Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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& Jacts. It is supposed that Jenny Lind real red by her recent visit to London, at lea ?40,000. . The New York Day Book has hoistt the name of Hon. Fernando Wood, Mayi of the city, for Governor of New York. Hon. P. S. Brooks returned to Was! ington on Tuesday from the Fauquier Whi Sulphur Springs. One night last week two or three stori of Chester were broken into by some partii unknown, and goods of considerable valv abstracted. Mr. Howes, a journeyman printer i Montgomery, Alabama, recently came in possession of 875,000. The fattest take \ ever had. On the 1st inst in the U. S. House i Representatives, a Resolution declaring thi Mr. Whitfield was not entitled to a seat wi adopted by a vote of 110 to 92. Ole Bull has given 8500 towards e tablishinga new German Fremont paper i Wisconsin. He is to take the stump f< Fremont through the State. From all the indications that con under our notice, the emigration to Kansi from the South, at present, seems to 1 greater than what goes from the North. It is considered a fact worth mentioi ing in the newspapers that General Houstc has just completed a letter to his constituen defining his political position and declarin for Fillmore and Donelson. It is rumored in diplomatic circles i "Washington that Great Britain will ere Ion send out a minister to supply the place ( Mr. Crampton. Lord Howden, former] ambassador at Madrid, is mentioned. .- t The Charleston Courier of the 29t inst., says : A meeting took place yesterda afternoon near this city, between Col. Joh Cunningham and J. L. Hatch, Esq., and a ter an exchange of shots, without injury I either party, the difficulty was honorably a< justed. The number of hogs in the State ( Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Kentucky at this time is estimated by the editor of th - Ohio Farmer at 10,943,334, which at S3 head, a fair average value of stock, amouni to,$32,830,50. If fat sold they would ai verage $10 a head?$108,483,340. ?-? We have been reliably infromed ths the army Worm has made its appearance i different portions of our district, and the are rapidly extending and sweeping ever thing before thein. We fear that utter de: traction may ensue to the crops and vegete tions of all kinds.?Chester Standard. Columbia, July 31.?Col. Brook received 7,900 votes and $600 were contril uted towards the payment of his fine an expenses in the Sumner affair. The vote fc Col. Keitt was also large. The Governo sent the certificates of their re-election t Washington in advance. The x>larion ^5. \j.) star, says mat Religious Revival is progressing in th Methodist Church at Little Rock, and tha the excitement among the people has neve been surpassed by any thing of the kind eve known before in that section of the districi ? -^Upwards of one hundred persons have cot * nected themselves with the Church. Rev. Mr. Conway, Unitarian ministe at Washington City, who has been indiscree enough to turn his pulpit into a politics rostrum to fulminate Black Republican Abe litionism from, has been respectfully invite* to vacate the position he desecrates. It is: good example, and one which we earnest! hope may be universally imitated. An individual, known as Micke - Free, on Saturday night concluded a grea feat of walking one hundred and six hours without rest or sleep, at Newark, N.J. II began his walk on Tuesday afternoon previ ous at 2 o'clock. On Wednesday morning he evinced signs -of fatigue, but recovers during the day, and in the evening appeare* as fresh as ever. During the hours allotte* he was sponged with salt and spirits fou times each day. He changed his clothinj every morning and evening, and also carrie* in his hat during the hottest part of the daj a sponge saturated with whiskey and watei The main wager was 8200, in addition t which he made SI00 by other wagers. The celebrated Dr. Casper, of Berlin estimates the mortality among bachelors, be tween the ages of thirty and forty-five, a twenty-seven per cent, while the mortalit among married men between the same age is only eighteen per cent. As life advance fhe difference becomes even more sunuu<; where forty-one bachelors attain the age c 40, there are seventy-eight married men, difference of nearly two to one in favor c the latter. At 'the age of 60 there are fortj eight married men to twenty-two bachelors at 70, eleven bachelors to twenty-seven mai ried men ; and at 80, nine married men t three bachelors. No bachelor, it is said ever lived to be a hundred. Rain.?The earth is parched an cracked and dry, and quivering o'er wit heat. Ladies forsake the promenade an all desert the street. The richest goods i vain display their many colored charms? the clerks are leaning all the day "upo their ears," or arms. The horses hang thei heads, molases casks perspire, and throug the chinks when daylight breaks, we thin the world's on fire The cats all hide be neath the house, they dare not fly?the would be signed and drop to death, wit one ray from on high. The gutters stic their bottoms up, so dry, so dusty?hot the sewers.gape their thristy mouths, an think that rain is not. Shell fish are dea ?lobsters are not; no oysters lives?n The hronks and streames are drvin Liaiu. J.MV ?? ?v? .? j up and are not worth a dam?the birds foi sake both twig and net, and in the prove hard be observe .their nests, with all th young, roasted into bird's nest pie. Th leaves turn brown before their time, th blossoms leave the flowers, and droopinf withering is the world, these very sunn hours. The corn?God bless us?lead u not to any gross impieties; but airs like thi must lead us to thoughts of large relief s< ' cieties. The farmer pours his butter ou and measures it per point. Lettuce an radishes are dead?"the times are out < joint." Oh ! for one little drop of rain, I cool the thristy grain, and spnng to life th buds and flowers in every grove and plaii And let that drop expand itself as much s e'er is pleases. Yea, let a second delug wet the earth before it ceases. Yes?lik the flag all, all above (the stars and strip< remember) o'er all the world and ever thing. Ah ! reign until September.?Bu falo Republic, July 23. CljeforkMIIeinprcr U- EDITED BY St BAll'L W. MELTON JOHN L. MILLEB. ;d YORKVILLE, S. C. or THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1858. ^ THE TEMPERANCE ADDRESS. We make no apology for the space occupied in this issue, by the temperance address prepared ?S by the Committee of the York Division of the Sons ?s of Temperance, but rather commend it to the ie perusal of every one. It is an ably written production, and does equal justice to the head and [n heart of its author, characterized as it is, for its ^ chastenes9 of style, its purity and elegance of le diction, and above all lor tne oeaumui inougnis, intensified by the zeal of the writer, and tbe heaven-born conceptions it embodies. It is a forcible'rppeal to christians to rallv to a f * the rescue, and stay the tide of intemperance, 19 and shows that the garland with which they are wont to deck their brow can never be complete, 8- until they intwine it with the beautiful flower of ID temperance. We wish a coppy of it could be Dr placed in the possession of every family in our District, to become an heir-loom and descend to le distant generations. 