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,H J ^^IILO^UPPIIIIJW!'I'l r " / ^ ^ ^ ' '* J "TO THINK OWN star r.i: TKl'K, AM) it MUST foi.f.ow, AS TFIK NlfilfT TIIK 1>.\V. THOU CAN'ST NOT THKN JiK F.U.KK TO A,\V MAX." | I5Y ROR'T. A. THOMPSON'. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBERS, 1859. VOI~ XI. NO. I<>. SELEQYED PQ'&YFlV, | I'loin tItc Home .Journal. The Deeds of Marion's Men. A SON'U OK Til K SOI'TII. Our pools may simr of the lives that Ming Their li^lit o'er a worM Mibl'mie, Ami sillies may toll oftlie iinuivs iluil <l\vcll liiki- si a is o* or llio olomls of liino: ] * it i anionji the deeds tlial lire sung or told, In I lie legends of now or then, There are none more bright, iliore arc none more l.ol.l, 'I'll.in the deeds of Marion's men. hi i ho gloomiest ft rile of our country ? lire. When her'linvninsj w:is tlarkciie<l I?v ni^lil ; When t vim ills were lomul on lier holiest gronml. An I her I'rieiuls were sentteretl in Might : When the West of her chiMren, niiuriiK.il, niel unt'eil, Were hnntcil tlirough c-tvorn ami jflon.? The reil ranks of Alliion treiuMc l with ilieiul Al 111" ilonilu \ti.'< All ' (lie emblems we r.iise to ac'.innwlege tlieir praise Will not crumble in tempest or wave : Tln'ir ninimincut.s Matul tliro' tlie lctigt'i of the lainl, In Ilio liciirts of the noble ami brave: For ibeir niein'iy will sbine, ami I licit* glory will last. I (!iviug light to tin; ?li\ys that have boon; Air I Ion}; s! 1:111 our freemen ')<> prolyl of the j>;?>t. .\ii I ilie ilcotls of Million's men. Whenever .1 gun in the gla'l inoriiinjr sun ; When tlic stars of our banner u. f.irleil, Vi i< l iiiii the great U;iv wlio.ii; 1 x-iiniiIt11 ray Hive froe'l tin's lirsi hope to the wi.rhl: When the shout for our heroes like ?Iee)i thun lers roll, i'rtiin ocean to mountain 'op?then licineinher the gramleur of Marion's soul, Ami the tleetls lit' Marion's loen. ;,\i! i an'?! i 'atsiv From tin* (.'mintcii .lmnii.il. Letters to tho Chesnut Dinner. l'mtr 11 ii.i, Sfpt. 12, is.")'.). ; I iv?*ret it will nut bo in my power In accept yonr invitation to attend ;i J Mil >1 i c tlmnor, to bo jiivcn It) Sena- ( tor ('Inbuilt, 1 v tin'- citizens of Kershaw District, <iii the in>t. Tin' views lit* <inc oocujiyinti tli<> ili.-tinfinished position of your follow citizen, will im> mm; n i?rr with prosit interest in the ! present truly alarming condition of the South ; I say alarming, because tlu> South not seem lo it'iilr/.o the multiplied troubles in store for her, if a remedy, as iieute as the disease, is not applied to arrest the fearful inroads that have hecn made upon her right:1. So constantly and in \ f-idiously have ve been attached?so impotent has hecn our positions to resist the invasion, that every candid mind must admit the South has !o>t, and the North gained all towards etVectiii"- llir> ci.iKiiiiiin.,ii..it J... lias followed up .so diabolically, and ha *o ' i.null at heart?tin? *ittor destruction of' our present organism of society. In this I'nion all hope of future slave States is ironc, and the policy of the South has been so compromising anil treacherous to herself, that now the mask is dropped, and we are iMtldlv told the issue is a death stru?r<:le between hireling and slave States. Strange I to say, we are counsolh by prominent Southern men to take it ?|ulotly?to trust in radical changes in Northern public opinion?that a political millennium is cominir when tin' Hydra with its many heads of lust for power?fanaticism?malignant lia#,..,.1 .....i: : i - o' i- i ..V.I .III.. uiiiiinuiilMll I'livy. Will III" UOWII peace:.hly with the \ iclilinjr, isinir? I nub like national conservatism of tin* South. From a small be^inninir in |tt.?>8, tin* organized anti slavery party lias swelled into dimensions to embrace all the iioii- < slaveholdin^ States. The parly calculators for the next Presidential election, even in the South, must admit that no Southern man?unless he he a reneirade?stands any j chance in the canvass of 1S(?