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^ Q IP TJ j^jj IJ ^ ] 1 |] I "TO THINK OWN 81'LF BK TltUK, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE ^ NIUIIT TIIK DAY, THOU CAN'1 l NOT Til F.N UK FALSI- TO ANY MAN." IJY llOBT. A. THOMPSON. PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1800. VOL. XII. NO. 12. D1TEI5 V | wonderful piece of mechanism. At noon the 1 peiccntoee on the cntiro cost, of iim i - Loro Imperial, I IIV W. UM.MOUK HIM MS, Willi nn iniprcHiitiiing Tnce i All'I n manner noft nml shy, Love I in peri ul ytciil"< hpnoe. j \\*hcn you li11lo dronin hint niph ; Von nmv nolo his searching phuico In th? nh?oiit ccinintr eye : Von nmy lr:ico him in I lie trmicc Of n young itlolntvy. Thoro ore Hjiirits ycl to win. Titer** are ho*om? still fo try, Aivl he deems il not n sin " To extend hi* I With n spell of \fider power. Thau the nmrtnl Klrics may plnv, II will scale tho hauchty tower. Though it ri'ggcd be. and liigb. For he arms lilm with a spark From a voting nnd artless ?yf, A ml ho strikes the loftv mark Which would other force ilefv ; And tho lofty tower goes down. In the confliitrralion hiirh. And the chieftain lends he Oil ^ Iii a long enptivjty ! III the wildest storm he soar# ; He is 8rt<"e in every sky : And ho wins tho fnirest shores, With * wine of victory : Sleepless still, he steals npaoe. When von little dream him nigh. And achieves tho hardest rnro That his vagrant wing may try lie's tho l'rtiice. the Prince of Powor, An.I ? *- 1 ? .... . nv uv<t ki mm nmno : H)>'? Hip T.onl of tent nnil towpr? Of tho collnjro ftnrt (lip throne ; I'opr in I ppnsint. eliiiip mnl hour, All iliko to him urP known. An<l wp vIpI'1 liim itpllit'flowtir, An?1 tlic fruit of pvpry 7.01m'. OOM9S9UMJOAV5 ON IC Correspondence of the Keowce Courier(Jkxkva, August IS, 18(50. ! Sin. TAomt'.son?Dear Sir : After n !on?; , ?:i ? f i o.jvnwv i nuim you :i tow notes of ;iti excursion unions; tho Alps : Hiving met with two of my countrymen. , who, like myself, w an tod to exchange the dull routine of hooks and lectures for tin; varied scenery,of the irtountaius, I left Heidelberg oil , the 11 tit of August, at the close of the sum- | liter term, equipped with a kni'psack on m\ back and nn over? o:\t on my firm. Our first halt wusnt OarWube, the cnpitol ot the Grand ! Dltf.'hy of Bailcn. It is oito of tho ytmn??o?.t 1 capitals in (lernniny, having boon till lately a | hunting soat, founded hy a former Landgrave, | who called this retreat in tho midst of the for- ' ujji, votaries tuwt, QKarla rulie). It is ? pretty town with thn streets sill radiating !i!;e the spokes of a wheel, from the I'alace, whudi terminates the view in every street. The palace j is rather an ordinary looking buildimr. bnt the! larire jjnrden or parte near it is kept in fine j style, and afibrdsa pleasant promenade to the | eitizens. Antona others is a very fine bronze > st 'itno of IlKRIWIt, tho poet there. n. -i ? * ... , v>?iimuiiu nvn nmtre ride brought u<* j to the fii'.iioilH *vatec'm<r |i!iirte, liaden. Baden | with its hot springs, known and used ! for'bd'iinjj by thO an jieitt U mivhi-*, w'io cs- ! t iblislud a eolony h'-r.J mi l o died it Civit is Aurclia A jujnsis. Tlioro aro still remains of llu ii '.ii art to bo fo'Vid ne ir here ; for instance, nltars io Voptune, Moroury and .fund. Nop<s Raid to kave been the special guardian of the placo. The town is ununited in the va! ley of the s nail river 0 >s, botweon two spurs of the nlaek *' . .w..vv?iui| Mil UU'JIl Ol I wliicli art? ensiles, in flic plao'Cs qhco occupied l?y the llmvms for fortifications. Tho springs, ! thirteen in number, cotno out near cic'i other, mid tho water is conveyed in pipes to the. yiiri* Oiw hotel* ami bathing-houses without losing jnuoh of its heat. The hottest arc lOiP ; the the,coldest 11 a?/Fahrenheit. The town people mo it for sodding their pi<jR and poultry. The mub< fountain hua a fine hoijse built over it, an.l .1 railing around it, insiile of which are younvr ladies, who h u d witor to all who route to drink. The w.itni* 1? ? 11 ... ....... wum|iruwiui(! [ t:u?to, and i.s so wurin oiioom only flip it liko | hot coffee. In tlu> convericttion-honso wore a profit ninny f<w1iio:i ibly dressed people, ofbotli Hexes, Rt tho g unbliii;/ t ihlos?t'io " runlet to " a?d ?' rougi) ct-miir "?batting immense ku'uh of livjnoy. I ll Jr.V <u*,v su.jh he.ips of milil :mil gilyot- iK-frtrj. O io of myIjonijVi.iioiis, in order to ba in tho fanhion, threw down n dollar nnd had tho phyisuro of seeing it raked it), l>y tlio " Hilvcr-r.iko " of tho denier. I was r.Toio.st glad ho last at once, ond quit; for, had ho won that tinio, ho would probably have lost more. Tho players all looked on in silence, entirely absorbed in witching tho moro'nfenta of the wheel or tho dolling of the card*. No chtmgJ of featnrcfl hotrayod the.i nlight*5t<M> >tiona, either in 1 Ving or winning;; nut. rt Wi?r?l *?lo annlrnn niwl 1 * .y/nvu utiu uuviimjj; IT JIB uunru Hive the clink of po.ld nnd silver. I agrcu cn(?ntirely with Mad mie Lfi VKtlTKthnt " g uublih^ in a jut p issiua with the Qoruiuti* ; it in ! to them mi nctu d enjoyment. The aj^jny of ntuponsc?the n?mr rtpproioh of ruin?the r.iptUra of pT^Msion?