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Mtxzp ? Jfacfcs. | ? I ?- A Republican, electoral ticket is talk-j * ed of in Tennesee. m The story of an extraordinary occur-1 " " rence at the Blue Ridge Tunnel, discribing .the bursting of a great water cavern in the j mountains, is a hoax. Sixteen acres on the Elk Island estate of Julien Harrison, of Goochland, Va., produced the large amount of six hundred and forty bushels of wheat?averaging fiftythree and three quarter bushels of wheat' per acre. Amherst College, awakened to an appreciation of Mr. Sumner's merits by the drubbing administered to him by Mr. Brooks, | has conferred upon the Massachusetts Sen-! ator the title of LL. D. This means, we 1 suppose, Lammed Like the D?1.?Rich- j ; ? ?? The following recipe is said, by the ISTew York Chronicle, to be a sure and easy j eure for Tie a piece of raw cotton to the corn, and wet it several times a day, r with spirits of turpentine; this will in three j days cure the cOrtf- without the least apparent pain. v * There is a youug daughter of a titled English aristocrat living in Albany, N. Y. | She was brought up in luxury, fell in love , v with and married her father's groom, was! turned out of house and home, and obliged | to fly from her couutry to avoid her father's j vengeance. She passed through many trials ' which rend the heart, iu her career from wealth to poverty. She is now a seamstress. - A country exchange calls atteution to the fact that the vote of South Carolina iu ' the next Presidential election is in the hands ' of one man. "If Gov. Adams rhould fail j to call the Legislature together at the time J of election, either because he thought the State ought not to YOte, or that, that could not be an extraordinary occasion which happened regularly every four years, the vote ; of the State would be lost." *' " The favorite parlor instrument, now j considered an almost indispensable article 1 in every family that can purchase it, was in- j vented by J. C. Schroeder, of Dresden, in , ; 1717; the square piano was made by Fre- j derica, an organ builder of Saxony, about j 175S. Piano fortes were made in London by >1. Zumpie, a German, in 176G. The manufacture of this instrument was commenced in this country since the opening of the present century. ??The Augusta Constitutionalist records the recent sale, in that city, of four pounds of butter, at four dollars per pound, it is to be paid for, however, only after the I election of Mr. Fillmore to the Presidency, | and the purchase may, therefore, be consid-1 tred a very good bargain. The Const it h- | . tiona/list says that the purchaser offered the ; same butter lor sale, payable when Buchan* an is elected, and the highest price he could I get offered was thirty cents. That being par, or oash value for the commodity, no sale was effected. oiwl Vi..fnvio VAnnivA nnA mil. lion of dollars anuually. By strict economy they ore able to support life on this small amount. It is proposed to settle three hundred aod fifty thousand dollars on the Princess Iloyai of the England, as her annuity after her ruarriage with the Prussian Priuce. Having been trained to frugal habits, it is f hoped that the young house-keepers will avoid all unnecessary expenses, aud thus be i enabled to make the two ends next year meet. -f - * All the sword blades ma<]e for the English army are the work, it is stated, of fonr men, three of whom are brothers. There , is a secret in the mode of manufacture known ouly by tWse four men, aDd which they jealously guard. They select their owu assistants, and have the right to discharge . them at pleasure, when they do not like k them. One of the brothers at Enfield makes eighteen blades per day, for which he re- ^ ceives2s. 3d. His average earnings weekly amount to fifty dollars. The New York Tribuue announces on the authority of a private note, that the Hon. Charles Sumner "is, at last, convalescent, > the mountain air having had a beneficial effect," and half intimates that he will before long be engaged in public speaking. The . date of the "private note" is not mentioned. Perhaps it was written yesterday, and it is to be hoped that as a special session of Con-; gresshas been called, Mr. Sumner will be able to appear upon the floor of the Senate Chamber, and take part in the proceedings of that body. "A singular wager," says the Salut Public, of Lyons, "has just been decided V. a?ia A r\ a #V?/\ cnrinnt>niv< aC fliA aWt* JLIC1C* vuo VI ?uv OIIUIUUVIO VI iliv V4KJ UiUUV a bet that he Would cross the llhone on his ! back, carrying on his stomach a small ta-j ble, on which should be placed two bottles ' full of wine, six eggs on a plate and four glasses. The fall of any one of these objects would involve the loss of the wager. The swimmer, however, crossed the river without displacing one of the articles, and : won the bet." Among the new things of the age is : the manufacture of shoes by cementing to-! gether the pieces of leather of which they *.:re composed. A shoe is thus made with-; out a peg or a stitch, which it is said will1 never rip and canuot be torn apart in the j seams, because the leather will tear first.? A large company has been started for this I manufacture at Ballard Vale, their process , being to ceuient the shoes on the common1 wooden lasts and then dry then dry them in i ovens. But we understand an improved i process has been invented, by which a pair [ of shoes cau be completed, iu five minutes. | The pieces are cemeuted on a hollow metal- j lie last, into which stream is introducec by ! turning a cock, and its heat sets the cement inatflntnnflmislv ttlliivav *ucwuvwuvv?v.^ . ?? "We learn from the Columbia papers j that on Tuesday morning a locomtive on I on the Greenville road, on the way to the depot, came suddenly upon a man lying be- j twecn two cross-ties in a depression, so that! he could not be seen until the engine was almost on him. lie was seen to lay his | head on the rail, but too late for the, engineer to stop the engine. His head was severed from his body and fell off the track ?his body was left as he sat, with his hand clenched on a cross-tie. The name of the unfortunate man was George Shegog, formerly a clerk in Columbia and at the Greenville depot; and a letter found at his residence, written by him on Monday, disclosed the fact that he intended the rash act thus deliberately carried out. ?: ^3 :?T ??? ?~ C^forlibiHe tt(j?inr SAM'L W. MELTON JOHN L. MILLEB. YORKVILLEj S. C. THUBSDAY KOBNING, AUGUST 28,1856. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Our readers are referred to the new advertisements in this issue. Mr. Walter B. Metts, offers for sale a valuable house and lot in Yorkville. Mr. F. M. Galbraith also offers for sale, two tracts of land, situated four miles South of Yorkville, and U miles from Philadelphia Station, ou the Kings Mountain Hail Road. Mr. If. II. Whitener proposes to sell two Houses nti.i tliti.iii.il nt tin. miner end of Main-street. personal. We were pleased to receive a visit a few days ago from Prof. D. H. Hill, of Davidson College. He is in fine health and spirits. We regret that his stay was sc short, as we were anxious to learn of him, something more of the future plans and prospects of the College. He regards its success now as a fixed fact, and confidently predicts its future eminence and proud distinction among the most favored institutions of the country. rev. ferdinand jacobs. The Rev. Ferdinnnd Jacobs, of Charleston, formerly Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in this place, has been on a visit to our town during the past week. While living in our midst, he was universally esteemed and respected for his fervid piety and zealous advocacy of the great truths of the Christian religion. We know there have been many sad changes that would awaken painful emotions in hi? benevolent heart. There is scarce a family of his acquaintance that on entering its circle, he did not miss the friendly greeting and familiar face of some loved one who has gone to the spirit land. Yet amid life's vicissitudes nnd changes, there are still scene? and associations to " wa.nniAn witli It rwn "memory ucur, <.uu ? u?