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kkowi<;k cor.inm. ROBT. A. THOMPSON, Editor. Tl'illMS.?$l.V) pqr annum, in mlvnnco. If pnymorit bo ailiiyo^ until ufXertlico*pirti(iortrvr tho venr. For six moiilh*, 75 vicUis, la aiivMiioo. Advertisement? >it the uson! rnt?s. ?- v. - - > tr PICKENS C. II., S. C.: Saturday Morning, April 23, 1850. Frost The frost1 this wr-.nk kijled such of tlio fruit as escaped tho tbrmcrsovero "cold snap." m-M It is thought by aoiniO, also, thai Wheat is ' materially injured. Corn, with tender vegetation gonerally, has been nipped to the earth. Thorc was moro or inss ioo on Monday morning. Personal TIjo spring examination of the South Car- I oliim College has just closed. It was all that could bo desired. Amongst tho appointmonta for the May Exhibition, we aro ploascd to bee that Mr. W. T. Ci.bvki.and, of Pickeus, stands second on the list. The Blue Ridge Barbecue"Wo presuuio it is only noccsaury to make iiieution of tho subject to interest all eoucorned in the mass mooting recommended to bo held, at Tunnel Hill, during the summer. Arrangements are nocossary for its success, atul we wo Ul commend timely action for that purpose. Tlioso of our citizens interested in the completion of this grout enterprise, (aud who i* not ?) will, wo trust, take charge of tho matter herein suggested, and tako such steps as are detnaudod by the importance of tho occasion. AgriculturalTito quarterly meeting of the Agricultural Society, at Walhallft, was held on Saturday last. The Committee on cotton and grain Awarded a premium to Mr. E. P. Vekner for the best acrc of corn, which produced 08 1-2 bushels. Mr. G. W. Phillips reported informally that ho raised on ouo aero 70 1-2 busliela of corn. A committee was appointted to prepare a premium list for tho next Pair, which wan ordered to be published. Tho attendance of members was not as large as the importance of the cause demanded. After the transaction of some unimportant uusiuess tho Society adjourned. WalhallaIt affords us pleasure to noto the improvement that is making in this thriving and beautiful \ Hinge. In tho matter of trado, too, there is a good business done hero. Several now houses have boeu opened since our laat visit, which are driving a profitable trade. 1'iEKEit <fc LowuV, who have added to their uuvuruHoment' in our present number, nrcof this class. Mr. Hikcke, Mrs. Knee, Messrs. I'iscucsser and Vomiit, cnch in thoir line arc-prospo ring, and Bell on the best terms.? See their advertisements. The Luthoran congregation have commenced a house of worship in tho town. Too site is most eligible, and the style of building very appropriate. Hopes are indulged of its speedy completion, in which wo most sincerely join. At Hikiiavn's hotel a bountiful table is always spread, where good ehecr ami hospitality is dispensed. Try him ! PresbyteryThe Presbytery of South Carolina convened at Cross Hill, Laurens District, on tho 1-lth instant. Rev. Mr. Davis was eloctcd Moderator, and Dr. McBryde, Clerk. The meeting was a full and harmouious one, and the current business was transacted in thr host spirit and to goneral satisfaction. Mmrs. Wilbanks and J. C. Kennedy 1 w(Sr<. ii tonsod to preach tho Gospel in the j "boon \s or the Presbytery. Pv< ytery adjourned on tho succeeding Saturday, to moot at PKm-.v. I .11 j Atbevillo District. tfjf Bvckt.ky'8 Circus is a humbug! New Advertisement. Special reference is lutulo to tho new advertisements in our columns this week.? j Phey are too numerous to bo noticed so pa rate- j ly, nnd too important to those interested to ! be lightly passed over. Cotton Rf.ukiits.?We copy the following statement for tho week ending Thursday, April 14, from the Charleston Jfereuty: ltoeclvcd tlio past week by railroads, 7,GH0 J , bales; hy water an<l wagons, 257 bales?togetli- ; er, 7,9fl7 halos?(corrospoadlng wook lust your, j 11,545 bales), hxported in the Mine time to foroigu ports, 5073 bales- coastwise, 1,7'.)