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?i" I I ?il | ; ___________________ "TO TIMNK OWN 8KLP III-: TUCK, AN1> IT MI'ST FOLLOW, AS TUB ^ ^ NIGHT TUB DAY, TIIOU CAN ST NOT THEN ])B FALSB TO ANY MAN." I!V ItOli'T. A. THOMPSON". PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, SEPTKRlHER I, IWR). VOL. XII. NO. 5. fljftLtO'frgb POETRY, 1 The Ivy Green* II Y <_ II A 11 I. K S II I C K K N S . I 0 ! a dainty plant is the ivy green, Thai ereepoth o'er ruins oM , ' Of right choice food nro liis meals, I ween, I In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must lie eruuiblcd. the stonedecny'd, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, | Is a merry incul tor him, ! 1 Creeping where no lite is seen. I : A inu'o old plant is the ivy green. I ; r*?t hestealeth on, though he wears no wings, j ' And it M mnoli nM head is lie; 1 11 ow closely lie twincth, liow tightly heelings To his IVi- n I?I lie hugo oak tree ; Anil lightly lie taileth along tlio ground, And liis leaves lie gently waves. As lie joyously hugs and crawls around The ricli mound of dead men's graves. Creeping where grim death lias liccn, A rare old jdnnt is the ivy green. Whole uges have fled, and works decayed, And nations have scattered lieen! lint 11u* ol.l ivy rIiiiII iiovoi- laile, From its hale hourly Riven. Tito brave nM plant in its lonely days, Shall '.itten ii]ion the past, For the stateliest building man ean r.iise, Is the ivy's food at last. Creeping on where time hath boon, A rare old plant is the ivy green. | ipootooal |, From the Charleston Courier. vuinluuiuuiitiuii iruin non. a n. ?*crry. (Jukkvm.i.k, S. August 1:5, 1 -SOU. I'j Utor* : Knulosorl I semi you :i c.) mimetic tf ion, wlticb you will picas? publish. Von ltavo said the columns of your piper wore open to a free discussion of politicil i|iio.stiun.s. Von would oblige nie by j giving an curly insertion to tlio ctudosod. Yours, truly, &c. j!. ! '. pmkkv. ! ;?it I UK (Mt'lUKK Disunion. If. wiill .? ;' n. iV ? n th 5 ro.wit publi?a- : lions of 1 osm's. Kcitt, Orr and Hoyco, tint ? , 1 S.tulb irol.ni will s ion bavc t4 s.nu;do from j tic; Federal In'mit. ?*it'n*r alono or in contpn-; ny with tbo otiier Southern St.-,to*, or a portion of tbem. Tlioso gentlemen declare I i it tin* election of Lincoln to tbo lYesidoncy is certain?tbut on tbo li ippenin;* of sueb j an event, pro npt and inenodi.ite accession of t'\ Southern States must ensu^. Is tbo cleetioii nf :i ('liiof m 1 (li(! Republic. sufficient cause. for tin* dust rue turn of tin; Federal tiovcrumcut and all the horrors of civil war ami revolution ! This is a irr.ive and momentous question, and should be calmly ami dispassionately considered in all its bearings before it is answered by flic p itriot and statesman. They wlio tonsid t {lie union of tho States an injury and i / a curse to the South, and are. disunionists /"*/ j ;r, will of course, answer ' fearfully " in tho affirmative. Tlu-ir minds are already undo u;>, and their purpose formed. To them it is a matter of no consequence how an event so desirable is brought about. But there are others who think different- ' ly of the Federal I'nion. They have seen this American 11 'ynblie, tlie only free government in the wnyld, prosper au.l flourish ns , ' no government evei did in ancient or modern times. In the course of seventy or eighty] years we have increased from thirteen States to thirtv three States, from three millions ei | *?,? <i<ifi ' f- 1 iu iiiiiin, Minn [iiivcny illl'l weakness to wealth,* power nnd gr.tndeur, un- | ! surpassed hy tlio oldest and greatest nations of the earth. A wilderness. onveviu"; :i vast eintin'ent, has been converted into towns, 1 cities an I cultivated field-. During all this | < i tiling every one lias enjoyed the mint perfect ' fVoi'do ii and security in all his rights as a j citizen. At home and abroad we have com- 1 nandod the respect and admiration of the ' world. In the remotest corncrs of the earth, ' an American citizen knows and feels t',iat lie ' lias a government ablo and willing to pi\?teet , 1 him, anil that no power on earth dare molest ; l.;?. 1 It is natural ih'it they who thus reflect, j ami remember the fin-well ml vice of the I 1 Father of his Country, that union and lib j <-rty nvo inscpgrable, who know , from history | in all ages, the horrors of civil war, and the , ' * <! infers of revolution to liborly and civil gov . 