15 PUN I )e To relieve the monotony of August weather, nnd in bold relief to a six mile ride through a Briar q- Patch, Capt. Srr.os* Company pnraded in Yorkill ville, on Saturday last, much to the public edificats tion, nnd satisfaction, doubtless, of Timothy S.vapg ping-Turtle, Dog Pelter. The uniforms were fano ful, indeed, and we were pleased to find woman's ^ rights rec-gnised, by the appearance of a well hooped Bloomer, in the ranks. Palmer & Hare's ^ celebrated Band discoursed sweet sounds, while j the steady tramp of the martial steed showed tra^ ctt of well worn laurels. We do not know that Gov. An.ams has yet received the new company, ^ but if he does on the 19th, we doubt not they will y prove as efficient a Corps as some others we wot n I of who sreent their three hours Biennially on Kerr's old field. The whole affair on Saturday, '? was well got up, and innocently amusing. THE DISCUSSION. if We intimated in our last issue that we would probably be entertained on Sale-Day with a politic ical discussion, in answer to the numerous intera rogatories which had been propounded to the Cants didntcs for seats in the Legislature. There being j. no pood reason why sncn aiscussion snouiu noi take place, the candidates bowed submissively to it what they considered the high behests of the pcon pie, and gratified them with a hearing. We have y no doubt the Candidates were well pleased to see y such an in-gathering of those who have the care j 5. and keeping of their political destiny. There i was an unusually large crowd in attendance. About 12 o'clock, M., the meeting was organized Ig in the Court House by calling Samuel Rainey, Esq., to the Chair. The necessary preliminaries j were soon arranged, by a Committee appointed ir for that purpose. The Candidates took the posir tion assigned them as follows:? Q For the Senate?Col. Witherspoon, followed by his opponent, Col. McCaw. a For the Ifouer?J. C. Chambers, Esq., A. Whyte, e Esq., Ed. Moore, Esq., W. I. Clawson, Esq., and 1 ^ A. S. Wallace, Esq. r Wm. C. Black, Esq., was prevented trom atten- 1 ding the meeting on nccount ot sickness in his ^ family. Among the subjects discussed, we mention the Electoral Question, the Separate Appeal Court, the support of Buchanan and Breckenridge, the * Fence Law, Penitentiary, Extravagant Appropriations, &c. They were all in favor of giving l* the election of Electors of President and Vice President to the people. They were all opposed d to the Separate Appeal Court, with the exception a ofJMr. Clawson, who defended at some length, his y vote in favor of the measure at the last session of the Legislature. Each one pledged himself y without reserve, to support the nominees of the t Cincinnati Convention. They were all opposed to j the Fence Law, Penitentiary, and very decidedly e opposed, as a matter of course, to extravagant ap!. propriutions. y Wo merely give an outline of the discussion, to ^ show the state of political feeling in our District, j We have stated the facts as they evolved themj selves in the discussion, withholding any approval r or disapproval of the positions respectively occu^ pied by the Candidates. There will be frequont ? I ~-i..?1,A tliA PnnfU/tnt<?? (J UFPll| LUlil b1*'^ 'ni/ICVUCVIVVUUMivi ?uv v , to "define their positions" when the voters of the , District, the great political jury of the country can fairly and impartially weigh the claims, the talent and capacity of each Candidate, and render their ! verdict accordingly. '?j From the Carolina Times. it, y Emigrant* for Kaman. 1<5 ' Yesterday afternoon a company of seventeen | gentlemen, citizens of Chester District, reached . [ this city under the command of Maj. N. R. Eaves, ? to be turned over to Col. Wilkes as a part of his command, bound as Emigrants to Kansas. a i ~; Among the number we recognize a Minister of j I the Gospel, the Rev. J. A. McCraw, who upon t leaving Chestcrville with the company was ad' J dressed by Maj. Eaves, as follows: j Addrtte delirtrrd by Major .V. U. Eavcn on the departure of the Company. ' Tows of Chester, S. C., Aug. 4, 1850. Rev. J. M. McCraw?Sir: You are on your way d to Kansas. If spared to get there, please permit k me to exhort you to exert your best abilities to spread the doctrines of the everlasting Gospel, ? j and teach the young Emigrants to abstain from n j vice of every kind; to love and revere their Crea_ | tor in the days of their youth and follow his prc| cepts in all things?and teach them to cultivate D : virtue, charity, brotherly love nnd true Carolina r j chivalry, and sustain Southern rights and princih pies at any and every hazard, k j We are pleased to learn that through the exer,_ j tions of Messrs. X. R. Eaves, A. Q. Dunovnnt, T. y I Boulware, J. L. Carroll, Maj. J. Sanders and Maj. l i John Wilkes, this company has been organized, LI - j. equipped and furnished with the necessary means . to settle in Kansas. j The company is composed of the following genj tlemen: | R. W. Murray, Rev. J. A. McCraw, F. Estes, 0 ' B. B. Wright, J. C. Wright, E. E. Letson, J. J. fl | Gaston, J. L. McClintock, Wm. Wilkinson, R. W. _ Hindman, J. Mayfield, A. J. Houser, Win. F. Nail, | M. S. McCall, J. B. Humphries, Win. H. Traylor, i " i C. Adams. e In addition to the above, we learn that Mr. J. E. Lindsay, of Union; Messrs. Brown, Kane, C. e J. Palmer, and one or two others have been ad>> ded to the Company, from Richland. y The following is the pledge to which the com|s pany have affixed their signatures. 's We, who have here enrolled our names as Emi) grants to go to Kansas, being sensibly alive to the j t importance of strengthening the institutions of | J I the South by establishing her principles in that ! Territory, do hereby pledge ourselves our lives j >f and sacred honors, to emigrate to Kansas and : :0 there sustain Southern Rights and her institutions j e at any and every peril. Col. Bentou on the Stump. 