<> ! ha)os ?making t ho total oxpons of I tie week (>,f<<J3 bal' ; and leaving on linn'l a stock ot" <?7,248 bales; inclusive of H?58 hales on shipboard not cleared, Against, a stock of HO,405 b&los, and 11,315 hales on Bhipboard came lime , hust year. The total receipts since onrlast report r.ir.S;;;.! to 50,673 bales (against <>0,250 halesname time liwt vearl. making a or rami tk> i-? r' O " O 1 *' ? *iV?" 1 ,,u 181 Hcp^c^r^bm to tho latest (lutes, of H.<)G2,K20 bibles, ugainMt 3,582,410 bnles the nuiue time lust your, and 2,704,700 billed jthoyenvprovious. IncVtiwc nincc liistyonr, 770,910 b;ilca. Exchanges. ^r. Davis girori notice that the Protjretttii.'Hlti, which was to be published at Cross Anchor, has bocn abandoned. Cat, E. M. Keith, formorly of I'ickens, has I taken cliargo, (jointly with Mr. the proprietor,) of tho editorial department of tho CftSBvillo (Oa.) Standard. C\?l. K. ha* hut recently oqtahlifdied himself in Comvill<yand his Iricnds hero will ho Rrutified to hear of bis promotion. ' Tho Pce T)ce Tint'*, ably odita^ by Mr. Do7.1 v.n, has appeared in a njjV and bcconiir.g kult. stk5cc8<) to it! " . _tu' ' Cma*!.mtcn'.?Cotton m <|uot?d In Chnr* lcsfcou at 9 to ccuts per pound. ! General IntelligenceCol. Orii whs Mereqatled ufc Spartanburg and Laurcij^ during Court at those plac6a. lie responded to each appropriately, saying, fynong*t'ot1ier things, that ho vrur loss hopofuVof tho Union than at any former poriod, and. though he loyed it much, he would not j sacrifice priuciplo to proservo it. J[Q ro; marked that ours was the best government j with which any people ha<l ever be<?n blessed. ! Col. Orr's speeches aro highly spoken of by i ; the // n(d ami frxpiv-is. The 'rial of tho Kcho prisoners, in Charleston, for being engaged in tho African slave trado, has heoti brought to an end by tho jury finding them "not guilty." If tho facts arc to guido us in coming to corrc;;t conclusions, parties criminal cannot be found guilty, North or South, for negro stoaling and violation of iaw aud the constitution. Verily, tho "highor law" rulos the land over. Oov. Gist, with his KtnfV lins rnmivimmnil his bi-year!v reviews. Tho 31st llogiment, at Black Mingo, (Goorgotown,) was thus honored on the 9th Inst. His Excellency, thro' one ofhis Aids, addressed the men under j arms. Whisky also paraded during tho day j in u boisterous and unseemly manner. Wo j thought, judging from what is known of tho | ref'noment of the "low country," that such ; scenes only occurred in tho mountains ! Tho rumor of the hour is, that a small war like expedition recently left Now York for the purpose of " forcibly seizing" Cuba.? Anxiety is on tip-toe to know the facts of tho ease?which arc, probably, that " nothing is likely to come of it." The Sickles trial is progressing at Washington, and creating great excitement iu the j country, llis acquittal is thought to bo rca- , son ably certain. A treaty of peace, according to accounts received, has been concluded with Paraguay by our government. The United States nhipswero to leave for home at an early day. Hon. John Forsyth, late minister to Mexico, in reply to an invitation to a complimentary dinner to bo giyen to him at Columbus, Ga., (which ho declines) is severe on the Administration fox* its had Mexican policy, lie is not ft dangerous man. The contending parties aro actively engaged in Mexico. A battle lias been fought near theoity of Mexico, both sides losing in live hundred men each, l'rom appearances more blood will bo shod there shortly. Jambs McGorvak, of Richland district, committed suicide on Sunday last. Cause of t'.io horrid act not stated. Thn r,..r r...?o :- n..i 1 uv |?i.ivn aico IU VUIUIIIIIIU, I'UUBVU by incendiaries, baa induced the Mayor of tbat city to oft'or a largo reward for their capture and d tection. Advices from Europe does not blow away the war fog. Little conlidencc, however, is felt in tbe peaco Congress. The price of cottou was unchanged. Light Wanted [ " Pickens.?The Agricultural Society of Pickens district held its quarterly meeting ou Sale-day last, and elected '/. 0. Pulliam, Est]., to delivorthe next anniversary address. This fact we get from the Keowee Courier, by way of the Columbia Cttuirdian. 