-ire phases of existence ; wild and ooat ?tio. T!wy Rtir th'5 dull ourtanfc J of life-r-rt?h?y.?waH it int<j ficroo wivoa, whtoh 1 baar !\%'*y on their tumultamis wnter# the stem 1 rti:ilitlftS rtf I'ift ... ? ?' .... pivpvm , tnu iumru uim uio pisfc ar? mor^od in tho dark itrlo. It is a LrfJin to llio soul." After looking at thcao things a few hour*, wo again took tno cars for K*?i, on the lUtino, 1 where we *] :pt. Next morning, August 15th, Napoleon's birthday, wo crossed ovor tho lthvnfron u bridge of boots to StMsburg, said I to b? tho third oitf to strength of fortifici-1 tions in Fnn<$VgGWrtoncd by many thousand j . Freueh soldiorr 'tho' city ' wns. in hojydjyJ dress,-but wo had vet'y little time to dovoto J VI I no ruHtifjiicrt or l!)0 Uiw, niOflt Of owr tirab boirvg fctkoa up witl^ trio ouri^sitieii the pluco. TKo cath(nlr?l (Minatcr) i? a won* \ dnrful piooo of arfihit?Otuir?; tho ttpiro ia fund to oo 470 foot tiiciK itio highest !?? thA tforld an<l 24 fiiOt Mjttiof than tho UII eat pyramid of Kgyp4? Tho agronomical clock thcro is ^ umwu uucix over ic imps ins wing* and crow? ; the angel of death strikes 'lie hour on the bell with a hammer and the figures of the twelve Apostles come out and move round the figure of the Saviour, which stands with up* lifted hands us if blessing tliciu. The days of the week too are represented by their mythological figures ; for instance, we saw Mercury (Wednesday, in French, .1 frrcre-rti,) pressing ?m after ih<> ?;i?- ,.1.??' "" . . ..... vxunut ui I'IIIIS) i uoHti.ty, French, Manfi). Strnsburg was ono of tlio free cities of (lermnny until Louis XIV seized upoh it and annexed it to France in n time of pence. From Strashurg wc took the enrs for Basle in Switzerland, stopping an hour in Freiburg, the seat of the Cntholic I "niversity of linden. Tlio cathedral is a magnificent Gothic structure, built seven centuries ago. The spire is 5580 feet high, ami much like that of Strusbur*, built of open filagree stone work. The streets are kept clean by nice little branches conduced from the river above, so as to run through nearly every street; but it is a very ; dull, lifeless city. From here on, the valley , of the Rhine bceonies narrower. To the North it is from 30 to 40 miles wide, as level as our western prairies, and very productive, l'ut here the Hbiok Forest and \ osges Mountains close in, and the railroad runs on the bank of the river, pissing through three or four tun- ' nels before reaching Basle, a fit prelude to the scenery of Switzerland. On the cars 1 had a i long conversation with an interesting lady, a protestant sister of charity, a deaconess, ami; daughter of the Hev. Dr. I'l.KKTflK, of Sehafl"hausen, who is the founder of a great ninny ho^pit 'ls ; among others, one in l'itt*burg, i> ..I-. en n>y i v:i ll ill. liu.sU1 is n bustling, busy city, by no moans beautiful, bnvinjr imrrow, crooked, filthy, hilly streets, situated on both sides of the Ilhiuc, which is hero n deep, broad, rushing river.? After" dtiinjrup" the curiosities of the place, we went to the depot to start on to (loncva, ; when lo ! whom should we meet but ]>r. Tiiornwem. and a lurjro party of friends.? It is a pleasure to meet him anywhere and < any time, but the pleasure w is irreatly on- ' hnr.ccd by this unexpected meeting so far . from home, and fmdiiiur that our mum* l?v !>< the mine direction. His ninny friends there . will be fjlud to learn that the journey so far j has been very beneficial to hi? health. That evening we had a thunder storm while ' crossing l/.ike ]>iennc in n steamer, so wc nil ! went to work trying to quote J'yrot/# deserip tion of l/.ike fjeneva in a storm : "The sky is changed! nnd such a change! Oh nijrlit, ! And storm, ami darkness. ycare wondrous strung. \ Yet lnvftly in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along t, J- > " I'vun 111 jicmt. iiicrniuiii^ ct'ti^Hninong l.onpH the live llintnlcr. Not froti- one lotie cloud, i Kill every mountain iiow Itn 111 fbiitiu a tongue, And .in?M niiswcrs, through her ini.sty shroud. Hack to ilio joyous Alfh. who cull to hor alr.ud." We had boon promised a view of (lie Jnn</- | f'ruu from along the l?ake of Xeufehatcl, but the modest " virgin " bad veiled lior snowy face In clouds ; so wo bad to console ourselves with the hopn of a nearer iicqunintaucc in the. wmav in 21 WCI'K Or I WO. Youth truly, ]?. Krom tlie South Carolinian. 