(, and the j only prospect for the spoil; men is toaeeept | a candidate from the hostile section, who can draw off a .sufficient strength of free- | soil votes in the electoral College, to offer j i. ciiiini"?' in me eujmury m :in; i^nutl), to clcct a t >int( d President. ('iincpdc what is iilimist impossible?success. I low stands the South in either alternative tin* oho- ; tion of a froe-soilor or black republican, t l?o North carries hor principles into power, and tin! pressure from that (jUirter will stamp the policy of the next administration. The people of tin; Territories will h<> rdnMiml i avilli sovereignty, 21 nil (.'on??rc?H will not in- I terforc to protect tlio slaveholder in the com 111011 territory of nil the States, and the ! urea of slave States will be even more compressed than at present. l,rcsidont-in?kin<r. : or Presidents cannot save the South. If j fourteen proud sovereignties cannot, either t collectively or singly, take their own n Hairs imo their own hands, no event can be j n 111 HIU Iiitiuu imiu lllilV llll'V Will IX' I tins most oppnwaed nnri necursod section that ever submitted to the denomination of; n ruoc who pant to hoc discord mid ruin do-1 vastnto our country. To tdimv how fur forbearance, upon tlie prirt of tho South, has already gone, the ' almost certainty is ahead <>( a Black lie- | publican I'residont being elected in iMtiO hy Northern voters exclusively ; such in ! their preponderance already acquired in the Klectoral Collvjre, by the nnxt concessions I of the South. Iii*t?*nd of startling: the South into iuiinediiito preparation for notion, such hiwbcon the i\iroadi<Hlrofldy made upon lior spirit, tlnit some are to bo found ready to declare in advance, that tho ro<|mnitioiwof the ('on.itltution will bo com plied with, nnd the election of a lllack l?opnl?Ii-1 can President will bo. " pun!) Con.-titutiou sil.'' In process of time the threc-fourtli.s 111:11??iiiy of States, required l>y tho Constitution In niter nml amend that instrument, t will be obtained nml "our Constitutional rights" will irive way to an emancipation ait, whieli will there become " purely Constitutional," and doubtless the South will J ( he urjjed by some o! her sons to wait for j ' an overt net ' ngainst the Constitution, before thev will he willing even to euleu- ^ laic me value 01 i lie i num. In conclusion I fin e you as n sentiment : | i The notion of tlie South, or a State sover- | ci^nty, to the disruption of the I'nion?j the only hope of deliverance?peace and liberty. Your obedient servant, 1 : A Mill K\v I'. ('.m.lloi x. To the committee of Invitations. cliaki.kston, Sept. 'J'l, ' i I'.n'i 1,i:m kn : I have anticipated the | pleasure of joininir with you on the 'J^th j inst. in attfiuliii?x the public dinner in honor of your distinguished citi/.en. Cireuinstanees, however, have prevented. It is it 111:11k of regard to which In; is well entitIimI. lit' lias long eouiinamleil the judg- i niciit of tin' State, limn his conservative 4>|>i 11 i<> 1)s, unimpeachable iliaractor, ami enlarged views of the puhlie polity. So liberal and statesmanlike as to embrace 1 within the aspirations of his heart, anil the consummation of his counsels, tl.c welfire ami honor of the whole country, ami yet su> 111 ni'ini oli) v nviM' (ii ! *?_ gard a strict adher.inee to tho constitution j ns tho only (ruo assurance and cut ran too ! of ourliboitios ; it was my privilege, at tho last session of tho Legislature, to give him a warm and hearty support for the position ! ho now occupies. Fidelity to the governinont of our futhorc is not yet inconsistent with allegiance to our hcloved conimonWOa 1th. 1 have a strong and abiding eoniidence in tin* common sense of the pooplo ! of all sections. It is scarcely possible that they can over prove ao false to their inhcr- j itaneo, or so blind to history and their true destiny, as to elevate fanaticism or worship philanthropy, falsely so called, in the place of constitutional freedom. Agitation, tho'gh more prominent and widely heralded, is i: *: * r 11 ii; urn iuw.