribune, says, in its exultation over the accessions heretofore, and those confidently expected hereafter : "Nor is the question of a re construction of parties at all involved in the issue now made. As a matter of fact, the Republican party was changed in its composition, though not in its principles, who:, the Whig party?all that was left of it?joined us in 1855. The accession of many thousands a.?:i -?* 1 i'? cj-M ? >ii i niu-uuii i/(.-inuurain uuu r i~uu-chjii ^\lUCricana changed it still further in 185t>. A still further accc&sion of Democrats and of Americans who nblior tho Lecomptou policy of the present Administration is now probable; but it will still be the Republican party?with heavier responsibilities and wider aims, perhaps, but the same party as ever." Sale oftiif.Soutiikrn Pacific Kailroad.?The Marshall (fexaa) Flag contains the particulars of the sale of thcSouthcrn Pacific Railroad, consisting of the twenty tnilcs in running order, iron, cars, track appurtenance, and all other property belonging thereunto, together with tho rights and franchises appertaining to the old company. The sale took place on the 2nd inst., under the deed of trust executed sometime last summer, and after some little bidding the whole of this vast property, estimated 1?U llVinilrAflo r\4* 1\a uuMV(i?'tio Ut illi'V/illUVUV UIUII Wl Mi" >TUUH fully one hundred millions of dollars ! An injunction had boon issued out against the purchasers, but as a bond of $500,000 was required to givp it force, and an that bond had not been given up to tie latest dntes, it will not amount '0 nmch. Tho purchasers have since organised themselves into a joint stock company. In Worcester, Knj*lnivl, recently, ayouil'g couple who wore being mado of twain one were deported by the officiating minister in tbo middle of tho ceremony, who went off in high dudgeon, because the bride and her friends " giggled eomowhliro between "denrlj-bcluvod" and "annueuicnt." tfjf $ & Terrible Flood at Cairo?Further Particulars. The telegraph has already given nn account of tho destructive Hood at Cairo, Illinois, by which the city has been nearly swept nway. A letter from that placc, dated June 13, to tho Chicago Times, lias the following interesting additional particulars: It has rained almost itienaminllv fur Mia pant throe months, swelling tho rivers out of their banks, currying desolation in their path way. Thousands of acres of land, above aud below, has been laid waste, and millions of dollars worth of property lust. Yesterday morning a distinct shock of an carthquako was foil here, and at six o'clock in the evening the " cross levee" broke, when tho water, which was twelve feet above the level of tho town iml.fiile, came dashing, foaming and seething inside. Tho break was so unexpected that the inhabitants were taken by sur prise, and many of them only liad time to escape with their families to the levee, before the torrent swept away their homes. In many instances boats and rafts bad to bo resorted to for the means of escape. To-day every person is busily encaged in resc uing what property they safely can from the floating nouses. Breakfast was served to tho guests of tho Taylor House in the second story, knee ecp in water, the culinary department being carried to the thrid ! A few families, who rcwided in the two-story houses, remained in them until noon to-dav. They have now to get out of their upstairs windows into boats? ?!.? i ..1 1 -- - 1?? - vnv n 1IIVI llllllWPl Oil 11 ICVUl Willi II10H1, and rising at tlic rate of four inches an liour. T'.ie Ohio levee is the only place of refuge left, it being only some seventy-live fcetwiilo and three-fourths of a mile in length. At 1 o'clock n. ni.t nearly one-half of the new (unfinished) hotel, on the levee, fellwifh a deafening era- h, preceded by a report enual to a six-pounder. The building was of brick, five stories high, with attic rooms, iron door nttd window frames; cost nearly $100,000.? The remaining portion was considerably sway ed. Total loss. Gove: nor Mattcson's new building, fivo stories high, also on the levee, shows signs of falling. It is an unfinished building, and cost about $75,000. . Tlic " Springfield Block." adjoining tho hank, still stands firm, but will probably come j down with a clash soon, as the water is sofi tenill" the <?WII111?1 -it. 111 r? liimiilniii.ii \T i n a tenements are within this building, nil occupied. The post office is in one of them. Cost ! some three or four hundred thousand dollars. I-ossrs jiy tii it Storms.?The New York Herald estimates the losses by tho Hoods and storms of this season at $30,000,000. Such an estimation must he purely conjectural.? Hut when we remember the damages from tho overflowing of tlie Mississippi?and tho unprecedented inundations that have prevailed, not only on the Mississippi, but alone all its tributaries?and the damages resulting from the heavy rains, throughout the wholo of the great va'ley, that have caused those inundations; when we remember tho deluges | that wo hnvo hail along our Northern Atlantic coast?the estimate, although of course conjectural, will not be surprisingly large.? The Herald says that already the effects are pcrcoived in the depreciation of the stock market on Wall street. It comments as follows : "A loss of thirty-three millions or more of the solid wealth of the country at this crisis mustmako its mark, and with the general stagnation in business which prevails through out the Union, we cannot safely predict an early return of flush times and universal extravagance. Provisions and cotton will command good prices, in proportion to the diminution of the crops; but the losses of States, corporations ami individuals from tho floods and storms of 1858, will bo felt throughout the Union and through all the diversified interests of the whole American people. To the Government and to the people retrenchment and reform must still bo tho rule of action. until at least Ave can ascertain that tho profits and savings of the year, on nil sides, will more tlian^countci-balancc^all losses and deficiencies." McIIek's Facton v.?Wo visited, in company with a friend, a few days since, McBeo's Cotton Manufactory, on Koedy river, some miles from this placo. The factory is now under the management of Mr. Gilbert lloed, a gentleman of great experience in the business, and a mechanic of skill and ability.? Formerly, the factory did not turn out over forty buncaos of yarn per day, but with the samo machinery, except the water wheel, and with tJl?? snnift minimi* <? ' linnrlo \t?- Ifnn'.l turns out about one hundred bu nolle?. Tho cotton manufactured hero is said to be of u bunoiio" quality. Wo could but observo the neat appearnnco I of the oporativos in the factory, tlioinoRiof whom wcro young girls, and the regularity i and harmony with which every department ; of tho business was conducted. '1 lio rosij donee of the operatives are all noatly anil ! comfortably ana. ged, vith gardens of ample i pi/.c attached, and tho .vhole wearing a chcor! ful and happy uppearanco. On our return homoward, wo stopped at ?i.? n- !ll~ r. /1 ? vII'.* uiuuiiuiio mtniumrvunii" v.UlillmilY,I10W under the control of Mr. Robert Greenfield. j'hi&Jcstnblishnii.nt wafi put in operation many years Hmcohy the late Col. Dunhum, deecfc*0*1. It has gone almosd to.rnin. Mr. Greenfield in now ongaged in making paper, and tho sample shown us wuh of the firnt nullity. O.ily about ten hands are employed in ihw ! manufactory. i do water power ni uroiy rsver ss i?n1)10.180; and to tho#o who dosiro to engage in manufacturing onterpriycx, wo could not rocommend a stream in our District which oow prosont* tho sumo advantages as thie.? G'recn villa I'atriot. ^ ^ An Affec-tionatk ilirebaxn.-IIn^lan Iljdo of (Jrconville, Conn.*, lost his third wife one J * or ngr>. Aljout a week siheo he Went to tho ce-. iotery. dug open tho prrnvo, opened tho ouftin wid took out?what? n :'Ot?if fnheteeth fur tho cukoof the gold plate ! I [yd* confowios i nuiijuMinco niniKeii. no if iiwnil WIV jenri of ngo, a hou*e. carpenter by trade, in comfortable circumstances as to propt?rt_v, nrul a member of a Christian ohurch. JTc trifi<X trt :;et tho leeth out as she la}1 (K?a<l in fii* hou?? rarforo the funcvat, but Hie ri^ifl muHeles ^ w*?nM not roUs. Tho women of llfoenvUlo wiuh to tar a&d fen'her fcira. *