1'ickkva Disrrmvr, Sept. 2<>, 18f?0. l'n thr E-litnr nf the C\trnlIn inn : Durinpf it short visit to that portion of the North Carolina l?lnc Rid^c which overlooks the Northwestern !>in?riotf? of our State, your correspondent had occasion to collect a tew notes, Woico friends have, sujiirented niijiht bo of public in- j teres t, As to this, Mr. 1 Alitor, will you dccido 'i I'or.dleton was the point d'appni of our party. Thence twenty niilcH to Walhalla, wo rode over a section of the Uluo Rid}*c Rail ruuu, wiuc.li is rapidly progressing to completion, and when opened for travel in January next, will close thirty-threo miles of finished track frojn the Easter.t terminus at Anderson. 1'roiu W.-dSmlla to Tunnel Hill, and Westward, u 11 work is suspended. A description of these localities, so \vell known, would be but wurds repeated ; yet, thoficncrtl interest which lias been attached of Into to the llluo Rid'^e enterprise, will oxeu.se a passin-j refer(o the hist. Tunnel Hill, not ten months winco, was a busy littles village, of pome 1,300 inhabitants, ,1i-*- - ........I mjirunT liy mc wants ot tlio tunnel contact'. T!:e iutiuc) was in a very forwnril condition. Twelve months' continued work \vould huvc coni'rctccj the two portals. Our fooling will, therefore, be eoueoived upon finding n literary deserted village?;the worklimit friiiiA Kinl/l!?i^? -?i -1- J ...... r vvi'uiiLiufcit, cii^iih'.h s running, machinery housed, tho ponder mill at rest, and a death-like uilenco pervading the entire work. Sonio six hundred ablo-bodicd niitiers, mechanics |i)u laborers used to form tho complement of the tunnel force. In their place, one nolitary Irishman, stumped np on a wooden leg, to link, in the quaint phrase of hi* country, whether 14 the big tunnel wna kilt intirely." No contract could have been more Hfrikinc. No appeal to State pride, or to local intercut.-*, could more eloquently urge the prosecution of thia noble work than its own present condition. % In dUouwibir the orosocet of it? pnrlv ? ?. sumption nnd completion, ono of our. party, snmcwh'tt addicted to figures, stumbled upou three results, which impressed us, ^perhaps, more on the spot than they piny your readers nt a distance ; I! That the interest payment* of 1800 and '01 by OhavloAton city and tho State upou their bond subscription to tho railroad, would ulone suffice to finish the Stump House and adjoining tunnel. 2. Compounding this Interest, the aggregate in (Jftcon years will luivo reached the mnouuv WJMOli tlio Btite would now liuvo to I contribute to put the enterprise in n paying condition, and thus stop the interest payments. 8. The inorertH.cd vnHntion of real estato in Pickens District Arora 1850, (when the census g?vo $1*708,080,) to the prenent'eensus returni *n inoroMeof 83, 1 220,890 la one District?forma a verj lurge ; How unduly, it. would thus 80.cm, and persistently, are the local boneiita of this enterprise underrated in the community. Leaving Tunnel llil! audits rather sombre associations, we started for Cashier Valley, still 24 miles distant, by the Kcowec and Tuckaseogce turnpike. This road is located (and it is very well located) upon the Chatusra ltulgc, a spur From the Jllue llidgc dividing ' tlio waters of the Seneca and Clwtugn rivers. ; The turnpike graded ore unusually favorable for a inoutain country, but a few months' additional use will be retired to besit the track { for rapid travel. The drive from Tunnel Ilill can then lie made in live hours, and when the railroad reaches \Y allodia, in less than thirty li'.urs from Columbia. The first nineteen I | miles of this road to the North Carolina line passes overan unimproved ridge country and through au unbroken stretch of woodland, ; with beautiful vistas occasionally opening up through the ravines upon either side of the! ridge. Hut beyond the State line the country 1 i lit ? uutouics Doiacr, and very rapidly assumes its ] mountain characteristics, with rugged and i precipitous slopes and winding roads, ascend- j ing ste. dily upwards, and with a perceptible j changing atmosphere. Three miles beyond j the State line, and about 51,000 feet above the I sea, we enter the elevated glade lands of Cash- ) ier Valley; and live miles on, at the McKinney [ (Jap, pass the liluo llidgc, ho called, or rather miss called, for tho more distinctive mountain ; name of the " (Jreat Alleghany,"'is elsewhere \ applied by topographers to the water shed be- ! tween the Kastern and Western waters. The lJlue llidgc proper is a secondary or nunk range, in its general direction parallel to to the Alleghany, passing from Pennsylvania ! into Maryland and Virginia ; and broken [ through twice in its course by the Potomac and James rivers, finally unites with the main Alleghany mountains near Christianbtirg,Virginia. Southward and through North Cstro- ' lina, under the local name of thcllluc