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Scraps # jfatte. To square a circle?settel up your wife's bill for hoops at the dry goods store or milliner's. He that boasts of his ancestors confesses he has no virtue of his own. No oth- : er person has lived for our honor : nor ought \ that to be reputed ours which was long be fore we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man that his parent had good eyes ? ??The New Orleans Chief of Police has adopted the plan of affixing placards upon the breast and back of notorious taieves, ; bnglars and pick-pockets, on which is printed, in large letters, the nature of the offence for which they have been convicted. They j are then marched through the streets, and . made a public exhibition. The Treasurer of the United States ^ represents the joint indebtedness of the several States as reaching 8100,000,000, and i that of the General Government as 830,-! 000.000, makes a total of 8220,000,000. 1 The figures appear large, but when compar- j ed with the indebtedness of Great Britain, j they are quite insignificant. Indeed, our total debt, State and National, is not equal to one year's interest of the national debt of the United Kingdom, computing it at our ! rate of interest, six per cent. This exhibits j a big difference in the pecuniary liabilities of the* two countries The Memphis Appeal of the 24th inst., says : "We had a visit yesterday from Col. II. T. Titus, late of Kansas. He was on his way to Nicaragua, accompanied by | 1.~i n _i?j - : iiU men. wno piayeu a piuuuucut pan *u the recent troubles'in that Territory. They were under the immediate command of Capt. Moon. Col. Titos distinguished himself as a , friend of the pro-slavery party in Kansas, | and, as he says, haring done what he could for our domestic institutions there, he goes to plant it deep-rooted in Nicaragua. Judg- j ing from his personal appearance, we would ^ consider it no risk to predict for him gallant things in the rising Republic." Even the South Carolina delegation in the late Commercial Convection at Savannah were startled at the development of an ultra State Rights scutimentamong the Georgians. They were uot only against the tariff as an evil, but were in favor of direct taxation as a positive good, and the only way perhaps by which one set of interests in the Union could be prevented from riding on the backs of others. This sentiment, we learn, is becoming cbrystalized into a regular par- j ty in North Georgia, and wc learn from the Montgomery Mail that a Convention of its I members will be held at Atlanta during the coming summer. From a letter published in the West- j ford (Missouri) Republican, it appear that Col. Buford, who led the march in Kansas, ; has lost upwards of ten thousand dollars in that enterprise. Col. Buford, has acted no- , bly, and is the more to be admired for the I reason that patriotism is generally its own i and ouly reward, but if the efforts made for ; Kansas had taken the shape of five thousand ! slaves to be sold there, at about S300 a piece they would have been more entirely efficient. There is not an emissary of the Emigration A Qnniofu in TTincoQ wKn WftllM nnfc hflVP i given three hundred dollars for the privilege \ of being the strongest pro-slavery man alive. Five thousand negroes, luore certainly than i five thousand white men, would take that i country. Of the stars, thousands are visible to the naked eye, and millions are 'discovered by the telescope. Sir John Herschell calculates that about five and a half millions of | stars are visible enough to be distinctly count- ' ed in a twenty feet reflector in both hemispheres, and thiuks that the actual number Is much greater. His illustrious father estimated, on one occasion, that one hundred , and twenty-five thousand stars passed through the field of his forty feet reflecter in a quar-! ter of an hour. This would give twelve ? millions for the entire circuit of the heavens iu a single tele copic zone; and this estimate was made under the assumption that the | ncbua? were masses of luminous matter, not ' yet condensed suns. But with the increase of instrumental power, especially uuder the mighty grasp of Lord Rosse's gigantic re- j fleeter and the great reflectors at Pulkova j and Cambridge, the most irresolvable of these nebula? have given way; and the better opinion now is that every 0De of them is a ; galaxy, like our own milky way, composed of I millions of suns. Washington, January 4. A shocking accident occurred here last night; the wife of Judge Daniels of the Supreme