15rothnr fPhiintnann r.t f.... tliSo " [{iiunvillc Enterprise, 1 Ath hint. Friend Prick, thorc is no accounting for some tliingf, and this query may perhaps bo among them. This, however, we do know; that the Courier, under the present mail arrangements, should bo delivered in Greenville by 8 o'clock, A. M., every Monday morning. Then there would be no necessity j Cor clipping from our capiloliiic exchange of 1 the day after. IJut, brother Enterprise,strange things happen with the mails occasionally i?r? JUU niu j j t'VJuuu1v UWcllU, j1iiu i1u uuuul oi1c of its freaka withhold the copy of our paper that wook from you. The Courier is regularly muilod to its subscribers and exchanges. We never fail to rcceive the prospering Kntcrprise, but it is morO than we ean say of some of our oxclmnges. DisgracefulThe Columbia Bulletin, in sonio remarks relative to the Sheriff's elcotiou in that city, on Monday last, says ; 'flic election liold in tins city yesterday was preceded ami attended witli ucencs disreputable to any community, find it. matters not with us wrhomayhavc been thcauthorft orabcttorsofsnch scenes, they and their nets deserve ?ho condemnation of every orderly member of society. During tlio entfre day?Sunday-,-a species of disorder amounting to ?i diercgtird for t )ie day and decency, was clearly manifested by the assembling of crowds about the corners and other I places. On Monday morning men were brought tot'io polls like sheep that had been prepared for the shambles and marched to the box with tickets supplied thein inpublio, nndns more Automatons, ilu?y depositcd" their vtitc, without any seeming regard lor the person for whom tlioy woro voting. We have heard of " Kull-pens " iu Columbia, and disgraceful sccncs enacted by (Jioko engaged in Dial sort, of electioneering, but v/o never witnessed anything of that *ovt. Alt of the purclMuoalde fliAterial were brought intotliecity I'roxn the surrounding country, and furbished <[UKrtbrH and board with any quantity of halti fnco, until thoir votes wore deposited, whpn fhey were turned loouc Upon the community, degraded, iuiu in u ?u? ounce drunk, uuil diBordcny. Tub Uivbh at Vjc*uburg.~?Thr> True Rnnlhrnn ftf VrMav Int. in?t ??? yrom a friend who knptftn nccurnto gnage of the v. ater of IfjaO and iost year, wo Teamed voaterday evening it was now be? tweon cigh> and nino inchoa higher at thin point than in'50, arid between ton and clo'von inches higher than that of last year. Tho rininnjgp of the Vickshurg, Shrcvot>ort and Toxoft Kail road, resulting from White's crcva*so growo more perious every day. And already about throo hundred yard* of tlio embankment lift# wn*itcd away. Im portant to"CoTroy (Growers.?The X. fV Ai^iilrlnrr r\f fl>A * n,v?yn*?vf w-|rvw?i.^ w? V??U IVV/VIIW IWll losses of Otton in thftt city, by firo, stiggoflt* tin* use of iron tic? for the hole*. m the latter will not hum (only n mere uinging on the outnid<;,) tf they ure kept in thoir comprcfljou ?tato. - v | ; V"?i feimings and Cilppngc, j State Ei.RCTfONs.-?With tho exception of ! Virginia, which will hold it? olectioa oil the 20th of May, there will ho no more Stnto | elections hold until August, when the States of Ahilsamn, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas will elcot. Rather Sharp.?-An exehnngo says that, i in mo ujuscncooi uom editors, the publish* ; er had suoceodcd in securing tlic sc.vices of n gcntlcmnn to edit the paper that wcok 1" Education in Tbxas.?Groat onthusiasm prevails throughout Texas on the subject of education?tho school fund is said to bo nearly sufliciont to pay tho tuition of evory poor youth in the State. * Conviction.?Tho Charleston Mercury is informed that Abraham Strickland was convicted ut Waltorboro, ou Thursday last, at the Sessb is Court, Judge O'Noall presiding, of the murder of his uncle, Mr. James Striok*im.? : -r- -* " mm. xm; jwijr, mwr an injsonofl 01 soveral hours, returned a verdict of guilty. Makuiauk Dhokkk's Office.?A marriage broker's oftico is nbout to bo establiBhsd in Louisville, Ivy. > Country ordors solloited." A Wicked Husband with a Siiari* Tonouk ?A married monster said that bo latoly dreamed that ho hiul an angel by his side, and upon waking up, found it was nobody but his wifo. Pi'iiltc Lands in MarkI:t.?Nino and a half millions of acre's of the public lands in Kansas and Nebraska, which wore withheld i r,.a.? ?...!? i?