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Scraps ft .facts. | Yijil, the name of the minister from Nicaragua, is pronounced 1V-.W/. The Arkansas Democratic State Convention has declared President Pierce their first choice for the nomination of the Cinci- i nati Convention. Senor Yalieute, a di.-tinguished Cuban exile, is at Washington, for the purpose ot communicating to our government some important information touching the designs of England on Cuba. A delegation from Salt Lake city is looked for in Washington in about fifteen days, bringing a State Constitution for Utah, in which they will ask the admission of that State into the Union. The citizens of Nashville, Tenuessee, Gen. Walker's birthplace, were to hold a meeting at the market house last Saturday -i ,1 V evening, to express tneir sirapatny wun Americans in Nicaragua. Twenty negroes were sold at the Court House of Shelby couutv, Alabama, on the (5th instant, and brought an average of $900. Men, common field hands, averaged $1,250, and one woman, 28 years old, with an infant child, 9old for 81,531. Boston, May 25. An immense meeting was held at Faneuil Hall last night, to denounce the assault upou Senator Sumner. The most distinguished men of all parities participated. Gov. Gardner presided. Unusually warm speeches were delivered, and violent resolutions adopted. A similar meeting was held at Lowell. The Chester Standard states that as Mr. C. Walker was attempting to cross Sandy river at DeGraffenrieds' Mill, with a horse and buggy, the planks of the bridge gave way, and the horse dragging the carriage after him, fell into the water and wa9 drowned. Mr. Walker escaped only by swimming. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., dated 21st inst. says that Col. John Allen, of Cuban and Texan celebrity, a bold soldier full of fire, left this place, this evening, per steamer Sultana, with 150 sharp eyed, strong-limbed Kentuckians en route for Nicaragua. All were enthusiastic in the cause of Walker. To those who take an interest in such things, we will give a puzzle, which, (howpv.-r sin, nip it mav annenr i taxed our in ,,?i? -- ~~-j -ri 1/ ? ? gcnuity and patience for some time : Take ten pieces of coin, and place them in a row; take one of them and jump over the two others next to it, and so on, until you have diminished the ten pieces to five. Try it. On Sunday afternoon last, and night . following, our section was visited by one of the most disastrous rains, that we have noticed for several years. Considerable damage, we understand, was done in the youug crops, aud auy amouut of fencing has been washed away. The bridges on Bear Creek, Gill's Creek and Cane Creek, it is rumored, Lave all been more or less injured. ?-Lancaster Leilyer. The Washington Star of 21st iust. states that the majority of the House Committee of investigation in Kansas are busily engaged in encouraging by all the means at their com maud, resistance, not only to the laws and functionaries created by the territorial legislature, but also to the United States Court and its immediate officers. Hon John P. Kenuedy, of Maryland, has addressed a letter, on the subject of Mr. Fillmore's nomination for the Presidency, to a geutleman in New York, and states that a formal letter of acceptance may V>a fivnorOnrt fpnm tVinfc rrontlomfin fin ootIt Indians with two or three guns wuien no bad in bis house, which caused theui to ' withdraw. Cupt. Bradley had a married daughter liviug at a distance, but within hearing of the firing. She sent a negro boy to assertaiu the cause?he went to Bradley's house and returned without molestation? he did not see the Indians. Bradley thinks there were not less thau fifteen Iudians, although at the first discharge his daughter did not hear more than six or seven reports. He was also of the opinion that the Indians were about his house all uight. Capt. Bradley sent a statement of the facts to Gen. Churchill; and besides this information, Gen. Churchill saw persons who had visited Bradley's house. The mail stage betweeu Oeala and Tampa is discontinued. Gen. Churchill wasin the first Seminole war of 1826, and was lately ordered out here, on a tour of observation, by the Secretary of War. ul "~ v?v bv j day. The New York Express states that Mr. Fillmore will probably return some time during next month. Amherst, Mass , May 23.?An indignation meeting of the students of Amherst college, was held last evening iu reference to the recent outrage on the Hon. Charles Sumner. The meeting was addressed by President Steerns, Prof. Haven, Mr. Greene, and a number of the studeuts. Kesolutions were unanimously adopted, expressing indignation at the insult to Massachusetts, and sympathy with Mr. Sumner. The Cheraw Gazette says that 4'the ladies of Chesterfield village, on Saturday eveuing, the 10th inst., incited thereto by the deleterious effects produced upon sundry persons by imbibiug an exhilarating fluid sometimes called bald face, waited upon the seller thereof in a body, and emphatically informed him that he must and should cease to deal out the liquid fire. They generously offered to paj him for his stock, that they might legally empty it on the ground. He preferred to remove from the village, which * r . - ? i _ J i_ _ i!.l 1 tlicy consented to, proviuca ne cuu so uy last night, or they would wait upon him again " We take the following from the Palatka, Fla., Z/e"//ioc/-af of the 22d inst: We learn from Brig. Geu. Churchill, of the U. 8. army, that while on his way from Tampa here, he took lodgings for the night on Wednesday, the 14th in5t, at the house of Whitfield, thirty-six miles from Tampa. Before he left Whitfield's, he learned that the 1 Indians approached Capt. Bradley's house, j a few miles distant. Bradley's family had returned from supper, and the children were iu an open passage of the house, when the Indians fired a volley which killed a little girl and mortally wounded a boy fifteen years oid ; he ran iuto the house, got a guu and returned to the passage to fire when he fell dead. The mother, Mrs. Bradley, ran out and carried her children into the house.? The Indians shot at her without hurting her or any more of her children. Capt. Bradley, who was prostrated 011 his bed by sickness, arose and returned a fire on the Cjjf?nrhbiUc nquirfr; SUITED BY SAM'L W. MELTON JOHN L. MILLER. YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY i9, 1856. COURTS OF EQUITY. At Spartauburtr Monday, 2d June. " (Jnion ' 9tb.| ' York " Ifiili.! * Lancaster ? 