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Scraps & Jack A meeting of the people of Bridgeport, Ct., presided over by the Mayor, was held on Monday "night to express their sym" pathy with P. T. Barnum. Ex-President Tyler is about to deliver a Lecture at Petersburg on the Dead of his Cabinet?Webster, Calhoun, Upshur, Gilmer, and Legare. The editor of the X. Y. Dutchman, speaking of a drink he once had occasion to indulge in, said he could'nt tell whether it was brandy or a torch-light procession going down his throat! ?7? Oregon is taking measures to be ad mitted into the Union. It is stated tnat tne population now amouts to fifty thousand; with "more wealth than any other community of fifty thousand people on the globe." ? The plenipotentiaries, in signing the treaty of peace in Paris, made use of a silver gilt inkstand specially ordered for the occasion. The inkstand is decorated in the style of the first empire, and cost not less than 11,000f. New Orleans papers state that Maj. Biiford's expedition numbered 400 mcu when he left New Orleans. The men were formed in sis companies,, under proper otficers, and embarked in two steamers, the America aud the Oceana, on the 13th inst. During the siege of Sebastopol a Russian shell buried itself in the side of a hill without the city and opened a spring. A little fountain bubbled forth where the cannot shot had fallen, and during the remain * dcr of the siege afforded^to the thirsty troops who were stationed in that vicinity an abundant supply of pure cold water. It is stated that the advertising colurns of the London Times are estimated to yield the establishment the enormous sura of 83,000,000 per annum. One firm alone pcys the Times as high as S150,000 a year for advertising, and there are several business establishments that pay it over 850,000 a year for advertising alone. Mr. Henry G-rinnell, of New York, has received a letter from lady Franklin, in which sho expresses a desire that Dr. Kane should visit England for the purpose of taking charge of another Arctic expedition.? Sho still hopes that some survivor of Sir John's party may be found living among the Esquimaux, from whom might be obtained the particulars of her husband's fate. She proposes to fit out a propeller at her own expense, and give the command to Dr. Kane. ? The last steamer brought dispatches addressed by the Spanish Minister of For\r tntefot* nf in Ci5" .v/ ?* reply to the demands made at different times by our government, for redress in the matter of the firing into and detention of the eteamer El Dorado by the Spanish man-ofwar Ferrolano. Spain decidedly refuses to comply with the wishes of our government, showing by a series of arguments that according to the law of nations the commander of the Ferrolano did nothing more than the peculiar circumstances at the time existing in the neighborhood of Havana justified. A Mrs. Sarah Coursou eloped recently from West Millord, Passaic county, with t Mr. David White of that place, being the third time she has figured as one of the parties of an elopement. The woman is one of a family of six sisters named Ryerson, five of whom havo left their husbands and eloped with other men All six have been married, and do not live with a lawful husband at the present day, five having eloped and the only remaining one d* orting her husband, or refusing to live with him. A case of equal singularity cannot probably be found anywhere in the Union ?Newark Advertiser. Mr. Elihu Burritt writes to the New York Htrald from New Britain, Connecticut, in relation to his project for a line of electric tolegraph between San Francisco and St. Petersburg, crossing Behring's Straits. It is said that Russia has already six thousand miles in operation. Some of her lines, doubtless, are reaching eastward towards the Ural Mountains. At the conclusion of the war, she will be sure to extend them eastwards still into her Asiatic provinces. She will have the best skill that American genius can supply to assist her in these enterprises; and she will undoubtedly be ready to meet the United States half the way, and perhaps more than half the way, in connecting New York and St. Petersburg. A Paris letter gives the following curious history, which serves to examplif) the stange ups and downs of the lives of men in France: "In 1831, M. de Walcwski, u{ to the neck in the Polish Revolution, wa< delegated from the Poles to the French nation. He passed by Berlin, where he escaped narrowly with his liberty and lifo; for, hac he been seized and given over to the Russiar Government, he would have been executed * in reality, as he was shortly afterwards in ef figy. But the chief of Police in Berlin a' that time was 31. de Manteuffel; anc the archives of more than one Prussian towt possess to this day a document in which it h by him recommended to the authorities t< arrest, by all possible means, "an adventure] styling himself Walewski, and pretending himself delegated by the Polish to the Frencl nation." This was the last transaction ir which were brought into juxtaposition th< two men who have now been called upon t< discuss the treaty of peace, as Prussian Plea ipotentiary and French Minister for Foreigt Affairs. Br. Pcrcher, of Charleston, has in hi; possession a horn, about ec-ven inches it length, and diameter two inches and three quarters, bearing a close resemblance to t ram'3 horn, which he extracted i'rcxa th< head of a uegvess, aged about ol, bora on i plantation in St. Johu's Berkeley, Soutl Carolina. The tumor commenced forming some eight years since, with a swelling ant discharge, and, after a while, a gradual in crease in sue. During the four months pre ceeding it9 removal, it grew some two inches aud having, in curving around, reached ih< face in the temporal region, just to the lef of one eye, and caving commenced to pro dace suppuration of the skin with which i Lad come in contact, us immediate rctnova was necessitated Its removal, which wr; done in December, 11-.34, in the presence o Dr. D. J- Cain, and several students of th< Charleston Preparatory Medical School, wn: accompanied with comparatively little pain It was fou^d, upou examination afterwards that some remains of the original growth remained, and there is some probability that i may increase in size and again require re uivval. ! CIjc|orlibtl(e (fenqnircr j . epitep nv j SAM'L W. MELTON- JOHN L.MILLEB. YORKVILLEj S. C. THUB3DAY M0BNING, MAY 1,1866. WELL DOXE! Mr. John S. Moore, the President of the Kansas Association, has shown us a letter from our friend A. B. Springs, Eso.,Fort Mill, from which we take pleasure in copying the following paragraph: "You will please find anuexed a check for $237, the amount subscribed in our little corner, in aid of Kansas. Enclosed is the list of subscribers, by which you will perceive that the spirit has not oeen conunea simpiy wuutwmu hiuiuuu.?