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f ?? ? ' ' -3f ? " - v **k ' ^ 'a.*" /sm :> ' -' ,,. . - v vs- *" .* 7\7/x>2 t? y" v " " ' ? - . " ' * '"' -< 5f. %, ' ' .;,life .;Y*? t ... . ' - - - 11 samxV'meitoh, I*10? 10 - An Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial interests of the South. j iewis m. deist, puwuher. VOL. 2. YOEKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1856. USTO. 36. I Select poetri). BALLADS FOR THE YOUNG SOUTH. BY JOSEPH BHKNNAN. Men of the South I our foes arc up In fierce and grim array : Their sable banner laps the air? An insult to the day ! The faints of Cromwell rise again In sanctimonious hordes, Hiding beneath the garb of peace A million ruthless sword9. From North, from East and West, they seek The same disastrous goal, With Christ upon the lying lip, And Satan in the soul; . Mocking, with ancient Shibboleth, All wise and just restraints? "To theSaints of Heaven was Empire given, And we alone are Saints!" Men of the South ! look up?behold The deep and sullen gloom Which darkens o'er your sunny land With thunder in its'womb! Are ye so blind ye cannot sec The omens in the sky? ' Are ye so deaf ye cannot hear The tramp of foemen nigh ? - Are ye so dull ye will endure The whips and scorns of men v Who hide the heart of Titus Oates Beneath the words of Penn? Are you so base, that, foot to foot, Ye will not gladly stand For land and life, for child and wife, With naked steel in hand? Sons of the bravo! the time lias come To bow the haughty crest, Or stand alone, despite the threats, Of North, or East, or West! The hour has come for manly deeds, And not for puling words? The hour is passed for platform prate, It is the time for swords! And by the fame of John Calhoun, To honest truth be true, And by old Jackson's iron will, Now do what ye can do! By all ye love and all ye hope, Be resolute and proud. And make your flag a symbol high Of triumph?or a shroud ! %\\ ^musing Jltorit. ? I From the American Union. CONVERTING A BLACKSMITH. The scene is laid in the mountain regions of Georgia. Mr. Forgeron, a blacksmith, had a great antipathy against all Methodist ministers in particular. His shop was in a narrow mountain pass, and he declared his determination to whip every Methodist preacher that passed the shop. < The Rev. "Dr. Stubbleworth, however, readily consented to go there, and the rollowing describes his ride through the mountains: Forgeron had heard of his new victim, and rejoiced that his size and appearance furnished a better subject for his vengeance thau the attenuated frame of the late parson. 0, what a nice beating he would have ! He had heard, too, that some ministers were | rather spirited, and hoped that this one might ' be provoked to fight. Knowing that the ! clergyman must pass on Sunday, in the af- J ternoon, he gave his striker a holiday, and regaled himself on the beauties of Tom Paine, j awaiting the approach of the preacher. It was not over an hour before he heard the words: "O, how happy are they who the Savior ohey, And have laid up their treasures above." sung in a'full voice; and soon the vocalist, turning the angle of the rock, rode up with a continued smile on his face. "IIow are you, old Slabsides ? Get off your horse, and join me in my devotion," ~_:J ii ScllU I ilC MII1U1. 'I have miles to ride,' answered the preacher, 'and I havn't time, my friend ; I will call when I return.' 'Your name is Stubbleworth, and you arc the trifling hypocrite the Methodists have sent here to preach, eh?' 'My name is Stubbleworth,' he meekly : replied. 'Didn't you know my name was Ned For- j geron, the blacksmith, that whips every i Methodist preacher that comes along ?' was I asked with an audacious look; 'and how | dare you come here ?' The preacher replied that he had heard | of Forgeron's name, bat presumed that he did not molest well behaved travellers. 'You presume so ! Yes, you are the most presumptuous people, you Methodists, that ever trod sole leather, anyhow. Well what'll you do, you beef headed disciple you V Mr. Stubbleworth readily professed his i willingness to do anything reasonable to a- : void such a penance. 'Well, there's three things you have to do, | or I'll maul you into a jelly. The first is, | you are to quit preaching; the second is you J wear this last will and testament of Thomas ! Paine next to your heart, read it every day, and believe every word you read ; and the third is, that you arc to curse the Methodists j in every crowd you get iuto.' And the j blacksmith "shucked" himself, rolled up his sleeves, aud took a quid of tobacco. The preacher looked on during the novel preparations without a line of his face moving, and at the end he replied that the terms were unreasonable, and he would not sub mit to them. 'Well you've got a whaling to submit to; ; then I'll tear you into doll rags, corner ways! Get down, vou lone faced hypocrite.' ' * c ? The preacher remonstrated, and Forgeron ; walking up to the horse, threatened to tear | him off if he did not dismount; whereupon i the worthy made a virtue of necessity aud alighted. 