23J.J '* Chester., " Gib July, i fiStf Subscribers, re/ttfniH'j /A?letter*. may : remit money to us at our "risk THE ESTRANGEMENT. TLe reader will inula capital poc-iu uu our outside page, with the above title, from the pen of our clever contributor, How am, II. C.vH?wej.l, Esq. Besides the good poetry with which it j abounds, one may find iu it a sad sprinkling of ! truth, roung ladies especially will find it whole- I some to read. NEW GOODS. Having sold out his first purchases, Mr. RatchFoKD has brought ou a second stock of Spring and Summer Goods, which are advertised in externa in | this week's issue. These goods have been bought late in the season and for cash, and can of course be afforded at very low prices. Every one in search of bargains would do well to call at "the | new store in the Lindsay Building." See Advertisement. FIRE IN CHARLOTTE. <Ve learn from a passenger on the Railroad that a destructive fire occurred in Charlotte on Tuesday morning last, which consumed the building known as the American Hotel, and eight or ten houses on Main Street, between the American and the Mansion House. The loss is very heavy, end, it is supposed, withoutinsurance. We have been unable r n W* *\Q rtlnil 1 Q WQ IVWUIrUUl lUilUCl J/niV?VMI?l?7. THE INSIDE PAGE. The favors of our correspondents have crowded upon us so heavily, this week, that we have well- I nigh been compelled to vacate the chair-editorial i entirely. Our home-readers will not regret it, ] however; us they can find, in the letters of our ' Washington correspondent?the pungent article of J 'Juvenal'1?the response on the same subject from 1 Antioch.?the proceedings of the Indian land meet- ] ing?the nomination of Gen. Alston" for the Sen- < ate, &e. &c.,?an ample feast for a week's discussion. Want of spacecompels us to defer any comments | of our own, and we cannot now do more than ex- } press our gratification, derived from indications on every hand, that the people of the district are fully alive to the importance of effecting a reform j iu the reprehensible mode of electioneering now ( pursued by our candidates for office. We are as- , sured that the zeal of the reformers will not abate until a good work is accomplished for the district. ( CAROLINA TIMES. ' The Times announces the withdrawal of Mr. < Giles from that paper, and the assuming of the t entire editorial and publishing control by Mr. i Bbitton. We sincerely regret to part with our < spirited co-laborer, and we trust that he has not < concluded to dissolve permanently his connection 1 with the press in our State. Although he has been 1 a consistent and at time* troublesome enemy to ' the policy which we have felt it to be our duty to advocate, we can heartily accord to him all the ' credit which should be given to au able, watchful ' and independent editor. We like the ring of the I real metal, even though it comes from the oppo- ' sing ranks on the battle-field. 1 Under the energetic management of Mr. Bkit- ' ton, the Timet will sustain its reputation as a vul- ' uable and reliable news jousnal. Wc wish it sue- 1 cess. COL. BROOKS AND SUMNER. In another column the reader will find an abstract of the remarkable debate in the Senate, ' last week, on the Kansas question; and in the 1 letter cf our correspondent, a full accouut of the severe cr.stigation inflicted upon the notorious Massachusetts Senator, by cur representative, Col. Preston 9. Brooks. Such events, entirely unprecedented in the annals of our legislation, furnish ample cause, not , only for setious reflection, but, for the most profound regret. Surely, it is a sad thing for our our country, when the Senate-hall, the citadel of all that is good and conservative in our councils, is made the theatre for the exhibition of the most i loathsome and degraded traits cf character, and i for harrangues, fanatical, vulgar, insulting, and i in very near keeping with the vilest ribaldry let i loose from the crowded thorough-fares of Billings- i gate. And it is even more to be regretted that it < ha3 become necessary for the defenders of the i South to throw nside argument and sound reason, i the weapons of honorable, high-minded combat, < and to resort in their stead to the argument of the ; coic-hidi, in avenging insult and protecting their own and the honor of those whom they represent. While we thus express a deep sense of mortification because cf such au imperative necessity, we must not be understood to reflect unfavorably upon tLe course of our representative. If ever a high-minded inun can be justified in prompt ly resentiug itsult and injury, surely Col. Brooks will receive from the people of his owu State, at least, the meed of a most cordial approval. No better or more gallaut man could have been selected to begin the argument; and because he has thus begun it so thoroughly, we give Lim nu unstinted comiueuaatiou. Well dune! It will be seen that large tna*s meetings have been held in Boston and other to wns of Massachusetts, expressing u suitable degree of indignation at the cow-hiding of their Senator. On the othj er haud, we are grutified to learn that enthusiasi tic meetings have been held iu Columbia, C'harles| ton and Newberry, and at other points, and reso; lutions adopted and transmitted to Col. Brooks, commending his course and assuring him of the ' approbation and confidence of his friends at home. I This is right; and we earnestly trust that, ulong | with others, a meeting will be called in Yorkville to give expression to like sentiments on the part of the people of our District. The battle waxes hot and strong, and if we expect our champions to wage it bravely and effectually, we must be prompt to lend them a hearty support. MERE-MENTION. The prisoners, Moses Gossett, of Union, and M. M. Cheney, of Lancaster, both convicted of slave-stealing, have been condemned at the Appeal Court, to be hung on Friday the 11th of July, next. The sentence was pronounced by Judge Glover The great Davie case has been decided by the Appeal Court in favor of the grand children of Hyder A. Ituvie The new village of Manning, the Court-House of the uew district of Clarendon, has been regularly laid out; and the lots were recently sold at auction, at prices ranging from SCO to $405. It is said to be located finely, and promises to be quite a huge place. R. P. Waring, Esq., has beeu recommended by the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, as the Elector for that Electoral District; and Dr. P. C. Caldwell, of Mecklenburg, and Dr. Wm. Sloan, of Gaston, as delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. A.J. Dargan, of Anson, is the American Elector for the same District. The Democrats of Mecklenburg have put in nomination Wm. R. Myert, for the Senate, and Wm. F. Davidson and W. M. Matthews, E>.,rs., I't.r (lit' House of Coin- j inons At the Mecklenburg Superior Court. j Judge Ellis presiding. Jnnie- Donehne, indicted I for the killing of Mice Taylor, a free negro, was found guilty of manslaughter, and punished by branding. A special term of the Superior Court, says the lJemocrat, will lie held, commencing on the fourth Monday in June, next President Pierce has again won for himself the good-will of the Democracy by vetoing the hill for improving the mouths of the Mississippi anil the St. Clair Hats, on the principles which governed him in vetoing the bill of 1854. It may ulicet bis chances for the nomination, but he. nevertheless.Jsticks to his platform manfully Near Morganton, N. P., on the 7th instant, David Duckworth, aged 50 years, married Elizabeth Powell, aged 7rt years. Courage, ladies, courage! Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was five hundred and eighty years of age when she was married. Take Courage! A <rrent Mass-meeting of the democracy of Mr. Clingraiiu's nn?l Mr. Craig's Districts, will he held at Shell.y, on the secoud Monday in .Inly. A number of distinguished speakers from that and the adjoining States, will he iuwted The House cf Representatives has passed the bills granting upwards of 1,000,000 acres of luud to Wisconsin fur Railroads, and the same amount to Alabama ! It is rumored that a Spanish expedition is j fitting out iu Cuba, against Walker's government j in Nicaragua. More trouble ahead! Miss Brennan, the Carolina Mocking-bird, gave a concert in Columbia, Wednesday evening the 28th instant David McCorab, the cotton press man, has invented a manner of using Loop-iron, instead of roping, iu baleing cotton. It is said to be much preferable to the material how in use The telegraph Las announced a ruuior that Mr. Fillmore had died at Rome; but it is supposed to be utterly without foundation. The report was circulated previously to the arrival of the Canada, and nearly a week after the reception of the Atiu's news The annual meetiugs of the old and new School Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church were commenced simultaneously in New York, on the loth instant,?an event which has not before occurred siuce their separation in 1837. Both were largely attended. Rev. Dr. McFarlnne, of Virginia, was made Moderator of the Old School body. We shall endeavor to collect the items, next week The news from Europe is unimportant. Cotton was quiet and reported easier. without any change in the quotations Col. Sadler, our Tax Collector, gives notice to those who have made their returns but who have not yet paid the taxes, to do so on or previous to Salesiay, Monday next. SOUTHERN QUARTERLY REVIEW. The first number of the new series, published jy Mr. Brittox and edited by Rev. Dr. Titorx- ! tell, is on our table. It comes to us with all the ; tir of a time-honored mul valued friend, and we jaunot well employ terms too extravagant in liailng its appearance and bidding it welcome. The :ypography is good: and the letter-press, comprising 217 pages, is made up of discussions all of svhich appear, at a glance, to be attractive and in- j ;eresting. We have made up our mind to a care- j !ul perusal of all of tliern ; but not having yet had i ;hat precious time of leisure, we can only indicate ' he list of contents: 1st. Theory of the Beautiful; . I. The Six Days of Creation; 3. Laborde's Intro- j luction to Physiology ; 4. Slavery and Freedom; 3. The Nebular Hypothesis : C. Work? of William j Paley; 7. Physical Geography of the Sea: 8. Barnard on American Colleges: fi. Memoir of Dr. flenry: Critical Notices. Conducted by a thorough-going, energetic pubisher, and under the editorial control of one of :he first men in the country, we cau confidently predict for the Southern Quarterly Review a briliant, successful and eminently useful career. It s in the hands of men who have never yet been mown to falter; and it only needs that discrimilating and appreciative patronage which such a are combination of talent cannot fail to secure. tiVe commend it earnestly to the favor of our readers. There never has been a day when the work lo be performed by this Review was more in demand?never a time when we more urgently needed its sterling and faithful championship, to sustain the political, social and religious forms under which we live. We shall take pleasure in receiving and forwarding subscriptions; and to aid further in extending the circulation, we have made arrangements by which we are enabled to offer the Review and the Enquirer, one year, for SG. Price of the Review ilone, So. AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE. In times gone-by, we frequently had occasion to urge the practicability and the importance of a rail-road connection between Chester aud Newborns believinp- that the line would be nroraDtlv ex tended to some point on the Georgia road, and eventually become the great thorough-fare of travel between the North and South. Saving a distance of at least 150 miles and passing along a more pleasant and desirable route, such a road could not fail to attract the lion's share of public patronage, and be made the best and safest investment of capital to be found in the State. The people of Chester were not then ready for the en- ! terprine ; but we earnestly trust that by this time they have bean enabled to appreciate its importance, and that they are prepared in render to it a hearty utd substantial cooperation. We have been induced to pen the above paragraph, as an introduction to the following from the Atlanta, ^Georgia) Republican. A Charter has been obtained in that State for the construction of an air-line road from Atlanta, to connect with the Charlotte and S. C. Railroad: whereupou the Republican remarks : ? "The Charter is a good one, and contains all j the power uecessary for the construction of a road i under the auspices of the State : and on a route j unrivalled for connecting together the most wealthy j and populons sections of our country, and which when completed will form a line of communication i in which millions upon millions of people will feel i and have a deep interest; and will embrace the \ direct and paramount interests of at least one-half a million of people to the extent, at least, of fifty I millious of dollars. The amount of means to be ' found in the hands of those directly interested in 1 this road, is more than equal to one-half the necessary means of its construction. "The entire line of contemplated road from Atlanta to Chester S. C., will cost about two million, or perhaps two million aud a half of dollars. To say that a road iu this age of