-? " o...v nu? j uin mi account oi inc financial vovulsion, will be in the market in July, August and Soptomber. It is expected that I theso sales will increaso the rovouuo for tho j next fiscal year very materially. j 11.vimd Increase.-?Tho population of the United Statos increases nearly ono million a year, or two thouHand every day. Another new State.?A movement U maI king to out otr tho Southern portion of 0?lii forma, and unittni/ if. *vi?l> A *??.> r....... ? now Stnto of tlio Union. I Marking Paters.?The Postmaster General decides that a pen or pencil mark, made for the solo purpose of attracting the oye to a I particular article or portion of printed matter j does not subject matter to lotter t stage, as J is insisted on by some postmasters. I From Law to Preaching.?The Lancaster I Ledger reports that J. W. Cooke* Enq., a I member of the Lancaster Bar, and formerly of the Winnsboro' Bar, has receiv ed anthori* t-v and license as a r?rom?br?v.in ii>n , . i K. Church, South, and preached his first sermon on Saturday evening. Dead.?Billy Bowlegs, tho oolobrated Iodiau chief, is dead. Tiie Southern Baptist Convention.-The seventh session of tho Southo*n Baptist Convention, will ho hold at Richmond, Vb., com- | i mcnoing on Friday, May 6th, at 10 o'clock A. M. Sji a i.i. Pox.?A stranger recently stopped in Witinsboro', and in a short time it was ascertained that ho had small pox. However, it is ascertained that is the only case in that town. Convicted.-?U. S, Marshall Tvlor. nt l>o troit, convicted of manslaughter, ift tlio killing of ('apt. Jones, of the brig Concord, white serving a process upon him, was sentenced in the U. S. Circuit Court on Monday, to pay n fine of one dollar, and be imprisoned in the county jail thirty days, Liquor Law in M assachusetts.?The Massachusetts Legislature has before it a Jbill making a single case of drunkenness a Crime to bo punished with imprisonment. The liquor law does not stop intompcrunce, for we see that eight thousand persons were arrested iit Boston h\*t year for drunkenness. Ex-Sexatoh Foote for Gonuress.??The Memphis Appeal says that ox-United States Senator, Ilonry S. Footo, has exprosscd his determination to become a candidate for Congress in tho fourth district of Mississippi, in opposition to Hon. 0. 11. Singleton. tioaD cmtivir,??The power of a clean, frugal, industrious, sensible) woman exorcises over her husband arid children is only exceeded by the power for evil which is exer | cisea ny a slovenly, extravagant, mie, loolirtli woman. L^CruRiNn.?Capt. Walter M. Gibson \*ns expected to dell ver a lecture before the Yoiwg Men's Association of Mobilo, on Friday eve titng, in relation to bis experioneo and observations in the Indian ArebipMagd. Mu.viriCENT. Donation.?Wo eee it stated that a lady in Mobilo, a member of tbo Melho'dist Episcopal Church, 1ms agreed to ondow a pruie^sorsijip ot the ttust Alabama ?Malo College, located at Aalwrn, with twenty-sir lliOUoittid dumilSt Tiik Hooks.?It would take a man threo thousand years to read all the books now extant, yet printing id but five hundred y<?ars old. And volumes multiply by .he liundredfl of thousands yearly : a giggle country in Kur.ipo furninhcd 10,dOO distinct new books last A Fiki.ooi- ijiiwd.;?Tho number slain at tho battle of Waterloo, in 1815, was 00,000. A writer says tho sun rose tho morning after* wards upon tho gory form* of sixty thousand slain ! I'jir and near, fts fhr as tho ejo could | roach, tho dead aiul tho dying were indini criiniuatoly thrown together upon tho closely I contOstod Held?literally, a field of blood*. I , - - ? ?? . 1 NbW kindok Sn.ikr.<~-A cotemnorarv iJhvh ( tlioy have ft soft of reptikj in tlio torrid sonc called tl?# glosa mtrtkfl. Crlft;s anrtkes nre very common outside of that zono. Many is tlio convivial fellow add jolly brick in this region, who li^a felt their sting. 0 > * * # f * * Wobtu Sixty Tlio wealth of Mr. W. li. Astor, of New York, is estimated at sixty millions of dollars. Nf,oh<> Steat.rhs Aiou:stei>.-?