|?|.j , v......... ...... whom ho loved and for whom he labored, would revive recollection? of 'auld lang syne," that would render his visit pleasant and agreeable. <??<> HEALTH. We ptxblished in the Enqvibkr of last week a statement in regard to the health of Yorkville.? We hope it has allayed all fear on the subject, and put a stop to the exaggerated reports about the health of what we consider our very healthy little Town. There is not a more beautiful, and apparently more healthy location, to be found anywhere in the State. It matters not what sickness may prevail here, it is very certain there is no local cause for it. It strikes us very forcibly, though we would not like to make the clinrge against any one. that there is some design in these false rumors; at least it has an "nwful squint" that wa}'. We have two very flourishing schools, the Female College and the Military Academy, and ever since their establishment, wo have heard the most woful accounts of the health of Yorkville.? whenever there is any danger, we will be as ready to sound the alarm as any one else, and we take the reponsibility of saying as much for the Principals of our schools. ? .MM AGRICULTURAL MEETING. We were present at a meeting of the Indian Land Agricultural Society held at Rock Hill, on the 7th inst., and should leave devoted at least a paragraph to it before this time, but various circumstances have conspired to prevent it. We can assure our friends of the Society, it is from no want of interest in their laudable undertaking to promote the great agricultural interests of the country. It is to be regretted that such societies, conducted with a proper spirit, are not more numerous. They would prove important auxiliaries to the State Agricultural Association. The Agriculturist a paper published in Columbia, S. C., under the auspices of the State Association, and ably edited by our friend Col. Simmer, would llieu have a wider field for its influence; a different system of culture would soon be adopted, and what are now considered "waste lands," might be made to yield abundant harvest. While others are indulging schemes by which thev can establish an Utopia,?seeking "political reform"?"political change" in our State policy, the citizens of the Indian Land have taken a step in the right direction, rightly judging, that agricultural reform is most needed, and will be far more conducive to our prosperity. We were pleased to see the zeal manifested by all present. In discharge of a duty assigued them at a previous meeting, essays rwere read by Capt. John* Massey and A. Rorertsox, Esq. A. P. Joiixsox, Esq., was elected to deliver an address, on the first Thursday in November, the Anniversary of the Society, at'which time, there will be an exhibition of Stock, &c. As if determined to omit nothing that would enhance the interest of the occasion, arrangements were also made for a dinner. After the regular business had been dispatched, Maj. R. A. Springs, the President of the Society, distributed some fine varieties of fruit, gath- ( ered from his orchard. As the Major has never bestowed much attention to fruit culture until within a few years past, we are very much disposed to attribute his superior skill in the art, to the good taste of his excellent lady, though wc would not detract one iota from the meed of praise due him. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Washington Citt, August 15. The topics which have engaged the attention of the two Houses of Congress, since my arrival in Washington, have been of such little moment and so entirely local in their interest, that I have not heretofore felt prompted to turn my pen to their discussion. Both branches have been engaged almost incessautly in the generous employment of | disbursing and scattering abroad the contents of I our plethoric Treasury?a performance in which J there appears to be far more unanimity tnan, from the distracted condition of parties, one would be led to suppose. This branch of legislation yon know lias but little interest for a South Carolinian : although our little Stale pays into the Treasury a very large proportion of the public revenue, scarcely a single farthing finds its way hack to the pockets of our people. It must be so ; (Jurs is \ an agricultural community, independent of all ex- I trinsic resources, above the petty scramble for the public money, and, thus far at least, superior to those degrading influences which are at work only where the pap of the federal government falls most profusely. And for the purity of our people ?for the maintenance of our reputation for good morals and a high public tone, it is well so: though, after all, it puts one in no good humor to know that his State contributes so liberally to the support of a government, from which no adequate return can be secured?uot even that protection and security in the enjoyment of the rights of j person and of property which it Is the highest purpose of government to vouchsafe. It is amazing to witness with what facility, with what unscrupulous defiance of all right and principle, the public revenue is squandered. The men of the Eastern States are always ready to vote for appropriations, of whatever kind, which have the effect to deplete a Treasury, the groaniDg surplus of which furnishes such a potent argument against their schemes for the protection of the manufacturing interest. The men of the West, too, are equally ready to vote for the surveys and improve- j ment of their rivers and harbors &c., however ' ' contrary suck measures may be to the plain letter i of the Constitution, for thus they are enabled to enrich their particular section, and secure, each for himself, a more permanent popularity. The West holds the balance of power in the Presidential contest; and all parties unwilling to hazard their success by incurring such a powerful hostility, succumb to the imperious necessity. Thus, in the course of an hour, during the past week, I | have witnessed the squandering, the absolute ' throwing away of millions. Why, at such a time, j as I heard a member remark, it is worth a pretty little fortune of thousands to catch the Speaker's eye, and obtain the floor! Our own members have long since learned that it is useless to attempt to stem the torrent, and they sit quietly in their . seats?attending, doubtless, to matters which : more immediately concern their home-people. But it just now occurs to me that I am wrong * " 1 -l.