Ridge, ! the Great Alleghany itself bccomcs the e;;s-j tern front of the mountains, and , passing | through northern Georgia, finally disappears j in North-eastern Alabama. This mountain is the serrated blue line which bounds the North-western horizon from elevated points 111 urceHViiiu, liMurcnn, and Abbeville I)is- i tricts, and front all of Anderson and Pickens. ' Conspicuous in this blue line, and st-iiiding t out us noted landmark*, are several peaks and spur mountains*, which may be best described by their local names. To the extreme left, the Rabun IJuld is dis- i tin^uUhed by a beautifully symmetrical cut- ] line, and the acute point which crowns its broad summit. It stands as a cornerst >110 in the North-eastern angle of the boundary I lines of Georgia. Its western slopes and spurs descend into the Tennessee Valley, and j to tho Kahun Clap; its northern slopes into' I 1 ' li--- ' i .1x1111 v iiruiiiin ; una us eastern spurs run down to the South Carolina line on t.te (.'hat| uga river. The elevation of the Haiti Monti- ) i tain, the loftiest in Georgia, is 5,122 feet j above the sea ; of the Habun (jap, 2,151 feet. The summit of this' mountain is visited by frost usually nine months in the year, and, in one instance, during ton months. Between the llahun MJald and the Whiteside, there are several (summits of considerably less altitude, the principal of whieh arc the Scaly Mountain, thcStooly, Fodder Stack olid Hluek llock, ranging in height fnom -1,- j 000 feet at the Ihild, to4,li!10 feet at the Hig j *.? uwmuiii point sunnily 10 tlio rij^lit of Whitfcaido. Tlio slopes of Ihc-se mountains are generally ru?i?ed and unattractive; but between tlio l-'oddor 3taek and Hlack Koek ' there lies enclosed o beautiful little ,?pot, .so quiet and secluded, called by the Indians the Kequilla Valley, but better known to South j Carolina visitors as the Horse (love, and tlio: summer reaidenee of Judge Whitner. Six1 miles or more to the North -cast-ward, is tinWl'StPPn nnll-uinn I.! ? 1' 11 .. ? vkv.xmvu ui vtoiuur > 111 ley, lisoif : enclosed by the Whiteside, Sheep Cliff, Chim-! ney Top and Terrapin Mountains. The drainage of tliopc vaHies supplies the Chutugu headwaters of the ^Hvuniiah lliver. The Whiteside Mountain Is literally named. An enormous mural precipice of nt least 1,-1 .5)00 feet in height, und over ono-hnlf milo in ! length, crowns its Knatcrn front. Wenthor-1 worn and glistering in the reflected light of the morning s>un, this rock can he clearly teen and identified .seventy miles off. In imposing dimensions and wild grandeur, it probably RUlDaSSW nnv silliil.tr h:ifn?vil <>I.i/w.t .s.-. r / *f ~ "" *S" ' vwjvvw ? the continent Bust of the Rocky Mountain.? In fact tlio most striking characteristics of tho Southern Blue Kid^c, ore these immense rock escarpments. They occur upon every ; prominent eminence, ami so uniformly upon 1 the Ivtstcni face of tlio mountains ns to sng- | ^est a connection of cause and nflfW-t tviiJ. I periodical storms of tlio region, which conic ! also from the eastward. Tho most noted of these rocks nre the 1 VMiitesido, Table Rock and Caesar's Head;! but thero aro many others which elsewhere would bo. considered very remarkable. Their prevailing mineral type is (Ineiss rock, but it ?S varied with tho primary ?lntcs and limestone, granular quartz rock t\nd an impcrfcct granite. The mountain slopes, especially upon the Western hide, abound in metalic Voiim ond deposits, chiefly gold, copper and galena. Several of those deposits uro boing worked by lunny companies, tlio principal of which aro tho Cherokee Company, of South Carolina, and the Jackson Couuty Compunies, of North Carolina. The height of the White* sido mountain i? <{,150 feet above the sea; of tho Yellow Mountain ''l-! - ?? | Vfv^v ivv-w | \_>111in| Top, 4,910 foot; and the Uogbnck, 5,200 feot. These heigh ta wore determined by tho writer by trynngnlution, froui poiutH on tho lllue liidge JMroad, connected with tido lcvcl?.-~-> Tho flgttrw nrc nrtl given ?h exuet, butnsnpnroximating very closely to u tf?io roault. Tho Hogback, Chimney Top ;>nd Sheep Cliff encloiw tho Fairfield Vallcy-r-docijledly one of the" moat attractive of the mountain localities, and the very idepl oC Hoolusion and wiposo. It is separated frora Cashier Valley by ft narrow rulgc, and supplies the licatl springs of the i Seneca branch of the Savannah. | Krom the Hogback, the 1'luo Ridge makes a considerable circuit to the northward, re turning to within three miles of the South Carolina line, at ('sowar's Head, and thence 1 ?v uvan? Oil HI 1110 ."North-eastward. I C'iv.s:ir'd 11 (Mill, 1110 Iiiild Km-!), and Table I lUck (names familiar to the Southern tourist) ! from the extreme right of the mountain line, i an feen from Anderson and l'ickens I?ij<tricts. t The first is a point in tho water shed, and is J Crossed by a turnpike p*.issinj* down to tlie | French l)ro.