'I have one request to make, my friend ?that is, you won't beat me with this over- | coat on ; it was a present from the ladies of, my last circuit, and I do not wish to have i it torn.' <Off with it, and that suddenly, you basin- j faced imp, you.' The Methodist preacher slowly drew off j his overcoat as the blacksmith continued his ! tirade of abuse of him and sect, and, throwing the garment behind him, he dealt Mr. Forgeron a tremendous blow between the eyes, which laid that person on the ground, with the testimony of Tom Paine beside him. Mr. Stubbleworth, with the taet of aconnoisseour in such matters, did not wait for his adversary to rise, but mounted him with the quickness of a cat, and bestowed his blows with a courteous hand on the stomach and face of the blacksmith, continuing his song where he had left off on his arrival? "Tongue cannot express the sweet comfort," &c., until Forgeron, from having experienced 'first love,' or some other sensation equally new to him, responded hastily: 'Enough 1 enough ! enough 1 take him off.' Put, unfortunately, there was no one by to perform that kind office, except the preacher's old roan, and he munched a bunch of grass and looked on as if his master was happy at a campmeeting. 'Xow,' said Stubbleworth, 'there are three things you must promise me, before I let [ you up.' 'What are they V asked Forgeron, eagerly The first is, that you will never molest a ir.a.j.--! i > .ueinouisc prcaciier agaiu. Here Ned's pride rose, and he hesitated; and the reverend gentleman, with his usual benigu smile on his face, renewed his blows and sung : "I then rode on the sky, freely justified I. And the moon it was under my feet." This oriental language overcame the blacksmith. Such bold figures, or something else, caused him to sing out: 'Well, I'll do it, I'll do it!' 'You are getting on very well/ said Mr. Stubbleworth. 'I think I can make a decent man of you yet, aud perhaps a Chris- ; tian." Ned groaned. ? I 1 'The second thing I require of you is to j go to Pumpkin Creek nieetiug-house, aud I' hear me preach to-morrow.' Ned attempted to stammer out some excuse, when the divine resumed his devotion- 1 al hymn, and kept time with the music, striking him over the face with the fleshy part 1 of his hand. 'I'll do my best," said he, in a very hum> ! ble voice. ! 'Well, that's a man,' said Stubbleworth. 'Now get up and go down to the spring, and ^ wash your face, and tear up Tom Paine's < testament, and turn your thoughts on high.' ' Ned rose, with feelings he never expe- 1 rienced before, and went to obev the lava to- ? 7 . ry injunctions of the preacher, when the latter person mounted his horse, took Ned 1 by the hand, and said : 'Now keep your promise, and I'll keep c rnm* nAimcnl f! AAfl nvAninrr Afr l^nvnrf*. ^ JV'Ul VVUUtJVli V"VVU V tv,uiii^j l'li> * v*^v ron ; I'll look for you to-morrow.' And off he rode with the same inipcrlu- 1 ruble countenance, singing so loud as to !' scare the eagles in the overhanging rocks. ! 'Well,' thought Ned, 'this is a nice busi-1 ncss. "What would people say if they knew ! Edward Forgeron was whipped before his own door, and that-, too, by a Methodist preacher.' Hut his musings wore more in sorrow than in anger. His disfigured countenance was i of course the subject of numerous questions | that night, among his friends, to which he i replied with a stern look they well under-1 stood, and the vague remark that he had J met with an accident. Of course they never dreamed of the i cause. Ned looked iu the glass and compared his black eye, from the recent scuffle, to the rainbow ship-wreck scene 'blending every color into one.' Or perhaps he never read the story, and muttered to himself, 'Ned Forgeron whipped by a Methodist preacher!' From that time his whole conduct manifested a change of feeling. The gossips of the neighborhood observed it, and whispered that Ned was silent, and had gone to meeting every Sunday since the accidcut. They wondered greatly at his burning the books he used to read so much. Strange ! stories were circulating as to the metamor- j phosis of this jovial, dare devil, blacksmith j into a gloomy and taciturn man; some supposed very sagely, that a 'spirit' had cuticed ! him into the mouutains, and, after giving j him a glimpse into the future, had misled | him to a crag, where he had fallen and bruised his face. j Others gave the prince of darkness the j credit uf the charge, but none suspected the a Methodist preacher; and the latter having a no vanity to gratify, the secret remained with Ned. The gloomy state of miud contiuued v until Forgcrou visited a campiueeting. lie v. s Mr. Stubbleworth preached a sermon that a seemed to enter his soul and relieve it of a e burden; and the soug of? 1 "How happy are they who the Saviour obey." s was only half through when he felt like a 1 new man. ' Forgeron was from that time a "shouting I ? I Methodist." At a love feast, a short time ; J subsequent, he gave in his experience, and s revealed the mystery of his conviction and t v conversion to his astonished neighbors. j v The ttev. Mr. Stubbleworth, who had \ v faithfully kept the secret uutil that time, j I could not coutaiu himself any longer, but; c gave vent to his feelings in convulsive peals ; ^ of laughter, as the burning tears of joy j coursed their way down his cheeks. , v 'Yes, my brethren,' said he, 'it is a fact, j ^ I did maul the grace into his unbelieving 1 soul,* there is no doubt.' J r The blacksmith of the mountain pass, * himself became, soou after, a Methodist j1 preacher. ; t A geutleiuan writing from .Parisstates ! 