1 rrnment, should wish ami earnestly desire!1 the perpetuity of the Republic, under which ' they live so happily. With such, one may ' well reason and argue without giving offence,! J 41 nd ask for u eilni and dispassionate deter-I minution before they decide on breaking up their <lovern nent, and running the hazard ; of forming a better one. The prob iltility is tliat t?i?> Black llopub- ! I'lO'in (! iinli i ito will bo elected President of the l.'nitml States. It is a grievous misfortune, and nin t?? be deeply lamented by every citizen of the South. But it mu.it bo re- j uiCiiibered that 'the Southern States wifl j have brought this misfortune, grievous as it j may be, on thcmsc\t?s, by their own divis- ; ions party strife.^ Nothing can be more j . clearly shown. It was predicted nt the time, and the South forewarned i?f the impending 1 danger. In the unfortun ito disruption of the Deiji- j uukiliu |i in.y hi \.;nariesion, wlueli I ?I ill nil J j t'imt [ c mill do, amid tho hisses and insults ' ( ?if nil excited comnmiity, to provtwt,^ saw tho triu ui)!i of the Mlaok Republicans in j tho ensuing Presidential election I sttted ( . in n 1 otter writton and published immediate- ( ly ftrterwird-i, that the Southern States would j bo divided into three bitterly hostile fmUioiia, ( that a lllaek Republican President would be _1_ 1 *L..? AI.- - 1 uieytcu, Mild inn* *,111531? Jtviiy < 11 ViHioilS CU tllft I , Month WAIlIll llltotlff lltifAut (1 nni.wi ..C li.A ! tfonth in nny sehome of disunion. It ix true ' in religion and in politics, that tho nearer < ?oels and ptrties approach without nsftiini luting, the more bitter tlicj uro towards caelt othor. If tho soooding momhors of tho Ch?rio.iton CJonvontiou h.id retained their seats in thnt ( i, k: V bully, 15 reek in ridge and Dane, or others equally acceptable to the Southern States, would have been the nominees of the Democratic [tarty lor President and Vice-President. It was a well ascertained fact that .Douglas could not, under any contingency, get ilie Lwo-tliirds vote requisite tj a nomination.-'? After a number of balloting, the friends of ludge Douglas would have east their votes for Hunter, Breckinridge, Dickinson, or sotnc one else acceptable to the South. 1'nt titer tho withdrawal of a portion of tho Southern Delegates, they tecume excited uud more disposed to adhere to their candidate. The adjournment to ISaltiinorc was for the purpose of giving the friends of .J udge Douglas, in tho seceding States, an oppctunit of sending Delegates in place of those who withdrew. This fact I know. Lincoln will be elected President in eonsequence of this disruption of tli? Democratic party, lie will ho elected by one third of l!ie voters of the I'uited States ! Two thirds u!" the votes polled will actually be east itga ?st him ! And yet he will be eleetcd l>v >i... .1:..: f niv; nui.nuii 111 i io oppositions lie will barely iret, a majority of t!?? non slaveh ddinjr vote.*, and none in the sl.ivehohling Status.? In Now York, Pennsylvania, New .Jersey, Connecticut, Illiios ami Indiana, lie will not nceive a m.".j*?rity of the votes, hut carry these Stales, ami perhaps Oregon and some others, )>y a plurality vote. Hell and F.vcrett will carry Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and perhaps Louisiana and Florida. Breckinridge and Lane will have South Carolina, (leor^i i, Alnbanp, Mississippi, Arkansas, California, ami perhaps, Missouri, Louisiana and Florida, iI* the first is not given to Hooplas, and the two latter to 1 h II. 11'elected, Liii -oln will come into power with two thirds of the people of the J ' nll-'d <, . . I . i : i > '<" ,v>|iji.i.>cu iu his au hi his! ration . ^ i iiis OU^liti, in some measure, to appease tin; npptchoiision.s of those who alloct to lie so much alarmed for the South. I lis administration will commence a weak one, tmd it is not probable that lie ein, backer! bv onethird of the people of the United States, seriously injure and oppress the other twothirds. l'ut we have another chock on his ability to <lo mischief. A majority of the Senate of the Inited States'will be opposed to his Administration, and no bill can become a law till it receives the sanction of the Senate.? This majority in the Senate cannot be changed for .several year.t to come. It is doubtful, too, as to the majority of the House of Iteprosentativea. Mjivs than likely the next flections will give a majority of the mcmher.s of tlie lloiise ill nnn lailiiui t.