-l... (Inn n OftlT ; in venturing sucn sweeping ucuimiuiuus. ! Aiken, who is always very wide-awake, to thoin; terests of his constituency, has succeeded in ob! taining somewhat liberal appropriations for Chari leston harbor, and the fortification on the island, 1 nnd the Custom House; and, strange to say, Mr. Boyce, equally attentive to his duly, has put in ! train an appropriation of $50,000 for the erection of an elegant government building, in Columbia, for the use of the Post Office nnd the United States j Court. Inasmuch as the good sense nnd deter' mined energy of the mcrchnuts of Columbia have j been so successfully employed, of late, in openiug I permanently the navigation of the Congaree, it i might be a good one to "tako tirao by the fore| lock," and have our goodly "city of shade-trees" I dcclnred a port of entry, so as, nt the outset, to | conform the new building to. the purposes of a j Custom House ! Think of that, friend Britton ! j Hold up your head and look towards Washington! j Speaking of Court Houses, I must not forget to mention, also, that Cul. Orr lias procured the aI doption of a measure establishing Greenville as j one of tli'* points for the sessions of the District j Court of the United States in our State. Formerly the law provided for the bidding of this Court : at Laurens, but I am under the impression that i a session has not been held there?at least for a ! number of years. Greenville will probably have better luck, and eventually, if the 1'ntriot attends properly to the Union, a superb Court House may be added to the number of fine public buildings which already ndorn that handsome town. This will furnish Mnj. Perry a capital subject for a long editorial, in his peculiar vien ; and I trust he will find himself much more easy and happy in j the handling of it, than he was in the discussion of the metaphysical theme I suggested to him last Summer. Really the subject, like a half-done oyster, grows hrger the more I work at it. I have still another instance of federal regard. Mr. Boyce informed me yesterday that the President had sent to the Senate the name of our friend General Alston, as Indian Agent?of the Omaha tribe, in Nebraska Territory, I think. I do not know whether the appointment has yet been confirmed ; of course, however, there cannot possibly be an objection. Nor do I know?indeed I doubt very much?whether the Genernl will accept it. The office is worth about twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, witli as much more, in the way of perquisites, as the moral capacity of the holder will allow. I think, however, viewing the matter solely as one of loss and gain, I nmy undertake to say that the intelligence and liberality of the Rock Hill people will be fully equal to the duty of detaining permanently in their midst such a useful and rarely valuable citizen. At any rate, I cnn trust so: and I indulge the hope the more implicitly from the fact that Gen. Alston has but recently accepted a position which will, probably, prove to be both permanent and profitable. Since I came to AVashington, I have failed to detect any very great violence in the ebbings and Mowings of party feeling. The political circles, here, seem to be unusually quiet. If I should undertake to account for this phenomenon, I might ascribe it to the too confident anticipations of the Democratic leaders on the one hand, and a corresponding dejection on the part of the opposition. But, to tell the truth, the election of Buchanan is by no means to be placed in the category of fixed facts. Three weeks ago I would not have given a fig for his chances ! My visit to the North afforded me opportunities for observing the condition of political sentiment there as it is ; and nothing was I nmro ovidont. than the wide-snread nroclivitv of the masses, especially those of the rural districts, to abolitionism and Fremont. The excitement in behalf of that party was appalingly intense, and the fear could be reasonably indulged that scarcely a single Northern State will recover from its throes before the November election shall have been decided. Why, even old Pennsj'lvania, the anchor, the last abiding-place, tho "forlorn hope" of the Democracy North of Mason and Dixon's line, trembled to the very centre and rocked as if tottering from her time-honored position. During the past few weeks, however, the prospects of the Democratic party have evidently been brightening, and we can now with much more confidence look forward to a successful issue of the contest. The unexpected result in their favor of the recent elections in Kentucky; the additional j assurances from Missouri, and the probabilities of a Democratic triumph in Maryland, arising from the recent fraternization of the old-Hue Whig party there, have proved that Fillmore cannot secure the vote of a single Southern Stale, and thus have brightened the hopes and redoubled the exertions [ of the Northern wing of the Democracy. We have now the best assurances- of the triumph of the Buchanan ticket in Pennsylvania, Maine, Connecticut, and probably in Illinois and Indiana.? The Brooks excitement and the Kansas fury have run themselves completely out, and, as the BlackRepublicans have thus lost the most powerful elements of their progress, their prospects, if matters go on smoothly will henceforward, grow ! "small by degrees aud beautifully less." It is worthy of remark that, although the States of New York and Massachusetts arc irretrievably in the hands of the Republicans, the city of NewYork and even Boston will undoubtedly declare for Fillmore by a lurgo majority. How must we account for this strange phenomenon ? Living in such advantageous positions, the inhabitants are much more intelligent and less contracted in their j sentiments, it is true ; but the secret is to be found in the fact that, being in a position to suffer as well as to know, they have become alarmed at the prospect of a dissolution of the Union ! Such an event would crow crass in the streets of New York 1 and Boston, and tlicy know it. Fillmore told them , that the Union could not survive the election of j Fremont, and they believe it. Unfortunately, however, although such'an event would visit the rural districts with an equally desolating hand, those people scout at the idea of a dissolution of the Union ; and on all occasions, they tauntingly and insultingly throw it in your face that the Southern people can not be "kicked out.'' Could J they be convinced of their error, if error it be, the Union might be preserved ; or, at least, the South might eventually secure, either in or out of the Union, the recognition of her rights and her ' honor. As it is, I seen not one single ray of light through the darkness of the future to cheer my heart. For this unfortunate mistake into which the j Northern people have fallen, we are at home, I fear, much to blame, f he Republican papers at the North endeavor, of course, to nourish this belief?their success depends upon it; and as an argument, which I have not even had the courage to try to answer, they quote the candid admis : v sions of Southern paper of high position?South ; Carolina papers?the Charleston Standard, and j the Carolina Times and others, that there exists j even in South Carolina a large body of citizens, the non-slaveholders?