18 - Col. Benton is, it is said, stumping the State of j '? Missouri with singular effect, advocatiug Mr. ; e Buchauau for the Presidency, and with charocterJS istic modesty, himself for the Governorship. His organ, the St. Louis Democrat, says: ? : Through every village that he pnssc3, thousands ' flock forth to hear the old man eloquent, and to greet him with their applause. His journey from town to town has been like a triumphal march, aud ovations crowd upon him with a weighty bearing, and yet he never tires or stops. Travelling sixty or seventy miles a day, speaking two hours and a half iu the open air, making additional addresses by the way side, doubling his appointments as he proceeds, receiving the kindly greetings of the young, and exchanging old memories with the aged ?pouring bitterness such as none other can utter upon the heads of the sectional agitators, yet forgetting personal animosities in his zeal for the public good: rousing everywhere the patriotic feelings of the true and loyal, cheering the downcast hopes of friends, converting enemies by his courtesy, disbanding lodges by his rebuke, swimming rivers, breaking down horses, wearing out younger companions by his unshrinking energy, he yet exclaims after all, that ha has not work enough to do. Such is the wonderful scene now presented in Missouri, and equally wonderful is the effect being produced. From the Laurensville Herald. The Columbia Examiner. We acknowledge that we have been very neglectful towards this most capital journal; but it was not because we did not think it worth the pa tronage of our citizens, but from the fact that we have unintentionally forgotten to notice it. Adopting the old adage that "it is never too late to do good," we will try to reinstate ourself in the good graces of its able editor, by presenting the claims of the Examiner more frequently to our readers hereafter. If there is one change among the Southern people we desire more than another, it is that they should expend the money they now send North for literary journals, upon the literature at home. It is urged as excuses for patronizing Northern journals, that they are conducted with more talent than those of the South?their literature is of n better order, and more original, whilst they are larger, consequently give more reading matter.? Now the first of these excuses involves the unjust inference that there is not as much talent in the South as the North. We, however, beg leave to dissent nnequivocahly, from such an admission.? We contend there is more, high-toned and purer literary talent in the South than the North. The difficulty lies in the fact that a prejudice exists because of the frequeut attempts and as frequent failures to establish literary journals in the South. But who is to blame for these failures? We unhesitatingly answer, the Southern people themselves. The mouey now sent North for literary journals, would handsomely sustain three or four similar papers at home, and enable their proprietors to pay for aud develope the literary talent of the South. At the commencement of every year great enquiries are made for the but Northern papers?not one enquiry is ever made for a Southern journal?and clubs arc made up in almost every settlement to sustain journals that teem with abuse and injustice to towards the South. How can we expect our literary papers to flourish and compete with those of the North so long as we do not give them sufficient patronage to susTiuii tJietn: as me cause now sumus, wo feed the the worst enemies we hare, and starve out our best friends. But few take Northernpolitical journals, because of their open and unblushing opposition to us, but liberally sustain their literary papers, that are far more dangerous to our peace, from their more insidious and fascinating style of conduction. We eschew their political journals, but take to our firesides, for the perusal of our children, papers far more powerful and demoralizing in their character. The literary journals of the North do more sure work for the abolitionists, in the South, than their political papers can possibly accomplish, and still we foster them. How long is this to last? When will our people see that they are fostering the deadliest serpent of the species, who, being warmed into life by them, is fastening its fangs into their mo?t vital interest? We have been led to these thoughts from reading an excellent nrticle in the Columbia Examiner, on Northern journals, and from the fact its editor, W. B. Johnston, is attempting to establish a literary journal of a high and pure character in Columbia. But few men in the country are better qualified for conducting sucb a journal than he is, and but few journals are superior to the Examiner. We are sorry to find he has so small a list of sub- 1 scribers at this place, but we sincerely hope our readers will consider his claims and swell the last ' to a good round number. By the following it will be seen that he is About to commence the publication of a Prize Tale, written by Dr. W. B. Meyer, of Newberry, for which Mr. Johnston has paid handsomely, and we think it wbuhl be an excellent time to subscribe. We most confidently recommend the Examiner as a ' true Southern journal, and worthy themo9t extensive patronage in the South : A'rard of Prize Tale.?Mr. W. B. Johnson having submitted to the undersigned Committee the stories offered for the premium of Fifty Dol- ! lars for the best tale to he published in the Ex~ ( aminer, we have awarded the same to a story entitled "Old Nick : a tale of Fire, Water, and Brimstone." It is remarkable for its originality and similar graphic descriptive fascinations so popular and enchanting in the life like narratives of Washington Irving. Many other capital stories were presented ; hut beirtg chiefly in the beaten track j of modern fictitious literature were not deemed equal in literary excellence to the above. A. G. SUMMER, T. S. PIGGOT, WM. REYNOLDS, R. FORD, HOWARD H. CALDWELL. Thanking the gentlemen for their at*, ntion, and for the faithful inauner in which they have discharged the duty imposed on thcra, would beg to announce through your columns that Dr. W. B. Meyer, of Newberry, is the writer of the successful story. Respectfully, W. B. JOHNSTON. ] _ ? - * ? . ? ? ? . Tht Premium Ltit of the State Agricultural Pair. The State Fair, as will be seen by repeated no- ' tices published, will take place in this city on the 1 11th day of November, and four days following. 1 The Premium List, which we published in con- 1 densed type in this numher, will be found as comprehensive as that of any other institution of the ' kind in the Southern States. The Executive Com- ' mittee had hoped that but few objects of interest 1 had been omitted in this li<t; but they do not flat- ' ter themselves that it is as complete and perfect in every particular as it should be. In token of ' this consideration, they beg all those who have ' animals and articles of superior value, to present them at the Fair, and they may come under the general head of meritorious entries, entitled to special notice and reward: If a liberal nnd gen- ' DPniia onirit of rivalry, is thus manifested, it will enable the committee the more r\nlily to perceive what they have omitted, and the experience which they will glean will he practically useful to them in the future. Our friends who have articles not ' specially enumerated in the prize list, must reflect ' that we arc not all perfect, and that the Commit- ' tee are novices in this matter, and only hope to be ' thoroughly versed in their vocation when there is nothing more that is new to ho offered in competition. Let any one in South Carolina nnd the adjacent States who has anything worth presenting do so. State pride should induce our own people to do so, and a laudable emulation to