> t'v.? l!l....lr publicans. This is t> lie inferred from the popular vnt'i of two-thirds against Lincoln in the Presidential election. Mr. Fillmore became IVe.iidcit of tlio l'nit 'l Mintos v i;!i a worse record than Lincoln lias on tli ' slavery question, and In; wont out of nfli i very popular man atjtho. Soulii ! Designed tlio Fugitive Slave Mill, which Lincoln is pledged to enforce. ilo prevented blood siteJ and civil war in Now Mexico and Toxas, which Taylor was about to indict on tbo country. According to Sou iitor Benjamin's speech, L'ncoln does not stand pledged t> tlio unooiidiiional roperd of the Fugitive Slave Law, or against the admission of any more slave States into the I nio:i, or to t'io abolition of .si very in the 1 >is I rift of (\?lu nl>i;i, or to the prohibition of the tinvo trade between tin' States, or the acijiiitition of more slave territory. Jii'l'^in^ from the* course pursued by othsr Presidents, anil th it policy which usiij^" governs politicians whilst in power. inst ad ?f iloiin; any rash, violent or unconstitutional net to injure or oO'end those opposed to him, it js likely Lincoln will pursue a very cautious. nolitio and wiso con use towards the SoutliJ It. cannot b"> in nature of any man elevated to the Presidency to wish to see the (lovernment broken up under his administration, the Republic dismembered siud tlie country plunged into a civil war. Very likely his great effort will be to acquire popularity in the Southern States, and appease their opposition bv a riirid adherence to ilio !'onstitution ami respect for this rights of the s'outh. It is not at all improbable that the South may find more favors under the Administration of Lincoln than they have under wiy J)o:noeratio Administration. It may be that "Old Abe" will go out of office ijnite * favorite with the Southern people! At least we should give him a trial. 4'lic election of a President, in conformity with the Federal Constitution, is no ground whatever for breaking up the Republic, no matter how bitterly opposed to him we may L>o,^ We must wait and decide on 1.is acts uul measures ; nothing less will justify us ill tlin of * 11wifl'l ?? j - " w. v..v IIVMVI) \J I (II \7|ll II IHIM UI ?ur own people. To inculcato the notion tlint a portion of the citi/.ona of a Republic may break up and revolutionize their Government, because tbe.y have boon defeated iu their choice of n Chief Magistrate is the "cpudiation of the first principles of repubieanisin, and functioning that which leads uovitibly to lawless despotis.n. IJiifoiSi any suoli movement is put on foot, t would be well for Messrs. Koitt, Orr and IJoyoo to a-eertiin and see whethor such a no.isure is likely to be accept ible to their >arty generally ; and especially whether the Viemls of Hell, tho Union candidate?^lietlisr the supporters of judge Douglas in Oeor<i?, Alabama and Louisiana, and the adlje- | rents of General Houston ir Texas?will coipcrato with their opponents, the Brockin- j iilge pirty South, in such a movement.? To suppose so, shows a ercdulltv biyond my comprehension. Then the question arises, is it proper for (Inrrtliiiu a LiL'n ii n disunion niovonionfc? Twice already lias !ie fuilcd, after mounting boldly to the precpioe and looking over. Nor h:t? slio won my luurolfl for wisdom and stutesinenship in :hese threatened disruptions of her Govern 1 uiont. Virginia was so discourteous as not oven to accept of our invitation to moot in consultation on her own wrongs and injuries. (jo!. Oit thinks South Carolina should not act without (J corgi a, Alabama and Mississippi. The Colonel knows very well that lie is perfectly safe in waiting for (Jcorgia.? He would not be more so in waiting for Marvl.'iiul mih) k nnlnpl'v This notation of disunion is calculated, (/too, to tl.image seriously tin* prospects of Breckinridge and Lane in the Southern | States, as well as in tlie Northern States. Hell's party and Douglas' friends North ami Snuth will make capital out of it, (o the injury of Breckinridge. 1 go fur Breckinridge in this contest, with all my heart, and will say, under existing ! circumstances, that it shows a want of wisdom or fealty to the South for anv Southern man ' to oppose him. Nothing can he more inju ' dicious than the starting of a Douglas ticket in any Southern State, lis only tendency will Kl> 1(1 I>ivi> ?'ir> v.,tr> f.f flirt Sil.ifn !i.,li ami paralyse tin: strength of the South.? , Nor do I think any Breckinridge ticket should be started in a nofi-slaveholding State. Its effect will be t<? '.rive the vote of su.di State to tin* Hlaek Republicans. It would be much hotter to 1?;?ve Douglas in the Presidency than r<ine >ln. lint it is almost oortdn that if two Democratic tickets are run in the Northern States that Douglas will not carry a single State. It was a great misfortune and a great