<.ta-nc M. Drumwright and John Silas, havg be^n arrouted at Atlanta. C5qo., for stealing a negro man belonging to Mr. 0. C. Howell, of At" lanta. ^ l-'oousii 1'kpim.b.-?The Pnrisan world is said t<" bo in a stato of foverish excitement. Not only arc thn nights taken up with dancing, but the days arc consumed in making complicated preparations. Never was there 8t*ch an exclusive rage for fancy bulls. 7Jai?tisji of Mtu.EiiiTr.a.'?Sixteen Adventists or Millcritcs, wore bnp'.i??^ ili<? river near Newark. N. J., on Sunday. Kight of thorn were females. To be llt'No.?A. J. Lingo has bcoo convicted at Marietta, (Ja., of tho killing of llobert Duncan, and sentenced to bo hunor on the 27 th of Muy, Sudors Dkath.?ThoJhuTmgton FtayBnys that Mr. Kdw&rd Wpodw'ard foil dead in tlie streets Hi" Marion village only a few days since. Dkad.i? A despatch from Milwaukie, dated 12th instant, announcos tlio death of Hon. K. V. Whitton, Chief Justico of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, who died at his residence in Janesville on the afternoon of that day. Lovb vs* Stkak.?ltyron was disenchanted when lie saw his innmorita eating. In other words, he faltered when youth and beaut; were at steak. Alt, Cone.?Tl>o recent cold weather and heavy frosts (says the A-dievillc Acw.t. of the 1 It'll,) havo cot off our fruit prospers almost ! entirely. Tlicro may bo lute applos, but, peaohes are not to bo hoped for. Savannah, April lr>.?In the federal Court i to-day, true bills \yoro found against Charles | Lamar, K. F. Aiken, John II. Tucker and others, for holding African?. Tint French Broad Roai>.?We learn from tho Ashovillo Notes that the .magistrates of Henderson County have unanimously passod an order to submit a proposition to its citizens to subscribe $100,000 to tho Froncli Broad Iload. Those of Buncombe County liavo also submitted ono for $125,000. TheA'eics has no doubt that tlmir notiim will i>?? endorsed. An Expensive Family.?Tlio Sultan of Turkey has thirl; -six wives and <*v'jn hundred and eighty fomalo fcluvofl, which costs him forty-scvou millions of dollars a yonr. A Touching Scknr.?The "Washington correspondent of-the Now York " lJ.eridd"' writes hk follows: "A striking demonstration of female sentiment hero took place lust night, when George Sickles, father of tho prisoner was surprised by a visit at his hotel of some twenty ladies, who came in a body to express their sympathy for his pon, and to ?av that if ho thought it would give any comfort to the accused, thov would rlnilv present themselves, with more, at the Court House. The person at the head of the deputation was a venerable woman i ot'tionie three- scoro yen is, sho used the .strongest expressions of conmmiscration for the jirisoncf. "Wo demand his discharge,' she said, "on behalf of our sex." Let him be convicted, and tho libertine obtains new license. Let liua bo vindicated, and virtue requires no new guarantee." Mr. Sickles, Sr., made a feeling acknowledgement in reply to this novel but touching display of good and virtuous .son llm^nt by ladios in this community. lie $aid he would not take upon hiinnolf tho repprisibUity of answering thoir inquiry^ but he would make known to Ids unfortunate son this spontaneous net of By in pn thy hy a band of noble women, and he was sure it would be most grateful to his feelings. Tub Sicki.k.s Tin a \t.?Washington, April 12.?Seven witnesses for tho defence have now bcou examined, including tho Hon. fl. J. Wnlker. nml n?cniiiil lea, who was present at the tune Mrs. Sickles signed the confession of her guilt. During the vendition of Mr. Walker's testimony, the prisoner was so overcome by his'Cisiotions, '?s to. mako it necessary that ho should ho removed temporarily from the court room. The court ndjourncd whilo tho tfvgurueut was pending, touching the admissibility of Mrs. Sickles' confession, (is evidenco in the case, \yhich is Mid to j contain tho full particulars of repeated offonees. Washington, April 13.?Judge Crawford has decidcd not to receive Mrs, Sickles' confession in evidence. Several witnesses were examined as to his stato of i(ilid previous, ana the circumstances which immediately preceded the killitrg. A great deal of sympathy is manifested in the community for the accused. Lamahtine ani> Tint Kmpkuou.? 