\d. Tho IJahl Knob and Table I Koek are spurs of tho Hluu 11i<Ji_ro in South I Carolina, and lie close to tlie State line?the i former boiiifr the most elevated point in tho I State, hut still several hundred feet lower tluiu ?l,? \VI.:< : I - " iiiv n iiiu'Muo .uouiitiiin. 'I hosouthcrii drainage of tin* intermediate county between the Ihild Kilobaud tin* Hogback Hows into the iSavaiitiah ; (lie Waters from its cistern slopes into the Saluda ; and from (lie v'nlpe behind into the French Frond, mid eventually into the Ohio River. The mountain line thus noted encloses a lar<i<? tvaet of very broken country, capabh -f being turned to a much better account than would tit first sight appear. The lower rider o.s present a <ro<<d cattle range for over six iiiotitlis of t!ie year, while the mountain cones arc covered with valuable timber, cf which the principal varieties arc the oaks. pine. hemlock, locust, I ireh, walnut, maple and wild cherry. For the present, only the four l.ist will hear distant transportation lor onir.ment.il purposes ; but tlie time will come when the timber trade from t!ie.,e mountains will form a nuiteii;.l item in the revenue of the Dine llid^e R-iilroad. In the principal vallies there arc large tracts of lands susceptible of inuioved cultivation In D.ishier ;>:.cl FaitTuhl valley especially, the i. i. - vucft uwuuiiis arc covered lor u depth of two or more f? vt wU'i ;;n intv'riuixturc of Muck loam and voji table mould, too rieli in its natui:.l condition, and too wet for tlio ccreals, but which may be converted into frond niendoh' land, and, with the addition of lime, (ten miles distant,) may'he made to yield pood crops of corn, rye and oat a. The second bottoms and low *!' >1<also .supply excellent lands; but subject to the seiions drawbacks of early fro>tt? in .September, which sometimes cut oft two crops in succession. An experiment in .the free use of Hum bring made by Mr. I). I . Sloan, of Fairfield Valley, under the expectation of forcing bis crop to on early maturity. A successful result will no doubt bo followed by the opening up of several stock and grazing farms, for which the country appears very well adapted. It is almost unnecessary to add that the upper mountain growth is generally stunted cheMiut, hlack-jaek and laurel, and abounds with game, 'j'he present has been an unusual favorable hunting season. l>ut the principal source of interest attached to the Cashier Valley by South Carolinians proceeds from its attractions as a summer resort. Several families from the vicinity of Columbia and below have already purchased lapus and built summer residences?prematurely, perhaps, on acei uvt of the. inconvenience <>i" access as yet. and the absence ot' suitable nccomuuidatioiis tor tlie traveling publie. The iir. t of these drawbacks will tuDii be met by tlic completion of the l>luo UidjiC llailroad to Wiillialht ; ami the other, which is more serious, by the proposed opening of a hotel by Mr. Sloan in Fairiield Yali-.. iQJ . The jnporior natural attractions or these vnllics have nut been over-rated Within a duv's ride nf <i-'? n??.'i >* - I V. m, (dliiu ll'H'U, O* cassee Valley, tlic Whitewater Fulls, Whiteside Rock and the Tullulah Falls?they may ho considered central points in a wry picturesque mountain locality?surpassed possibly in Europe but not in the usual paths of' Amerenn travel. The scenery is everywhere worthy of remark, but. the views from .several of the .summits named are. really magnificent? beyond the power of words to describe. To attempt to eonvcy to others the impressions of the moment would form tin subject, of a separate letter. It is enough in this simply to advert to the sun-rise from the Chimney Top, mid thesun-set from the Knbuu-Bald, as rcculliucr lo the writer tlm m?c? ----- - ilfMIciations lh;i( it is possible to connect with oil that is bountiful ami nublimc in nature.? Once toon they cannot be forgotten. S. Cor.. IUmji.kii,?Col. Undler, of Alabama, wlm was shot by the llondumnos, with (ion. Walker, was nn officer in one of tlio Southern volunteer regjmonts in the Mexican war. lie emigrated to California in 1850.? A letter says: " He wan nn netive member of the Whig party during the Presidential election in 1So2, 1 1 " i ? mm in iJ5.)v no received the nomination of that party fur the ofijee of Sheriff of Sun Jo* ufjtiin County, but was defeated by the Duui- I oeratie party, whioli olectod their whole tickct. In 1855 lie disposed of his property nnd : left California to join (Icncru! Walker in Xic-1 arngm, And has up to tliistiinc heen'.villi him j in all hi*expeditions, Ttwas Col. lludlcr's greatest fault in having been, by some unite- ' countable means, infatuated with Walker nnd i.:. <*> u.o uc*nny, imnougn moeo who are well