railroads, in which so extensive portions of our country have so extensive interests, and costing so small a sum compared with the yearly income of the parties which need it, cannot or will not soou be binlt, is a reproach upon ourselves. Should Heaven bless the country the preseut year, with a plentiful crop, this road can be built and the burden not be felt. Should we fail to be blessed with such, the first good crop year will render the completion of the enterprise easy and certain." COUNTRY ROADS. In compliance with a request from the writer, we nublish the following article from the Chester Standard, calling attention to the condition in which our neighborhood roads are kept. The subject is one which deserves attention; and the evil, oue which every neighborhood, rightly banded together, could easily remedy:? Mr. Editor:?I desire through the medium of your paper, to call the attention of the people in this part of the country to a matter which I regard highly important, but which is too generally disregarded. viz. The keeping of neighborhood roads in repair. I do not write about highways, though a charge of delinquency in some quarters, in reference to them, might be sustained. But I now speak of those carriage vonds or paths, which are of so much benefit to communities because so frequently used. These roads are frequently in deuiaud in attending church, going to mill, and in visiting members of the community. And as they now exist in many places, no small inconvenience is experienced in travelling them. The wind blows, : trees full across the road, and their they remain. J The first man on the road after this gets into hasi- j noss of course: with the aid of nothing but his ! pocket knife very often, he opens a track around j the obstruction, and proceeds on his way, and every subsequent traveller, does the same and the obstruction remains. Now it must be evident, that when the road is several miles in extent, the distance is greatly increased, and also the travel rendered more difficult, by such frequent departures front the old track : whereas this state of thiugs might he entirely avoided by u very little labor. Again a lane is frequently formed by running a fence on both sides of the road, and sometimes in such close proximity, as to renderit impossible for one vehicle to pass another. And more than this, the brush and rails are thrown over from the field upon the road, much to the prejudice of wheels, the carriage generally, and the traveler if the horse be not gentle. Von know, Mr. Kditor. that riding is a desirable recreation, yet certainly not under the circumstances above rcfered to, but harrassing in the extreme, and withal a severe penance. Sometimes large timber is felled across this species of road. Now Mr. Editor, {!: ?? there exist a law requiring thnf enpli n nnnrl ahnnht hp kptlt free from ob struction ? And if there be no law on the subject, would it not be better for us to have one than sufler this inconvcuience? A highway is not more important to a community than the road which is here brought to notice. STRANGER. THE STRUGGLE IN KANSAS. During the past week we have received various exciting arcouuts of the troubles in Kansas, all representing the condition of affairs there in the most alarming aspect. Many of these rumors are contradictory and evidently exaggerated ; so that it is difficult for u? to obtain from them any statement in which our readers can place reliance. It will be remembered that, some time tince, prosecutions for treason were commenced against the officers of the free-stute government, and warrants issued for their arrest along with a number of their coadjutors ; that Governors Reeder and Robinson had refused to be arrested and made their escape; that the latter had been arrc-stc-d in Missouri and that the free-soilers in and around Lawrence city Lad armed themselves and bid defiance to the legally constituted authorities of the Territory. Unable as we are further to sift the true from the false, we must give the despatches as they reached ns. The "reign of terror" is fully established, and it is beyond a doubt tbat life must be lost before it is overturned:? St. Louis, May 19tb.?Kansas advices of the 14th, state that Sheriff Jones was convalescent. The Editor of the Herald of Freedom hod been arrested. It was reported that 1500 men, armed with Sharpe's rifles and two cannons, were encamped at Lawrence, and defy all arrests. The Marshal had called out 1000 men, who were encamped near Lawrence, to compel the inhabitants to submit to the territorial laws. *? Chicago, May, 21.?Kansas advices of Saturday, state that Wednesday was the day fixed upon for the attack upon Kansas. Buford's compuny bad been enrolled and furnished by Shanuon with arms. Marshal Donelson had declared his intention to make clean work. From eight handred to twelve huuded men were encamped nenr Lecompton. The people of Lnwrenee had requested Col. Sumner to station troops for their protection, but he had declined to do so. The vnnvuliol lino tlAmnriHpfl tho cnrrpnripv of pvp.rv man against whom writs have been issued. The citizens agreed to acquiesce in the Territorial laws, but the marshal replied that he would not believe the promises of rebels and traitors. It wa9 reported that Reeder had succeeded in making his escape: and it is said that he carried off considerable funds belonging to the funds of the Vigilance Committee at Kansas city. Westport, Mo., May 24.?While Messrs. Cosgrove and Brennan were on their way to Treamton, they fired at by the Free-State party.? Brennan was slightly wounded; and Cosgrove then shot the leader of the party through the head. The people are rapidly leaving Lawrence. The towns of Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Doniphan and Atchison nre almost totally deserted ; the men having all gone to the assistance of the marshal. It was reported at Jefferson city that a battle had been fought at Lawrence, and that a great number were killed on both sides, but we have no particulars. The great hotel at Kansas City has been threatened with destruction. It is the property of Massachusetts men. A reward has been offered for Generals Pomcroy's head. He is FreeSoil General. Parties are now in search of him. St. I.ot'is, May, 20.?The reported burning of Lawrence is confirmed by a despatch from Chicago. On Wednesday the sheriff appeared before the town with an overwhelming force, and made some arrests. lie asked aud received some arms, but the people refused to surrender all. He then canonaded and burnt the town. General I'omeroy has been hung. Reeder is supposed to be in a place of safety. Robinson