wroi.g that Judge Douvrlas' friends should Dave urged his claims so strongly as they <l?tl in tin; Charleston ('onvolition. The South w.is entitled to the President. The election \ depended on the South. She had the Detn- i oeratic f*tronuth in a groat degree. The South \v;<s pi'yju diced against Douglas, : 1 no doubt may of tlio Seuoders had rather sec I.inc.iln elect''u. The Charleston Convention ought to have boon composed of National Demo-rats, and then there would have been no divi. ion in our ranks. Mr. Yancey and his friends had no more right to a seat in the Convention than Mr. II. M. llliett and his friends liad.? They stood on the same platform, and 1 thought, and so said to my Convention friends, that they evinced unnceeessny Miueamishness after following Mr. Yancey out of the Convention, torefuse the proffered lead of Mr. Ulictt after they got out. Will. ?i.;is?w M.. n.--..* i 1 s:> 1, exposed tJio folly of separate State a?! tion and scees>ion. Why lie lias now uhanjred 1 am at a loss to know. It would bo well for t liiin to tike up somo of his old arguments and answer them. lie might find it hard to do. i ID But still, until they arc answered, they niu?t : h; ve their i:-!lueiu c on the public mind. , Col. Orr declared in the Columbia CoiiI volition and sealed it with an oath, so help mo God, whilst the Federal Government is ' administered on Constitutional principles neitlier my hand or my voice shall over be raised against this l*nion." Now 'ho Section <>i" A he Lincoln will violate no Constitution.I ! principle, or provision of tlie Constitution.? j When such violation oceurs under l/uivoln's ! Administration, tlie whole South may be united, and policy and patriotism diet itc th it we should wait till the violation ocurs. It may ho that I am mistaken in suppoi sing slavery to be out of the reach of the asl s-iults oi' its foes, and if so I will be as ready as any <>ne to d fond it at tlie sacrifice of the I'niou itself, as much as I value the Union. Hut 1 am nut willing to uet prematurely when J there is no danger. As to dissolve the I n j, ion on a mere abstraction, the right to carry slaves where slaveholders desire to carry them, and where they would be worthless if. carried. I am ont.iwil t<? it iwiu. mul f< ' I I * " V "X"' ""M "-M V ? VI ^ : and shall endeavor to defend the rights of the South in tin; I *.::??!), whejre I tliiuk they have been heretofore properly defended, and ' may still ho defended it' the South is tru-J to j j herself and united in that defence. i That ill who were disunionists should | h.?\?* rvjoieod at the break in*; up of the Dein; ocratio Convention in Charleston is very | natural. They saw in that niowinent the j i destruction of the National Democracy and j their defeat in the coming Presidential eloe| tion. They saw in the future the election of a Black Republican, and knew what a j j powerful lever it would be in their hands to | ; wield against the IT nion. But that any friend I to the Federal I'nion and lover of the peace , and 'piiet of the Republic should have rc- | I joiced at Hindi a dire calamity is most aina- ; j zing. The Democratic party had been the friends of the South and the riiihts of the I j States, tho supporters and defenders of tlio ( ; Constitution, and the only just and wise ruler ; of tlio (iovernmcnt from its foundation to the j present time. I'mler their administration the boundaries of the Republic had been enlarged by ths aef|uisition of Louisiana, Flor- l id.t, Texas, California and Oregon. The ! rights and honor of the Jtepublie had been gallantly defended in a war with Creit llritain and with Mexico. How any pn, triot could chuckle and grin over the death of this glorious old party, is more than i can comprehend, ! Mut if does seem that for vonrs rmst. lliorp / 1 ' t Ims been at the South a systematic organization to weaken and drive from the Deniocratj ie party all who stand by it and fight for it ' in the Northern States, Their aim is to see1 tionali/.e parties, as the Rlaek Republicans | have dono at. the North ! as tlie Federalists i did during the war of 1812! all of which | Washington denounced as fatal to the llopub| lie, fatal to ortr Independe oe, an<t fatal to ( j liberty itself. Disunion?a word of horrible import to the illustrious sages of the Republic, one I which was not to bo breathed by Washington, i .Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and .Jackson? ! is now in the mouth of every flippant pol- 1 | itician, certain ncwspnDcr editors, half-oduca [ tod 8clio')lboy, and unthinking mortal. It ' | is the high road to ofTico and popularity, and he who daro.s repeat the dying holiest of the Father of his Country is branded a traitor.?