'Tlio J'aris. correspondent of tho Litorary Gftxette states that u few days ago the Kmporor sent M. do la Gueronnieveto M. Lamartino desiring to Bay that he intended to propose to tho Corp* TiOgislatif a vote of 100,000 francs (?4,000) * yonr to bo paid to Laiuartino during his lifetime. The poet refused, begjsed K. de la (juerdnnioro to requeflt the Kmpcror to gtfe up any dosign of the kind, addjng " I should be obliged to -refuse .the''shun if voted, for X c.m:H>t vecogft<5^ -hf? Fj^pcrcr jusrslybocsuss ho makes his power servo my convenience, having rofused to acknowledge that powor when it oppressed me in common with my fellowoitisr.cn*." i'iMi.AT>Rt,rinA, April Ifi.-Tn tlie North of Texas, Void's Hangers. consisting of forty-seven rorfh, wore surprised and Hurrounded by eigtit hundred Indians, who demanded their surrender. '/"he Itnngers refoHed,N when ft desperate buttle ensued.?ii * ? " noru, witn Tour othera, . cut their w?y through and escaped. Tho event haw pro<ftre?d tho (greatest excitement awong the frotfticrauwu, . u "" 'yj ''f 'i V % # 0 # . \ . t , ' * . % Senator Hammond on Direct Trade* Tho Macon (Georgia) States Press nub' liahes tho following letter, addressed by Senator Hammond to Howell Cobb, of Hoaston^in response to nn invitation to attend !i tho next Cotton Planter's Convention, at: Maoon ; Run Ci.irTK, March 29.?Dear Sir: I uiu obliged to you for your invitation to at" j < tend your meeting at Macon, and if ray i Iwifttn and engagements will permit, I will j attend but qot to raako a speech j tlmt :s ! out of my lino. | 1 ontiroly sympathize with your move- | mcnt. I regard direct trade 119 absolutely heocRSary to the Independence of the f?outh; ' without it, she will ever be provjueU*!, though she may.continue to furnish, as sho now does, more oftho material of commerce, thau any other pormlation.of the same numbers ever did; and materials that constitute the most vital current* of commercial circulation, controlling, ; 1 fact, almost the whole. Our drawbacks have been, not the supe. rior onercry or intellect of any other people. ? f. 1 MV^W uu* PMUIH/U UlU o, YCUV n lUY'JI, tlUU want of meroantilc capital. Time, I think, will show tlmt vessels of 1,000 tons arc an profitable as larger ones, to carry on trade, and these can enter our ports. The yellow fever can bo wholly evaded by oonfiniifg i our business season to the eight months of! the year during which we ar> exempt.-?j These eight months being theso in which | we can, and in fact do carry nearly nil our j products to inarkot, they are naturally our : business months, and those best adopted to ! kltilill/tdu Mli/l /tliitintn An Att.-a It is bocaitflo we submit to the convo- j uienoe of others, that \vc allow .t to be necessary that there should be any transactions from the interior,* or from abroad, du| ring the four possible, yellow fever months. | 'L'ho gia;id difficulty is as to capital ; our menus ore, t'ov most part, in fact almost entirely, employed in settling fresh lands, subduiug tho forests, and furnishing the forests, nikI furnishing tho materials to clothe and feed the world j in theso we find full employment for nil our means and all our onergy. But this will not always ho so, nfid if the owners of tho comparatively idlo millions, in other parts, do not ! sock tho rich harvest tliey may reap hero, ( our own surplusage will euabie us to oecu py that field also. Nothing, I think, is wanting in our Southorn country hut time, provided wo have capaoity to appreciate, before it is too late, ' our iim)>inilli>lr>il n?Kmin>r>? nml tint inini'.fu to develop them. I think wo have. 1 have ovcry confidence in our futurtf, lot more politic take what 'coufrsc ami produce what result# they may. Southern industry this moment the most prosperous of any 011 tho globe, rests also on the securest basis, and it only requires that it should rise to a full appreciation and assertion of itself, to become free, in a little time, of all those provincial clogs which now cncumbor it. I confess that 1 have been devoted to other matters too niuch to have learned precisely the way in which your Association proposes to effect the great objoet, and am, therefore, unable to judge as to its probalilit rncmUo > ! ???