Court ! haviDg been burnt to death. Mrs. Daniels j bad repaired to her sleeping room and com- i menced disrobing preparatory to retiring for the night, when, being very near-sighted, j she did not perceive a candle tbat was stand-! ing on the hearth, or the flames which communicated to her clothes, until they completely enveloped her. She then ran from the room shrieking assistance. Her motion, of course, only added to the flame3 and before any effectual assistance could be rendered, she was so shockingly burnt that she died after eight hours of suffering. She was an estimable lady, about thirty-five years of age, a daughter of the late Dr. Harris, of Philadelphia, Chief of the Bureau of Medicine ? J Q on/1 loOWOO fwA aKi'1. I IUU UUl^CIJ 1U bUQ iiUTjj uuu IVU v vu vnv vw?adren, the youngest about six mouths old. Her terrible death has caused much regret among a large circle of friends and the community at large, and much sympathy is felt on all hands for the Judge at this bereavement. The Mormon Church has just received quite an anoession to its numbers in this country. The packet ship Columbia, of the Black Ball line; arrived at New York on Thursday from Liverpool, with two hundred and twenty of this peculiar sect on board. They are mostly from Bristol, Yorkshire and Wales, and among them are twenty-two elders. Most of them will go to St. Louis, and others will stop at other points, where they have friends, when they will continue their journey over the plains to Salt Lake? the place to which they all look as the New Jerusalem where they are ultimately to find their rest. They had a festival at Brooke's Assembly Rooms, on Broome street, on Thursday night, at which over four hundred of the Saints were present. Judge Appleby, of Salt lake, presided, and addresses were made by George A. Smith, delegate from Utah, in the House of Representatives at Washington, Parley P. Pratt, one of ;he Twelve, and the Rev. John Taylor. The best of feeling appeared to prevail during the evenig, and the occasion was one of de cicwa interest. _ - Cjje?0rMe(^m? EDITED BV SAM'L W. MELTON JOHN L. MILLEB. YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15,1857. ENQUIRER?CLUB TERMS. J copy 1 year, in advance $ 2 00 lOcopiesl year, in advance 1"? 00 1 copy of the Kkqcirkr. and 1 copy of either Godey or Graham, one yenr, in advance, 4 00 Tcrsons making up club* of ten subscribers, nve at liberty to add as many more names at the same rate as they desire. The money to ac company the list in every instance. -HI ?- ? ourselves. In the editorial conduct of the Enquirer, the Lccal Department has been assigned exclusively to Mr. Miller. Those, therefore, who have business connected with that department?communications, advertisements, notices, &c., will call at the Commissioner's Office. The books are in the keeping of Mr. Grist, at the Printing Office. JOURNAL AND MINUTES. llev. Mr. Kelly has left with us a copy of the "Journal and Miuutes of the Sixty-Ninth Session of the South Carolina Conference," held in this place. It is a neat pamphlet of 75 pages?quite an improvement upon the old style. Upon examination we find nothing worthy of especial mention, additional to the publications heretofore made in our paper. MESSRS. 1VITHERSPOON <fc MOORE. These gentlemen have recently formed a copartnership, and will practice iu Law and Equity in this District. For twenty-fire years, Col. Witherspoon has held a conspicuous position at our Bar. lie is entitled to the highest consideration as one among onr eldest, and ablest Practitioners. Mr. Moore is widely known as a man of solid legal acquirement, and considerable experience; consequently the co-partnership to which we have referred cannot fail to be of benefit both to the parties engaged, and to the community at large. See Card. CENTRE DIVISION. The gentlemen whose names are subjoined have been elected and installed officers of Centre Di vision, No. SO., for the current qnarier :? S. BOLIVAR THOMASSON, U". P. ANDREW JACKSON, W. A. I. D. MoLEAN, R. S. R. SIMONS, A. R. S. J. R. WALLACE, F. S. D. F. DAVIS. T. I. BEAMGUARD, C. W. T. JACKSON, .4. C. WM. McARTHUR, I. S. I. McARTHUR, 0 S. A. P. C. CAMPBELL, P. II*. P. ???? ?? ?? - PAUL II. HATXE, ESQ,. Tucsdny evening last, a "gooiilie compnnic" of our people, ladies and gentlemen, heard a lecture by Pati. H. Hayxr, Esq., of Charleston?in the Court.House. The announcement of such n treat was, it seems, quite sufficient to insure a large attendance?as creditable to the character < f the Yorkville people as it was to the reputation