-who are inimical to slavory, j love the Union better than they do their domestic institutions?in short who are abolitionists at heart. , The ''slave power," they say, 'is sufficiently strong ' now to smother this sentiment; but when the great j issue is at hand, it will make itself felt and will triumph !" I know the gentlemen who conduct j these journals, and I cannot (or a moment doubt j their motives. This, however, but place me the 1 more completely at a loss how to account for their I unequivocal declarations. Suppose them true? a supposition not to be indulged except for the I sake of argument?and it is certainly the most j palpable violation of the most common-sense view j of good policy, to publish them to the world.? Let me tell them, in all candor, that by such a 1 course they nre stabbing our cause to the very , death?fanning the flame of fanaticism at the North | and check-mating every effort of the friends of i Southern rights here and there. This is earnest, j candid truth, and as I know and speak advisedly I I hope it will be so regarded. Everybody in Washington is on the alert in pre- | paration for the adjournment of Congress, which | will take place on Monday next. The Appropria- ; tion Bills, always the crowning work of the ses- j sion, are in a fair way on their passage, and j through the industrious laborB of Congress for the last week, the hour of adjournment will be reached quietly and easily. The matter of course business is in fact in a better condition now than for years past. But one cfTfficulty reiunins to be settled?the proviso which the Republicans have attached to the Army Bill in relation to alfairs in Kansas. The Senate has positively refused to accept the amendment; and should the Houso, as it has the power, adhere to its position, there will certainly be trouble abend. But such a course would not enhance the popularity of the Republi- j can cause at the North, where "money makes the j mare go and, though the "Blacks" are vocifer- j ous, they will in the end quietly surrender the j point. Both Houses passed, to-day, a bill to increase j the compensation of members of Congress, by al- j lowing them $3,000 annually instead of eight dol- ( lars per day. Though the former rate appears to be amply sufficient, the fact is notorious thnt, owing to the enormous prices of living in Washing- | ton, every member lives at a considerable expense j to his private pocket. The bill will really save money to the treasury, by compelling the mem- ! bers to purchase out of their private funds what- j ever books they may desire. Under the old system, the item of printing alone was almost fabulously large, and gave room for a lamentable degree of speculation and corruption. As it is the public printing will turn out to be a small item.? It is believed, too, that the fixed compensation will have the effect to shorten the sessions mate-.-11? --1 an Aw'l tnln'nli KnC tVt'ATVn ntiliy, 11I1U 111U3 tuuvv/k ttiicut n Uiwt iiiic I to be absolutely dangerous. The measure is in j every point of Anew a good one. I have had the pleasure of meeting villi all of our delegation, and find them, not only hearty and at work, but prompt to exiend that large measure of courtesy and attention which the stranger in Washington knows well how to appreciate. Gov. Aiken lives at his home ; Mr. Boycc and Gen. McQueen, at boarding houses; and Messrs. Orr, Brooks and Keitt-aro "roughing it" together in good old batchelor style. I am indebted to the Inst named coterie for a pleasant apartment in their I ) tenement, and in the enjoyment of their own and I the society which such men are sure to gather aI round them, I find the time pnssing so agreeably 1 ! that I shall regret to come upon the day of leaving. All my efforts to the contrary notwithstanding, I have inflicted another long letter. My prolixity -is certainly growing to the dignity of a disease. But I trust the reader will make kind allowances for it. Yours truly, s. w. ji. Spicy. The intelligent and attentive correspondent of the Greenville Enlerprite, writing from Columbia over the signature of Buyfrd, "pitches into" the opponents of the South Carolina College ufter the . I following fashion : ' We see that several candidates for the Legis- j lature in some of the upper Districts are opposed J to, and will vote against (if elected) the "large annual appropriation to the South Carolina Col- 1 lege." H '-icstly aud candidly speaking, wc cannot see what good such opposition to the State 1 Institution can effect. All' the efforts made by < opponents of the College in the next twenty years < cannot, in our opinion, cause the appropriation to < be diminished in the least. And the agitation of < the question now cannot now avail any-thing? 1 : save it may be, the election to the Legislature of ' j some one or two, who would have received con- ' I sidcrnble benefit in a mental respect lmd they < I graduated at the College which they now denounce, i I Some doubtless are honest and sincere in their op- 1 I position to the State's aiding the College?but we think they are few in numbers?and this terrible outcry, against the College appBOpriation comes < especially from those who never could enter the i College?and who now envy the high, and noble position in the State and the political influence of graduates of the College. These remarks are in; tended to apply to no particular person or per- < I sons, and may be, for what we know opposed to 1 your views on the College queston. Yet ''the i liberty of tho press availeth nothing unless the liberty of differing doth accompany it." < President's Message. i Fellow Citizens of the Senate an<l House of Pep re- 1 tentatives: In consequence of the failure of Congress, at its 1 | recent session, to make provision for the support ^ I of the army, it became imperatively incumbent | on me to exercise the power which the Constitu| tion confers on the Executive for extraordinary ( occasions, and promptly to convene the two IIou ses, in order to afford them an opportunity of re- J considering a subject of such vital interest to the , peace and welfare of the Union. With the exception of a partial authority vested by law in the Secretary of War to contract foyi supply of cloth- 1 ing and subsistence, the army is wholly dependent on the appropriations annually made by Congress, j | The omission of Congress to act in this respect before the termination of the fiscal year had already caused embarrassments to the service, which / were overcome only in expectation of appropria- . tions before the close of the present month. If 1 the requisite funds be not speedily provided, the ! 1 Executive will no longer be able to furnish for transportation the equipments and munitions which are essential to the effectiveness of a milita - j ry force in the field. With no provision for the i { pay of the troops, the contracts of enlistment j i would be broken, and the arrny must in effect be ! t disbanded?the consequences of which would be | / so disastrous as to demand all possible efforts to j ( arrest the calamity. j t , It is not merely that the officers and enlisted 1 t men of the army are to be thus deprived of the j s J pay and emoluments to which they are entitled t by standing laws, but that the construction of ! / i arms at the public armories, the repair and con- j i I struction of ordinance at the arsenals, and tho t I manufacture of military clothing and camp equip- : j I age must be discontinued, and the persons con- | \ nected with this branch of the public service thus j i t be deprived, suddenly, of the employment esson- j t | tial to their sustenance; nor is it merely the waste 11 j consequent on the forced abandonment of the sea- f board fortifications and of the interior military i i posts and other establishments, and the enormous i expense of recruiting and reorganizing the army, 11 j and again distributing it over the vast regions ' f I which it now occupies. I t These arc evils w'hich may, it is true, be repair- [ i cd hereafter by taxes imposed on the country, f but other evils are involved which no expenditures, i i however lavish, coutd remedy, in comparison with i which local and personal injuries or interests sink j 1 into insignificance. A great part of the army is j situated on the remote frontier or