ac- | quninted with Col. Hndler will readily admit that ho wnH in ovcry respect the superior of General Walker, in point of sound judgment and discretion, and had he beCn the loader of tho party jn Nicaragua, a fur different result would liavo been realized. Col. lludlcr was a true and bravo soldier, gentlemanly in all hia intercourse with his follow-mm mii#i quiet in his demeanor, and honoivblo i all his dealing; ho certainly dohOfvrd u sr fato, and his dwUh will enft a {rlooin ovei n i.:rgc circle of friends, both in the Southern Stutcs and California. Col. Jludlor was r. young man, not far from thirty yoars of ago." No man oao bo in two places at the same tiinoj hut ruany n hypocritical fellow 1ms shown that ho can bo two things i3 one placc. Production of Valuable Manuro from the ! Air. Plants arc coinposcd principally of four : elements, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and j carbon, and it has been satisfactorily ascertained that the most of the hydrogen and ni- , trogen enter the plant in the form of ammo- j I nia, which consists of one atom of nitrogen 1 j combined with three atoms of hydrogen.? I i no value of guano, and most other concentrated manures, consists of a considerable extent of tho umn.onin which they contain.? As three-quarters of the atmospheric air consists of nitrogen, and as hydrogen forms oneninth of all pure water, if some cheap means could he fouud for inducing the hydrogen of water to enter into combination with the nitrogen of the air in tlie form of ammonia, this 1 valuabl" manure could be produced in unlimj ited quantities, and the agricultural products I of the world enormously increased. The cfi forts to do tliis have been, at last, crowned | with success, as will be seen by the following | article which we translate from the l'aris j JS Invention. i nincc tho rcmnrkublc labors of Messrs. ! Liobog, Sehaltcnmaun and Kuhlmnnn, on the < fertilizing action of ammoniaca) salts, the pro| (luctionof nmmonia at. a low price has becouic | a problem of the highest interest to agricul| ture. lhit to arrive at this result it is necessary to obtain tho nitrogen elsewhere than in , the nitrogenous matters; which may, for tho 1 most part he employed directly as manures, ; and of which tho limited quantities and clei vated price permits in any event only restrict| cd and costly manufacture. " Atmospheric air is an inexhaustible and ! gratuitous source of nitrogen. However this element presents so great an indifference in its ; chemical mictions, that notwithstanding tho ! numerous attempts which have been made, j i chemists have not heretofore succeeded in j combining it-with hyJrogon, sons to produce j ammonia artificially. This result so iong de- | sired has been reserved lov M. M. Mxrgueritte j : and l>e3ourdeval, who have obtained it by j , employing an agent of which the remarkable ) properties, and neat and precise reactions have J permitted them to succeed where all others ! had failed. This agent is baryta, of which J we have often spoken on the occasion of the I recent applications that Mr. Kuhlmanu has made of it in naiiitim*. but r,f wh'ml, O' ?JV1" j sou suspected the rolo that it was to be called | ' to play in the development of the agricultural ; ' riclioH of our country. " In an earthen retort i is calcined at an elevated and sustained teiu- j perature, a mixture of carbonate of baryta, i iron filings in the proportion of about 550 for j 1(H), the refuse of coal tar, and saw dust.? 1 This produces a reduction to the state, of anhyj drous baryta, of the greater parts of the carbonate employed. Afterwards, across the porous mass, is slowly passed a current of air, j the oxygen of which is converted into carbonic ,w...i i'... uj 119 (?i?ssipc over a column of incan- I d'^ccnt charcoal, while its nitrogen, in prcs- i enccof the charcoal and of tlie bnryum, transforms itself into cyanogen and produces con- j 1 siderablc quantities of cyanuret. In effect, the matter sheltered from the air and cooled, I and washed with boiling water, gives with the j salts of iron an abundant precipitate of Prussian blue. The mixture thus calcined and cyanurettcd is received into a cvlinduv r?f o\. J v ~ ther east or wrought iron, which serves both i as an extinguisher and as on apparatus for the transformation of the cyanurot. Through this cylinder, at a tcmpruti vc h ts than i>U0 j dog. (Centigrade), is passed a current of steam which disengages, under tlie form of i ammonia, all the nitrogen contained in the j cyamurt of baryum." Cosmos, from which JjInvention extracts the above article, properly remarks that it is impossible to foresee all the results of this great discovery. Among other things, it suggests the produotion of nitric acid from the j air bv OXvdizinf nmiiinnifi C,..v.. * , ? O - ?ww?Vit /ifiirf : ican. (Jrkat