1 that M. Place, the French banker, who re-' c cently failed for the immense amount of six- [ teen million francs, gave, on the evening be- e fore the grand catastrophe, a splendid din- a ner, to which were invited all the celebrities i of a certain grade upon the Bourse,.together I r with au equal number of ladies. The feast \ was of the most nrherclte kind?the cost J probably beiug not less than twenty-five dol- c lars a head?and the buoyant spirits of the i liberal host were the theme of general ad- a miration. When the enthusiasm was at its c height, a magnificent desert was placed upon the tabic, having in the centre a vase of silver gilt, which M. Place ordered the waiter to pass round to the ladies, as it contained a few nuts for their especial cracking. Every lady then plunged her hand within the vase, and drew forth whatever chance bestowed in the shape of some rare jewel, the cheapest of which could not have been worth less than sixty dollars, while some of them were of great price. After this delightful ceremony the generous host took his leave amid the reiterated applause of his guests. The next day his house was silent, and a defalcation of sixteen millions was announced before the tribunal of commerce. 'Miscellaneous. PLOUGHING BY STEAM. Although efforts were made in England some years ago to introduce ploughing bysteam power, the art is yet quite iu its infancy. At the late agricultural exhibition of the TCoyal Agricultural Society of England, at Chelmsford, experiments were made which commanded a good deal of attention of three entirely different modes of accomplishing the desirable object of applying to the labours of tillage a power which does not itself consume the products of agriculture. These experiments are thus described in the report of the exhibition given in the London Times of July 10. The first was by Mr. Boydell, by means of an improvement on the steam plough, which be exhibited last year. It is an engine worked by two six and a half inch cylinders, cvit-Vi n cnnnium f-itrlil.hnrsfl linilnr. ?.w. ? r- -- o and a fly-wheel, mounted on four carriage wheels. The wheels, aie fitted with the "endless railway," enabling them to traverse over any surface however rugged, to climb acclivities, aud to drag behind them an immense weight without losing their bite of the ground. The engine usually works with sixty pound pressure per square inch, and nan be worked up to twelve-horse power.? [ts weight, with water and every, requisite for duty, is nine tons; but, nevertheless, it nan ascend inclines back, turn in a small trea, and is steered by a pole, chain, and wheel like those of a steamboat, with the greatest nicety. The inventor considers his jngine sufficiently powerful to draw say te.. oloughs in light land, at six inches depth, with a speed of two miles per hour. Tt has 1 ragged some implements of very heavy Iraught during the trials, and was not una}le to pull forward Coleman's ploughing machine. Tn attempt with the dynametcr Utached to lliddoll's cultivator, the instrument broke at forty hundred weight, the Iraught of the cultivator as used being much greater still. Tn ploughing hill-sides, the ingiue is intended to go uphill empty, and. n work downwards, so as to perform very deep work indeed. One of the principal idvantages of this locomotive for culture is, ;hat no horses whatever arc needed to help i, inasmuch as it travels of itself from place :o place, taking coal and water, and costing nothing beyond the wages of two men, in iddition to those with the implements ; the wear and tear and interest of first cost, about 50--.f1 Mr. Smith, of Woolston, Buckinghamshire, works his implements by means of a ;ommon seven-horse portable engine and a itationary windlass, fixed at one corner of a ield. A couple three-quarter inch wire opes arc led from the two drums on the vindlass in opposite directions round four inehored pulleys, and meet at the implement, hus passing all rouud the field?two an:hors being fixed and two shifted from time o time along each headland as the ploughng proceeds. The anchors are like large bur-toothed rakes, and it requires a man at iach end of the work to dig holes and shift hem forward. Mr. Smith uses cultivators )f a peculiar kind, taking about three feet >rcadth at a time; and he has an ingenious ind quick mode of turning them at the end if the furrow. He is able to searcify or >au!k-plough ou an average four acres per I lay of twelve hours. The expenses, inclu-: ling the labour of six men coal, fetching! rater, wear and tear (30 cents per acre,) i nd interest of