in the deserts t nnd mountains of the interor. To discharge bod- ; J ies of men in such places without the means of i j regaining their homes, nnd where few, if any, | t could obtain subsistence by honest industry, would , t be to subject them to suffering and temptation, < with disregard of justice and right most derogato- i s ry to the government. I In the Territories of Washington and Oregon j I numerous bands of Indians are in arms and are 1 Waging a war of extermination against the white 1 j - .4 - - *- '* ;; - . ? ----- inhabitants, antl although our troops arc actively ! carrying on the campaign, we have no intelligence | as yet of a successful result. On the "Western j Plains, notwithstanding the imposing display of . military force recently made there, and the clias- ' tisemcnt inflicted on the rebellious tribes, others, ; far from being dismayed, have manifested hostile ( intentions and been guilty of outrages which if not designed to provoke a conflict, serve to show i that the apprehension of it is insufficient wholly | to restrain their vicious propensities. A strong force in the State of Texas has produced the Temporary suspension of hostalities there, but in New Mexico incessant action on the part of the troops is required to keep in check the marauding tribes which infest that territory. The hostile Indians have not been removed from the State of Florida, and the withdrawal of the troops therefrom, leaving that object unaccomplished, would be most injurious to the inhabitants, and a breach of the positive engagement of the general government. To refuse supplies to the army, therefore, is to compel the complete cessation of all its operations, and practical disbandmeut, ami thus to invite hordes of predatory savages from the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains to spread devastation along a frontier of more than four thousand miles in extent, nnd to deliver up the sparse pop- j illation of a vast tract of countrv to rapine and murder. Sucl), in substance, would be the direct and immediate effects of the refusal of Congress, for the first time in the history of the government, to grnnt supplies?the inevitable waste of millions of public treasure?the infliction of extreme wrong upon all persons connected with the military establishment, by service, employment, or contracts j ?the recall of our forces from the field?the fear- j ful sacrifice of life and incalculable destruction of property on the remote frontiers?the striking ] of our national flag on the battlements of the for- I tresses which defend our maritime cities against foreign invasiou?the violation of the public honor and good faith?and the discredit of the I'nited States in the eyes of the civilized world. I confidently trust that these considerations and other appertaining to the domestic peace of the country, which cannot fail to suggest themselves to every patriotic mind, will, on reflection, bo duly appreciated by both Houses of Congress, aud induce the enactment of the requisite provision of law for the support of the army of the United States. FRANKLIN PIERCE. Washington, August 21, 185G. To the People of South Carolina. Fkllow Citizkxs:?Fourteen years have come and gone since, as tho organ of the State Temperance Society, I addressed you on the great question of Total Abstinence from all which can 'intoxicate!'. In that time what changes have takon place ! The Washington Reform and Moral Suasion were the cries which grew louder and louder, in eveiy temperance circle. Th?y were things of but ft day?the Washington Reform perished ; Moral Suasion lins been rendered almost powerless by the fact that those mho most need suasion, the manufacturers and vendors of intoxicating drink, will not listen, and, like Demetrius, the silversmith, thoycry out against the followers of temperance, us he did against Paul at Ephesus, saying, "Sirs, ye know that by this craft (the making or selling of intoxicating drink ) "ire hare our wealth." "Moreover, ye scc-ffncT~fiear not only" htre, "but almost through all America, the men Cary, White, and others have "turned away much people," saying, that there should be no intoxicating drink "made with hands," and that none should bo sold or drunk, "so that not only this one craft is in danger to be set at naught," but also that the "great temple" of temperate drinking "should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all" America "and the world worshipped," This persecuting cry hire, as ip ?pj;esus, I,as filled the people with wrath, and they arc made to cry out "great it the making and selling of intoxicating drink," and they are ready, if not to lay their hands 011 the devoted Rensoncrs of Temperance, Moral Suiisiouists you may call them, at I least to circulate all falsehoods of and concerning ] them, as for instance of Cary, when ho was re- j posing from his labors in the bosom of his own ; family at College Hill, Ohio, "that he had been j seized in Alabama, and incarcerated as an Abolition- j 1st*," or of White, while he wu<? rousing the p<*o- ' pie more and to temperance, that he was j given over to intoxicating dcjfiV: Mcn arul i brethern, do you not indeed, when reason, and not , madness, is present, cry out, "Shame! shame!" The 8tato Temperance Society at their rocent I meeting at Ijreenvlllp directed their President- to j address the people of the frtftto. (p porf .rw g 1 that duty, I beg leave to call their attonti n, 1st I to the State Temperance Society itself; 2nd, to the necessity of concerted action on the part of the people to put down drunkenness 3d to the necessity of establishing a Temperance Newspaper; 4th, to what we desire in the part of the Legislature to secure temperance to thPeople, of the Stale. 1st. Recollect, friends, that the Wtate "JV^'pcr- : anco Society was first organized in J820, that at its head sat the noble, venerable, and revolutionary form of the putriach of Columbia, Col, Thomas Taylor. Jle and his society have long since passed away. But does not his pure and childlike spirit, abide in sonic part of Columbia ? Has Ilia mantle dcaconded from the chariot of fire, upon no inhabitant of his own town, In 1838, a new State Temperance Society was organized, and Chancellor Job Johnson was placed at its head. In 1841, the undersigned was sailed to the Presidency, which he has ever since occupied. In 1842, '3, '4, '5, 'G, '7, '8, 'It, '50 ind '51, it carried the banner of temperance, total abstinence, all over the State. Why did it cease to do so in '52, '53, '54 '55 ? For two reasons : 1st, the people became weary in well doing ; the total abstinence organizations generally perished from tho want of attention, A few glorious exceptions such as the JJead Spring (Society, | N'ewbetry District, and the Churl ston Mariner's | Wnshingtonian Total Abstinence Society remain- j cd. 2d, other organizations, the Sons of Temper- j ance and Itecabites, it was supposed might sup- j ply the place of the State Temperance Society, j and its subordinate Total Abstinence Societies.? Rut in vain : their work, noble and useful ns it is, : could rot and did not meet all classes of men, wo- j men cn-l children. Hence it became necessary to j organize the State Temperance Society, This I was done on the Oth and 7th of August, jpst., at ' Greenville; and now brethcrn and friends, people I of South Carolina, we claim your aid to give the j State Temperance Society its former prominence ! ind iisefulnest by concerted action on your part. | This presents our second head. To youj there- j fore, we say let there