<. There has also been subscribed here, almost simultaneously, over S200 in aid of the Yorkville Female College. To adorn society and save Kansas, can any Beat beat this?" THE KANSAS MEETING. Our friends from the country who may be in ; town on Sale-day will not, we trust, forget to attend the meeting of the Kansas Emigrant?Aid Society, called for the purpose of determining upon applications, and otherwise forwarding the aims of the good cause. As we knew from the outset, more persons have applied for aid than the resources of the Society can equip: and we are reduced to the necessity either of making a selection out i of the number, or of adding a considerable amount to the treasury. We trust the latter alternative will be effected; and to this end we hope that the meeting on Monday will be attended by all who feel any interest in the success of the South in Kansas, or in the reputation of York District at home. But we have already said enough ; doubt, less, in the language of some silly-pated scribbler, "thepeople need no appeals to stir them up to their duty." SUDDEN DEATH. t We were pained to learn of the very sudden death, on Monday morning last, of the estimable wife of our fellow-citizen, Mr. S. J. Kuykendal. . Mrs. Kuykendae's health had not been good for several months; but it was not such as to give warning of this sad and untimely dispensation.? ITer condition was not ascertained until just before she breathed her last. She bad been for a number of years a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was esteemed as a Christian, and loved as an exemplary wife and mother. The obituary notice will be published next week. WHAT SHALL WE APE I This is the title of a precious bit of satire, in another column, for which we are indebted to the pen of a new correspondent, who, by the way, has promised frequently to hold snch-liko converse with our readers. The instalment he has given us, this week, is admirably adapted to these days of ours, and will doubtles? be greatly relished by that large portion of our population for which it 13 specially designed. Read it, ponder upon it, and then give the barber the benefit. This reminds us that we have not paid our respects, officially, to this new institution just now established in our town. Those who do not belong to "Snomdom" will find Tom Ballard in the room formerly known as the Editors' Sanctum (not a bad metamorphosis after all?-since wo are both engaged in scissoring, shaving and perfuming other people!). He is a capital barber?polite, attentive, decent, and always ready to accommodate his customers in au fail, city style. Looked at through the glass which "Juvenal" gives us, Ballard ie quite an important acquisition to onr town, and, as well for our own as for the town's sake, wo should make frequent calls upon him. GEN. CAREY. We are pleased to learn that the gr eat temperance lecturer, Gen. Carey, who has been in attendance upon the meeting of the Grand Division, Sons of Temperance, at Bennettsville, will visit Yorkville on Thursday next, th6 8th instant, and deliver an address in the evening, at the Methodist Church. Our citizens may expect then to have a royal feast of eloquence, such as men are not often permitted to set clown to. uen. cakey is certainly ono of the finest speakers of the age?at all times pleasant and attractive, always convinc> iug, now and then truly powerful, thrilling, overwhelming. In an effort which permitted but little of that genuine and touching pathoa of which he is master, wo have seenhira make the stoutest ' heart of the most inveterate toper to quail, and bring tears to eyes that verily were unused to the ; melting mood. We hope that every body, both in town and from the country, will be here to hear ' him. All who come will be charmed, many will 1 he benefited?some perhaps will bo saved ; while 1 those who stay awav will simply regret it for a round twelve-month. ; We have not been able to ascertain the nature 1 of Gen. Caky's appointments; and we, therefore, indulge the hope that he may be prevailed upon to be with us on Friday. At any rate, our citizens i j I would do well to make an effort to induce him to r | do ?o, if it is at all possible, i That our people may properly and entirely ap) preciato his services, it is proper for us to state 5! Gen. Cahey is not a strolling lecturer, seekiugthus 1 a subsistence, and dependant upon the bounty of [ ; those amongst whom he may lubor. lie is a man [ ; of high position at home and of fortune, aud seeks i j recompense only in the consciousness of a work I : well and nobly done. This fact of coarse need j . | not prevent a sensitive, high-minded people from t i the discharge of a palpable obligation; aud allu| ! sion is made to it solely for the purpose of viudij eating the motives which have sent 'he great Apos. j tic upon his mission. j | We are requested to give notice, also, that Gen. ? j Carey will lecture in the Methodist Church at I . r j Chester, Tuesday next, at three o'clock in the af taiT>,-.r,n Olid it "1 n'Mnnt in tliA f-veninfr From 1 ! '* " =- - I j ! \ orkvillc he will go to Limestone Spriugs ; thence ! a j to Spartar.burg, on his tour through the State. ! ) ! THE TREATY OF PARIS. ? j By the ."simultaneous arrival of the Arabia at 1 j Halifax, and the Ara>/o. at New York, we have one j week's later advices from Europe. The details are , j interesting, affording some insight into the terms . i upon which the treaty of Puris has been negotiaJ ted, and giving us a slight clew to the labyrinth cf I mysteries in which the motives and aime of the , j Powers have been hidden. We have not leisure, i I nor are the data suEciently reliable, to enable us now to share these impressions with our readers. ' Although the treaty has beou signed and peace j must be had in some sort of style, many points of . serious and weighty import are yet to be adjusted j in the Conference. We doubt, indeed, whether i j they cau all be arranged to meet the wants and i ' ! the necessities of the parties interested, and, as ! ' j the conferences proceed and the proceedings are ! c ! made public, we are more and more inclined to j 1 regard the treaty as a mere hollow iruce. which j f but postpones for an indennitely short time the i ' thoroughly-contested struggle awaiting the nations 1 \ of Europe. 