- 1 The same tVi'Iiiiir is inanit'exied in the North- ' orii States by tin; I?! ?< !< Republicans and i .John llniw.i .sympathisers. \\ ? 11 may it be ' km id, we have fallen oil evil times; and that , I " those w11???11 the vrml.s intend to destroy they 1 lir.it 'nialce mad." ' I 'J'o consummate tliis folly it is proposed for < South Carolina to mareh out of the I'nion sol- < n.iij imu iiiuui-. i mii 11 id alone we shall do 1 very well, anil it' an attempt is made to force i us back the South will rally to tin1 rescue.? \\ c had hotter not depend on hoinu; lot alone it* we oppose the collection of duties. We may withdraw our members of Congress and no one will disturb us. In lSf>l, I'resident llllino.e did not manifest any disposition to let us alone. lie sent troops to Charleston, lien, .larkson did the same in ISJJI. Wo must not, therefore, expect to be let alone. Will the other Southern States rally to our assist.nice in doimr that which they themselves thick it advisable not to do? Would it in.I. In; more prudent to pt them to unite with us hei'urehand'{ And it" they will not unite i:i our action, for us to stay with them till some act is iloni: which will unite tlie Soulli '! There is 110 doubt : t .-ill if the whole South were united in any curse, they could t.ike can* of thcinselves in an emergency. The proper -n:s- for >uth Carolina to pursue is to say to thi' other Southern States she is ready to act with them, and to wait their action, whatever that may he. This will prevent h< r plaviiiji before liijili Ileavcu a ridiculous larec or a bloody tragedy. * 1 ?. K. 1'Kitiiv. j (irccnvillc <\ 11., August lo, 1 St>0. Syria The Massacre at Damascus. !?; i in: r, J illy ! "?.?On the I llh in-taut, 1 f awarded you, via Smyrna, a telegraphic despite!), <:iviiij: <?n outline ot' tho fearful tra?C- ( dy which lms just h *en witnessed, and which, wlieu the last ace>uiit? left the place, was by no mea::s finished, nt Damascus. Since tlion, lu; t ?i?*r details of ihis enframe have reached lieirut from vaiious authentic sources. I>4iiinseu- is the real capital of Syria, nnd is tin1 larir.'-f city of Asiatic Turkey. It is r ! I v :>ll Modiolus a lmly town, as from it dep irts and to it arrives every year t!ie li ij. 11 pilgrim fiiMvan, to ami from Mecca. The population of Damascus execeds : 1 > ',')! , o| which i > arc Moslem?, 1 (tOO Christians, ami (1,000 Jews. liver since ! the murder of the Christians by the I'ruses j in Lebanon eon.u.< need, and more particulr- ; ly since it became every day more and more evident to all men that the Turkish (jovernment showed partiality to the Druses, the more disreputable Mo.-iems of Damascus begun to! b? oxi.ved'mjy ins.il.nit to the Christians.? I These low Moslems are a tin ncrotu, a very j troublesome, and an exceedingly bigoted race i in all large Oriental towns, and f.re ten fold more in Dimnseus than any palee 1 know in Asia. 11e.iri ng liow the government had everywhere not only sided against their coreligionists, but how it had everywhere in be- j bunon actually helped to betr.iv. if not reallv t<> mimU'r tip-in, the ('hristians of 1 t.iinascus wc'.'c from l!it? ?>u(-set down-hearted, and frigliteued, :ts well thev might ]? >, when threatened from d i v to :1 iy. that t!i.? Moslems would lis-, and ex terminate them. M:it tors got worse, t!ic on.* party Ik-co ning daily more frightened, the other I: iriy more iusulmt, until at last, | il Sund-iy 'he iStl, in.-tant, when tin* Chri.s- j tians i?:niio out "i' their various churches, a j tr.nli u!" Moslem lads were l)U-y in the streets making crones in chalk on t!i? ground, and then stamping and spitting on tin; sacred em- j Idem. Hut so utterly down-he irted were the ( liristians, tiiat they did not *on complain to the authoritie:? of this wanton insult. On the contrary, all they did was to confine them- i salves still more strietlv within their homes! for tiic rest of the day. W11:?t must, then, i have boon their sistorii.sliiiioiit. on the Monday morning, to see these same lads who had made j and spat upon tlic crosses on the previous day, : sweeping tli<! streets ol' tins Christian fpiartcr in chains, by order of t!ie Turkish head of [ police. They at once snnnosed that this order I must have been given for tin; very purpose of exciting u riot, and they were not mistaken.? ] At 2 p. m , so.110 throe hundred of the lowest MosK-nis of Damascus rushed armed into t!ie ('liristi.m's