-iys u sure imucauun 01 uw jmunc j judgment. I cannot helievc tli.it Providence lias thus far guided our people to a ci\ ili'/sition n 11?1 liberty unprecedented, that they may finally become, cither on the one hand the victim of oppression and consolidated des- ! potism, or he dciivered over, on the other, to unrestrained license and anarchy. As , with individuals, so with nations There must ho fiery furnaces to pass through, and trials to endure. The times demand ! that l;e who aspires to participate in the , councils of a mighty people, whose magnificent territory extends from ocean to ocean, including every variety of soil and production, .should have views lis broad and expansive r.s their domain mid inter- ; ests. Li t us all cultivate :i more fraternal feeling. Let lis support ami sustain the tru.' and tried men every where, who stand , by the constitution and its compromises.? j Thus will the sovereignty of the States he preserved iuviolato. Thus will this government, fr.inu <1 hy the wisdom of the past, hallowed hy its prayer, ami purchased hy its blood and treasure, long remain the safe repository of freedom?a light and model to the world | , llelieve me, gentlemen, With the highest regards Your obedient servant, I Titos. V. Simons. To the Committee on Invitations, (Mies iiut i'inner. A I'athiotic ( 'h a i'(i k.?The clinrjic of; ' .ludjro \\ ilson, of 1110 I '. S. District Court for tin: Northern District of Ohio, deliver- I ed to tiie (Irand Jury on the 10th inst., is < published in the ('levcland I'lain Dealer.? ( The eliarire defines the crime, of treason, I and was published at the request of the ; I rand .Jury. It contains some wholesome t lessons for the abolitionists of that hot-bed j i of fanaticism and sedition. Alter direc- I i tint'the (Irani) .J ury to investigate whether, ' :is is supposed, certain citizens of Northern I Ohio have been i:uj licatcd in a conspiracy 1 to overturn the provermiiont of the I'nited | States, .Jud'.'e Wilson remarks : " The' mail who del.beratelv inins .Mini ! t with conspirators tor tlie overthrow of the ' I'nited States government, and who lends I his nid to accomplish this nefarious design ' < hy roiibery and (he wanton bloodshed of j innocent persons, is a criminal of the most f dangerous character to tin community; \ and it is hut an aggravation >d" liis crime, [ I when such a man claims to net under the c convictions of conscience and tin: inspira- I i lion of a holv religion. Thn nuw fimnfni? n nt truth nhovc, from which flows the in- | s junction of peace on earth and pood will a to men, is blasphemed by such proton- ) i sions. ' Judgo Wilson is 11if* .Judge ho- t fore whom the Ohcrlin trials were condue- j a ted, and who, during the progress of them, s received threatening letters, like those now v addressed to(iov. W ise. !>utthe burking j 1 dogs, though very numerous in that re- e giou, have never been remarkable for biting. The faithful few of Cleveland, have nerve enough to make up for their want of number*. and easily keep the whole p ick of madmen at bay. Hokapk Wai.coi.k tells a story of tlic Iiord Mayor of J<onH?>n in his time, who 1< having hoard that a friend had had the a small-pox twice and died of it, inquired if t lie died the tii ,t time or second. r The Charlestown 7\xcitcmcnt. subjoin a lew paragraphs concerning be existing excitement in ('Iwirlcstown : I'KuCi'It I \(i 1 . S. Alt.MS. The Washington Star of Friday nlt< )'iooii says : Last night, or rather about 1 /clock this morning, the viirilnnt watchman at the penitential \ was surprised by a vigorous knocking at the principal door of the entrance, and on opening the door he was accosicu t>y u stranger, who desired 1 n-tiuit n<liiiilt:inco. The guard civilly informed Mm lli.it it \v:is nut customary for persons to be admitted at lint Into hour, iiinl demanded what he wanted. The stranger stated thai he was (.'apt. Kviiiis, from Virginia, and hud friends outside who had come with an order for arms to <juell an aholition disturbance at Charleslown, \ a. The guard then informed the stranger that he had mistaken the place, and pointing out the \rscnal gate to him, directed him to pursue his investigations in that direction. The oiliccrs who eame to the Arsenal were from Alexandria. \ a., .some live or hx in uunioer: ami they received lroni Major l?unisa\ twenty-live I'nited States riflos with ammunition, and fifty artillery swords, which they took away with them. The soldiers, in passing through this city, procured 1,000 rounds of bail cartridge from Lieut. .Melleury. from the supply in the