capital, amount to *2 per ere. Mr. Fowler has contrived a different arangeuient. A portable double-cylinder endue, worked at high pressure, and driving . capstan by a short endless chain is station- j d half-walf down one side of the field.? | Tom the two horizontal drums of the captan two wire ropes are led diagonally across he field direct to the two ends of the work, hesc passing around a couple of anchored lulloys and meeting at the implement.? Tic anchorages deserve notice ; they consist j imply of low trucks or small wagons laden j rith earth and with short cutting discs for rhcels, which cut down into the land, and, ; rhile presenting great resistance to sideland ! iressurc in the direction of the ploughing, ! an be easily pulled forward along the head- ( ind when required. For common ploughing an implement is ised having eight ploughs fixed upon it ; our iu work at once, and the others pointed n an opposite direction for performing the eturn trip. For trench ploughing, ten or ourtcen inches deep, another implement is ised, taking two furrows' widthand two deep, icimr, in fact, a modification of Cotgrcave's ' I ubsoil and trench plough for horse power, t L'hc ploughing is one way work, but lands ; ir stretches can be readily ploughed bysini- j >ly turning the implement end for end for j iaeh half-land, and by shifting the anchor-' ;gcs accordingly well done, and the trench-1 ng implement was drawu with great steadi- j less iu ground through which ten horses I rere required to pull it. The amount of; doughing on land where three horses are iommonly yoked in a plough capable of bcng done by a ten-horse engine is about eight icres per day of ten hours; and the expense if working including four men and a boy, fetching water and coal, shifting the engine and tackle to the field, wear and tear, and 1 interest of first cost (wjiich is S2475, including the engine,) is apparently not more than 81.25 to 81.CO per acre. Trenching costs about double this sum. Should further experiments and calculations prove this esti, mate to br correct, there can no louger be a doubt that "an economical substitute" has at last been perfected for the long venerated horse plough. From the New York Day Book. A CIVIL WAR?THE BEGINNING OP THE END. The abolitionists have at last accomplish> ed their designs. They have brought about a civil war in this country, and by the next steamer across the Atlantic, can send word to their allies and friends in England that the loDg sought end is accomplished ! What the old tories of Britain, by sword and bayonet, could not do, their descendants and tools in New England, by newspapers and songs, have done, to wit:?divided this Union ! No one, looking back to the past history of the abolition and Seward faction of this country, can fail to see that their whole aim has been, as Mr. Greeley once expressed it, to rear and educate a generation to "hate the South." In recording the news of the battles in Kansas, the Tribune calls one party the "northern" and the other the "southern," and talks of "the enemy," as if the southern people were citizens of another country, and our natural enemies. War now actually exists in this county ; the North is arrayed against the South, and men are fighting, shooting and killing each other in the territory of the United States, with the same ferocity that characterised Frank and Hun last year in the Crimea.? rpi : j : xiieiu 13 uy ueujiug una?nu pciuiJ^ uvur it with the slur that it is only a "party" or "strife"?it is actual war, and nothing else, I aud a war that is growing more furious and sanguinary every day. And now the question arises, what is it for? "What is all this strife and bloodshed about ? Why, simply to keep our southern brethren out of the common territories of this Union ! Sift the whole question down to its real merits, brush off all the dust aud garbage that have gathered on it and free it from all the abolition clap-trap and nonsense about "freedom and Fremont," strip it of all the kites straws and election nonsense, and wc find it a plain, simple assumption of power and authority | of the North to govern the South. | The men and families of the South have 1 i gone into the Territory of Kansas with their 1 ; property under no disguise, but simply to 1 I inhabit it as citizens and common owners of : our common country. They have not sought ( In drive nor to keep any ouc out of the territory. They have not passed any laws to 1 prevent any other citizens coming into and 1 living peaceably in it, and what have they ' i met. there ? How have their northern broth- 1 j em met them? Why, with fire and sword, : j with cannon and ball, sent by churches aud ' i clergy from New England and New York. 1 I miJ '.i i?!