quarters, cv'ng out, "Slay l!ie dogs of (Christians!" andi 11a:ncdi;;tvly the work of plunder, burning and murder commenced. ! Achmet L'ucha, (lovernor (.Jeneral and Com- | munder iu-ehiof of the place?a field marshal j in the Suit in's army?was at once informed of what had t ikon place. l>ut although he i hid at his disposd some eight hundred! regular troops and seven field pieces not a ! man nor a gun did he move. lie never showed i himself in the street, nor took ni:y steps what-1 ever t>> stop the massacre, declaring?the old j ftory of Hisbevn, liasheyia, Dir-el-Kamar j and Sidon?that he had not troops enough to do any good. The Russian Consulate was almost the first house attacked, and all those ('ill'ist ians w!w? ll.'ifl iw>f Inlfnn mill' *l?'> famous Aljjcriuo chief, Abd-pl-Kader, (vrlio ! , has behaved most nobly throughout the busi- 1 ( ncss,) were uuirdered at once. J?ut, although , the alT.iir mi^ht have been .stopped with the ' greatest ease before dark on tlie .Monday, j after that Imurtho mob increased in numbers, every minute. I/ite in tlic evening, about 1500 j < Hotuicrs Wi'i'i! sent to put a stop to the outrage, I I but very shortly joined in the plundering; I such n* did not do s i actually used their arms ; 1 to massacre tin; (Miristi ihh. 'J1 lie whole Chris- | I tin 11 quarter?which includes some of the finest ' pilaces to lie found in the empire?was soon ' i one mass of {lames; and?-for this there is the i i positive authority o<* a Kupopcim eye-witness, | who was hiding in the neighborhood fdl that 1 fearful night -as the Christians triedjto escape j from the flames, they were thrust back on the i burning pile by the bayonets of the Turkish 1 regular troops. However, when we recollect ' that one of the military chiefs who command- j cd in Damascus was Ostium Beg, the miscreant ivho, but three weeks previously, had deliver- ( cd up at llashovia upwards of fifteen hundred (. Christians to b) massacred by the I)ruses; all j I wornler at tlic coi: 'uct of tlie military ceases it once. When our last advices from Damascus left ; that place, the whole Christian quartor had been utterly destroyed. Four thousand Christians had taken refuse in the houao of Abd.|.Iv...1or ? !..? #1.^, ..II . ? , ,, ?.v MUlVIIVIOVt CIIV'III Mil sonicrs. Three thousand had taken refuge in the castle under the Pacha, and several hundred in the Knglish consulate, which as yetbeing situated in the Moslem quarter of the town?had been respected. I p wards of two thousand Christians, it was calculated, had been murdered. t?ll iii cold blood, ??i ?? tlio estimated loss of property, money, valuables, &c., w;is ?1,200,000 sterling. From Aleppo the news is bad. They had not heard of the Damascus massacre', but fully expected, almost every hour, the Moslems of the town to rise 011 the Christians. Captain I'aynter, of her Majesty's ship Kxmouth, senior naval ollieer here, has dispatched her Majesty's ship Mohawk to Lntakia and Ale.xandrctta, so :is t > pick up and save fugitives from M slem fanaticism. In Heirut the panic among the native Christians has been something fearful yesterday iid to day. They are embarking by bun dreds in tlic different merchant steamers to Alexandretta, ..i.ulria, Corfu, Malta ?ml even for Iv . .Nearly all t lie French r.:ul F,n?;lish merchants are sending away their tamilies to Furope. All trade is stopped lor the present. Syria lias had 11 blow from which she will not recover for sixty vears.? In A1 exmdria all the refugees that have fled there have been very handsomely treated by Said I'acha, who gives food to th" poorest, money to many, houses to all.? In Hoi rut the Knglish and Americans have formed a fund to relieve the poor who have fled to this place in thousands; the French have done the s une ; the Sisters of Charity hfy'.e relieved hundreds every day with'food ; ino rrencn, rmgli.sh, Kussian, Austrian and I'rusian Consuls (to sav nothing of the Amor- , iean missionaries who daily feed three hundred people^ give broad, cooked meat, rice, clothes, (Sec., lo.several hundreds of these j)oor, starved, hurnt out peasants. All the nodical men have attended t< their wounds and sickness gratis; and even the crows of her Majesty's ships lOxmouth and Mohawk, as well as the French Imperial frigate Zenoblo, have contributed their mites. [('uriwponilciicv Louiloii A Tkiirihu: Fiir.snr.T.?The flood by which we were visited on Monday last, was far greater than ever before known since the I settlement of the county. A rain set in on Saturday mornimr. and continued six or ni I hours, saturating the earth with water. On ; .Sunday morning the rains again commenced, j and fell incessantly throughout t!ie day ; but i it was not till Sunday evening that anything ] like a Hood was apprehended. J5ut now, as it' ' the windows of Heaven were open," the rain descended in torrents, accompanied with heavy wind and thunder,, until Monday nior- I ning. 