excel should prompt our neighbors to enter the field where the prizes are of no contemptible order. Let the studs of the South make ..tted-hiir Grounds a sec- I ond Olympia. Let lowing herds and bleating flocks testify that our people have still some pastoral tastes obtaining amongst them. Let the golden harvests of our grain fields and the fleecy staples of our commercial vitality evidence that our agricultural energy is effective and elevating in its influence, and tending to a prosperity in the future, which will scatter abundance over the land. Let the handiwork of the mechanic testify that labor and mind must toil together. The manufactured productB of our busy spindles; the ponderous castings of the sons of Tubal Cain; the life-throbbing engine, will all find room for a fair comparison, test and trial. We look with much interest^) the Ladies of the State and hope they will fill up the extensive Hall and Galleries, which will be in readiness to receive the tasty products of their skill and handiwork. Let all enter the lists with the proper kind of rivalry, and we will venture a prediction that the first Fair of "The State Agricultural Society" will be a success, and the precursor of many, successively brilliant and improving to all the interests of the South.?South Carolina Agriculturitt. Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. Washington July 28. This is the hottest spell of weather we have had this summer; and the drought intolerable and unprecedented, except in regard to the summer of mi., s +1ia Vmqattipnf. 1004. 1I1C VsHpilUl, UUU pruumaiv v?-v-i. of the edifice, is the coolest place to be found, but the streets are like overheated ovens. Legislation is tiresome work for such weather, yet the Senate, to-day, with the spirit and resignation of martyrs, resumed its chronic discussion on the internal improvement question. A few of the Southern democrats, faithful among the faithless, stood by the old fashioned construction of the constitution in regard to the power of the general government to appropriate money from the treasury for the improvement of rivers and harbors. The House refused to suspend the rules for the purpose of permitting Mr. Denver, of Cal., to report the triple Pacific Rail Road project from the select committee of thirteen. But it was generally understood that the bill would be reported and entertained next Monday. It is very likely to be passed, even at this session, as it is politically acceptable to a majority of each of the three parties. The House proceeded in the discussion of the army appropriation bill, and it is yet to be determined whether the Republicans will insist upon their amendment declaring null and void the laws of the territorial Legislature of Kansas. They have the majority for it, but, when they come to the crisis, they will flinch from the exercise of the power. They will, however, first endeavor to drive the Senate into compliance with their terms; but, failing in this, they will probably recede from their position. A" disorganizing and revolutionary movement of this sort would not do them any service among the people of the North. The publication in the Intelligencer of this morninjr. bv Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, will attract notice. It is evident that Mr. Campbell, in taking charge of the preliminary arrangements, was determined that there should be no fighting. He almost admits that this was his object in fixing upon the Niagara Falls, on the Canada side, for the meeting. Mr. Brooks had a right to consider it, as every one did, as an evasion. The Boston papers so consider and treat it. It is not supposed that anything further will follow. Mr. Brooks and Mr. Keitt are expected to take their seats in the Hous^^Ts week, and in time to give their votes, which may be much needed, on questions connected with Kansas affairs. Washington, July 29. Mr. Brooks, as we learn by telegraph from Charleston, has been re-elected, with only six votes against him. Mr. Keitt will probably be returned by an equal majority. Mr. Brooks is still taunted by the republican presses with his tamenessj and hopes nre still entertained by republican zealots that Mr. Brooks will be provoked to "strike another blow." Another blow would "produce a revolution," that revolution which Mr. Fillmore in his speeches, and Mr. Brooks in his letter to his constituents, declared would not be submitted to by the South?a revolution which would place the whole federal government in the hands of the republicans. If Mr. Brooks would strike some remarkably audacious blow at this crisis, it would revive the flagging zeal of the republicans, and, perhaps, enable them to carry their candidate for the Presidency, and a majority in the House for the next Congress, with a prospect for an early change in their favor in the Senate. Mr. Brooks, it is hoped will not, at present, accommodate his enemies by acting upon their suggestions. The Army Appropriation bill passed the House, to-day, with Mr. Sherman's amendment, which is as follows: "Provided that no part of the military force of the United States shall be employed to aid in the enforcement of the alleged laws of the Legislative Assembly of Kansas, convened at Shawnee mission, until Congress shall declare whether the laws tro valid or not, and passed by a Legislature chosen in conformity with the organic law ; and until Congress shall so act, it shall be the duty of the President to use the military force of the United States to preserve the peace, suppress insurrection, repel invasion, and protect the persons and property of citizens therein, and on the highway af Missouri and elsewhere, against unlawful seizure and search ; and that the President disarm the present militia, recall all the United States irms, and prevent armed men from going into the territory to disturb the public pence, or enforce real or pretended laws." This amendment was passed by a majority of 6. The amendment declaring the laws of the legislature of Kansas null and void was rejected. The Senate will, of course, reject the Sherman Proviso, and thus the array appropriation bill may De defeated. Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, brought forward to-day lis Kansas bill, as a substitute for the bill which passed the Senate. This bill provided for the restoration of the Missouri Compromis. line, and s, of course, an utterly impracticable project.? rhe bill was likely to pass by a majority of ten >r eleven. The House only wastes time in the ronsideration of such bills. The session is drawng to a close, and the time of the House is besoming valunble. The hopes which the Black Republicans have lithcrto felt in regard to Pensylvania have been lefeated, and it is also quite certain that they will lose a number of the Northern States, upon which they have formerly calculated. Mr. Buchanan's prospects are now much brigh cer limn ai any previous nine. The California Vigilance Committee. The proceedings of the Vigilance Committee in California are beginning to grow serious. The power which was promised to be laid down as soon is the immediate purposes of the Committee were lccomplished, is still allowed to assert its sway, and is increasing ton degree that will be difficult to be overcome. The Government is paralyzed, and the lives and property of the people are at the mercy of an irresponsible mob, called a Vigilance Committee, whose deliberations are secret, whose names even are not known, and whose crimes already committed leave them no hope but in continuing the drendful system of prosecution and terrorism which they have inaugurated. They have even gone so far, it is stated, as to project a separation from the United States, and the organ- | ization of an independent State. On the subject j the New York Post says: Over three hundred Frenchmen, well drilled and good soldiers, have, we understand, taken service in support of the committee; and, indeed, we are advised, have the control of it, with the countenance of Mr. Consul Dillon, whose avowed object is the organization of California into an independent power. Nothing in the history of the French revolution is more revolting than the system of secret and bloody persecutions which they hare adopted; and unless the national government interferes soon, California will, inevitably, be deluged with blood. The press is no longer free, and the citizens, who deplore the acts which they cannot prevent, dare not communicate with the eastern journals, for fear of being traced and charged with some imaginary crime, and consigned to dungeon or the gallows by a packed or intimidated jury. "Meet Mk at the Currn\ House."?This is the popular by-word of the hour, and it seems likely, by upm/ios allusion to it, actually to "turn away wrath" in temporary private misunderstandings between individuals from day to day, with the same facility that it did in the Brooks and Burlingame "summons to the field." Many a jolly fellow may have occasion to say of Mr. Burlingame, "I thank thee for that word," when he finds it happily saving him from an impending (Vfficulty. But there is a disposition to improve upon Mr. Burlingame's suggestion of a place of meeting only seven hundred miles from the seat of the quarrel. Some more coolly suggest the coast of Labrador, while the Massachusetts Ploughman, on the other hand, says he might have named Sebastopol with more propriety than Canada, for that place has long been devoted to the business of shooting human beiugs, and very recently ir. was lawful to shoot all who were not on the right side. The correspondent of the Charleston Standard writing from Washington gives the following intelligence: A large number of Canadian papers have been received^ here ; giving a notice of the anticipated fight at the Clifton House. On the same morning Mr. Burlingame left here, these papers, published the time and place of the fight?also, distance and weapons ; more facts then were known in Washington. The people are advised to take a run down and see a regular '-Yankee fight."? Quere?How did these facts find their way to Canada ? As the distance and weapons had not been made known to Col.* Brooks and his friends, it is very clear that Mr. Burlingame had made all necessary arrangements to prevent a fight in the event Col. Brooks was rash enough to follow him to the Clifton House. Ot'r Prediction.?The Abolition papers in this State are making a great noise about the popularity of their woolly horse candidate and all their big and little villains, from Greenport to Dunkirk are boasting that he will carry the State by fifty .thousand majority. There never was more froth on a little substance than all this talk and hullabaloo about Fremont's popularity. The Sewardites have subsidized the press, and mean, if possible to carry the day by much bragging and making people believe that everybody is for Fremont. Now, we put on record, in the face of all these boastings, the following prediction. Cut it out, reader, and put it in your wallet: Bucbnnan will poll in this State 225,000 votes Fillmore 150,000 Fremont 140,000 We predict further, that Buchanan will carry all the Southern States, Pennsylvania, New Jer sey, New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine Michigan, Iowa, ami Illinois. Now post this up and see next November how near we are right.?New York Day Book. A Candid Confession. The London Times, in a late article on the Ceutral American question, makes the following allusions to the condition of the British West India Islands : "One thing we may premise, and it will probably be denied by no one. Great Britain has no wish for territory on the Central American coast. Our own West India Islands are fast relapsing into primitive savageness. When the rich lands of Jamaica are being yearly abandoned, and when in Trinidad and Guiana cultivation has almost ceased, it is not likely thnt England will care to extend her sovereignty further over tropical territory which can only be brought into use by a system which kns been solemnly condemned." Southern Methodist Church in England.? Rev. John E. Edwards, of Richmond, Va., now in Loudon, writes : It may not be out of place just here, to say that the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the United States, is scarcely recognized by the Weslcyan Methodists of this country. Personally, I have received the most polite and courteous attentions from the ministers to whom I had letters of introduction ; but I have not been invited to preach in any of their chapels? Our church is regarded, to say the least, as a proslavery church, and the Methodists of this country will not tolerate any such body as a part of the Christian family. They are quite as decided in their opposition to us as are our good New England Methodist brothers at home. B65"* The City Council of Savannah have before them an ordinance which proposes to impose a tax of two hundred dollars each on all slaves or free persons of color, brought or sent to Savannah to be transported to Liberia, or oth r foreign countries, ine udjcci i? iu urvuiv uj? vuii^ntuuu from that port, which is found to be an evil and a 1 nuisance. We would call the attention of every ren- j der of this paper to the advertisement "To the j Citizens of York District and vicinity^" to be 1 be found in another column of this paper. Every 1 one should read it, as well as the series of advertisements which will appear from week to week, ( writteu by W. W. Bliss, M. D., of New York. A Steam Organ.?"Belle Britain," the Newport 1 correspondent of the New York Mirror, thus , speaks of a new invention exhibited at that plifce: \ "We had a little bit of excitement here yester- 1 day, occasioned by a steam orpin on hoard a boat I in the harbor. It seemed as if the whole forenoon was filled with hurdy-gurdies. It played Yankee 1 Doodle with terrific variations, and spluttered i waltzes all over the sea and shore. But a geutle- l man who went to see it, says it is nothing very 1 wonderful after all. It has keys and is played up- i on like any