_j u. 1 xiiu iiuuiieru seiners uavu ucnieu me rigiu of southerners to coinc there, they have met ' together to pass laws against their coming, ^ and when all has failed to prevent them, ' they have called for men aud arms to come ' and help drive them out. To the eternal ( shame of the North be it said, they have 1 responded to this call, and from the purlieus 1 of their cities and the low dens of their vil- ' lages has gone forth an army of the lowest ( I vagabonds and hireling traitors that ever f I infested any country. The Greeley and G id- ! j dings and Lccchcrs have joined hands with : i debauchees like Lane and Cole, and sent 4 ! fourth a band of plunderers to ravish the * I fair plains of Kansas. There is no denying j this, no getting over it. The whole operation, the whole design is 1 j to drive the South out of Kansas. They do : : not, they cannot pretend to say that the ^ I South tries or wants to drive them out, or 1 | that it asks anything but that its people shall c be permitted to settle peaceably and quietly i * in the territory tho same as the people of the r North, but this the Bcccher, and Greeleys, ^ and Giddings declare they shall not do ? ' They are determined there shall be no South, * but that the North shall be the government, r and have all the territory and all that he- r longs to the Union. And now, since it has come to this?since j * war against the Sou'h is openly declared by ; J the formation of a '-northern party," and j * has been actually commenced for the subjugation of the South, let every citizen take 11 his stand and his position. For ourselves, !v wc do not hesitate to enroli our names against! ? the men and party that have declared this j ^ war, we do not hesitate to join the ranks of : * those who arc fighting for their rights as j* citizens of one common country; and if it. ^ becomes necessary, we will cheerfully give c not only our money but our services in the ^ field to sustain them. That there are thousands and tens of thou-! s sands of others in this city who will do the , ^ same, wc have no doubt, and we trust that u immediate measures will be taken by our conservative and I'nion-loving citizens to sustain, by common effort, those pioneers in 1 Kansas who arc fighting for their rights as j citizens against the northern hordes who i ' have been sent there to drive them out. m?> ? n Surpri.sk Parties.?Of late a very novel p and questionable sort of amusement has be- c come fashionable. Several friends and ac- f quaintanccs inform each other that they in-'s tend to drop in and take tea with Mr. and n Mrs. 13 . The family are surprised J and astonished to find fifteen or twenty ? friends and acquaintances in the house who o have called to take tea. The tea chest is : c just exhausted?noi a bit of cake in the t pen try?not a loaf of bread in the grocery, : s ? J -i- u.i? UI..U I10L eiJUUgH tup "iiu muttin uu-a ivi?- ? spoons tn go round. What a peck of trouble j e the poor woman is in. She'd give her wed- li den gown if she had only known of their t coming. There is a mighty deal of fun in s those surprise parties, and a great deal of h annoyance and hard feelings. The day before yesterday a very unpleasant incident occurred at one of these parties. A merchant who has heretofore held a respectable position in society was selected by some friends to call on. It was a surprise party indeed to all concerned. They found the husband insensible from the effects of liquor, laying on the hall stairs, and his wife with a bruised face and a black eye, bathiog his temples with ice water. How many such sceues occur unknown to the world. A Wavy Kn ickerbocker. HISTORY OF FRICTION MATCHES. I notice in Xo. 44, Vol. XI., Scientific American, an article upon Friction Matches; perhaps I may be able to give you a little light upon the subject as to who was the first American inventor aud manufacturer, or at least tell you what I know to be a fact. In the latter part of August, 1835, a friend handed me two friction matches as a curiosity, the like of which I never saw before. They were tipped with red composition, and were said to be imported ; he said that he had purchased a whole box full of them and snapped them nearly all off, "just to see things." Being engaged at that time in the manufacture of lucifer matches at MechanicsviUe, N. Y., I received them as a treasure. I immediately set my wits to work to unravel the mysterious little sticks, or rather the compound upon their ends. Not being much of a chemist at that "time, I found it "no go," for I did not like to try ! x_ ?xl_ 1- _ 11 __ 1 any experiments wun sucn a small ana precious treasure. After trying all the chemical heads and M. D.'s in the neigborhood, I found them to be quite as much puzzled as my own self. I now took my Iwd matches to Albany a distance of twenty miles ; my sole business was to find a chemist that could analyze them. I was referred to Prof. Beck, professor of Chemistry iu the Female Academy. The professor told me that the quantity was so small that he did not like to undertake it, but if I would bring him a larger quantity he would analyze them for me; but this I could not do, for there was nothing of the kind in market. I carried my matches home again, and examined them with care, and made up my mind from the smoke and light that they emitted in the dark, that they contained the article of phosphorus. The next morning T obtained a piece of phosphorus from odc of our