office, of t'u: Chief of I'oliee. A It il l!sT OF SI SI'K KH S Cll Alt.M'Tr.l'S. The Alexandria (ia/.ette, of Saturday, says: On Thursday hist, a man named laeob \\ . Thompson, alias .Jacob Smith, was arrested by ofliocr Walker, at tin- instanco of .Mr. dailies Slides, charged witb obtaining money under false pretenccs. and taken he tore, justiee Summers, who committed him to jail foi a further heiirinjr. While in jail, .suspicions were arous< d that Thompson was one of Brown's men in the Harper's Ferry affair, and he was fully identified as such by Mr. .laei.b Mitehel, a resident of Harper's Ferrv, and one of Brown's prisoners. Mitchell says, however, that Thompson had no arms when lie saw him, nor was he committing anv dep Yesterday Thompson had another trial before .Justice Summers, when the charge of obtaining money under false pretence* was dismissed for want of proof to sustain it, hut he was recommitted to jail to await an examination for being connected in the Harper's Kerry outbreak. Witnesses from Harper's Kerry will be sent for. In Washington, on Wednesday, as the watchmen were passing along K street, between loth and I Ith, they heard loud talking in a slion kept by ('. IlamincrdigilCr ; Stor>l>iHIT to listen, and liMikinrr i? they saw and heard a dru:i!:en Cennan in the net of addressing a party of black**.? The points of his discourse were old Brown, the Harper's Ferry revolt, the rights of colored men, &e. Justice Donn held him to bail for Court in the sum of 8"?00, and advising him, at the same time, to avoid drinking " so much lager." T11 K nilK.S N KAll CIIAKIXSTOWN. The only reference which we find in the local j>apers in (Mmrlostowu in relation to the recent incendiary lives in that vicinity, is the following from the Independent Democrat : A stack of wheat belonging to the lion. Win. Lucas, containing about 450 bushels, was burned on Thursday last. A white man was observed bv Mr iirnwliiu* ne.ir llin field where the wlie.it w:is shocked, and it is supposed that he is the individual who sot it mi tiro. < >11 Saturday evening last, a stable belonging to <!co. A. Tiito, l']si|., together ivith his two carriage horses, were burned. A negro boy saw a white man Invking near tho promises just before the tire was discovered. Whilst part of oiir citizens had gone to the scene of conflagration, a suspicions ooking individual, who has been working ibout the vicinity for some ti ne past, at racieu mo attention ol the Town (Juard, nul was arrested as the incendiary. Tin; )p<rro boy who had seen the man at Mr. I'.'s was sent for, hut hi- could not identify >iin as being the person, although lie said le looked very inueh like him. T11K (lltOl'NDS VVH Al.AHM. The National Intelligencer, of Saturday, lays ; What is real in tlie recent intelligence Yoni the neighborhood of Charlestown is juite sufficient to arouse concern for the state of things there, without the addition of "also alarms founded o:i rumors tlio most aporv. Tlio incendiary destruction of arge stores of whoat and other farm proluce is of itself all too nfHicting, and needs lot the fictitious addendum of hundreds of rmod insurgents impossibly encamped at oino unknown place, yet located eonsiderbly further towards the interior of Virgina than ('harlestown itself! With respect o the incendiary net reported, they do not ppen' to he confined to Virginia, for the ame crime is rife in some p u ts of Pennsylvania. This innv 'ne a mere ooineidmwe. nit tune will develop something that will plain it otherwise. Tho Scntenco. We subjoin the sentence passed by the ImiIl'C on the prisoners John K. Cook, I'Mrani Coppie, Shields (Jreen ami oohi) Ytpchuid, Harper's Kerry insurgents : Your trials, on which we have been so r>n<j employed, have nt length ended, and 11 that rcinaius to bo dono to couiplctc lioso judicial proceedings is to pronouncc ud recoi l tlio judgment!! v.liioh by la-v must follow upon the crime? fov which you ' ii have h-en tried, mid of which you have ; Is born found guilty. J tl Those crimes have all grown out of a a mad inroad upon this State, made with the predetermined purpose to raise in our a midst the standard of a servile iiisiu rei tion. 1 It the execution of this purpo.se, in the p darkness of it Snhhath ninlit. you seized 1 upon a portion of our territory, captured , e .several <jf our host citizens?