1 Several versions of the treaty have been made ' public. The following statement of its condi5 | tions is given, upon good authority, in the Qpin~ j tone newspaper, of Turin, and is perhaps as near ? i a9?ny to the truth: ? First?The neutralization of the Black Sea; t , Russia not to keep there more than ten ships of _ I war, armed, for the defence of her coasts. Sec) end, Nicolaieff is to be reduced to a merchant port, with an engagement that no ships of war shall be constructed beyond the number agreed to as above. Third?Russia is to allow consuls front all the ports in the Black Sea. Fourth? The fortifications of Bomarsund are not to be reconstructed. Fifth?Russia cedes part of the territory of Bessarabia, comprising the fortress of Ismail. Sixth?Russia renounces the exclusive protectorate of the Danubian Principalities. Seventh?Russia equally renounces the exclusive protectorate of the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire. Eighth?The free navigation of the Danube is guaranteed to all the States, without exception. Ninth?This article refers to a commission which is to be sent info the Principalities to study the questions of the frontiers and the mode of govern IUVIU. THE MAY CONVENTION. The Convention of delegates, appointed by the several districts favorable to a representation on the part of the Democratic Party of the State in the Cincinnati Convention, will meet in Columbia, Monday next, at eight o'clock in the evening. It gives us pleasure to state that tho several gentlemen selected to represent our district design to be in attendance; and from all we can learn, we have the assurance that the meeting will collect together a largo assembly of the first men and the best talent in the State. We shall be an attentive " looker-on," and will endeavor to give our readers the benefit of all that can be seen and heard. Beyond the demonstration, which their convocation will make, of the cordial and lively sympathy entertained by the masses of our people in the struggles and victory of the Democrncy, the convention will have but little work to perform. After having published a declaration of the principles which, well-known and established, have from time immemorial*given shape to the political action of the State; having declared firmly and unequivocally a preference for President Piebce as their candidate for the nomination, at the same time deferring properly to thedecisionof ihe other States assembled in Convention; and having set apart suitable and proper persons to carry out these views in the National Convention?tho delegates may carry to their homes the reflection that, bv their action, the Democratic Party of the .State has been placed in that position of earnest cooperation with other States in the confederacy, which our best interests and the urgent exigencies in which we are placed imperatively call upon us to occupy. We regret to notice in more quarters than one, attempts to give direction to and forestall the action of the Convention, in reference to the persons to he sent to the National Convention. The Greenville Patriot, for instance, with very evident impropriety, not only appoints the members to which its own District is entitled, but travels all over the State and, with great aptness, gathers up the entire delegation! Some of these gentlemen, thus obtruded upon the Convention, would doubtless answer the purpose very well; others, somewhat indifferently: others, again, miserably. W? have no right to suggest any name or list of names to the Convention; but we venture to say that the objects of the movement will be best attained by the appointment of men from the ranks of the people?substantial men, who have never made a trade, of politics and are beyond the trick3 and politicians. Col. Orr and Col. Brooks and Mr. Aiken are doubtless reliable men, and would faithfully represent the opinions of the State in Convention ; but the people have sent them to Washington?they have duties to perform upon the floor of Congress, and they can very well discharge their trusts by remaining in Washington until Congress adjourn. We agree with our excellent cotemporary the Informer, and "object to this way of attempting to forestall the action of the Convention, by forcing upon it the names of individuals in advance of its assembling. Judge Butler and Maj. Perry have undertaken to do exactly what we expect the Convention to do, and we have yet to learn that either of them are authorised to speak for the 8tate or even the May Convention." A CASE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. A correspondent of the Saturday Evening Pott, living at Union Church, Jefferson County, Mississippi, furnishes that journal with an account of ..Bvafl, r.f Willinm Pllicnn. n slave in our State. This instance, illustrating a feature in the institution of slavery but little appreciated abroad, is by no means siugular. Similar case9 are to be found in every community, where the largest liberty is accorded to the slave to employ the means requisite to the attainment of personal independence. It is a faci, however, that as a general rule the negro i9 indisposed to. if not incapacitated for, the employment of these wean?. The few who have capacity, besides being extravagant and improvident to an extreme, in most instances prefer the careless, indifferent, (we may as well say, happy) life of the slave, to a condition upon which devolve the anxieties, the perplexities and responsible burdens of the freeman. Although often possessing the privilege which enabled William Ellison to become a man of fortune, the negro knows, what his pseudo-philanthropic sympathizers must eventually learn, that the slave, the property of a decent, moral, upright citizen, is by far tho happiest, most contented member of American society. The letter to the Pott reads as follows:? I have read in your paper an account of a free negro in one of the free States, who, by his industry. had accummulated several thousand dollars worth of property, and raised a large family.? Reading this reminds me of a case in South Carolina, which deserves notice. A negro-man, by name William Ellison, was bound out by his master to a jrin-wright, in Winnsborough, South Carolina. During the time of his apprenticeship he was allowed, by bis master, to do extra work; and from his industry and economy he laid up sufficient money to purchase his freedom from his master. About thirty years ago, he came to Statesburg, Sumter District, South Carolina, and commenced gin making and repairing, and in a short time he wns able to purchase his wife and children. And tbo last time I was in South Carolina, in the year 1845, William Ellison owned 40 or 50 negroes, (among them 15 or 20 workmen,) a large cotton plantation, and owns nearly half of the town of Statesburg; and I expect by this time (if he is li ving) he is worth eighty to one hundred thousand dollars. William Ellison is respected by all classes of citizens, and is honorable in all his dealings. Yours truly, WM. H. BOWEN. P. S. If you think the above deserves notice in your paper, you wiil publish it, and you may use my name or not as yon mny think proper, and if you do publish it, please