is at Lecomptcn, and the nicb threatened to hang him. For the Yorkville Enquirer. FOR SENATOR. Metsrs. Editors:?In the selection of a person to represent the highests interest of our District, we should look to the qualification of the candidate os a matter cf paramount consideration. As a gentleman of high intellectual capacity, moral firmness, and unblemished political integrity, and one in every way deserving the highest honor in the gift of the people of York, we would commend to public notice the name of Gen. John A. Alston, as a Candidate for State Senator. In addition to his known abilities, and eminent qualifications for this responsible position, we know him to be opposed to the present system of electioneering. His acceptance of the nomination will gratify Many Fbiends of Temperance. For the Yorkville Enquirer. INDIAN LAND MEETING. Messrs. Editors:?A meeting of the citizens of Ebenezer was held on Saturday, the 24th instant, when it was unanimously resolved that the 4th day of July next be celebrated, with appropriated ceremonies, as the nationnl jubilee. A Committee of Arrangements was appointed, and the duty assigned them of providing a Pic-nic and Barbecue. A committee was also appointed to prepare suitable toasts. Mr. G. B. P. Alston was chosen the Orator, and Mr. W. ti. M. Hart, Reader. Rev. J. U. Richards was requested to act as Chaplain; and Coi. L. P. Sadler, as Marshal of the day. It was resolved that the citizens generally, and the ladies particularly be (and they are hereby) invited to attend. On motion, it was directed that these proceedings be published in the Yorkville paper. AN ATTEN. ANT. ? For the Yorkville Euquirer. CANDIDATES AND TREATING. Messrs. Editors:?I was highly gratified, a week or two siuce, by the perusal of an article published in the Enqi'ireb over the signature of "Juvenal," iu which a vigorous and well-directed attack is made upon the fashionable but very degrading and reprehensible practice adopted by some of our Candidates: that of treating, in order to defraud free men of their votes, and secure to themselves the honor and profits of an office to which their real merits are unequal. I desire to "keep me Dan in motion;" ana tor mat cause t shall, in my rude way, venture to direct the attention of your readers again in that direction. It is exceedingly desirable that the people of our district adopt some plan (and I think the plan proposed by "Juvenal''?the nomination of candidates?a good oue,) to suppress this abominable custom. It is, I am sure, inimical to the best interests, moral, social and political, of the country, and tends to the destruction of the great principles and heaven-born truths upon which our system of government is founded. What can we expect?what may look for, when we elect men to office who have not philanthropy or patriotism sufficient to prevent them from becoming propagators of all the evils and vices of intemperance, and open and shameless traffickers in votes?buying and selling the best boon we have, the highest privilege a freeman can enjoy? Suoh men can H *" ' "** " i never bo equal to the faithful discharge of their duties. False themselves to the principles which are most potent in binding men to the service of their country, they nre and must be false to their constituents. The practice "gives the lie" to the i man who pursues it: for it is far below and inevitably degrades the office to which he aspires.? An officer cannot subserve the well-being 'of a community, when to obtain his position he prac- ^ tices evils, | [ will not sav, crimes) destructive to i the general peace and harmony, outraging common decency, right morals and good order, and degrading to the public tone ami character. We are continually stirred up to resent promptly any invasion of our rights by Abolitionists, or by a foreign power: and are reminded thata tame submission to such wrongs is beneath the dignit3? of a free people?a national disgrace. All right; but why are we allowed to remain at ease with re guru 10 tne invasion ot the right ot tree ana untrammelled suffrage? Why, I Rsk, is this so? 1 know f speak a truth which will obtain a response from every candid reader, when I say that in comparison with a corrupt ballot-box and a venal people, the evils springing from any and eery interference with our institutions at home or from any indignity or oppression from abroad, sink into utter insignificance. Here is the reason of it: demagogues are themselves grossly guilty of this baneful trnfie, nnd, knowing that by so doing they will expose themselves to a light in which they are ashamed to be viewed, they refuse to point out the evil and ore too cowardly to take position against it. Now, fellow citizens of York district, let tne ask you?can a true patriot conscientiously promote such men to office, and thus make them the guardians of our institutions ? A true patriot is ?the word means it?a lover of his country, and desires its welfare: and all such very well know that the free distribution of Whiskey is not one of the promptings of such a character. Then comp, you who love your country, its laws, its rights, its well-being, its very existence?you who regard the happiness of your fellow-men, the promotion of religion, or the direct command of God?step boldly forward, not only in word but in deed, and u ith a stout heart and by a strong arm suppress this evil. H. _ Atitioch, May 23d, 18o6. For the Yorkville Euquirer. TREATING AT ELECTIONS. No. 2. 0 urlem venalem et cito verituram, si emptorem in venerit! "0 city set to sole, whose destruction i* at hand, if it find a purchaser!" Jcgchtha. "Five Thousand Dollars and plenty of Whiskey will buy the office, and I am willing to pay that price for it."