of the already distinguished young Lecturer? a just tribute to that native worth and talent which it should ever be the object of Carolinians to foster and reward. As the Lecture is private property, wo ought not to make a too general mention of it; but we must at least mark down some of its prom- J inent features, pro bono publico. The subject wns j ? The Conservatism of Literature:" and it was J handled in a chaste, beautiful and masterly style. Every hearer, great and small, as far as we can learn, was charmed with it. Mr. Hayxe commenced his Lecture by observing that to Races as well as to indiriJuuls peculiar endowments, were vouchsafed pointing to peculiar | missions. The position was illustrated by an al- | lusion to the philosophy of Greek and Roman civilization. The Greek idea was, the exposition of the Beautiful in every form of.tr/.' and throughout the massive policy of the Roman, we perceive I the traces of that hardihood, (two often ferocious) j which entered us a standard element into their j National progress. I Descending to modern times, the Lecturer snid j that the same general principle was patent in the I constitution of Anglo-Saxon character. Its elc- ; mental constituents pointed to the creatiou of a j People whose mission was the enforcement of ma- I terial po>rer. This mission had been singularly fulfilled. More comprehensive than the Greek, more vigorous than the Roman, the Saxon polity encompassed the world. But in the special predominance of the material principle lurked the seeds of destruction and decay. Utilitarianism in its literal acceptation is the primary creed of the masses. The beauty and force of the Spiritual are neither comprehended, nor acknowledged. Thus, we are, the slaves of convention ; the refining processes of the imagination nffect us not? Aet in most forms of its manifestation is to us "an unknown God."?But in this age no people can rise to the level of the general eulightenmeut among whom Literature is not recognized as an agent of national advancement. This truth has a wnsnllow nnnn *V>P XTplffl VP nf thp Similh Literature Las been made the vehicle of attack upon our institutions, and morals. "Imagination in fiction," (as exemplified in the success of "Uncle Tom") has prejudiced the civilized world against us. Works of this description cannot be properly answered by mere logical, or statistical refutation. Satire, fancy, all the machinery of imaginative art must be exerted to nullify their baneful effeats. Therefore, the aims of Southern education should be more liberal, and extended. They should embrace something above mechanics, agriculture, and politics. That is a short-sighted, and fatal policy that submits to the employment of weapons by an enemy the potency of which wo are forced to acknowledge in defect Wo have not space to follow the Lecturer in the numerous illustrations, and enforcements of his opinion. We would only add, that he concluded with a hopeful picture of the future of the Southern States, whose destiny he considered as certainly great and glorious, if the spiritual and mental endowments which belong to our people were cultivated up to the point of a healthful and efficient conservatism. This is but a meagre outline ; but it must suffice?suffice, at least, to assure those who were absent, of the good thing they were prevented from, eiyoying. Mr. Hatne is at present on a visit to the up country, making friends?an employment for which he is admirably suited?and conciliating,, u far m may be, popular interest In tbe new Mag azine enterprise recently projected in Charleston. Of this, however, we shall take frequent occasion to write, hereafter. Mr. Hayxe will lecture in Chester this (Thursday) evening; and thence to Charlotte. From our friends in those towns?always liberal in the cncourgeinent of homc-talcnt?we must bespeak for him a cordial and appreciative reception. ? ? .??? ? - - - mere-mention*. I Thirty-one citizens of Greenville have organized I themselves into a ' Seceders' Temperance Society:'* ! not antagonistic to existing Societies, but with a<Ii ditional features providing for the stated quarteri !v publication of the names of the members, in a : newspaper, with a blaek-mnrk for any who may ! break the pledge. This is coming to the point.? What do you think of it ? It is said that the Hon. Mr. Villiers has been appointed Miuister to ! this country from England, in place of Mr. Crampton. Win. Perronnenu Finley, L. L, V., has resigned his office as President of the Charleston * ennranllnn nf ttip HftldiprS of the VUUCgt