'J"ne numerous beautiful streams, for which our region of country is remarkable, j were then found swollen into angry, turbid j floods, swift fix tho mountain torrent, and bearing oil' everything in the way of their | resistless tides. Corn, Cotton, fencing, brid | ges, mills and houses have been swept away. ' The damage i." great, and almost incalculable. ! The track and embankment of the Alaba- I ma and Tennessee Kail lload have been so ! much injured as to prevent the passage of the j ears. At Mr. Harelay'sthe embankment was ! swept away for a distance of thirty feet, while I near Mr. Hcadon's it was carried away for a j .->!?,iuo uf about' sixty met. ear Alpine, inr- j thcr damage was sustained by the road. We learn that no serious damage was sustained below ]>utt&' Station, and that jho train from Sclma reached that point Monday evening. The principal streams of the country? ('iioccoloceo, Chcahah, and Talladega?were considerably higher than the ever memorable' liTslu't ot I Slit. It is estimated tint nut loss j than twenty four inche.s of water fell during the rains <?f Sunday and Saturday night.? j The full extent of damage is not known. f (A'lt.) W<tl</i lower, 1.")/// i'hsI. To (.Jonx Si'kcf i.atojis.?The St. Louis ^ I'Jrcn i'iu/ Xrir.i suggests to speculators who j may he inclined to venture largely in corn for the Southern market, under the idea that there is to be a meat dearth there, th.tt it will prove a grievous delusion, and may he disas- j trous to their fortunes. " There will be some scarcity?enough to give healthy activity to the trade?nothinir more. ' li < planted this year, it is said, fifty per ocnt. more corn than ever before. .Some of it is cut short, but the greatest crop ever made stands on the ground. Illinois boasts that s!i. could feed the South for a year, and the oflicers of the Land department of the lll'imis Central Kailroad, who linve excellent facili-, tie: for the collection of data, estimate tli.it the corn crop of Illinois this year will excocd " one hundred millions of bushels." Many of the. Southern papers seem inclined to distrust , the reports of a scarcity of corn in that re- ; giou, although it sems certain that the crop w ill be small. _ I Stvr ox tiik I1'v 1:1.11).?A correspondent af the ('ineiunati /jmjuircr sends (lie following remedy, which she says she can /ouch for : 1 *nt a teaspoonfu) of blnok tea in a small t>a?5 ; pour on to it just enough boiling water to moisten it ; then put it on the eye pruify warm. Keep it on all night, and in the 1 morning the stye will most likely he gone; if not, a second application is certain to remove it. 1 A lotion made of sugar of lead and rose water will have the same effect. 1 Pkacr.?Peace is better than joy. .Joy is ni uneasy guest, and always 011 tip-toe to depart. It tires and wears us out. and vet keens * ?r" us over fearing that tho next moment it will bo pone. Peace is not so?it conic* more juiotly, it stays more contentedly, and it never xhnusta our strength, nor gives us one nnxous forecasting thought. Therefore, let us Dray for peace. The Bladcnsburg Duelling Ground. Here, in a beautiful little grass plat, surrounded by trees, forms, made after the image of (iod. ei)ine to insult nature and defy Heaven. In ISfil |<Mward Hopkins was killed hero in a duo!. This seemed to bo the first of these fashionable murders on this duelling ground. In lSlil A. 'J'. Mason, a I'liitod States Senator from Virginia, fought with his sister's husband, John Me( ? hero. McCarty was adverse to lighting, and thought there was no necessity for it ; but Mason would fight.? Mov'.u'ty wanted muskets, loaded with grape shois, and so near together that they would hit heads, if they foil on their faces. This was changed by the .seconds to loading with bullets and taking twelve foot as (he distance. Mason was killed instantly, and McCarty had his collar bone broken, and still lives with Mason's sister in (ieorgetown. iiis hair 1 turned white soon after tiie fight, as to l-iiusu onion couinieill,. IIC llilS 00011 SliICO solicited to act as second in a duel, but refused, in accordance with a pledge he made to his wife soon after killing her brother. In 1K20 Commotio' Decatur was killed in a duel here by