other organ, only steam is used instead ! of wind. Every time a key is touched and a note i produced, a certain amount of steam is let, off 1 which is very exhausting to the engine. It will 1 probably take the place of a band of music, when i steamboats go out on dancing excursions: aud < pertiqns it will be introduced as a 'motive power' < into churches to play the organ." Army Worms. i We copy the following from the Laurensville Herald:? In various portions of our District, we are in" < formed, these destructive insects have made their appca'anco and arc committing great depredation'' , on the crops. One gentleman, we understand, has | turned his hogs upon nearly all his bottom land | corn, finding it impossible to arrest their destruction otherwise. In six or eight other plantations they have destroyed grass, corn and cotton in their march. iNor are tney cotinnea xo inis wis- , trict alone. In Abbeville, Newberry and Rich- ' land we bear they have commenced their work of j destruction. We arc informed that they have de- j stroyed nearly the whole of Mr. James Crcswell's cotton in Abbeville District. We sincerely hope j that our information is greatly exaggerated; but we know there is considerable alarm among our ; fanners, and fear there is much cause for it. Is j there no remedy ? If there is, we would consid- ( er the man who will make it known through the ^ papers, a public benefactor, and entitled to the ( purest gratitude from the whole human race. j Fashionables at Saratoga. j We find in the correspondence of the New York 1 Herald the following: ' 1 The circumference of a fashionably dressed wo- } man here, is about seven feet and a half, and ^ [ when two of these animals get to waltzing together , I they look like a large ballon inverted. The dai- ' i ly occupation of the fair creature begins with [ dressing in elaborate morning attire and promenading to the Congress Spring, where she takes two ' or three glasses of the water. Returning she has a sylph like Rreakfast?then dresses for a drive. After the drive she takes an anti-prandial snooze, 1 or receives a snob or two. Then comes the work 1 of dressing for dinner, for which she appears like 1 Villiklns in the soug in "galliant array," with all 1 sorts of diamonds and things. Dinner is at three, ' * - * ? ' . tf., J and fills up two hours. Next comes riding, and in the evening the fair flowers of creation dance to the music of Monks' Band; or vagabondise bareheaded about the streets of the village. Such is the daily life of the Saratoga belle. She gets up a good many flirtations, and she likes it.? Look at that splendid creature in pink?she has already exhausted three waltzing men, and is now flirting with a thin youth in the corner, lie is , telling her that lie i.> off for Newport to-morrow I and wants n bit of her hair before lie leaves.? She tries to look sorry, but is really thinking whether lie couhl give her a brown stone front in a good street and teu thousand a year. The daily life of the snob at the springs is about the same as that of the belle, if he is a ladies' snob. He is her cavalier servient*1, and revolves around her hoops. He is treated as she treats her lap dog, and is thrown a smile with the same air that Fidele receives a chicken bone. But it is the style among some snobs to call "these women a bore you know." These last named snobs play billiards, smoke awful segars, drive horses which are bought, and the buyers sold at the same time, and otherwise spend their time in those healthy and invigorating sports which make the American snob so valuable a member of society. The ladies' snob is preferable to the horse and billiard snob. The Bia Figures or the Saint Nicholas Ho tel.?The proprietors of the Saint Nicholas Hotel have published a description of their immense establishment, from vrhich we quote a few statistics : The St. Nicholas has a front of two hundred and seventy-five feet on Broadway, and a depth of two hundred feet, thus covering an area of one acre and three quarters in the most valuable part of the city. The building cost $1,200,000, and the entire cost of the building, furniture, &c., was $1,900,000. The area of the front wall, which is of marble, is 18,000 feet. The building will accommodate 900 guests, and has frequently contained over a thousand. It was completely finished on the 1st March, 1854. The number of rooms in the house is six hundred, all well lighted, and provided with hot and cold water.? These include one hundred complete suites of rooms, with baths, water-closets, &c., attached.? The three largest dining-rooms in the house aggregate 9,000 superficial feet, and can accommodate six hundred guests. The cost of the mirrors distributed about the house was $40,000, and of the silver ware and plate $50,000. The proprietors are Messrs. J. P. Treadwell, J. P. Acker. Peter Acker, and Virgil Whitcomb. The number of servants averages during the year about three hundred and twenty. The hoars for meals range through nearly the whole twenty.^four, excepting from midnight to 5 o'clock A. M. There is a regularly organized fire department in the building, with steam power for forcing water to any portion of it. Eighteen plugs with two hundred feet of hose to each enable the engineers to flood the building six minutes from the time the alarm is sounded. The house consumes 18,000 to 30,000 fedt of gas nightly, from 2,500 burners. The gas is made on the premises. Tbe lanndry employs 75 laundresses, and can wash and iron 0,000 pieces per day. Steam is tbe great agent in this process, and is extensively used in the St. Nicholas for boiling, washing, mangling, drying, turning spits, heating water, &c.?-V. Y. Mirror. Curious Habits of Mackerel. The habits of these fish are very peculiar. And although they have been taken in immense numbers for three quarters of a century, their habits are not well understood. They often move in immense bodies, apparently filling tbe ocean for miles in extent. They are found near the surface. Sometimes they will take the hook with the great est eagerness; at other times, not a mackerel will bite for days, although millions of them are visible in the water. When they are in the mood for taking the bait, ten, tweuty, and even'tlyrty barrels are taken by a single vessel in a fey hours. They usually bite most freely soon after sunrise in the morning and toward sunset at evening. They all cease to bite about the same time, as if they were actuated by a common impulse. They are easily frightened, and will descend into deep water. It has often happened that a fleet of vessels have been lying off the Cape, say a. mile or two from the shore, in the midst of a school of mackerel, and taking them rapidly upon their deoks, when the firing of a gun, or the blast of a rock, would send every mackerel fathoms deep into the water, as suddenly as though they had been converted into so many pigs of lead, and perhaps it would be some hours before they would re-appear. They are caught more abundantly near the shore and