send a copy to William Ellison, Statesburg, South Carolina; and if you wish it, he will send you a statement of his rise and progress in a slave State, in the most aristocratic district iu South Carolina. LIMESTONE SPRINGS. We un si acknowledge the reception of a kind iuvitatioL, from the Principals and the young ladies of the Limestone Springs Female High School, to attend the May Festival, on Tuesday next; and, if cur engagements permitted, would be pleased tc add one to the number of a pleasant aud delighted company. Mr. Blaisdell, the accomplished teacher of music, has sent us the"I.ibretto of the Flower Queen; or the Coronation of the Rose," a splendid musical composition by Mr. Root, the performance of which, after the fashion of Opera, by the young ladies, will furnish the evening's entertainment. If it be well recited, and we doubt not it will be, the entertainment will bp a charming one, more than enough to defray the expenses of a trip to the Springs. Those who are fond of "moonlight, music, love, nud flowers." or who arc ready to appreciate a good imitation of these enchanting beatitudes, will provides fine enjoyment for themselves by attending the ; Festival. I As it is quite a novelty in this latitude, we arc ! tempted to publish the plot, or more properly the ! "argument," prefixed to the little book of heau: ties Mr. Blaisdell has sent us. This is it:? The Flowers have met iu a secluded dell of the 1 forest to select a Queen. Their soDgs are interrup ted by the entrance of one, 'who, discontented t with the world, seeks retirement, and there gives v vent to his disappointment and complaints. The . flowers, after soothing his troubled mind by their cheerful songs, proceed to the selection of a Queen, t the aspirants to which honor severally present h ; their claims. The Crocus urges its early appear- t . ance in Spring, and its sweet perfume; the Dahlia, with too much pride, calls attention to its "beau- 1 j teous bloom" and "stat-.ly form." The Heliotrope | and Mignionctte join together to portray the pecul- p j iar qualities essential to their queen, deprecating . i a choice from outwards appearance merely. The | Japomca, without profiting by this lesson, urges I ! its unrivalled loveliness, but is soon followed by n i the Sun Flower in a semi-comic strain, succeeding I only in exciting the risibilities of its would-be 1 subjects. In answer to calls from the chorus, the E ! modest Violet and Lily resign all proffered honors, 1 I preferring their own quiet retirement, and hap- j : py contentment. As the first day is now drawing , to a close, the Rose calls attention to Him who I | lends the flowers their beauty nnd fragrance, and a i unites with her companions in committing them- j j selves to His care and protection through the night. The hours of repose are broken in upon . by the Rose, who vies in song with the Xightin- r j gale. 1 ti.? fW bnnnv iiiuimujj ujjcila nuu a iuui?u ... -? lrJ flowerets, who are about at once to proceed to a s choice, when the Hollyhock suggests that, as is k too often the case with "sweet simplicity," its ( claims have been entirely overlooked. The flow- ] ers seem little influenced by its arguments, but , expressing their affection for each other, and reluctance. in giving a preference, agree that to the ' stranger shall be committed the task of selecting f a Queen. As was to be expected, the Reclute, , with hut little hesitation, fixes upon the Rose.? His choice is hailed with acclamation, and the 1 Heather Hells, gathering from every hill side and i vnlc, ring their chimes in unison with the voices , of their companion in a full Coronation Anthem. . The Rote with gratitude accepts the crown so freely proffered, and the flowers prepare to sepnr- t ate, each to fulfill in mission on earth, and bear i happiness to the sick and the sorrowing as well os ( the young and happy. The Recline has learned a lesson?that to fill well the station allotted by ' Providence is to be happy; and with all selfish j discontent nnd misanthropy removed, prepares to ] return again to usefulness and consequent hap- . piness. Uniting iu one chorus of farewell, and ' committing the stranger to Divine guidance, the 1 flowers return to their homes. . 1 THE CENTRAL, AMERICAN WAR. We received last week an account of the total 1 rout and disgraceful retreat of the Nicaraguan 1 force under Col. Sculessixoer; but a9 the state- ' ment was accompanied by many and evident ex- ' nggerations, of tho most improbable kind, we pro ferred to abide the coming of more reliable ad- 1 vices. By the Isabel, we have at length been put in possession of a true version of the affair, which, ' wo regret to say, confirms the previous reports in every essential particular. On the 20th of March, ' the command of Col. Schlessinqer, numbering 1 200 men, halted at the hacienda of Santa Rosa, and while off their guard were attacked by a body of Costa Ricans, variously estimated at from six , hundred to ono thousand men, and utterly routed | with a loss of about fifty men, a portion of whom ] were taken prisoners and shot. The Nicaragucnse \ newspaper gives the following account of the af- j fair:? ( Our trooDS had stooped at the hacienda of Santa i Rosa for dinner, and at the time of the attack, were engaged in eating. No picket guard was detailed, nor any other precaution adopted to ' avoid an attack. Suddently an alarm was given I < and before the confusion in our camp subsided, ( tho enemy poured in a destructive volley. The troops were thrown into a momentary panic, when Col. Sehlessinger gave an order to the German 1 and French Companies to fall back to receive a < better position. This command was misconceived , as an order to retreat, and accordingly, a rapid flight commenced by these companies.?the Colonel following, 03 he says, to rally the fugitives, 1 but his movement was continued into a flight, and j soon the rout became general. Our troops fled in every directior, scattering themselves widely over ' a barren and mountainous country, with the topo- ' grapby of which they were wholly unacquainted. 