* *! ?? >* ?- ? ------ 1 u?v i' cuH.i, uut (iiitv men; in ii , aim that success is sure, 1 do not doubt. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. II. Hammond. IIoweu (Joim, Esq. InCKNUAIIUSM CON vksskd.- -Wc learn from the Southern Enterprise, that Messrs! Gower. Cox, Murkloy k Co. have by dill | gent exertion succeeded in deteotMig the villains, who applied tnc torch to tlieir oxteusiyo factory sonic months since.? , James S. Parker was arrested upon suspicion and confessed that lie, at tlio instigation of 0110 Cieorgo J. Oberlc, set tiro to the jvork ohop; u jovrncyincn bopt-niaker, August Wci$er by name, has boon discovered to bo an accomplice in this daring piece of villainy. Excitement runs high in tho community, sfys the Enterprise. and we foci satisfied th?*, if the community entertained the slightest doubt that they would fail torcceivo at the hands of tho law the punishment thoy richly doscrvo, at least one of them would receive n most summary troatment by our justly excited and iudignant citizens." I T <?.. iV- l : r IV A -JIW tliu ?IM|UIIaT " A Keailcr," concerning the boundary line between Georgia and South Carolina. The Kufeeftchl Advertiser replies tlmt it in now conceded by nil reasohnblo men, in both States, fo coiiftitit ip ft line running up the iuid<lle of tlic stream of the Savannah rivor, or, in legal puranco, pursuing the AIoHiaquue', leaving tho islands on the Georgia sido ; and wherever these islands occur, tho lino follows the trend (>f 'ho stream between tho folaud nnd tho.Soyth Carolina bank. Thin is without doubt tho proper ooo^V^'?*h>n <?f tho \ reaty of Beaufort. An Important Dkoision.?At the Into session of our Court, an action ugainst the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad Com' pony forn lost trunk, was tried. Tho value of the content* wrin proved to oxoecd five hundred dollar*y this oouipany have un isuuorscmoni upon meir UoKi'ts, winch, ! among other things, doel^rcs.thiit tbcy will ! not be responsible for tho lout baggage to | an amount exceeding one hundred dollars, ' thin endorsement wu? relied upon to limit the liability of the company in this puttie-1 | ular case. , 11 is Honor ruled, and bo chargcd the j jury, that common carries could not thus | limit their HnJjilitie*; ho dwelt upan tho i injuatico which Would roattJt If tho onj dorHQuiont upon tho tiokota referred to, j wna taken and oonsidere^ us a contract, to which the pttnacnger wa* presumed to have auscittcd. Tho jury found for tho phiintlff to tho amount of tho contents of tho ( trunk, as proved, Darlhujton Fhty. A'f/.VwrER, lioinx Sick, niftflo l?ia lr??i will ?nd testament, irttd fcft'vo ail his estate to fools mid maKlmoh! Being naked the reason for so doing. h? paid, " From ?ach I got it, and to tmuh I r?t?m it ngntn." ya '? / J *- - f *W ft *' *' Motarr, I* henrd mmy swear." "What did ?W nyr?" **Whv she ?nid who was not C;??. to ^enr lie* '* darned'-' stockings to ^luirch." s" ' . i ?. ' * n Important from Jamaica Insurrection of the Black#. , ? The Courier des Etata Unis 1ms * private correspondence frgm Kiflgaton, Jamnica, dated Match -3, from which \ye translate tho following: ^ " J<mcournged by the new ot tiheir ueignbors, the Haytians, our blacks appear also disposed to attempt a n-vclution. lu the parish of Westmoreland has recontly been imposed a new tax, to which the n?jgro population aro not willing to submit. Some of the disaffected raised the standard of revolt and entered the little village of .Savannah, whose they destroyed i>omo T,roperty. The pi/i5e having arrested four or five of the rivg'ondftrn, their partisans, far front i ii. < nuiun uiacuuni^'u, wiibiuuva uiuir huir ui destruction, with energy* menacing with fire theCrty Hall, if tho prisoners w<jrcnot released. Informed of " these facts, Governor Darling hnh dc^pntc&cd agnin*t <ho revolters a body ofllvo hundred uicn under tho command of Col. Whitcfield. " As these troops were marching towards the place of cmbarkmrnt, they met i\ long file of carts upon which were perched a number of