^holding them as hostages of war until your party was it- . solf overcome by fore*!?armed Mich of ^ our slaves as you eonM seize upon with deadly weapons, wliioli they wore to use j ojrainst their owners, wliom von denounced ( > thc.n as their opprissors ; and, in y< ur oilbrts to push voi. uli! ami unholy scheme 1 through toil successful issue, you l.a\e <:i 1 ken human lite in no fewer than live in- 1 stances. The ovidei ee. most abundantly ; | proved that all these thii ? > had heoii dune, and by the fore*' of that evidence jury af- ,l 1 or jury lifs frit its< If con pi lied to hrinir in ' its verdict of Liiill v upon each one of you. Iltipnilv lor the ( ? :?? ?? of our whole land. ^ you ?>!?( od no support from t!u>t 'punier '* whence you so ( oiili'loutly expected it.| Not a slave united himself to \> ur party, ^ l>ul, so soon as ho eould ml will mil the : ratine of your rilles, or as nii:ht </ave him | ! opportunity, nu.de his escape from men n 1 who hivl come to uive him freedom, ami ' hurried to place himself oiiee more heiicuth the care ami protection of his owner. ' j When we reilect upon all the mischief ami ruin, the dark and fearful crimes, j which must have attended even vour parti..1 i '' --? ? UJ\ II x i \ \\ Iii.'ir MKJIIIU 1M* thankful that vim wen wts.Mii ;:ud .so easily | overpowered. i I'tir these ofi'enecs tlic I'i'.v demands the | pena'ty of death, and impose npon mo the | j duty of pronouiieimt that seuteiie\ It is f the most painful duty I have ever been j called on to perform. ( 111 s| ite <>f your oflem es a:r iii!v t i.nr laws. , I eilinot hut feel deeply for vmi, and sin...... i.. . . i > ' ecrciy, tilOM Sincerely, <IO I SVIlipat Ill/A' with those frit n.3s and relations whose lives are liouiul up in years, and whose ; ^ hearts will bo so wrunj; with jrricf when | they shall hear of the sad fate which has | overtaken you, the object of their warm- (] j est nml iiolti >t affect ions. For tlmni we j j ! all do sorrow; while :i due rejrard fur our j; ! safety may nut. permit us to forgive the ( ; offences of which you have been iruilty.? ; , I hope that they will turn fur consolation, ! and you fur pardon, to that irood lieimr ( , who, in his wrath, remembered mercy.? i Make, then, your m-acc with Him?for yon must soon In; ushered into Hi-- pivs | ence, thine t?? be dealt with as I l is justice ami His mercy may ordain. I To conclude this sa 1 duty. 1 m w announce ^ thiil the sentence of the law is, that you, ' I and ouch one of you, John F<. Cook, lidwin ^ i Coppte, Shields (! rcen ami John Copckiud, i , be handed by tin* neck until you be dead | ?and that execution of this judgment be ( made and done by the Sheriif of this conn- ' ty, on Friday, the Itith day of December | J next, upon you. Shields < I recti and John f ii i i i' .- . i ...... i i ? ?>} .-i;imi, ni'uvi'cn ino nours 01 oiiciit in ^ the lbivnoun and twelve, noon, of that day ?ami upon von, John ! '<. Cook and Mdwin ('oppie, between tin- hours of twelve ( noon,) and five in the afternoon of I lie same day. And the Court beinjr of opinion that the ^ j exeeution of this sentence should he in j j public, it is further ordered that this ,judj?- ^ ment be enforced ami executed, nut in the jail yard, but at sneli public place conve- ( uient thereto as the said Sheriff may <ip 1 ; point?ami may (Jod have meny upon the j-, soul of each one of you. Old Brown a Common Thief. | i^TATI'.MI'.NT OF A VlHCINIA Sk.NATOH. Jiio. I >. I Vimybacker, the member elect of tin; Virginia Senate from the Kockingham j district, furnishes the 1 larrisouhur<r Ke^is ' ter with an ;icn nut of his experience with ();sawiittoinie Drown in Kansas, which; proves the abolition martyr to be a rubber |, in the lowest acceptation of the term. Mr. I I Vtinyb ic' or was I ". S. Survey Kxaminer : in the Territory, ami w.is with ('apt. IVtes' f. party when it was captured In the artiiiec 7, I at Dluck lack. !ii! says Brown would | ( not have spared his prisoners' lives then, | ^ luit that his own two sons \vt re in prison at j liCeonipton. The statement continue- : j ^ While in