?Word* upoken hi/ a Candidate. Several years have passed away since the last clause of the motto of this article was uttered, and, it is hardly necessary to add, it was not spoken by any son of York District. It is sufficient for the purpose of the writer that it was uttered within the limits of the Uuited States, where the great franchise of free suffrage is the boast of the people; and he inserts it here for the sole purpose of eliciting thought in the minds of our people upon a subject of grave importance. If Rome, in the days of Sylla, Csesar and Jugurtha, was bought and sold; so the Republics of America have no promise that they will not fall by the same arts ?to wit, the arts of the Demagogue. Now, in this age, there are everywhere certain controlling influences in civil society, which, if true to their mission, will shape its destiny, and of right ought to do so. These influences are here in our midst and slowly but surely doing their work ; but we are too much blinded to see them in all their beauty, splendor and power, by their very commonness. What is that most powerful influence, controlling and shaping the fortune of society and leading it on to the most exalted civilization the world has ever known. It is Christianity. Is proof demanded? Each one of us has it abundantly in our own heads and hearts. Burn your Bibles, pull down your houses of public worship, disband your churches, ostracize your ministers, and declare with revolutionary France?"there is no God, and death is an eternal sliep !" What then will be the result?? Remember, too, in all this your blows are levelled at Chmtianiii/ alone. The picture is too horrible to contemplate {without a shudder. From such a scene the genius of humanitv might well turn away her face and weep. Christian woman, the link of the chain which binds the good on Earth to the good in Heaven, turns pale at the thought of a world thus demonized, and pressing her infant to her breast shrinks affrighted from such a spectacle. In what save Christianity and the Bible can you or your country hope? What are your souls even, without them? Condemned spirits?nothing more; their destiny, an eternity of torment and despair. Is not this proof sufficient ? Let us reflect upon nnd realize it. Well, how much help in the prosecution of its great mission of "Peace on Earth," does Christianity receive, from the "bald-face" consumed upon the hustings, while your elections are pending ? To Christains and thinking men, the enquiry is addressed. Of what avail in making men better is the preaching of . e Word, while Candidates devote every other yeay to the purpose of making them worse, by drugging them with whiskey and preaching to them from the platforms of whiskey-wagons ? Does the office of Christianity and public morality, in truth, intermit?prevail one year, and surrender the next as a jubilee to the Candidates and their whiskey ? Is the Great Serpent to be thus unchained each alternate year, and before his time; and in order, too, that A. may get more votes than B., and C. more than D., when perhaps it would be far better for the country if nil were distanced and better men elected in their stead ? Is it not a fact, verified by our history, that the portion of our citizens best qualified to be our legislators, will not resort to the "bald-face" influence to gain their election ? Let the reader pause for a while, and permit the writer to make a sketch of the Candidate whose best argument is his Whiskey, us he has seen it painted to the life. The individual belongs to that class of politicians who, while they are upon the hustings, promise to do everything for every body. Upon the "stump," his eloquence is really a "circumstance." It is of the Robin Roughhend typo! Conscious of his power, he walks or rather struts j over the hustiugs, with his thumbs hooked into the arm-holes of his vest, his head thrown back, his chin drawn in and resting against the tie of his cravat, his toe? turned out to the right and to the left at an angle of 45?; and when he walks, the sides of his feet and his chest are considerably in advance of the balance of the corporation. After having thus, for a while, exhibited (like old Terveydrop, in "Bleak House,") his 'deportment,' his fugleman, for he has one at each petty rausterifig-ground, calls out in a loud voice?"0, yes! 0, yes! all the friends of Colonel Fast-man come and take some of bis treat, and theu hear him make a speech !" Riding astraddle the keg, the fugleman then draws and hands round the whitkey, with much animation. It is of that kind, generally, which looks oily and yellow, audits "farewell'' haB a sort of a tobacco-juice twang! Now comes tho speech. " Colonel Fast-man" takes the stump> places a tumbler of his own renowned beverage near him to wet his whistle with during the pauses and while the npplnuse with which he is frequently interrupted goes on, and begins somewhat in this style:? Feller Citizens and Gentlemen?I &r a candiI didate for the Legielater, gentlemen, and you all knows it: so. there be no we^/cessity ot my telling | you so no more. You nre an o-prcssed people, gentlemen. Something tells me I or culled upon j to save you from pour o-preman. Now there nr one set of folks who tells ns we hove no right to drink whiskey, no odds how dry we or, nur how much we wants it. Now, 1 say, gentlc/nr/i, our 1 fathers fit for liberty, and Tim Fast-man nr not ( aguine to give up his right to drink the critter, j ju?t whenever he pleases, even if all nntur tries to keep him from it. (Oreat applause, during which Tim takes a drink of bald-face.) Now gentlemen, spose some of you have corn to spar, and you knows you can sell the Whiskey you can boil out'en it for more than you can sell the corn, aint it as plain as all creation tnat you have 51 filar fimn/itnn/tniui) rirrlit tn ctpw tIto WhSkhru out'en the Corn, ami sell or drink the licker, and give the balance to the Hogs? Yes, gentlemen, sartcnly you have that ar right, and if I go to the Legislater I'll maintain it through thick and thin, and all the world over! (applause, and Tim takes another drink.) That, gentlemen (smacks hislips) are what Tim Fastman calls liberty, and he don't intend to call it anything else, or do anything else! (Tim takes another drink.) And more nor this, gentlemen, when the men you elect goes to Columby, they don't make no laws that they ought'er make. You what has got land pay too much taxes on it; and you what rents land pays too much rent for it; nnd you what has com ground pays too much toll for it; and you what's got children pays too much to have 'em bom. (Immense applause, during which Tim takes a drink of "bald-face.") Now, gentlemen, if you elect me to the Legislater, I'll pass a law that you shall make four gallons of whiskey to the bushel, besides the fust shots and low wines. I'll pass another that you shall pay no rent, no toll, no taxes, and your chil- ' dren shall all be born for nothin' and less nor that"?