blacks, attracted thither by the sound ol the drums and trumpet-?These blocked up the passage from the soldiers, and thfc oolonol ordered them to retire. His older producing no effect, it was npce3s..oy to mishit, ^hc tho weapon?, and tho sword of Colonel Whitfield, which probably bud not seen the light since the battle of Waterloo, fell upon the shoulder* of more than one of tho poor wretches. " SolouquC, Who lived near by* beheld t.hesa CxillniLs Pmill 1 > >t wimlmv l?:ir from )?l'ioviiig ovcv tho fih'okes under which thn negroes suffered, hccontcmjilutcd thcflpene with evident delight. "Ah!" cried ho 11 the whites nt hist begin to understand how negroes must be trented ; nwoet words arc not for theui ; they need blows and knocks." Solouquc evidently adheres to his own symtein, and his miafoHunes have not yet cured him of his delmiomi." Ml/KDER, SuiClDK, .RotJUKKT.-t-,It mrty have been observed that the Telesiiope con^inu tin imfin/ta nf #\i i f i*n rrnnn c nrimnu All accounts of .such things are carefully oxolu fled from our columns. Some may have boon surprised tha'. wc did not even notico the Tucker suicide, or the Sickles murder. Our course iu excluding even the fact in moh cases, as well us the details, iu founded upon a Conviction that the less we know of jrime the bettor for us. The horrible details of horrible criino that are dealt out by lity papers and faithfully circulated by.tho country I'ress, must tend, from. the very nature of things, to the iticrcaFe of iirimorility. The human heart is $0 dcfperulely iviokrd, that, whejt left to itself, it ofttn >uly needs to know to execute its hellish mrpased to soeuro the performance*- ftlaly a man ht?? committed suicide who, bnfc for t1i?i knowledge of the fact fchot others liad done the ??ine thing, as wall n.<? nf the mode in which it was dono, woul^l huyo borne his fruit* and Buffered on until tho hand of Providence would have relieved him. And so of murderers and ok'.ier violate of tho laws of Clod and of man. j'uuiiliatit v with crime doudens the, 'senstbjl ities, corrupts the heart, and makes a man "Jit fur treason," stratagems, rind spoils.*' JJctter that he should never know of the ONtstonce of crime. This is of course impossible.;? Hut the nearer he can approach this point, the better. This is especially true of chil (Iron and youth. This being guv creed, us n controller of tl?o public Pra>s our work# must correspond ihcreto. Thft Teloscopo will not pnndor to a viointcd public tnato, but will endeavor to preHcrvo and cultivate the purity and chastity of its readers. | fhtc lllW Vvlesrhjir. ? Am IjINk H.v.i.hoad.?Wc learn thab the friends of this railroad nrc prosecuting their labors with redoubled energy, and nt'l doubt* are now removed froui 4he ruindn of the most f'keplieol as we learn, and should bo glad to see the capitalists of this section of country lending a helping hand to tho enterprise. Wo have no doubt a?\ to the stock yielding a handsome dividend. This, together with the ulterior hcnctit? to ou* mountain dountrv, on it* completion, uhould iiiducc our people not to delay longer, but, subscribe to tho cntorprise immediately.? D(Jiloi\cyn Signal. ? How a l?at>y Knowk av Ot.dBachr1,011.?" 1 always know a licIpK4^ old bmdiolor," says a clever lady, by locking at tho Corners of bis pooktt handkerchief If I nAfrAft in " *" ' * ?v?w ... v.ivoi miv uiviu jiuoos or rc<r, illuo or yellow worsted?HUoU as Washerwoman run in to identify the projierty pf end) ncparato cu.stonier?I know thai ho lum tfo ono if hiitiiP fa Mo 1 11 1 11 ~ ? > Ty ii-rn,iv.KI RC lfiurtt 1 i11hii j.ic.iJ m I'riondless, hclplesH old b')ol 111 J .??' I oriod, "When I The glistening tear aw? ?-licv thickening brorttli 1^IURoW?a for thee co^H^M'" *? **fc tlieo knu\r Wiore 1 A fttof.o fr.wn Himplon'? droiultii] irratHY thy cufluiis flight; I'll clHfpjggl Ivtim'n khIo, **$*?? lr<J:; hrido ? and letter to nry nnrl on my ?hou!dM^Kt r.!r ,'on w?iuy 7y tciu'* nM H? wl,Bn >,m town Imihn Wrl{ ,,M' 0M nsked by ui Vry he cau.-wj fltodi wimt to'marry mo, ami poor Into!*' Iho rowdy left -xf*.u Tin rii. Tli<y-32Aof nil excellent h truth. 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