very rarely ont of sight of land.?Old Colony Memorial. A Coppeh Status or Washington.?A coppersmith of this city, Mr. John Neumann, has recently completed a life sue., statue of Washington, made entirely of sheet copper, and wrought by the simple implements of his trade. The figure represents Washington standing in a dignified attitude, his right hand resting upon a book supported by a light table, and his left hand banging easily bj'his side. The result of Mr. Neumann's labors which have occupied him for three years, show what natural talent, unwearied industry ami perseverance can accomplish. The proportions of the statue arc very good, the anatomy aud drapery quite correct, and the features life-like and expressive. Some idea may be gained of the toil involved in this novel work of art, when we state that the entire face and part of the back and head were made from a single piece of copper, which, by the incessant hammering and working, stretching in some parts and compressing in others, was shaped into a countenance not inferior in accuracy of lineament to some of the marble representations of the same illustrous subject. The entire figure, which is composed of many pieces deftly put together, weighs about two lnjndred pounds. The work will probably be placed on exhibition before long, aud we hope the self-taught artist will receive some substantial token of public appreciation?X. Y. Journal of Commerce. An English Portrait of President Pierce. Bently's Miscellany gives the following extract from "Furguson's American by River and Rail," recently published in England: General Frankling Pierce received us standing, shook us heartily by the hand, and requested us to be seated. He is tall ami thin, has a fine open face, with large forehead ami grayish hair. His Features do not denote great capacity for govern- I ruent. They want firmness and quick decision | but they convey the impression of au honorable ind kind-hearted disposition. lie entered into sonversatiou very cordially and frankly. I said we were much struck with the extent of everything in America. He smiled, and said the scale jf things, at least, was vaster than in England. I , illuded to railways as a point of prominent no. , tice, and one which had sprung up of late years; that there was a large iuterest in them in England ; and that I had come over expressly to see them. He replied, he was aware that they were largely held in England; adding that though generilly they might go to England to take lessous in railway making, still there were some points, he though, in which I might find that America was 30 far as regards railways, even superior to Engiandr I said, there were two points iq which they seemed to have the advantage of us?one being in their getting their roads made at so much less cost, and the other their way of getting them into a position to earn income at the earliest possible date; a proceeding which seemed wise, if they followed it up by expending money to perfect them. He smiled again, and J said that, notwithstanding the cheapness and early earning, I would find some of them were uot worth much. He talked of what he had seen, and what he 1 should see, and desired us, when we went to the Capitol, to ask for Mr. Walter, architect, who would show us over the building. As we rose to go, he mentioned the specimens of Japanese work below as interesting, and recommended us to see < them. Altogether, he was very cordial. ] Stopping the Wheels of Government. ' The intimation that the Houses of Congress will | Jiop cne UppropilUMOU VUIO uuiwa vv?%aiu wuiugo lesired in Kansas shall be granted to one party, is of too revolutionary a character to suppose that it will be carried out. No party would take the responsibility of stopping the Federal Government because Kansas has proved itsel so far unable to govern itself. Withholding the appropriations involves the necessity of disbanding the army, layng up the navy, suspending the civil service, shut- ' ting up the Custom Houses, Post Offioes and United States Courts, and indeed stopping all kinds jf public employment. The citizens of this republic, wc apprehend, are not disposed to have these svils and losses entailed upon the community to gratify any political party. Such a proposition, it seems to us, can only come from desperate ' men, and is surely not the determination of any j jonsiderable body of our representatives. Such , i measure resorted to in English history under the Stuarts, but there is certainly no analogy be- ' ;ween a government of prerogative which restric- ] :ed parliamentary right and a republican govern- | nent which exists by the free suffrages of the people.?Ph. Ledger. . Moke Nominations.?The "Bible Times," a 1 eligious publication issued in Baltimore by the i [lev. Thos. II. Stockton, nominates upon its own. . csponsibility, Judge McLean for the Presidency^ ind Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen,-of New Jer- V| ley, for the Vice-Presidency.--.PAi/. 4m?v.v i V '*& - *' ? "14* ,/$V . / . CoL. Frcmout'i ^a?UflettloB? for the Presldtncf. Mr. Thompson, oue of Kentucky's C. S. 8*nators, in his speech of July 1st, oo the Kansas bill, &c., thus refers to one of the oaudidates for the Presidency. I have nothing to say against Colonel Fremont. No doubt he is nu intelligent gentleman, traveller, a learned man ; but he has no convcrsnncy with public affairs, no experience in public matters, no sympathy or connection with'the wants of the community scattered over the limits of the confederacy. It is almost incomprehensible to me that any party should put up a man whose great recommendation is" that he lay in a snow drift 08 long nearly as a frog would lay frozeu on the north side of a hill in Massachusetts or New Hampshire before he was cut out; and that he eat a dosen mules and forty jackasses, just as a wolf would I devour anything he could to keep from itarra- 1 tion. [Laughter.] m These are his qualifications foifthe Presidency. If the officiol duty and busineilif of the Chief Exe- i cutive of the Union was to eat mules, then the best selection I know of in America lias been made. It was a "nomination not fit" to be made, and is an insult to the intelligence of the people. "-j-i * Dktbcting tht IItpocrit*#.?Mr. Murray's "Handbook or South Italy," Contains some curious stories respecting Fra Rocco, the celebrated Dominician preacher, and spiritual Joe Miller of Naples. On one occasion it is related, ho preach*.l o ?i:-i -i ??i J VU wu t* U1UIO U pcuiwuum SOIUJUU ttUU IlKrWIUCCU so many illustrations of terror, that he brought his hearers to their knees. While they were thus showing every sign of contrition, he cried out: "Now all of you who repent hold up your hands!" Every man in the vast; multitude immediately . stretched out both his hands "Holy Archangel Michael," exclaimed Rocco, "thou who with thine adamantine sword standest at the right of the judgment seat'df God, hew off every hand which has been raised hypocritically!" In an instant every hand dropped, and Rocco of course poured forth a fresh torrent of eloquent Invective against their sins and their deceit. I ?