(but Tim is interrupted by uproarious applause, amid which he, badly drunk, by the assistance of his friend* descends from the stump.") The writer does not pretend that this sketch is literally true. He has, however, actually witnessed the exhibition of things related to it in spirit, and from which some of the acts are partly copied. But let us go back to the practical. I have said that the portion of our citizens best qualified for the duties of Legislators, will not resort to the whiskey-bnrrel to secure their election. This has brought to bear upon the State an evil of grave importance. The practice of resorting in elections to whiskey and money, and other things bought with money, will in the end, if it has not already done it, drive all your best talents into retirement: and the State will thus fall into the hands of men whose qualifications and political worth are below mediocrity. The man of true worth and public virtue will uot soil bis escutcheon by such a demoralizing and degrading scramble. AituougD lie may be willing to give me ataie me benefit of his services, he will not do it by violating the purity of the elective franchise, and that, too, at the price of his self-respect and the lojs of his own fair fame. For this evil there is a prompt ami easy remedy. The responsibility rests upon the Christian, moral, order-loving and law-abiding portion of the community; and they cannot evade it. That remedy is simply this, as indicated in my last: let meetings be called, though it be ten days only before the day of election, and let tickets be nominated with the names of men of the first respectability iu the district; and then, let all who have the good of their country at heart sustain these nominations, and the reform will be accomplished. It is a libel upon our people, to say that the good men and true men are not in the majority. If we want the courage to do this, we lack the courage of freemen. If Christianity refuse to concur in this policy, surely it must incur the charge of being untrue to its great mission. I do not believe it will refuse. Let it but take the lead, as it should, in this great reform, and the God-commissioned work will_ infallibly triumph. JUVENAL. CORRESPONDENCE OP THE ENQUIRER. Washington, May 19th I860. Messrs. Miller Jf Melton. Gentlemen:?Since my last letter, dated at Petersburg, Virginia, I have spent several days very pleasantly in that place and in Richmond, and have, in strolling around, collected together a multitude of new things which, were I to dot them down, would doubtless be of interest to your many readers. But I feel little inclined to the task this evening, and will write only to fulfill a promise. Petersburg is growing very rapidly. The population of the city now numbers 18,000 ; and the ample facilities for rail-road and steam-boat communication with sections of the country at every point of the compass, bringing wealth to commercial menandactivity and life to all interests, promise to it a far greater expansion in the future.? You will perhaps be surprised to learn that a large amount of cotton is shipped to that, market every year, and at times the extensive ware-houses are filled with the great staple to repletion. It is also the mart for the varied productions of middle and southern Virginia, the North-western portion of North Carolina, and a large tract of country to the west. The city derives not an inconsiderable importance, too, from its manufacturing interests, of which it has a large variety in the shape of glass-works, flouring mills, machine-shops, and cotton establishments, all of which are conducted on an extensive scale. There are several fine churches in Petersburg, the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and Episcopalian. The first named church, I am told, cost near $30,000; and the Episcopalian, now in process of erection, will reach an expense of at least $40,000. To us simple backwoodsmen, these amounts seem to be almost fabulous. The people are hospitable, hightoned, moral and thrifty, and the city bids fair to become a place of abiding importance. At five o'clock in the afternoon, we left on the cars for the city of Richmond, a distance of about 20 miles, where we agaiu made a pause in our journey. In this metropolis there are many attractive sights to be seeu, not the least interesting of which are the magnificent public grounds and the venerable Capitol, which yet tells much for the elevated taste of the age which saw its foundations laid, and which could not now, after a lapse of sixty-five years,'be greatly improved upon.? Every apartment is commodious and appears to have been Kuilt for convenience, and yet not a whit is detracted from the fine appearance of the whole. The Capitol is adorned by the statuary of Virginia's most distinguished and best-loved sons, the noble Washington and the eloquent Henry, who, with their compeers, launched the ship upon an untried waste of waters, and combatting ignorance, prejudice and biting necessity, met and conquered the most powerful energy on earth. Well may the good old mother of States and statesmen seek thus to preserve the memory of such her children, from whom the fire of true eloquence and the genuine glow of heaven-born patriotism may be caught and reflected down to the latest generation. Richmond is a noble city. The memories which invest her are sufficient to impart an ever-enduring and resplendcut beauty, which is not diminished by the gay, intelligent and wealthy throng {that crowds her streets, or her many and high-toned institutions, the best guarantee of future prosperity and success. We were kindly welcomed to a genial, pleasant and hospitable home; and after a most agreeable season left the capitol of the Old Dominion with real regret. A swift ride brought us to the Potomac, where we embarked on a steam-boat at about eleven o'clock P. M., and after a few hours, unmarked <ave by the usual incident? nf -team-boat tiavel, we lunded nt the National Capitol, and have taken up our quarters permanently for a season. Here I have passed the time very agreeably, mingling freely, as you know my wont is, with the crowds of President-makers, Members of Congress, Gentleman of businessj and Gentlemen of leisure politicians generally, and last, but not least, ladies of the most fascinating beauty and loveliness, glorious impersonations all .of the genuine type cf beauty which attaches alone to the true-blooded American women. One of the most gratifying and pleosurcable occasions to be met with in Washington, we enjoyed 011 Saturday evening last, roaming over the large and beautiful walks and the green turf for which the grounds of the Capital and White- 4 House nre famous. There we mingled with thousands of the gay denizens of the federal city, of all ages and conditions from the President of the Republic to the most obscure citizen, gathered together in free and easy converse, and all keeping time to the most delightful music of the MariLe Band. Our noble President, with Douglas always by his side, mingled with the crowd in true democratic style, bowing to and cordially shaking the U?r,.l c iL. tt_: i 1IU uvi Ul 1,1 V1X.CIID UUUI vrcij p*illUi IUC UU1UU, ttllU furnishing a touching and grateful