VWUtVMWVM w. ...V. War of 1812 was held in Washington, on the 8th , of January, and resolutions were adopted, urging i Congress to pass the Revolutionary Tension Bill. , A committee was appointed to devise means to ! erect a monument to the memory of President 1 Madison. A vote of thanks was returned to Congress for their having conferred upon Gen. Winfield Scott the title of Lieutenant General. Af! ter adjourning, the members of the Convention 1 called individually upon President Pierce. There are 8,307 Lodges of Odd-Fellows in the i United States; 193,014 members; 20,206 initiai tions last year; $492,786.21 paid for the relief of j brothers nnd their families ; $1,180,325.22, total I amount of receipts. Two hundred and eighty i millions of pounds of meat were consumed in New i York City, during 1856.?Costing twenty one mil' lions of dollars! Enormous! Tho military companies in Charleston celebrated the 8th of Jan uary, the anuivcrsny of the Battle of New Orlenns. | We notice that A. Whyte, Esq., of our district, was prcseut at the dinner, nnd made a few rej marks upon the Militia System. Tho Legislature of Rhode Island have elected James F. Simt rnons, United State? Senator. T. O. P. Vcr: non and Col. James Farrow are nominated, in the Spartanburg papers, for Col. Orr's place in Con. gross, and the Anderson Carolinian proposes the j name of Gen. Wallace. The State Capitol of J Vermont was destroyed by fire on the 7th inst.? | We expect to make the same announcement in re| gard to our own "shanty ;" unless the new concern 1 is finished shortly. The "Uarroi House sn cnesier uas oeeu uisuuu! tinned. See Mr. Carroll's card. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. j The first of January has been for some time j quite a notable occasion ; but the first of January, I 1857, will be memorable?not simply because on | that day the new year began, but rather for the j reason that then, Miles Johnson removed from j his old stand near the corner, to the second story j of the new Carriage Factory of Weikeht& Walk: er, nearly opposite the King's Mountain Hotel.? J Let the 4th of July stnnd from under! Hereafter, j let flowere bloom in mid-winter, and snow-flakes fall in August; ar.d, above all, let every one who ' wishes anything in Miles Johnson's line, go to j the new shop for it. He is a capital workman and an engaging sort of a man in every way?just { the individual to make a saddle or to constitute I and mark out an era in "the course of human | events." Look at his advertisement on this subi ject. EUROPEAN POLITICS. After the close of the Russian war, it was natural to suppose that for a few years at least, Peace would be maintained in Europe. But among Nationalities whose interests are eternally conflicting, causes of hostility are of al! most dnilv occurrence. And besides, the rcvoluI I tionary element which underlies European absol| utisin is forever fermenting. The surface may be quiet, but beneath it, there I is volcauic fervor, and motion. There are certain | I liberal Ideas which tyranny cannot crush. These | possess a vitality of growth and assertion, which is itself the presage of their final supremacy.? The position is illustrated by the difficulty be1 twecn Prussia and Switzerland in regard to the j sovereignty of Neufehatel. It was the design of I i the French Anarchists of 1789 to reduce Switzer- ! land to the subserviency of n conquered province. | 1 They very nearly succeeded. The independent j I nationality of that country has ever since been j doubtful, and not until the present lime has she attracted any political consideration in the diplomatic conferences of the world. Now, however, there is little doubt that Switzerland is destined to play an important part in continental affairs. The cause of existing difficulties is briefly explained. Neufehatel is a Canton holding the twenty-first place in the Swiss Confederation, which up to the year 1818 acknowledged the legitimacy of Prussian rule. At that period a revolution occurred, and the people of the Canton d iclared their freedom, and assumed the position which they now hold among the States of Switzerland. Recently, the Prussian claim has been resusci- ' tilted. The proximity of a free province is found j to be inconvenieut. Moreover, a periodical re- | proof of Revolutionary principles by the mild log- ! ic of cannon and bayonets, is a policy which despotism might find it dangerous to abandou.? Rut in the case before us are involved the mighty ! questions of the balance of power, and the usages i of established