be no division among tern- i perance people. Every order and organization I ire respectively entitled to bo represented by suud- j ing up delegates (as many as you please,) to the aext meeting of the State Temperance Society, in ' Columbiu, on tho Tuesday after the fourth Monday ! in November next. In the meantime organize j Total Abstinece Societies in every city, town, vil- j age and neighborhood in the State. So too, re- t rive former or create new Divisions nnd Sections I if the Sons and Cadets of Temperance, and Tents if Recnbites. Remember that in peace yon must prepare for war. The war between Sobriety and lrunkenness is not now exactly upon us, but it is j lenr at hand : they who cry pence, peace, arc do- I jeivers. The State must be ruled lg intoxicating ! irink or temperance. The next sessiou ot the Leg- [ slaturc is an important era in the great amI hobj : cork of raring the people from t/iemsclvii. To for- { ivard this we need 3d, A Temperance Newspaper! Have you for- j *otten the Temperance Advocate? Have you for- i ;otten how a few self sacrificing men established : t? Have you forgotten how nobly it sustained j he temperance cause against all comers and j ' if clmil liirlit in fvi?iT ilnrk snot iii South I JUVI3 . 1. . - j | Jurolina. Even the Erinr Patch, where one of ; lie young men of the Theological .Seminary was i hrcatcned to be rode T>n a rail for soliciting sub- j icriptions, received its light, and organized a Total j Abstinence Society. After long sustaining the I mttle, it fell more from neglect of its friends, than ' njuries of its foes. The Temperance Standard,' lie child of Zeal, and uncompromising private ! jerseverancc, is also, after much good and useful j vork, in the tomb of the capulets. tyen, breth cn and friends, why is this ? Do we not need a j emperance family newspaper? What are two j lollnrs per annum in comparison with it? My 'riend Andrew Wallace, of Collumbia, used to tell nc that the Temperance Advocate on the day of j ts issue was that first called for by each of his j ihildren. We want just such a paper now. Our j amilies, wives and children are no politicians; } hey care precious little about the fiery articles, i Therewith our papers abound ; but they care and eel for that which is to make them happy here, vhich is to dry up the fountains of intoxicating Irink. They are stretching out their hands for a Temperance Family Newspaper, to be full of Teni>erance, Knowledge, Science, Art, History, past ind present, Moral Tales, Religion, and News.? Such a paper sustained by one editor at Columbia, | ind a corresponding editor in every District city, j own and village, will be the organ of every order ind association of Temperance, and will also be imphatically the Peoples Organ J Who will sub- j icribe for such a pnper ? Let every friend of Temjcrance, every Son, every Cadet, and everyRecajite answer the question by taking up subscrip;ions and sending the result to the undersigned. Act thus, and we will soon hoye a temperance pa/ r. - - * * . *' f * It / per: ready to aid in asking from the Legislature security for the Temperance Reform. 4th. At present, we ask from wise, virtuous, and patriotic Legislators a law which shall prohibit by the severest sanctions "the manufacture or sale of intoxicating drink, to he drank at the place irhcre made or sold." This, it seems, cannot bo conuistently denied. The law now permits a distiller to sell without a license spirtuous liquors manufactured from the growth, or product, of his own plantation, in quantities of and above a quart provided it be carried away from the same plantation; and the 11th section of the Act of '40, directs that under a license to sell by the quart, liquors cannot be drunk at the place where sold. We ask this principle to be carried out. At present, >re ask no more! Before its effects will fall all distilleries, grog-shops, and taverns ; and then to all South Carolina, "soher and in her right mind,'' we will say, "prohibit the manufacture, and sale o f intoxicating drink, except for mechanical and medicinal purposes." When this is done we shall cease to agitate, but not before. Then we will look around upon our free and happy State, and crown her with the noblest wreath which can be plucked from her Magnolias and Talmcttoes, which will bo as much superior to the Roman croWn of oak leaves for saving a citizen, as the State is superior to any one of her single citizens. JOHN HELTON O NEALL, Pres't of the State Tern., Society. Prospect Hill, Greenville Dist., August 11th, 1856. Hgk Papers friendly to Temperanco are requested to republish this. Dentil of Alexander Carrol. Wc record, with sadness and sorrow, the removal by death of one whose labors and services ! have, for five years, been applied to these columns I with a fidelity, zeal and success of which our con1 stnnt readers arc better qualified to judge than we are to write, under the shock of snch a loss.? I Alexander Cannot., Esq., late assistant editor of [ this journal, expired at nine o'clock yesterday eveuing, in his lodging at the Pavillion Hotel, on ; the fith day of an attack of illness which, from the I first, was deemed threatening. He was attacked j on Saturday evening with billious cliolic, in a very violent form, and for some hours endured severe pain, but obtained relief so far as to excite the hopes of many of bis friends. On Wednesday evening the 20th instant, a crisis occurred which was fatal to such hopes, however chcrishod^. nod | his condition soon after imposed on his ubyefejan ! one of the most painful duties of that profession , ?in communicating gently the assured- probability of a fatal termination. His attending physician bad previously galled in to consultation the best experience atlu'skill de| sired and suggested by all friends nntl by the patient himself and the consultation whs repeated at this hour, but without other suceeeer than a mitigation of the pains incident to tjio Inevitable exit. At an early hour of yesterday (Thursday,) Mr. Carrol, in full consciousness and possession of | bis faculties, so far as could be judged, summoned those friends to whom he wished to ontrust the management of his affairs, and reoeiv'bd afterwards pastoral munitions and preparatory offices of the sad occasion from the Iter. Dr. Bachmak.? Throughout the day lie seemed to sink gently and steadily, with n few flickering efforts of yielding life to rally, and thus quietly, and as all around deemed, consciously and neacefullv passed away. Mr. 6ahuoi. was boinir, tljc year 1818, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, and after a preparatory education at a school in Somersetshire, was admitted in 1837 to Queen's College, Oxford, and after some time spent there, received an honorable dismissal. Of the particulars of iiis active life in England we are not informed beyond the fact of a oouneotion with the London press. In August, 1840, lie arrived at Charleston, in the ship Onward, Capt. Chase, and soon obtained employment in the office of the Charleston Mercury. After a few months he was called to the editorial control and direction of the i'la/ca JliyhO ftei>uMican, a daily journal of Columbia, S. G., and p6ndpcted it with characteristic industry and application through q, very exciting and trying stage of discussion. fn the spripg of 185], he became ponnccted with the editorial staif of this Journal, nwlso re- j mojned until his dcpcasc. Of his labors and sue- j oess in this capacity, it is difficult for us ta speak i adequately, and we therefore omit attempts at a j