- ' ?"V Cbitical state or obb Rblatioks with SpaAj. ?"Ion," the Washington correspondent pft the Baltimore San, stateojjhat our relations with Spain have become interesting, if not quite critical as appears from late dispatches received from $Iy. 1 Dodge. The Cortez are said to have censored the government for having allowed and paid nriy claim on account of the Black Warrior affair, and, inconsequence, of that the government hns'refuscd oar demand for the adjustment of other claims pending. We have never had any expectation of receiving indemnity from Spain, pn account of the Black Warrior or any other claims. The Spanish government is bankrupt, and r ere it ijot so,-tbo so-called liberal party which rule the Cortex -are not disposed to recognise any concession made by the government to the justice of foreign claims, w " xC * *" M Ibon Tim.?An invention has recently been " made public in New York which has for its "object the improvement of the road bed by the substitution of iron ties for wooden ones. The 'rail res'ta upon a ch&ir attached to a cylindrical piece, which fits loosely into a strong hollow column aboUt a foot long. Within" this oolumn is placed a mass of India rubber^ upon which the weight of thetail rests, and-whicb is designed to yield'gently to the pressure of the'ears, and thus prevent; the disagreeable jolting experienced upon most railroads. Those columns, terminating in solid plates,* are buried in the ground npon a foundation of stone, leaving the chairs just above the surface. The chairs are connected by wroughtor costirpn bars, answering the purpose of tbaoydipary sleepers.? It is claimed that this track is mors durable, more easily lajd down, less liable to get oat' of repair, and pleasanter to ride over than others. i mi, CiLi. ' Sdr A Dutchman had made a handsome fortune iii Philadelphia by selling milk. He started off for.Holland httflxoiBe, with tiro "bags of > gold pieces. When on board he counted. one bag of his dear treasure. A mischievous monkey chanced to watch his operations. As soon as the conntedb&g had been replaced and tied up, Jocko seised it, > And soon found hi?way to the masthead- -He opened the bag, and after eyeing the brilliant gold, p?>oeeded to drop one pieccbn the dock and another in the water, until be had emptied the bag. Wben he had finished, the Dutchman threw up. his arms exclaiming; "Py jinkos, he nmst be.de djyc-1, for vat come from the vater he does gibeto tits' vater, and vat come from de milk he does gib tome.'.' A Singular Coincidence. We visited a few days since,- a gpotTCadcred somewhat memorable as having been the scene of a duel between IwogfJKentucky's chivalrous sons. The position of tnrratellsis, about eight paces, was marked by two trees, one of which bean, the initials of one of the parties entire name cut into the bark, the other bean ptdy the initiaP-of the" last name of the other , party. The tree under which the party stood wno was killed is dead, having, as we are informed, gradually decayed from the time. The other tree hi singularly typi- . cal of the condition of the surviving party, who is 4 now an inmate of a lunatic asjlumy standing, as-it < does, with the lower branches fall of life and ven-vdure, while its top is dead and leafless. Strange thoughts crowded our minds as w? stood and gazed upon these unfortunate witnesses to' an unfortunate deed.?Georgetown, D: Oi Jourriftl.C"J YlBII ' ? Birth or an Austrian Princess.?A letter dated Vienna, July 13, says: >?._ Yesterday morning, at half-pastHre o'clock, the Empress was delivered of a daughter. At-sight o'clock a salvo of twenty-one guns announced the # birth of the Princess.'r- A Te fieum was chanted at *' 11 o'clock. . The baptism of her Imperial Highness the Arch* duchess took place to-day at 10 o'clock. Oh this occasion an amnesty was granted by the Emperor for a great number of political offences.-: In Transylvania many persons have been released. Tire estates confiscated from the Hungarians, while that country was under martial law,.are-restored, and numerous other boons have been^conceded. A Destructive Ihsf.ct.?The Lancaster Ledger says: "The cotton crops in our sbotios are attacked by on insect that threatens to it a vast deal of damage, should their ravag& continue any length of time. So far as we'have heard from, It is general through our district; the cotton is literally covered with insects, and their destructive, effects are shown in the yellow and dwindled appearance of the stalks.' Our farmers have also to. | complain of a drought that has prevailed Jor some time, and now is beginning to be serious. The season have been so abundant through the month? of May aud June, that the corn erops.dan very poorly be^r a drought at this stage,- when, perhaps, it needs more rain than at any other.?' ? : Nick Calcitlatio*.?An exchange says thai "official information received from Cordova, Mexico, announces that more thAn two tons weightof.locusts have recently been killed in thftt, neighborhood. As it is calculated that .there are in< ich hundred weight. 1,720,000 locusts, some mighty arithmeticians have figured it out that at CoTdova not less than sixty-eight mSUons eight hundred thousand of these insects must have been killed, and afterwards buried." Aid for Kansas. Maj. Warren D. Wilkes reached here yesterday evening, and met the emigrants who go with him to Kansas. Upon mustering his company he found 17 from Chester, 15 from Sumter, 8 from Anderson, 1 from Abbeville, 2 from Lexington, 1 from Lancaster, aud 4 from Richland. Total 48. UaroUHian, bth. in*t. mn ' jffl** For Governor*., The Marion Star, of the 29th ult., contains a jommunication over the signature of "Mesopota- I mia," nominating the Hon. J.JD. Allen, Senator from Barnwell, for the Gubernatorial Chair. Out Op.?The words "out of are the wont intlie language, when one is out of patience and out sf money; when his wife says she is out of sugar jne day; out of coffee the next; and finally ont'of spirits. The word? are very good when one is out of debt, out of trouble and out of jail. If a man lias a smoking house and a scolding1 wife, out of loors is no bad place. -" ? m>i ?-? Columbia. Market. AcairsT 4/ Cotton.?Our report of the.cotton market for '.he week ending the 26th ult., closed on a brisk ind active demand for the article, at very full and irm prices. During the whole of the week just jroughtjto a close the same good feeling pervaded ;he market, and the outside figures given in onr previous report were freely paid. On Tuesday the news from Liverpool by the Arabia to the v 19th ult. came to hand, reporting cotton dull in tl.e early part of the week, in consequence of some heavy failures in Manchester, but towards the close it rallied and closed firm. Sales for the " week 88,000 bales, including 8,000 to speculators and exporters. These accounts had no quotable effect on ?ur market; and we therefore continue * -f! i , - ,i;