1 Fearful of passing along the road lest they might , be captured by scouting parties of the enemy, they j broke up in Bmall parties, and after a fearful journey, over mountains, through thick chapparal, ' without food or water, tho poor fellows arrived ; at Virgin Bay, in straggling parties, worn down with fatigue, ragged, bare foot and almost starved. The indignation of the army at tho loss of the ' unfortunate sufferers. A loud and indignant j expression was uttered against the commander , i by uo other person stronger than by the men and | officers, who had failed under him* Liable as bunion actions are to be misconstrued, liable as J all men are to rest, under untoward fortunes, we , shall withold any censure of our own until the Court martial, at present inquiring into the matter, shall render its decision. Subsequently the tide of victory turned in favor of the Nicaraguans, and in two well-fought battles they have more than regained the ground lost \ by this ignominous defeat. One of these battles took place at Arcopoka, between 14 Americans, under Capt. Baldwin, and 100 Costa Ricans, in I which the latter were badly beaten with a loss of 30 killed; while Capt. Baldwin lost but two men! | The other was fought on the 10th instant, at the i town of Riva?, on Lake Nicaragua, between the Costa Ricans, numbering two thousand men, and a j force commanded by Gen. Walker in person, five i hundred .strong. It was a severe battle, testing thoroughly the strength of the armies of the two republics, and vindicating the superiority of the young American courage. Tho city was taken, I md the Costa means retreated, naving lost over six hundred men ; while Walker's loss does not count up move than 30 killed and the snme number wounded ! "This battle of Rivas," says the statement, " the second fought in that city by Gen^ Walker, was warmly contested. The struggle was a long and arduous one, and the Liberals were ! compelled to fight at every disadvantage. Take j it all in all, it cannot but be regarded as a gloj rions victory. We have lost, indeed, some good and gallant men, but their deaths have been atoned for in the blood of numerous sacrifices. ? The enemy arc disheartened at their defeat; and although they have again returned to the field of : their disaster, they are impoverished of zeal and destitute ol' confidence." MERE-MENTION. Mr. John McKeo advertises a contract for a bridge over Broad River, near the "ninetv.nine inlands." We are pleased to notice that Col. James Chesnut, of Camden, has been elected Orator of the Literary Societies of Princeton Colj lege?a rare honor, and one well deserved Mr. Buchanan arrived in the steamer Arago from I England, and at New York, Trenton and Philadelphia, was welcomed by the most imposing and enthusiastic demonstrations on the part of his friends and admirers. The war between him and the President, for the nomination, has gathered fresh impulse and waxes furious The minutes i of nil the Conferences of the Methodist Church, I South, 23 in number, show nn increase of 24,689 members for the year 1865-56; Travelling preachers 2078?increase 136; local preachers 4,628?increase 269; White membership and probationers, 447,312?increase 18,851; colored membe rt and probationers, 170,150?increase 5,566; Indians, 3,613?decrease, 144. The largest white membership is reported for the Georgia Confer enee, 44,252; the largest colored membership, for the South Carolina Conference, 37,933?which has also the largest aggregate membership, 79,005 The steamer Cuba, on the passage from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama, struck a snag and sunk, Sunday night before last. Several passengers were lost?the number ranging accord- > ing to different reports from five to twenty per- | .joiis! The boat and cargo is a total loss j Extensive forgeries of laud warrants have been discovered at Washington, amounting in extent to more than a million of acres The Chester Standard says that the prospect of a profitable yield of the gold mine3 in Chester District has become rather dubious. The two gentlemen most prominent among the workers of the mines, have discharged their workmen and ceased operations. We notice that Sam'l It. Black, Esq., formerly of our district. ha<> resumed the practice of he law, in Columbia Advices from Leavenforth, Kansas, April 25, state that the sheriff of )ouglas county, while attempting to arrest a paricipator in the recent disturbances, was resisted >y a body of three hundred armed men and shot in he back. Gov. Shannon had called out the miliary. Friday last, in Columbia, James McCombs ex iated the crime of murder by death on the galows The Laurensville Herald says that the Sxccutive Committee of the Presbyterian College, ,t that place, have determined to commence at mce the erection of suitable buildings A ;reat Kansas meeting will be held in Petersburg, fa., the 7th of May, at which Messrs Boyce and ?eitt, and other distinguished speakers, will be ncsent There seems to be a wonderful stir iniong the animals of late, a stir which looks to a egular menagerie nfter a while. Some time since ?vide the Chester Standard?Mr. W. J. Duffie Harried Miao Hnnr. nnd thn nthpr dnv Mr. Ren )en L. Duffic, his father, domesticated a Miss Wolf; in Virgina a Mr. Woolf "caught" a Miss 3arah Tarter; and in Randolph county, North Carolina, Mr. Bullock was yoked to Miss Martitia denshnw. Hurry up your show wagons! in New Salem, love and money como together larraoniously at the wedding of Mr. Joel Ingold ind Miss Sarah Breedlove. Oh, what a mixture! The Leavenworth (Kansas) Herald, of the 12th instant, says: "Emigrauts from the South ire beginning to arrive. Some twenty came last veck on 0110 boat. A number came up on the iVra. Campbell, Amazon and Cataract, from Kenucky and Georgia, aud still they come. In a few veeks we expect to welcome many hundreds at his place." In 1860, the population of the United States, will be equal to that of Great Britlin, 30,010,0(^0 souls. In 1800, that of Great Britain numbered three times our population; but in 1900, if this world of ours lasts so long, the relative proportion will be exactly reversed. Nothing like the growth of Voting America! And it may be added, there is nothing to equal the way we spend our funds; for instance, the Christian Register says that "it is calculated that the clergy co9t the United States six millions of dollars annually, the criminals nineteen, the lawyers thirty-five, tobacco forty, and rum one hun-1>.nrl millinnc " Tho nflmo of thft Plfintpr's Hotel, Charleston, now under the control of J. W. framble, has been changed to the "Calder House." A. correspondent writes us that it is equal to the best conducted house in the city?finely furnished [ttid complete in every department. POETRY. We arc giving constant attention to all that we :an hear or see or rend of a trio of South Carolina poets, who are step by step ascending to a proud literary eminence?adding, at each successive effort, a laurel to the chaplet an appreciative public is weaving for them, and giving abundant promise }f at last a well-won and brilliant career. We now and then enrich our columns with a Sonnet, i chaste and beautiful verse of two, from the pen jf one of them?Paul H. Hayne, of Charleston, the corresponding editor of the Washington Spectator. Of the others, Howahd H. Caldwell and J. Wood Davidson, our readers know much? nore than we can tell them. The former publish3d in tho Examiner, last week, a poem entitled "A Dream of