description which, without doing justice to him, might seem assumption in us. IVe can say, however, in brief, that in a post of duty and labor, engrossing and trying beyond the conception of j any "j?fjo have not attempted it practically, he was j ever found prompt, ready and willing, to the best ! of his information. lie was emphatically a man of work in his yq- j cation, and his devotion to the duties and inter- | osts connected with his relationship prompted him j ever to sock and inquire, not what was easiest of : execution, but what was needed, and what was best for all purposes. Our sheet, with its varied and strangely mingled reflections and impressions of checkered life, may go forth to strange and distant readers with out apparent changes, but it will be long uciure the active associates in this office, anil those closely acquainted jvitli qs by business relations, can cease to feel nt;d deplore the void tl?rft his beep left by thp rcpioyql of Alexander Carroll. Thus is it ever, as ono by one wc yield to the dread summons; a hpsy world around foels only an inspirit check, while each deccdeut is loug ipd sadly mourned by (lie inner circle of friendship, home, nrtd family. There is ono specially called to mourn, into whose grief wc cannot by anticipation intrude,-.-the ypt unconscious widow, whose first shock of bcreayerpent \yill come from afpr.? Mr. Carroll leaves a consort, now on her first visr ! it of return to friends and relatives in the old world, whose absence on this sad occasion is a melancholy addition to the grief and fruitless, but natural regrets of the friends who ministered and discharged the friendly* offices of attentive kindness to the patient, and are now called on to render the last sad duty of respect and recognition. It may be in some sort a melancholy mitigation to the bereaved and dcsolatpd heart, to be assured that nothing was left undone that niuiops skill and experience coqld suggest, or the tendcrcst care and sympathy apply, Beyond this we oannot now and in this form enter into the desolated domain of affection and grief. We turn once more to the dead and sadly take our leave, laying our unworthy offering on the bier and retiring with reluctant steps as we tenderly and in whispered utterance invoke "peace to his ashes?consolation and soothing balm to stricken hearts of survivors from Him who alone can minister tu such sorrows."?Charleston Courier. From the Laurcnsville Ilcrnld. Columbia Steamboat Enterprise. Probably but few of our readers appreciate the imrw-.rinnns nf ti.ta on tarnrise to them, and its I "T" V" ~7i" "? " close connection with toeir pecuniary Interests, because they do not see that they directly pay the exorbitant freight which has heretofore been imposed on our people by the South Carolina Railroad. We, therefore, intend, from time to time, to attempt to enlighten them on the subject, and feel confident they will soon see the great necessity of encouraging a competition with the calons corporate body that controls the said Road. In the mean time, our correspondent, "Observer," has come to our aid, ably setting forth the cause of the Steam Boat Company, and its claims to the patronage of our citizens, and we invite a careful perusal of his article by every citizen in the District. Already has the Boat Company caused a slight reduction in the freight charges on the Railroad, but it is still exorbitant, and will, no doubt, go back to its former schedule, if the Boat Company is not sustained in the noble effort to force the road to deal as justly with our citizens as it does with those of Georgia, Tennessee, and other Western States.' n Why is it that the merchants of Hamburg and Augusta can afford to pay better prices for produce, and sell goods cheaper than in Columbia and other places in this State ? The reason is apparent to every mind: The freight to those places, on the South Carolina Railroad, is from fifty to sixty per cent, less than is charged on the same Road, about the same distance, to Columbia. And why, we ask, should the citizens of South Carolina, who mninlybuilt the road, be compelled to sub- J mit to such injustice ? Simply because the rond on the Hamburg Branch, has to compete with the Boats on the Savannah river. Now, the enterprising merchants of Columbia have determined to create a similar competition to that point, and will thereby compell those having the conduction of the road j to give to eur citizens the same advantages of low j ircigius luai tue merciianis unu naaiers 01 ueorgia Tennessee, &c., enjoy, and enable the merchants of the interior of this State to give such inducements to our Planters, in the purchase and sale of produce and goods, as will prevent the'necessity of hauling produce to other and more distant markets. Every one in Laurens District, who consumes sugar, coffee, salt, o* other necessary articles of life, is deeply interested in tho enterprise, and should use every exertion to sustain, it. The price of every pound of sugar, sack of salt, or yard of? cloth, of any kind, purchased at and above Columbia by our Planters, is enhanced by the exorbitant freight charged by the Railroad, .consequently it is not the merchant who pays the heavy freight bills, but the consumer.- Su with cotton?the buyer counts the costs to got it to market,-ana pays ' <& "im <&*: "=Vi the Planter accordingly'; so that, after all, the Planter, pays the freight, and it i&;-their dnfy to sustain such transporting facilities as -will give them the greatest advantages. > The Compnny will no -doubt call on the Legislature at its next meeting, to grant them aid to make the Congaroe river navigable from flranby to the Columbia bridge, a distance of tbreb miles, ami in our opinion, such aid wonld confer greater | benefits on the people at large than the most llflfg1 nificent Railroad speculation now conceived of! We have before us t. list of the rates 6f- freight | charged by the Steamboat Company, which we intended to publish this week, but finding that we j have not room, we must defer it uutil our next, i Upon examining it wo find the Company offers to transport freight at about one half the prices I charged by the Ruilroad. Success, to the entori prise. v Pay of Members, The following is the substitute for Judge Butler's bill passed by the Senate: Mr. Hunter, from the Committee on Finance, I l .. 1*1. r I it. . L!h A. a* _ io which mis rcicrrcu 111c uiu vo. regumie Wie | compensation of members of Congress, reported it back with an amendment striking oat all the 'enac! ting clause and substituting a new bill.