physicians, and a little gum arabic, and went to experimenting, trying to combine them in a clam shell, on some hot coals. The first batch took fire and burned up. Nothing daunted T gotanuther piece (all lie had,) aud went to*work x little more systematic, and succeeded well an adding a little chlorate of potash. My uext job was to furnish myself with match sticks strong enough to bear rubbing (for my lucifers were too thin to bear much trictionj ana tins i am in tne toiiowing manner: After sawing some pine blocks of suitable length, I took a common case knife, hammer and lap stone, and slabbed them iff; after this I slit them up with my penknife until I had on hand about 1,400 match sticks; I then charged them with brimstone. [ now procured a shallow square box, and riled it with damp sand, and commenced lipping my matchess one at a time, sticking jacli match in the sand, charged end up, intil dry. These 1,400 matches I sold to me man for fourteen shillings. I then stared for Troy in search of phosphorous; seardied the city through, then went to Albany, searched all the drugstores, and got but ibout fmn' miners in .both places, and paid it the rate of 8:2,400 per pound; and this, I hink, was the first of Loco Foco Match Mating in the United States. I had manufactured matches of this kind 'or about fourteen months prior to the issung of Mr. Phillips' patent (but used no ^luc or chalk.) You state that in June, 1837, John Hatfield obtained a patent for lipping matches by planing thorn in a coni:al tube. This is true, but the name ought o have been Jehu, instead of John?the nistake occurred at the Patent Office, T vrote to the Commissioner who told me that le would have it altered if 1 would send lint three dollars. Put I thought it would lot pay, from the fact that I had, in the nenn time, invented a better plan, namely, >y glueing one cud of the block before spiiting it. I applied for a patent on this in .80!), but unfortunately had let it run too ong, and I was rejected on that ground. 1 find at the present day the sauie old natch splitter, in all of the small shops, fhich I first invented and used. But to i ;ivc you but a faint history of the "little ! dessiugs," would require more time and pa- J icnec than I am able to bestow at present, n all my experiments I was associated with I dr. Joel Farnam, (now deceased,) of Me- h hanicsville, and Martin Day, of West field, < lass., who can attest to the above facts. I would say that if any other man will | tep forward and give better evidence of his I cing the first American inventor and inanifacturcr, then "I'll give up the skates." JEHU HATFIELD. 1 Troy, X. Y., 185(3. Disgraceful Affair.?The Selma Seninel of the 10th says : A most disgraceful ' 1 flair occurred in our city on last Monday 4 V* 1 1 fU inef on/1 on nffrm* it Jq trifli IIUIll) II1C 1 mi IUJV.J M?IU W?? v j iain we foci called upon to notice, and to j i ensure in the most emphatic terms. The 1 acts are as follows, as related to us by the ] ufferer of this outrage himself. Some two I' nonths ago, a man, who says his name is h lohn Snulsberry, came to this city from j iumtervillc S. and engaged to do work i n the Marion Branch Road. While in the j I ity on last Monday night, a young man by he name of Perkins proposed that they i hould go to Nance's Tank to bathe; while t the tauk, some seven persons run up di3- i ;uised, gathered hold of Sanlsberry, carried lim by force some three hundred yards up ' he river to an old shanty at a brick yard, 1 tripped him of his clothing, and most in- < minanly whipped him with a cowhide and a i paddle, and blacked his person. They then carried him to a house of ill-fame, and with licks upon his person, forced him to break through a window into a house of a negro woman, made hiin hug and kiss the negro wench, and perform various other interesting and amusing (to them) tricks. He says they then took him to the Exchange drinking house and forced liouor n~ o 1 down hira, and finally carried him to the porch of the City Hotel, where, after inflcting quite a number of stripes with a cowhide and paddle turned him loose perfectly naked, and less all the money he had?$13.20.? The man Saulsberry says the only reason these persons give him for this barbarous and unlawful outrage were, that he had failed to pay his hotel bill of about 850, and that he had been taking buggy rides with some young ladies. We know nothing about the previous history of this man Saulsberry, and had Dever seen him until he called at our office on yesterday to exhibit to us the laceration of his flesh made by these men. He seems to be a respectable individual, and to our mind it is one of the most heinous outrages that has ever been perpetrated in this State, and it is just one of those violations of the rights of persons that should be made an example of. We denounce in the roundest terms all species of mob law. We have good laws, and if there is a violation of these laws, we have honest and upright men enough in this city and county to have those laws enforced, and therefore, there could have been no excuse for