Maries" (why not Marys?), which ooth for the charming theme and the style in which it is developed, is really exquisite. But t is the purpose of our paragraph to introduce a pure gem from the artist-pen of the latter?a loble, well-conceived, finely wrought idea, a3briliant in itself as it is just and true. Mr. Davidson calls it * The Two Wlngt" [ saw an eagle maimed of wing,?but one \ir-battling pinion left;?he stepped among rbe barn-yard flock almost like them. And yet \ something spoke him royal ; something as \ glance still proud, a step half free, a mien . Like mien of deity undone. Still young, rhc bird-king drooped, tho' strong to brave rhc storms up to the proudest peak his eye Had ever marked, tho' high as heaven, his own; Due pinion ready for the flight; alas! Hie useless limb forbade the tmck. For him Hi' eternal skies smile down a welcome now So more. But half his power is wanting, yet Ono half is nothing; with the other gone. lis worse than nought. And sucb, methought, the soul Of one I knew. Endowed with power to soar The trackless heights of intellectual air, And, buoyed by proud ambition's spell, he'd died His eye on greatness' solitary seat And chosen his home so high. Two wings suffice To scale the skies he sought?the one is mind Or mind's sole lever, thought, as intellect; The other, mind's own life, the heabt, the soul, Emotion's equal and controlling power? Ilis equal piuions these. Just ere he rose A spirit-blight had maimed him thus. For sort Unmet, unloved, is like the withered wing That dooms the heaven-aspiring bird to earth. And mind, uuaided, is that worthless wing That, tho' an eagle's, cannot mount alone. Winnsboro', S. C. After having attentively perused and fully appreciated this capital developing of a fine idea, the reader will be prepared to read aright and enjoy a practical exemplification of it. It happens, luckily, that we have the very sample we would have searched around the world for; a regular, bona fide, one-winged concern, which will carry out Mr. Davidson's idea charmingly. It is undoubtedly original; came to us anonymously; is dated not far from the first of April, and signed "Liutonfield." The creature is in love, both his wing and his fortune broken, but, eagle-like, he is "spunk to. the last." He simply entitles hi? verses thus? "The dream is past;" it cannot be That I shall ever call thee mine; And one I fondly thought my own, Now to another I resign. You are n coquette, a silly thing; Your vows were false, your heart is cold: i ou ai? not. love me ior myseij, You only loved me for my gold. Go! and be happy, if you can! Nor think I envy you your bliss; For well I know that India's wealth Can never purchase happiness. Fortune has fled, but will return, And brighter days will then be mine ; And one more firm and true I'll find, To take the heart that you resign. Lintonfield. Pretty good, that! FROM WASHINGTON. The proceedings of political men in and out oi Congress, during the post week, present no points which deserve a special mention. Both Houses are busily engaged in the discussion of the several great measures now before them, and the time is wholly taken up in speech-making. We subjoin portions of the Washington correspondence of the Charleston Courier, which will post oui readers fully up to the time. In regard to the threatened collision between Douglas and Lane, it is stated that their correspondence has been published. The purport of it will be readily gathered from tho concluding paragraph of the Little Giant's letter, which reads thus:? "Col. Lane calls upon me for such explanation of my language as will remove all imputation npon the integrity of his action or motives, in connection with the memorial. My reply is, there arc no facts within my knowledge which can remove all imputation upon tho integrity of his action or motives in connection with that memorial." The correspondence subjoined is dated April 22 The Kansas debate was contined in the Senate, to-day, by Mr. Clay, of Alabama, in a very forcible speech. He replied to the anti-slavery speeches of Senators Wilson, Hale, Collamer, and Seward, denouncing; their views, and those of the abolitionists generally, in very severe terms.? Three of the Senators named were present, and were attentive listeners to the remarks of the Senator from Alabama. Mr. Clay is a yonngman ?the youngest man in the body, and is the son of Judge Clay, of Alabama, formerly and for many years, a member of the House, and afterwards of the Senate. The debate will probably be continued to-morrow. It is not properly a debate, but a series of orations, or lectures or essays on the general question, which has been raised in regard to slavery. The passage of Mr. Douglas' Kansas-State bill may arrest this debate and settle the Kansas question. That bill will probably pass both Houses. If so, the Kansas Territorial Legislature, which is to be elected next November, will be empowered to order a census of the inhabitants, and when the number shall be 97,700, may call a convention for the purpose of adopting a State constitution, preparatory to admission into the Union. The anti-slavery members think that this course will bring in Kansas as a slave State, and therefore they are in favor of taking a snap judgment by confirming the action of the bogus Legislature and convention, which were instituted by a party who were in open rebellion against the territorial laws and the law of Congress. The emigration to Kansas is very general from all parts of the country, and especially from Missouri. It will not be surprising if the Southern emigrants and those of the same political sympathies should obtain the control of tho next Territorial Legislature, and also of the proposed Constitutional Convention. Much effort seems to have been made by tho Republicans to urge Col. Lane, the Senator elect of the spurious Kansas Legislature, into a difficulty with Judge Douglas. It was announced a few days ago that Col. Lane had determined to challenge the Illinois Senator, and a New York paper had even fixed the day and time when the challenge was to be delivered. The New York Tribune of yesterday states, however, that no challenge had been sent, but that an explanation had been asked, and that Col. Lane urges nothing but justice. It also states that Mr. Douglas was to send a reply through Col. Orr on Monday, (yesterday.) We are ignorant of the subsequent proceedings in the matter. It is a great object with the Republicans to involve Mr. Douglass in a personal difficulty, and, if possible, to prejudice the country against him, not only as a candidate for the Presidency but as the author and champion of tho Kansas-Nebraska bill. But Col. Lane is not an efficient man for suclt an object. Col. Lane was a member of the late Congress from Indiana. He