[This nmendmcut provides that the oompensaI tiou of each member and delegate shall be $2,600, : to commence from and after the adjonroment of I the present session, and monthly during the sesi siou until its close. The pay at each future Congress shall commence the 4th March of each year, whether members be elected before or after that time, and they shall receive the pro rata amount, together with the mileage, which may be due at the commencement of the sessiony-and the residue in monthly j.aymente until the close of the session. If a membei dio daring the recess the ; said pro rata pay may go to his heirs until the | commencement of the next session, after which it i may be "aid on proper requisition, and if during < the session, then the pay to ceafie on the/day of ! the choice of his successor, who shall recet*?"d)is mileage and residue of pay to which his processor would have been entitled. Each pletnber and delegate shall also be allowed at eadhannual session of Cougress eight Dollars for everyTwenty miles of the estimated distance.by themost i usual route from his place of residence to the seat of government, at the commencemeUt and end of every such session, when the, cstimateed distance does not exceed 1,260 miloB, and whexe it exceeds that distance the allowance is six dollars for every twenty miles. The President of the Senate, when there Is ,no Vice President, or when the Vice President^sliill receive the office of the President of the'jfoited ?taics, anu ine opeaaer 01 tne nouse^oi .representatives shall be entitled to receive suchJuddition to the annual compensation and mileage allowed by the first section of this net as wiHln the aggregate equal the pay of thfe Yioe President and in case or the temporary absepce of the Ylce President, the President of the Senate pro tm, shall be entitled to reoeirc ten dollars per dlera in addition to the annual compensatidn, If ony books shall be hereafter Jto members of Congress, by resolution of $Hher or both Houses of Congress, the price gives .for the same shall be deducted from the compensation herein provided by law; provided that this shall not extend to books ordered to bo prihte'4 during the Congress for which said members shall have been elected.] ?r-?v?? i <?.'; -?> Congressional Duels, '. .' --j?; The New York Times has revived'the recolleotions of some of the more celebrated Congressional affairs of honor, Duels have been fought by members of Congress rrom the very oomjuen'oemant.<rf our existence as a nation, but t^iese affaii^.have been much le?s frequent than is generally supposed to be the case. In fact, all the Cohgfesaional challenges that have been sent, from the meeting of the first Congress in Philadelphia, dowp to the affair between Brooks and Burlingame, do'not exceed tweqty-ftve in number?pot half so Ifl&oy havo Iqopn foqght by rqeraher3 pf toe fjrftish Pap? liament. These are most remarkable .facts, and thdy show how absurdly unjust are the imputations and charges of the English press on the state of civilisation in this country, as exhibited ht our Natiopal. legislature. The reports will' prove that there has been loss of /personal violenoeHpnd fewer encounters in our Congress "than there have been in Parliament daring tho same number of years, since the Declaration of our Independence. The first duel by a member of Congressman record, was that between Button Gwinnett and Jackland Mcintosh, in 1777.- They were both of the State of Georgia, though Qwinuett only vus a mcmhep of Congress. |le was a signer of the pe-' delation of independence, ami bis antagonist was pn officer of the uripy- The dispute was of ? personal nature, apd tho dud Qan hardly he oolled a Congressional encounter, as It did not grow out of either party connected with politics. The next affair of honor in which a member of Cobgress was implicated, occurred in 1797, wftPSrae strictly Congressional, as it was occasioned by words spoken in debate. The parties Were Tfcomns moum, rcprescniauve irom norm vareuna, ana Judge Thatclior, from Massachusetts. The challenger wis Mount, >fho took offence y?rbq] criticism of au expression he U3?d?.hy Hatcher-, who, on receiving the iuviutiop t^ght, deoHne4 giving ay answer until foe could write to htawife and obtain her consent} and there the matter; drop* Sod. Seven years afterwards, in !J80d, JJenqtoy * ackaou, of Georgia, was wounded in a dud with Col. Walking. The cause of the d^el" wus polith cal, but not a Congressional quarrel. Inihayeay previous Jonathan Paytou, a SenJt&r from N?w Jersey, sept a challenge to PeWUt CHntpfr,' then U Senator from New Yorfe, on account of an' pfea? sivo remark qf tho latter in a debate, for which ho made an apology that was read in the .Senate. In the year 1811#, General Mason, a Senator from Virginia, was killed in a Jubf by Ids relative, McCarty, also a Virginian; but though the cause of the duel was political, it did not originate ii?Congress. The next affair of honor, in which a member of Congress was a party, wpa the celebrated uffaif of Mcbuffee, of South Carolina, npd Qql.Quff;mings, of Georgia, which came off in ttayear 1822. The famous affair between Henry Clay and John Randolph ocourred four years after the last In JS21. The ne^tyear Mr. Vance, an ex-member of Congress from North Carolina, was hilled in a duel by Mr. Carson, a member from the Bame State. Ten years afterwards, 1887, Mr. Dromgoole, a member of Congress from - Virginioj wns mortally wounded in a duel with Mr. Dugget, of the same State. In 1838 the still freshly retnem bered meeting took place between Jonathan Cilly, of Maine, and WjlHan) J. Qraves, of Kentucky, both members of Congress, in whioh the jonner was killed. This tragical affair created a'feeling in the public mind so repugnant to the dueUothat it was not until the year 1851 that another.hffdir of honor grew out of a Congressional quarrel, when M>r Stanley, of North Carolina, and Mr. Inge, of Alabama, met aud whanged shots without doing each other any personal irgury, and then explained and became friends. Two years . afterwards, Mr. Inge was the second of Senator Gwinn, of California, who fought with Mr. McCorkle, a representative of the same State.? Thongli members of Congress, the duel grew out of expressions nsed by one of thp parties at a race course in California, where the meeting took place. In 1854 the affair between Mn Cutting, of New York, and Mr. Breokinridge, the Democratic candidate for the Yice-Presidency, occurred, in .which no meeting took place -from the difficulty of deciding which party had given the challenge. The next affair of the kind that occurred is the one which now engrosses the public attention, and which, taken in all its aspects, is certainly the most remarkable and the least - creditable to one of the parties, of all the affairs of honor in which members of Congress bavedieen engaged, of which we have any knoyfledge. Tkeli*f:0f Congressional duels is by no means a- formidable on$ }.. and considering the virulence with which our partisan quarrels have been conducted, and the strong sectional feelings which have always existed among the members of our National Legislature, it is extremely meagre and favorable to the moitil character of our people. During the past eighty years there have beSn but few hostile meetings between our leadina politicians, while thete has hardlv been an eminent British statesman who has no't been engaged in a duel, Pitt, Canning, Pox, Curren, O'Connell, Peel, D'braeli, Castlereagh, and many more of the leading etatesmen of England, have had their little affairs of honor, hot our eminent public men have been singularly free from such encounters. - f* " Lack is a Jewel. The Capital Prize of $20,000 in the Port Gaines Academy Lottery, Glass 1J, drawn in Atlanta, Ga., July 28, under the management of Messrs. Samuel Swan & Co., was drawn by thb following gentlemen; of Shelby, Cleavland'County, North Carolina, who haye kindly volunteered the use of their names to the managers; Messrs. W. L. Hbpson, J. P. Stephens, A. w. "Burton, M. L. Carroll, and Dr.'Thos. "William*; "4" We arc glad our old State haa had this good luck. Swan, we know, will Jfforkover," t^he always does promptly aud^good-humoredly* And that is the secret of the popularity of hie lotteries; when a prise is drawn it it paid without cavil or demur. We can avouch for this in person, having bad occasion, last year, to call ou him for onequarter of one of his capitals. What he did for the junior of the Mail, he does for all prise holdt "w*' ' lav*' v . -x. ,'w?T , J * i