commentary upon the simplicity and genuine democratic character of our institutions and our national manners. These levee*, out upon the lawn, as untouched by form and ceremony as is the free, open air in which they are held, are to a true republican the most gratifying spectacle which eyes can look upon; and are appreciated not only by freemen, but even by the slaves of foreign despots who now and then are to be found in attendance. In my next, Messrs. Editors, I hope to be able to give you some of the floating news of the capitol. As I am only an outsider I have not yet caught "the ropes." I have not met with any of j our delegation, except Messrs. Brooks and McQueen, both of whom are in excellent health and spirits, and both strong for Pierce and Kansas.? It is rendered almost certain that all intercburse with Great Britain through Mr. Cramptonwill be suspended. He will certainly be dismissed, I think, though it is possible that the measure will not be resolved upon with certainty until after the meeting of the Cincinnati Convention. Every thing looks to putting the country in a state of defeuce; and should exception be taken to our exercise of a just and indisputable right, we cannot put on our armour a day too soon. All togtfher the times look portentous. Yours, a. s. w. Washington, May 28. Mews. Editor*:?Every other topic has for the time been suspended, in the political circles of Washington, and the great crowd is absorbed in discussing the events resulting from a speech delivered in the Senate, yesterday and the day before, by Mr. Scmneb, from Massachusetts. In penning this short note to you, I will follow the example. Mr. HrMNER 9 speech, a very long-winded and carefully elaborated effort?so much so that it required more than one day in the delivery?was the most violent, outrageous and gratuitously insulting tirade ever delivered in the Senate.? Although as far removed from the State of Massachusetts, in pride and feeling, as are the poles from each other, I cannot yet think of the disgraceful attitude of her Senator, his unblushing vulgarity, and utter disregard of the canons of gentlemanly deportment, with a tinge of genuine shame on my cheek. The argument of the speech was loose and flimsy, and made-up of vague propositions strung together without any sort of regard to truth. A half-hour's effort, from the most common man on the floor, would tell better for any cause. A very large portion of the speech, however, was taken up in villifying and heaping the most insulting abuse upon our State and her venerable Senator, Judge Butler, in the progress of which other Senators, Douglas and Mason in particular, received a full share. At the close of the speech, these last named gentlemen together with Gen. Cass (Judge Butler, you know, is at present at home in Edgefield,) made spirited and indignant replies, hurling back upon the ruffian a broadside of bitter and cutting invective which would have most effectually demolished any decent man. To give you a sample of the stuff they had to deal with, I send you an extract from it:? With regret I come again upon the Senator from South Carolina, (Mr. Butler,) who, omnipresent debate, overflowed with rage at the simple suggestion that Kansas had applied for admission as a State, and with incoherent phrases discharged the loose expectoration of his speech, now upon her representative and then upon her people.? There was no extravagance of the ancient Parliamentary debate which he did not repeat, nor was lhi>ri> nnv nnssihle deviation from trntti trhieK Ka dill not make. But the Senator touches nothing which be does not disfigure with error, sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact. He shows an incapacity of accuracy, whether in stating the constitution or in stating the law, whether in the details of statistics, or the diversions of scholarship. He cannot ope his mouth but out there flies a blunder. But it is against the people of Kansas that the sensibilities of the Senator are particularly aroused. Coming, as he announces, "from a State;" ?ay, sir! from South Carolina?be turns with lordly disgust from this newly formed community, which he will not recognise even as "a body politic." Pray, sir, by what titles does he indulge in this egotism? Has he read the history of "the State" which he represents ? He cannot, surely, have forgotten its shameful imbecility from slavery, confessed throughout the Revolution, followed by its more shameful assumptions for slavery since. But the best part of the story is to come, and I scarcely know how in proper terms to detail the interesting tragedy which closed the two day's entertainment. Indignant, and stung to madness by the insults given to his State and his relative Judge Butler, our gallant representative, Col. Brooks, determined to take the matter in hand.? After searching ineffectually for Sumner, Wednesday and yesterday morning, outside the Senate, he entered the chamber yesterday after the Senate adjourned, and seeing a number of ladies present very quietly seated himself opposite to Sumner. As soon as the ladies left, he approached the Senator, who was seated at his desk writing, and, in the coolest and most genteel style, addressed him in something like this style :? Mr. Sumner, I have given to your speech a careful and impartial reading, and I feel it my duty to tell you that you have uttered a gross libel upon my State and published a slander upon my prev-haired relative .Tiidce Butler, whom vr.n O- 'J ? O- ? know to be absent, and I am now come to chastise you for it. As soon as this pithy and pregnant speech was finished, Sumner attempted to rise, for the purpose perhaps of resenting it, when Col. Brooks gate him a blow in the face with a gutta-percha cane about an inch thick, and continued the attack until he had administered, fore and aft, some 25 or 30 blows well laid on, and broken his cane to fragments. After the fourth stroke. Sumner ceased to resist, and after a while fell to the floor, crying . piteously "0! Lord," when Mr. Brooks ceased.? Col. Keitt was present ready to extend his aid if needed, but so quick and thorough was the operation that Col. Brooks hod finished before any one could interfere. Mr. Sumner was immediately conveyed away by his friends, severely though by nA mnana mAwtollw nuuuucu j UUU V>U1. JJl UUA.3 took prompt measures to surrender himself for trial. Resolutions have been or will be submitted to both Houses providing for the appointment of committees to investigate the assault; and, 11 learn, Col. Brooks has been admitted to bail on a bond of five hundred dollars for his appearance I before the court.