his hands I heard Brown's son ^ i boast of the horses they had stolen from || i Missouri and elsewhere. I also saw a par i ty start out for the purpose of robbing an I ndian trading post, (.Joseph Bernard's,) | " and saw them return loaded with goods, | (some 8S,00t) worth,) Old Hn.wn exclaim- ,, ius* fis they eaine in, " Well done, my ci boys !" Brown told ine himself that his i> band was aural list everv mail. free Slate or ' pro-slavery, who \v:is nut willing l<> ji>in J liis hand,and that lit* Would kill one ns soon (M as the oilier. His son I'rederii'k was kill cd at ()ssj;uval(oiuio by Martin W hite, a ,l! tree-State man, who had rel'iistd to juin '" Brown's comp.ny. and was thereupon robbed and ordered to leave the Territory. |,. .John I frown was afterwards whipped at lis Ostfnwattoinio, :iik1 1 believe lie then loi't ol tlio Territory. < )f his .?uKso<|ii<'fit opera- 8,1 lions there I know nothing. Tliat ho, J without provocation, inlionanolv intiv(J(,.r- d, cil in on in their bids, I know. That ho <n committed rolbeiy ami theltn of yoods and horse?, I hoard from his t-on and liis own j (lion and saw with my own eyes; but tli:.t ho ever gave as an excuse that ho was nttempting to ni" slaves while doing this u " Kansas work, ..ever heard from linn or ' 1 any on cka. There v. i.- u. f a 'lave vith ^ i forty miles of Pottawattomic ('reek, whore j c committed the. murders, :: 11 < 1 no! otic of) lie murdered men had ever raised an arm < irainst him. ' 'Thus much for the religious fanaticism 1 ml Immunity <>f Hrowu, ' the martyr." li~ hoidne.s.s, daring and unseru|>utousncss minted him out. as a lit instrument for ear \iih: nut tin' lii'lli.-it designs of nicti too own I'd !y to ex< eute their own base schemes. lln! run Tin: Wr.vr ! -The roads lendntr westward through this portion of tin* i ' t a to, tiro evrr ami anon throntred with migrants from South Carolina and the ! Eastern I'ouiitiiv of (u'i>n;ia, all winding heir way to the wilds of (ho west. Many, so, Irom our midst are departini; lor tlio est. Tlii! ('hattanooira A<1 vortis? r says hat at leas? five hundred families have :11i*_r: *to?1 from Tenm >?ee and (111oi"ul< - ' !cor;_ri.i fur A rkansas and Tex;s\ this tail lid still tIn*V CD!I.e. ( ///- < (id.) SUl I'axl. 1"ri'ort to s.wr. Oi.n hkom n.?new York. tovoinher 8. ?A movement i~ on f"ot in this itv with tin; view of saving the tieek < " Olil i Jrown,'' nut how ii is in 1 k* done i* not stated ^ii anoimeons advertisement a)i| i'ins in the I'Miini: papers calliiej: 11)1011 :i!l \ " irjjiuiaii* : ! \\ 11<> are opposed to liis execution t > send | lo ir names to the Times ollice. The nio\r iuMit, Imwevor. is not likely to amount to inicli.? Iln!Iinii'ii Sim. llr.MAtxs fir a M astodi>\ roi xii \ i 'mi r 111 I'sdn?Throuirh ('ol. ii .1, 11 v ins, of tlic fMijriir I'liintor, 1 )r. II. II. Iayncs. of I'ort Hudson, lias presented In; " Historical Society " of Lor'siana. nth a fossil bono IV en the hills 01 Port ludson, which from it?semi circular shape ppears to lie tin; /'i ninri's or thi^h hone fa Mastodon, of more than ordinary size, t measures . < .v* the Uatmi llou^e (!a tte) 1"' inelies from base to htiso, and inks like a large cannon hill split in two. >thcr pin t ions of the animal have lieon mind in (lie same locality, ami taken away s cnriosit!? >. .Mr. Cornier .-ays of tliis ions'.or of the antediluvian aire of the rorhl : "It was as high, in proportion, as li" elephant, with equally long tusks, and 1 isid grinders covered with bristling points, rhieli led naturalists to consider tliein carliverousanimals. Its hones were, extremev large and solid. Its hoofs and stomach lave heen found in good state of preserva- ; ion, tilled with the bruised branches of recs. 'J'lie Indian tribes of our country, held 0 the frnilitimi <<!' (!...!> I'-.tl.,ii.. rliole race of .raunnolhs were dostruyod by heir fimls, in order that the earth inijrhl >0 enjoyed l>v man. The inaModoii is j lassd by naturalists Willi the family of, Kiohyderniatn, a race of animals of which inn has no authentic information. !