this outrage in our city. Mobile Register. PEN AND INK TRAITS. Mrs. Mary J. Wiudle, in her "Pen and Ink Sketches of Life at the White Sulphur," drawn in the Richmond Enquirer., gives, among others, the following descriptions : "We take up our pen delicately and reverently, dear reader, and beg you to note that modest, quiet looking individual with glasses. His person is slender almost to emaciation, looking as if he had not long to live; and yet probably he will live to bury nine-tenths of those who make this remark. His face is inelegant, but keen and speaking giving an idea of decision, promptness, and great mental refinement, as well as individuality of character. He strikes one at first sight as a man of thoughtful and reflective habits. Amid this clamorous, thronging, undulating multitude, he seems perfectly calm aod abstracted, and appears altogether absorbed in his reflections.- But approach and draw him out in conversation. Hear him plunge with ready fluency into political and administrative details, llis views are original and striking, his style chaste, and his entire conversation exhibits unquestionable proofs of a polished and vigorous mind of the highest order. Literature, history, public economy, questions of national security aod progress?on all these subjects he is equally at homo. And yet his modesty prevents this mental superiority from bciug disagreeably felt by any one. This gentlemau 1.......... kU ? nnn.l... oo tU oo i."5 AIJutiii unuuuuuui tuc tuuuiij ao mc au* complished editor of De Bow's Ileview, which bears his uauie. Mr. Vatteniare, the distinguished French scholar, has said, that as a statistical writer, Mr. De Bow has 110 superior in any country. "The gentleman who bvs just entered bespattered with soil, so that an agricultural chemist would infer the rural produce of the country from an observation of the state of his boots, is the remarkable Texan Banger, .Major McCulloch. This gentleman seems quite unconscious that he is at all amusing, and looks the picture of the profoundest melancholy, while every one within hearing are holding their sides. He has a dr?, solemn, historical way of reproducing the preposterous things he has heard or witnessed, which is absolutely irresistible. lie embellishes very little, but he brfngs out the ridiculous points to admirati6n, and in the most artless way in the world, more as if he was talking to himself than trying to entertain others. He seems to possess comic talent of a high order. How many smiles this gentleman has had wasted on him?enough to stir the very stones to feeling?and yet he contrives to dodge the whole artillery, and pass on. Is his heart so flinty that the arvanru *? "The individual a* the window?pointing to a clear rent in the clouds, through which the sun has just issued?is Mr. Yenable, exmember of Congress from North Carolina? the warmest of friends, the most attractive of companions. This gentleman exercises iu his own State all the influence arising from eminent ability and high integrity ? While iu Congress he served the South best by making Southern talents useful, and Southern worth conspicuous in his own person. In conversation he dashes out his opinions like fire brands, little caring where they alight. And yet this turbulent temperament has no insensibility, for a kinder heart never beat." Excitement in Texas.?The San Antonio Texan, of the 31st ult., gives a long account of an excitement in that place, which threatened to lead to riot and bloodshed, but which had mostly subsided at that date. It grew out of political asperities : "Tim Dninnpmtie Conntv Convention of Bexar split, and a part of the body, mostly that of Mexican origin, withdrew and nominated a separate ticket, and secured the support of the Spanish paper, El Bejareno ? The other part of the party started a paper i in Spanish to neutralize the influence of El l Bejareno, entitled the Rancliero. The two i papers became very bitter, and finally an ar- j ticloin the Ranchero, iu reply to one in the ather paper, created great excitement. The ( article was translated and printed in the ( Herald, the American Organ. It intimated ( that the Mexicans would "throw dowu" the ] Mexican (Catholic) Church, "proclaim, the j victory with guns and clashing sabres," invade the sanctity of that hearthstone," etc 2tc. The Mexican party called a meeting ind called on the editor for the author of the ? article, who owned it himself. While the excitement continued to increase, threats were made, and the Mayor, fearing violence, called upon the citizens to enroll themselves as a special police, and about 150 responded. The threats were to the effect th&t the author of the obnoxious article, if a foreigner, should be driven out of the place, and if & native lynched; but the energetic steps' ta ken by the Mayor prevented either measure from beipg carried into execution. The matter, however, did not pass without blood shed and the loss of life. A man by the name of McDonald went to the drug store of Mayor Devine where an altercation ensued, ... t and in the melee the Mayor seized a