Commotion in WkstWaud.? : There was considerable bustle and excitcuient in th.it portion of West Wind, bearing the ; romantic but somewhat porcine appellation of I'ij* Alley, ou Saturday night Inst. I'pon enquiring the cause of the unusual demonstration, we ascertained tlint Billy Love and his amiable snnnsn SnninllinA i.?j u.? ? - J uviujiiiiHV) null UUCUillU ill- I ' volvcd in u quarrel, ns lovely- companions will ' j sometimes do, ami tlic crowd had congregated j (o sec fair play. An the story goes, Mr. Love I was solicited by a car tin an to puvchasc a 'possum, and seizing the animal by its "narrative," held it high up to test its weight. M.S. ; Love espying something round in the dim j twilight, and elevated just even with hor liege : lord'u head, was suddenly impressed with the idea that it was a jug. from which Mr. Love was imbibing a little of the joyful. Indignant with the thought that she, the sharer of her husband's sorrows, should bo excluded from a full participation in his ploasures, she j rushed wildly at Mr. Love, nnd with one now- I .erlul blow inflicted on his cranium, caused him to measure his length in a neighboring 1 ditch. This brought a well known physician j to the spot, who separated the bclitgoronto. A j friend of the, injured husband, also came up, I and instantly fcypontfed his cause. Mrs. Love's ' dandor was now fully aroused, and divesting her powerful arlns of tho calico sleeves with | which they wero cncunibcreil. *li?> ! into the allied forccg-with n viin that mudo llio | S hair fly and tho elarct flew. J<ove, in the dark, mistaking his wife's blows fur those of tho now comer, walked into tho individual who had voluntarily tendered his aid, and between the redoubtubles Mr.s. Lovo and the now thoroughly awakened Mr. l,ovo, the third party roocivod a terrible walloping. The trio I A5 11 - ' 1 1 * ' I nurv nunujr ?ppnn?ea; mutual explanations I ensued ; find the whole affair was amicably Adjusted by nil the belligerents ropniiing to u grocery noar by, and indulging a drink, thus proving the truth of the old proverb, u All's well that ends wqII." [I'ftcrsburf/ Va,) J?.?r***s. Livk is sunshine or gloom; just ns you choose, have it nppoar. The Crops of 1860. There can be no solid nnd enduring basis of national greatness which is not founded upon the harmonious developmont of a variety of ineustriai capacities, nnd upon tho ability to produce largo quantities of the important agricultural staples, ns well a? to manufacture every thin^ which is necessary for the well-being of its inhabitants. A nation should always be ul?lc to sustain its noniilntion l?v it* , . J """ rent resources, independent of tiny productions it may receive or any pecuniary advantages it may derive from its foreign commerce, so that in all national emergencies it may be entirely self-sustaining. It by no means follows that it should shun or cripple commerce in times of peace. On the contrary, nil intelligent nations [ profit by their intercourse with other .States, and in all ages, other things being equal, those countries I Hive been the wealthiest which have had the largest amout of foreign eoinincrcc. Trade is often mutually beneficial to the parties who engage in it, but if either sufiers, it will be tho one who has the least amount of shrewdness in driving a bargain ; anil we have little reason to fear that America will be unable to protect her interests in her intercourse with any other country. In our own country the tiilo of fortune e)>bs and flows among its manifold interests, and it is almost impossible that they should all be si multancously in a suffering condition. Wlion agriculture languishes in one region it flourishes in another: or when there is a stagnation in commerce, manufacturing may prove highly prolitahlcr : or when the manufacturing Uiterosts ip depressed, the aggregate wealth of the country may ho receiving a largo increase from tho success of those engaged in commerce and agriculture. If our solo rcljnuco were placed upon nnv one of tli so groat interests, our presttt >> voiktiiiuu wiiuiu ue lnnuitiy less fortunately than it is, even though that interest should represent us large an amount of aggregate wealth as nil three coinhinod; because our security again .t an overwhelming and universal calamity would l>e swept away, an 1 we should he subject In fatal dangers from events which experience of the world has shown are but too likelv to occur. The panic of lS.r)0 swept like a tavnado over tlio commercial houses of the North, carrying terror and distraction in its path. Tile groat Xorth-west, too, where the speculative mania was at its height, was completely paralyzed. ? Hut, fortunately, the large crops and high prices of the great staple of the South enriched that section of the I'nion, and enabled it to assist in re establishing confidence and restoring prosperity in tlie North. During the present season. the irront V?it I. i 1 . 