\eunins of these iriants of the early time are i>ninl dispersed over the surface of the irtli. from Spain to theshoresof Siberia, n the liCLrinninir of the present century, t the mouth of the river Lena, a perfect peeimen was found imbedded in r.n ieoicra. of which the skeleton was removed ii St. Petersburg, and i< now in the lloyal iluscnm. 'l'lie remainsof t!ie M'l/afoiii/ .? fi'rrxiiii'\ a herbivorous monster allied to lie Mn-todon, have liuen found in tin* j rest 'rii put of Virginia, in a eave in the ounty of (< recti l'riar, three* feet below the urface of the mound. and also in 1 liir -one Cave on the line dividing White and Varren Counties. Tennessee. I'ntil now, we believe, no evidences of ; lie Mastodon have been (bund in l.ouisina. and we hope l>r. liny ties and other ' I'iemls of science, at I'ort Hudson, will rosceutc their reseaivhej". ["A nhtt'Z Colt I'lCI'. j Y.\ i.j viu.i; A \ im a i.s. ? Dr. Livingston. . lie eelehrated Afriean traveller, who i.s at < resent exploring the river llnnil>e/.i, rcorts the Shire as aliouiulim; with wild ol phants, havintr inajjnilieont ami most valablrf tusks. In one held he saw over live nmlred of the iriant name jjrazintr on the lain. 'I lie Shin* is a t;rtod navi? dde river >r over one hundred miles from its < muenee. The mountains of Mercnihela lain] 1,000 feet over (lie plain possessed 1' a line climate and profits. vc.iret.ition ? moii trees, oranpes and pine-apples ?rro\vi'j: wild in the woods, promising to l>e had | i ahnmlancc and cheap, from the natives, r'.o cultivate largely the upper third of ue vaiicy. 1*! ST. M. I'oll'-lii'! fitliN 111*11 flic ill!'t float t?i iii the nit contains ill" ihfiifux i>l the mill- ( nil constituents (it I lie jiiolif, atom* of iinrnills n?l |iliiii!s. mill I i< lines! ilv'liiis i>l all ilic iini rinls wo iiuiKf use nf. I'm oho if*n lit- o^jio- ' ally points out. viz : AVIicat starch, which is t i vuriithl\ I'm! hi I in iln.-f, wh-Mher o'.il or recent. ' urprised at llio i|?l i lit It v ol it present aiuonjj ic u'riul enr|tiilsoeH. .M. I'ciichol iiixcstig.iied ' ie dust of sill iirtes ?!i??l ill every locality ; mi l ' cry where he (' itti l this wheal s!hic1i present. 1 have loir,ul the March," ho sn\s, ' in |lie* us! inncei'ssiUle corners of oi l (iothic church- \ i, mixed with dust blackened hy si\ ?>r eight , nturiop of existence ; I have found it in the ( dices ilid cans of the'I'hehiiul. whore it niav .1 -i - " ' ' it; H.iii'i! | mm nil! 111I1C Oi IMP ; i ivi> t'mui I ii in I In* Ivinpniiu1 ? :? v i I \ ?>f llu- pnr a nitiniiiiiticl ilojj, wl.idi 1 li-ivo t'nniul in ! ihtpri'nimnii lentpin of ("pp<?r I'pypt. In nil 1 millrics, in a wni' l. where when! forme lite !i uplo ?>f fnO'l, sl.'in'h nlwnys pen irufop into ( o <liM, :tn<I is met villi in givnlcr or lc<< i ,, inniitie* Time*. ... if A jwti.a M>i:u, nntilini? in (lie r.iin, Wiif- , I )sftrvc(l to keep liis line timler the jiivIi i :i hndjio. 1 [ton fn injr sinkoi! the reason, <1 replied : " Sure, nrifl won't the fishes ho i owdin' ihere to keep or.t of the wet. ye ialn"on V I A Man in Hoops. A dise< very wa.s mailo yesterday that jivutcd ijnit*' a sensation in (In; .Mayor's / I'ourt ami along the Bay generally. Cant. / fl.uoflwin received information Saturday , / last which caused suspicion to rest upon a ( p.i sun who h is heeti 1 ivi11<i in thcclt v, " oft' /' i .... ? t i- i - . ' I, mi iit-iiriy Ci^llll'iill llioilltis. lU'CSS- ( I el ;is :i lemalo, that. the woaror of the sex. ' > \v?s disguised. A medical .examination^ , -* proved tliat his suspicions wore correct, and Mi s Annie Thomas, alias Caroline Paj^e, was discover* t > be a man. Captain "j (ioo.iwin arrest. i bin, and yesterday imir- ?' 11;n?_r an examiintion was had before bin Honor lli'- Mayor, by whom lie was sentenced t i ton days imprisonment and bis ap parel ordered to bchanged to that suited to his si\v. Oil his examination lie stated his name to be Charles Williams. lie converses freely and well, and with all of this \ action and delicate toned voice of a Woman. He is an exquisite c iiliiterf'eit, and seems op to the arts of the ex, assumes the female admirably in his manners and deportment, wears her clothes gracefully, and V i '- * : 1 . .. ..ii.