pistol and shot McDonald, who fell and expired a short time afterwards. This, of course, produced still greater excitement, and it was . proposed to hang the Mayor at once. The SlipriflF Vinwpcpr rmfc Viim in iail t/\ Won V?im ; v.. r ? j? ~ -vvr from the mob, and, at last accounts -he was guarded by a strong force of men from both parties. It is but just to say that we make up this account from the Texan, which is strongly opposed to the Mexican party. ' The Mormons.?The Deseret News?the * organ of Brigham Young and of the Mormon Patriarchs?contains a long history.of the experiences and tribulations of that sect in the far off Territory, closing as follows i We have successfully met the hostile red men ; we have with like fortitude and sue- ^ cess, nearly passed through the scaroity caused by the drought and devourer of the past season, and severity of the winter? of 1855 aud '56 : we are now patiently laboring upon scanty meals, to secure our crops from the parching rays of the burning sun, while the produce of many fields hasalready furnished sustenance and vigor to our enemies, the insects, and that of numerous other x .* fields is entirely scorched up in spite of all our efforts. In view of these facts, aside from many others of a kindred nature, and also of ? commercial, political and constitutional character^ shall Utah's present appeal to Congress be unheeded, or neglected ? She is -yasking for admission to the Union, after the " form of the most approved and customary precedents; she is widely known to;eminently possess the only two qualifications pre- ^ scribed by the constitution for new States, ^ viz: "A substantial civil community, apd as . republican government;" she is. occupying ? . a region which others would flee from j she * is tamely submittingto the privation of many equal rights, amid all other hardships; and now when ashing, what is hers of right, the privilege of extcuding the area of State Government, civilization and toleration over a region of wild mountains and desert plains, * is it possible that in so enlightened an age the first voice of objection will be raised a- - gainst her request ? We shall hear. ^ Terrible Affair.?A correspondent of the Petersburg Intelligencer says: "A most shocking occurrence took place in Fincastle*" a few uights since. A gentleman, with several motherless children, arrived at thatplace and in the course of the night the inmates of the Hotel were aroused by terrific screams, and on tracing up the sound, found - that'it emanated from the room in which the gentlemen and his children lodged. Breaking * . the door open, the horrified spectators saw iL.a. ! :ui? Liiitu IJ c waa lauuuug uuuci a uuiuuiu uit^iUj or night-mare, aud was in the act of pulling out the tongue of his youngest child, whom he had taken to sleep in the bed with.him. He was immediately aroused to see the body of his little child dreadfully bruisod and lacerated, and told those who had awakened him, that he had dreamed that some one was murdering the child, and he was trying to rescue it. His agony was said to be indescribable. At the time the passengers left Fincastle for this place, the poor child was alive, but in an extremely perilous condition. . ' '~-V. ^ ~ , > Negro Stealing.?Some few days ago a young man by the name of Buford who was acting as clerk for Mr. Gamble of the Winnsb'oro Hotel, disappeared, and at the same * time also a negro boy. Suspicions were aroused that there was some concert of action ? . between them. Mr.. Gamble wrote immediately to some of his friends in Greensboro. ? N. C., requesting them to be on the look out. A day or two ago he received a letter informing him of the apprehension of.both Buford and the negro at Greensboro. They have both been brought back and lodged in this jail, where Buford will await -trial tot life.? Winnsboro' Register. Who will Wheel the Apples ??It is said that Maj. Poore's wager has been taken, namely?that if Fillmore does not receive more votes than Fremont in Massa chusetts, he, Poore, will wheel a barrel of apples on a wheelbarrow from Newburyport to Boston, or, if Fillmore receives the most, the taker of the bet shall convey the apples in the same way from Boston to Newburybort. ' - ; . I., ' j. r Iiion Priced Tobacco.?Mr. Charles Henderick, of North Carolina, recently 'sold to J. H. & S. Tyre, merchants in Lynchburg, Va , between one and two hundred nounds of tobacco, at the unheard of nrice r / i of ?250 per hundred pounds. It is described as the finest specimen ever seen in the Lynchburg or any other market. The color, a bright golden hue, and the texture almost as fine as silk. . ,/ Yellow Fever at Canton, Mm-? The New Orleans Delta says : " <?Dy a private despatch received in town last night from Canton, Miss., we leam that one death occurred there from yellow fever on Friday, and one yesterday. The consequence was a general stampede of the inhabitants, all that could evacuate the premises leaving at the shortest possible notice." R&* Man naturally thinks proudly and haughtily of himself, and thinks thus of nobody else but himBelf.