Commodore Ihirron. At the first lire both fell forward, with their heads within ten foot of each other, and as each supposed himself mortally wounded each fully and freely forgave, the other, still lying on tlio ground. In 1821 two strangers, named Loga and S'oga, appeared here, fought, and Sega was instantly killed. The neighbors only learned this much of their names from the marks on their fluff*"!. ll?ft mi tlir> ivrAHiiil I - rv > - to*""""' '"o" ? not hurt. In 1822 Midshipman Locke was killed here by a clork of the Treasury Department, named (iibson. The latter was not hurt. In 182(5 Ilenry Clay fought (his second duel) with John Randolph, just across the Potomac, as Ka 'olph preferred to die, if at nil, on Virginia.'. lie received Clay's shot, and tlien fired into the air. This was in accordance with a declaration made to Mr. Benton, who spoke to Randolph of a calling, the evening before, on .Mrs. Clay, and alluded to tho f|uict sleep of her child and ibe repose of the mother. Randolph quickly replied : " I shall do nothing to disturb the sleep of the child w the toposcof the mother." (Jeneral Jessup, whose funeral I attended las' week, was ("lay's second. When Randolph fired, he remarked : ' 1 do not shoot at you Mr. Clay," and extending his hand, advanced towards Mr. ('lav. who ruslifil in inoi'i |{.iiid..l?i. showed (.'lay when; his bull shuck his coat, and said, facetiously, " Mr. Clay, you owe ino a co.it." Clay replied : "Thank (lod. the debt is 110 greater!"? They were friends ever after. In lSUJ .Martin was killed bv Carr. Their first names are not remembered. They v ere from the South. l;i 18:!!} Mr. Key, son of Frank Key, and brother to Barton Key, of Sickles notoriety, met Mr. Sherborn, and exchanged n shot, when Sherborn said : " Mr. Key, I have no desire to kill you." " Xo matter," said Key, " 1 caiue to kill you. ' Very well, then," said Shcrborn, " I will kill you." And ho did. In 1838, W. J. <?raves, of Kentucky, assuming the ijitanvl of .James Watson Webb with Jonathan Cilley, of Maine, selected this place for Cillcy's murder; but the parties learning that Webb, with two friends, Jackson and Merrell, were armed and in pursuit, for the purpose of assassinating Cilley, moved toward the river, nnd nearer the city. Their pursuers moved toward the river, but missed the parties, and then returned to the city, to which they wore soon followed by Graves and tlhe corpse of Cilley. In l^lo a lawyer named Jones fought with and killed a Dr. Johnson. In ls,"? I K. A. llooloaml A. J. Dallas had a hostile meeting here. Dallas was shot in the shoulder, but recovered. In 18."ili Daniel and Johnson, two Kieh i ?1:? - iii - i in vf uuuuis, ni'Hi a iiarmicss set-to lioro, which terminated in coffee. In 1854 J)avis and Hidgwav foupht liore. Ilidgway allowed his antagonis. lo lire without returning the shot.?Exchange Paper. iSiiaup pitafripk.?A wo,']; or two ago, four creditors started from Doston in the same train of car.*, for the purpose of attaching the property of a certain debtor in Farmiugton, .Maine, lie owed etch one separately, and tliey each were .suspicious of the object of the others, hut d trod not say a word about it.? St) they r.tde, acquaintances all, talking upon everything except tint which they had most at heart. When they arrived at the depot at Kariuington, which was three miles from where the debtor did business, they found nothing hut a solitary cab, toward which they nil i .1 rm 1 " * lusiicii. i ni'cu gonn and roiuscd admitlanoo tn tin: fourth, and the ol> stilted. Tho f. i;-tli ran after and mounted upon tlieoutxido wiili the driver, lie. asked tliu driver if ho wished to sell his hnr?o. He replied that ho did not?tlint ho was not worth more thun Sft v dollars, but he would not. sel! him for that, lie asked him if he would t ike 8100 for him. >( Yes." said he. The fourth man ClUtcklv pud nver tlie money, took the veins and backed the cab up to a bmk, slipped it from'the harness, ami tipped it np so that the door could not he opened, then jumped upon tho horse's back and rode off, while the u insiders " were looking out of the window. Ho rode to a lawyer's and got a writ made out and served, and his debt secure, and get buck to the hotel just as the " insiders" came up puffing and blowing. The cabman bought back bin horse l'or $50. Tho "gold" men offered to pay that sum if tho fortunate one, who found property sufficient to pay his own ,1Ai > J _ > ? - utui,, wuuiu noi 1011 CI It II) JiOStOIl. Poverty strikes a ninnnttor all hia friends ami ilie rest of mankind have deserted him. ; /