-'M ??nii >1 cc ria i n uegree Ol taste wholly inconsistent with (he habits of males. I In says thai llordeaux is the pluco of his nativity, and thus his parents were i Freii-h and (Jcrinan. ilisaecent is slightly indicative of his French education, and the general appearance of his face, while 'f in female attire, is that of a bold and dissipated woman. As nbove remarked, he has I icon in the city some eighteen months and is well known HV :i liir-rn mm." ? ? . .. MUMivv.1 vi uur <-iti:'.?*ns. none t?f limit over suspected the deception. lie lias hoarded at the Pulaski House, Cily Unto! and -vrov.'ii I foitsc, but hi* nionoy seemed to fail, and when attaekod by sickness bo bad to ?zo to the City I |o?pital, whore the attending physician never entertained a suspicion of bis pox. ( )i" late bo scents In have 11r??1 no reguh.r place of atiodo, but would wander over the city !> j^iiiir food of negroes mid repairing lotbo barracks at night to sleep. 1 i e. routes highly and put's out his hoard, of which he lias very little, with pinchers, lie appears to bo soino twenty-eight years of aire, and asserts that ho has dressed as a female since he was ton years old, nearly all the time. 1 lo oanie ovvr.r'u'li i.'.'rf'.of thn. < lordon from < 'harlcston. [StinlHlHt/f ((III.) I?<pnJ)ltr(tn. ^ Tnr. Lkcaiii: Family,?The name of Hugh Swinton Lcgue is cndetired to all \ South Carolinians, tlie more so as his genius and literary attachments commanded celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic.? 11 is sister's talents are not inferior to his, though s!ie h;^ filled no place in t!:e national councils nor at foreign courts, hut in :i rjuiet and uneventful life has made her impression on the social ni.it iniolln/ vaucement of I In4 day. The youngest of thrui' children who survived the father, she was burn in Charleston, South Carnli11:1. where her childhood ;ind youth were spent. Mr.--. I.egare, Was left a widow before she had completed her Iweuty-eighth year, devi.t. d lu r time and mean* entirely to tlio education of her little ones. She wasa woman of extraordinary mental powers, and her mind bad been sedulously cultivated. -s. 11er ideas of education were broad and comprehensive. and her efforts were directed to the training of her children iu such a manner as to make their lives cxaniplary, useful and happy, as well as to develop their intellects. How well she succeeded the I 1 * .. .? . .... noiior.inio carrer ot all lior children testifies. The noliio ehaiacter and life of her eldest daughter, Mrs. Byran, and the brilliaiit fame achieved by the son, add c\5lenee to tlie fact that she was one of thorn? mothers whoso oflVprin?r rise up to call her blessed. Mrs. Ijejrnrc died on the first of January, 18-11$, in the seventy-second year i>t her aue. A slt.rl M l \ <>k 1 )i.vn i h.n AI. E\ki\ri<r.s in Mnit.mt? The last Salt Luk'* Valley Tan says : ' L ist Sd>h;t.li af ernoon, our reportei visited the Tabernacle, but too late to hear tnvthinjr but the " wsndinir Up ' of <? ' Kimball's remarks. They were to about ihe following olh-et : " l-'insr AI'l'K\it.\NCK.?Brothers and Osiers, what brother Snow has just been t.il 1:i:s?r about would do anybody j^ood, be lie-lew, (Jentile. Mormon, or the Pevil.? ,M>\v i want :i iiulit lively tunc sun*r. After 'lie siim;n;_' of a lmim, the K1lor made liis v Sr.roM> A i i ::\ *r:. -Tliero is just met'iimr now I wnut to wiy to you, tlnit i.s irouso yourselves and shake oft'your voko, -r iinl vou shall In; free !! ['I lie ;"of fairlv V,is..,l r.lV it... - ?- ' U! i<> i in: Jil'llllliT Ol ' Aiikmi."] Lot all Israel say Anion.? jiiuili.r vdiiiitr ?>l ' Aii:r.i,' louder it" ossihle, (liiiii be;ore. ] There w;is snob an carr.estncss in tho \|M.stle's *tyl? "I delivery, aiui (ho word? vere caught with sneli e: jrorness by thn un^reL'iition, cud vo-'poinhd to in sueli hiuiderinp; emphasis, that our reporter tiirlv Mi;*. It sulphur. SKitvrt) tin; K;(;jit.? \n '.bulitionuf, iillinjr himself '['. A. Salvo, tv;is taken up t lhiii;her<r, S.(-., on 1th inst., for being oo free in the expression of hi* opinion*, ml Ms head shaved on one side, and u ?*oil ol t'ir and ton thorn applied to him ; . le was tlu n rode on a rail bevond the liin." !s of t!,o village. !!< got well j>:?icl no :n;d wo hope the hwon hr rcccivctj n:iy stick to 11iin through life. ]V sot j icl'l to mufortun*. ^