went into a personal dispute with Theodore Hunt, of Louisiana, on the slavery question. He made proper retractions. He declared that he had always been on the side of the South. He finally voted for the Kansas-Nebraska bill. A consultation was held last night by members of Congress frieudly to the nomination of Mr. Pierce. It was entirely private. His friends confidently assert that he will be nominated. But Mr. T?uoV\nnnn'o fi?ianr1a An rlin n + ViA%? Vionrl acQArf fViot he cannot be re-elected. There is no strength in the republican party to beat any democratic national nominee. All other parties will he combined ngainst that part}', and there may be, besides the Democratic nomination, the American nomination, and the Republican nomination, a fourth andan independent nominee. For the Yorkville Enquirer. WHAT SHALL WE APE t SCENE?A Barber's Shop. Enter Jones, meeting Oily, the Barber'. Jones. I wish my hair cut. Oily. Pray, sir, take a|seat. (Puts a chair for Jones, who sits.) Oily. We've had much wet, sir. Jones. Very much, indeed. Oily. I know not who cut your hair last time; But this I say, sir, it was badly cut: No doubt 'twas in the country. Jones. No! in town. Oily. Will you be shaved, sir ? Jones. Shaved! No, demme! no gentleman shaves now. Do you take me for a savage ? Oily. Amazement! But, really, sir, I meant no offence. Old Play. All the world knows, says an apt remarker, that Richard the Third had a humpback; and hence, the great lords and ladies of the Court, patterning after royalty, wore each a fashionable bump on the back. The complaint soon became epidemic, spread alarmingly among the aristocratic castes, and thence to snobdom, flunkeydom and dandydom, until the whole kingdom was infected to a fearful extent. Qilded conches, with their glittering armorial bearings, freighted with the beauty and fashion of London, blocked up the streets before the doors of the milliners of Charing Cross, where the Princesses Royal competed with the ladies of Court, the gay Dutchesses and Countesses of the realm, for the honor of being the first to transpose the padding of their court-robes, from their breasts to their shoulders; that the hump-backed King might be duly honored on the next presentation day. Snobdom and Dandydom, conscious of their personal inferiority, strove to make amends for the deficiencies of social rank and merit, by going into the most absurd extreme of the fashion; and promenaded the streets and entered the boxes at the theatres, with humps on their backs so enormous that a stranger was induced to enquire if all the beggars in London had received a fresh supply of clothing from the royal bounty?their packs had suddenly become so large! Now, mankind are so fruitful in expedients that no individual of the race is apt to be found with out a plausible excuse for any absurdity he may i commit, or for any sin of which he ntftiy be even ; habitually guilty. And if the people of England, on the occasion referred to, had been brought to i the Confessional, they would have said, doubtless, that it was all well enough to pattern after royal1 tyi But what shall be said of American Snobdom, of which our friend Jones, in the barber-shop? is I presented to your renders as a specimen. There i is no royal Richard here, with hump-back, and i little, squint, bead-like eyes, for our snobs to imi. tate: and they are, therefore, unluckily driven to less commendable expedients, than those So successfully resorted to by the London snobs. But, being in fact democrats of the first water, glorying in their "freedom aud independence," they do not ignore royalty only (as in truth they should do,) but all upper-tendom in America, and, too often, medium decency, into the bargain?thus making at once a clean sweep of the thing. Royal ty, decency and senso, being thus out or the question, the inquiry arises?what is left in American society for them to patern after? for without something to ape, the life of the snob would be even of less value than the prelude to the farce.? And thus the question, "What shall we ape?" became, once upon a time, a very serious matter of debate in the Councils of Snobdom. A grand National Council of Snobdom was therefore summoned. It met, and was called to order; a President was elected and escorted to the chair. "Dread silence" reigned throughout the hall for a time; and many a bosom heaved with emotion unutterable. At length a veteran arose. Every eye gazed upou him with intense interest, f "Mr. President," he began, "and Geutlemen of i the Convention: The question we have met to i consider is one of the last importance to our or. der. This Convention, Mr. Presidont, will decide ( tho fate of Snobdom for many years. This qucs . tion is, What shall we ape? Now, Mr. President i and gentlemen, we all know that American socic ty will not ape us, and in order to show our iudei pendeuce and fearlessness, (for I beg you all to re; member that we belong to the "unterrificd deraoc. racy") I propose that we shall not ape American society. (Great applause, in which the Chair ! joined.) The moment, gentlemen, is propitious. The war against Mexico has just terminated.? i Many of our gallant officers and soldiers hare returned to their country, covered with glory and | hair, (immense applause). Now, Mr. President ' and gentlemen, from this happy circumstance I have derived a thought that will, I think, relieve us from the dilemma which has so sorely troubled us. Since American society will not ape us, and since it is incompatible with our principles for us , to ape American society, I have the honor to proI pose to this honorable Convention?and I am j . proud to say that'no Convention is more honorable than this, (applause)?I have the honor, I repeat, to propose to thifs honorable Convention, that henceforth we ape the Mexican fillibusteros; and that it be recorded, as a standing rule of onr order, that no razor shall hereafter come near our i faces, and that shears shall not come near our heads, except in the event that the inhabitats thereof shall become troublesome by reason of our being unable, owing to the exuberance of our tresses, to outt them by the ordinary processes of the toilet, -{Great applause, and cries of "good, go it bald face!") By adopting this policy, Mr. President and gen- d tleinen, we shall gain many advantages, not before M enjoyed by onr order. In the first place, by the a- H daption of this rule we ignore American manners V and customs, ami adopt those of the fillibustero; H and each of us 'ill be esteemed, especially by the fair sex, courageous, ferocious and brave, in pro-. portion to the quantity of hair and bristles on our fafles ? anrt mnrf> nnrfi<?iilni-lv nn nrii? nnnAr tins , r mj v? -rrv" rand chins. In the second place, gentlemen, this rule, if adopted, will