1 < , mm uiuVl'U all the grain growing Stales, have been blessed with must bounteous crops. It in estimated that the wheat crop of Illinois, Indiana, Town* Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri. Now York, Olno, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin, will be at leant 1'2.">,000,000 of bushels, valued nt $1^'*.000,000 in its home market. Their yield in 1850 was ffi ,500.000, valued nt about $'j0,000,OdO. The corn crop of the corn exporting Statcsof Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia, was, in lS.il), 35'2,000,000 bushels, valued at about $170,000.000. This year it is estimated at 500,000,000 bushels, valued at $250,000,000. 'l'ur,-. I'i.axtin'g.?" Have you never heard of the i-tU'lciit.'-, who on being told that the crow would sninetiiYifta liv/% ? 1. 1 1 ... . ? ...v, .. u.uiivii >oiu?. nmigut a young crow to try tho experiment?" Yen, indeed, wc heard of him?tl". irony is excellent ?and of !>> . Johnson'sjjrowl about "the frightful inteival between tl?o seed and the timber." Still we Pixv, plant trees. They who plant at | onec, instead of wasting their breath in pel fish j complaints of the shortness of lile, find luxuriI ant foliage waving over thorn much sooner than ; they expected. Hut. whether yon live to see. 1 tin; maturity of your tices or nut, be benevolent enough t<? plant fur posterity. Transmit to your I children the inheritance of rural beauty receivj ed from your fathers, gi-eatlv augmented. Uy all means plant, and pl-.tnt well, and tho result , \fill <\t'At*t\n *!"? 1 1-* -t i u<ui|iui iuv mnour. Aim tot not voor work cnil with planting. Feed your trees from , your to year witli gnn>erou8 food, and guard j iliein from danger. \nd, in the words (slight- ' i ly altered) an old planter :?"What joy uiav | you have in seeing the success of yom i.ih.-.urs | j while you live, and in leaving behind you, to ; your heirs or successors, a work tlifit many years 8 after your dc \th, shall record your love to your country! And the rather, when you consider to what length of time your work is like to last." If you havo country homos to cn:1>elish, be content with simplicity. Uemdnber that a groat establishment is a groat care, and that ! the proprietor is apt to become a slave to it.? } Lot your dwelling places bo marked with what a painters call " repose." Make thorn the abodes 1 of comfort and refined enjoyment, places which 5# will always afford you agreeable occupation, but 2 not oppress you with enro. V/.UURC1I STATIRTIC3?According to the Church Efl Alumnae for 1SOO. the Episopal Church ii> the *jjj United States contains tlnrty-thrco dioceses.? fl The number of bishops, provisional hhhops, ^ and assistant bishop * is fortv-threo ; priests and $ deacons two thousand and thirty ; parishes two to thousand one hundred and ten. There wero go ordained during the year seventy deacons and ninety-three priests. Number of candidates for $ holy orders two hundred anil eighty-one; churches consecrated sixty-nine. The baptisms wero tin uuiuws: LntunH thirty thousand four linn- H dre 1 ami thirteen ; adults live thousand one him- BK drod and t'vonty-ono; not stated fuur hundred aft) anil ci^lity soven?total forty thoUffAnd and gfi twenty-threo. Nuiniierof confirmation*) Itfteon thousand five hundred and ninety-six : communicants added fourteen thousand seven hundred H and ninety-four; present minder thirty-live 211 thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven ; HW marriages seven thousand and lilty-nine; burials twelve thousand four hundred and fortyl\fo; Sunday school teachers fourteen thousand nn<t ninety-one; scholars one hundred and HH eighteen thousand rind sixty-nine. Amount of contributions for tnisfiouury and charitable pur- EH poses one million six hundred nnd twenty-seven thousand one hundred nnd eighty-three dollars |M nnd twelve cents. flB A Ooot> Woman nkvkk (Jrows Oi.n.- Yearn HI may pass ovar her head. but if benevolence and flH virtue dwell in her heart, she is ns cheerful ns 1 when the spring of lifo opened to her view.?- I When we look at n good woman v. o nevor think SH of her nge ; she looks uhariuing ns when the rosn uf vonil* fl'?' ?- 1 * . unn-iHVM <*ii ncr cnceK.<? 'l'11t ruse In s not fnded yet?it will never fade. jBW In her neighborhood alio is tho friend And 1 oo* HQ ofaotor. Who doos not respect and love the <fro? fl rnnii who 1ms pawed her day* in nets of kind- j^H ness and mercy t Wo repent, such a vromim civn never grow old- She will nlwnys ho jfrtm?h j^H nnd huojnnt in spirit, and nctire in huniblo H deeds of benevolence^ Wl don'tfcnow exnetly Tr'".at the "hci {'.htof 9fl ambition" is, but vrelmvo neon many fussy lit-fll tie speeimcus of it not more tfian (We feet high.fl