give our order the most perfect organization ever enjoyed by any fraternity or brotherhood which has existed among mankind since the flood; for after our hair andbristles, red, brown, black, auburn, gray, sandy and brindle, shall have time to be developed in all their luxuriance, we shall no more need pass-word?, sign, grip or formula of any kind, by which to recognize the members of the brotherhood, day or night, at home or in distant lands. Aye! the most feeble in intellectual capacity amongst us will be able in any latitude of the known world, to recognize a member of our brotherhood?henceforth to be proudly entitled the "universal brotherhood"? by the quantity of hair upon the face and the rich M luxuriance of the unshaven countenance, barring fl the innovation which mAy -sometimes be rendered V necessary by the irreverential and forcible entries of the inhabitants thereof upon the premiuee. (Uproarious applause, and cries of "we don't mind the live stock!:') . I , In the third place, Mr. President and gentlemen, we shall derive another advantage from the covering of our faces ; and especially that part of which is pendant from the upper lip. We all Irnnw rrnnflnmnn Hmf v\ny*>i/1/yA on/1 IS a*iw n f gvuuvuivii) ?uui vuu j'uii lugv ouu v?Aa?a U" quids which we imbibe, "for the stomach's sake," and to strengthen and cheer the heart of the inner man, would otten be none the worse for being well . strained; that thereby our bodies be not defiled, and our minds be-clonded with the deleterious impurities. Upon our upper lips, then, and without one particle of personal inconvenience, we shall carry filters which will completely remedy the evil, through which all the liquids we imbibe must pass and be purged of their crudities before taking up their abode within us?thus subserving, in an eminent-degree, not only the objects of our organization but also the great purposes of health. It is true, gentlemen, that some of these liquids which we freely use for our nourishment contain chemical ageuts which, combinirg with the coloring matter of the hair, sometimes change the glos- ^ ay black into a sort of sun-burnt brown, and thus impart to us somewhat the appearance of a black steed with a bald face ; yet, as this metamorphosis is often, in fact, effected by "that delectable drink which, in oar vernacular, is known by the" name of "bald-face," and which might with great propriety be adopted as the emblem of our order ?lueut a non lucendo?there is at last very little that can be urged as objectionable in making our countenances conform to this distinguished feature of our faith. In the fonrth place, the scheme I propose will most effectually dispense with that old-fashioned, old-fogy folly of hinting, as practised in times past in the play of "Sister Phoebe,"' and, on many other occasions; for no one of good taite wonld give a baubec for a kiss given through a hair-mat as thick as the shield of Ajax, and, I trust, no member of onr order would ever so far forget what is due to the dignity of that order aa first to propose a kiss and then delay the consummation until be could part the bristles on his upper lip, and lay the locks, respectively, behind his ears.? It is true, Mr. President, that the members of our 3 order belong (we don't deny it, and, if we were, nobody would believe us) to the long-eared tribe of animals; but that is no reason why we should expose our tell-tale appendages to public inspection, when it can be so easily avoided. In a word, I am credibly informed that the Mexican fillibustero never degrades his rank by kissing anything; and I am in favor of apeing to the letter the gallant, brave, fierce, and handsome model we have chosen. In the fifth and'last pT&ce, Mr. President and gentlemen, if the policy I propose be adopted, the great fact will be brought to light that the members of our order are far more numerous than is generally supposed. In fact, it will by its inherent advantages draw many into our fold' that have not heretofore been identified with us. The lantern-jawed portion of the community will snob themselves, in order to round off the corners of their countenances, with hair cushions, by a sort of man-milliner process. The eighteen-year-old substitute for a man will cultivate his bristles by manuring them with a dippled candle, that all the a misses of the neighborhood may be deluded into ^ the belief that he is a " mansimply because the soil of his face has been coaxed into the production of a scanty crop. The buck of spirit will put his boot-legs outside of his pants, don a tigerskin vest, and a coat with plaids as broad and varied in tints as the milky way, cover his substitute for a head (in which there are as many tenantless rooms, as can be found in a haunted castle, or which arc tenanted by spirits equally wild,) with a broad-brimmed sombrero ; and, with mustache curled gracefully and spirally npon his upper lip, and his goattee hanging upon his breast like the flounting tail of a cream-colored nag, or a "jewel in an Ethiop's ear," snatch his whip, mount his steed, and looking as fieroe as a veritable Mexican, ride anywhere and over any body's road. The "handsome young man," with & face ns round as the engravings astronomers make of the moon, will assume our badge, believing it will make him more "killing" still, and that when his sign is once fully developed, he will, at church, \ fair and market, smash young maiden's heartB, i astonishingly. The small young man, too, will ' % throw away his razor, once his pride, and let the ] jungle grow in his face, to make him look taller and more manly. The addle-pated snobs will do the same to' make themselves look wise, and in short, Mr. President and gentlemen, if my policy be adopted, snobs will spring up around us like enchantment, from every variety of motive, and every shude of thought. To the bristly countenance every virtue under beaven will be ascribed, aud suolslom will become an?an?Mr. President, I gay, snobdom will pervade the land and?become in fact?aa?inntitootion. I hold in my hand, Mr. Preident, a set of resolutions which, if adopted, will accomplish all the purposes of the scheme I have the honer to propose to this Convention; and Task that a vote be j taken upon them without further debate." And tne speaker sat aown, amiast prolonged cheers. Your correspondent, Messrs Editors, obtained a copy of the above address, through the agency of a gentleman whose name he is not at liberty to mention, which, with a brief introduction by way of explanatory preface written by himself, he places at your disposal. If you deem it worthy of d such distinction, you are at liberty to publish it ^ in your columns. I am inclined to think, that speech contains some things which bear a pretty near relation to the truth. JUVENAL. A