international law. England pro! perly maintains that both will bo endangered by | the Prussian movement, and Lord l'almerston i has been admonished in various ways that it is the duty of the English ministry to express them- j selves to this effect. France, upon the other band, sides with Prussia. ! Although iu the day of his darkest fortuues, Louis Napoleon owed to Switzerland eeverything for which an Exile should be most grateful?protection, sympathy, an asylum?it is not difficult to divine that the French Emperor, pursuing his usual Machiavellian policy, has decided to sustain the kindred tyranny of Prussia, at the expense of j personal honor, integrity, and good feeling. State : considerations arc omnipotent. Tyrants must j back tyrants, or (horrible consummation!) the j world may become/ree. From present indications j the Neufehatel quarrel promises to embroil the j leading governments of Europe. Any proptiecy j as to the issue would of course be presumptuous, I but there is reason for gloomy anticipation. Nor is this the only cloud which now hnngs J over Trans-ntlontic Politics. The integrity of Eng- j 1 land's East India possessions has been threatened j J by a disturbance between Persia and DostMoham- i med. The power of the latter in Afghanistan, | Great Britain pledged herself, under the provisions of a treaty signed in 1853, to sustain. The late capture of the town and fortress of Herat by ! the Persian forces?it must be remembered that , Herat is the gate from the Caspian to the Indus? has made it incumbent upon England to fulfil the ; terms of the treaty referred to. She will not be I backward in doing so. Of her East India sovereignty she is especially ! jealous, and consequently we find that an English i armament has already been dispatched to the Persian Gulf, with the view, it is said, of seizing upon the ports of Mohamera, and Benace Bashire. We learn that this fleet consists of "twenty-six j transports, three of the Oriental Company's lar- | gest steamers, and three of the Bombay Steam Company's vessels, together with a fleet of forty j sail, carrying 6,000 troops." Besides these, eight \ regiments, five of infantry and three of artillery 1 : are upon the point of leaving England for the j East. It is therefore clear that the authority of 1 Victoria's government in the Court of Zeherin is j about to be vigorously asserted. Tt is barely possible that the Peace Conference. < which was to have met in Pari? on the 28th Dec., may have succeeded in throwing oil upon the , | troubled waters ; but in default of this, we can 1 , see no end to tho complications which are likely 1 | to arise, from the apparently irreconcilable tur| moils whose character and progress we have su- j I perficially sketched. TOHX G. BOW9IAJT, ESQ. i We have so recently bid a cordini welcome to 1 this veteran editor, on his accession to tho proprie- ' j torship of the Southron, that, now when he has ] taken control of the Times, we have only to ex- i t press gratification that he has advanced to a po- ^ sition more entirely in keepingwith his time tried ' editorial ability. Ilia first articles in the Times i are finely written, and afford a reliable promise ] that our excellent cotcmporary will steer a course j eminently true to the States Rights, Democratic , idea. With such strong assistance, our friend < Britton must and will succeed. So, at least, our ! ' hope is. , TOLERABLY TOUGH. \ Mr. YkadOX, of the Courier ami Maj. J'etiry | \ are fast friends?not only friends, but "fast."? i They are about to have a family quarrel, however. ; It seems that the Patriot told Mr. Yeadon't anec! dote last week ; whereupon Mrs- Y. waxed vexed, wrote of it in a bad humor, anikeet about to claim his own by giving a version of the important anec- i | dotes in dispute?which version, by the way, is . decidedly inferior in pith and style to Maj. Pun- j ry's. We would suggest, marginally, that Joe, , the "domo," interfere. But we do not wish to i take a prominent part; and therefore would beg ] leave to content ourself by giving both parties a ' hearing. Mr. Yeadon discourses thus:? j "We observe that our contemporary and friend t of the Greenville Patriot and Mountaineer has, t against our express protest and prohibition, etolen i , two, out of three, negro anecdotes, which we let , drop, in conversation with him. but which, as we I took care to inform him, we designed exclusively ! for our own columns. Such barefaced plagiarism, ( j or, rather, such newspaper grand larceny, de; serves, if not condign punishment, at least merry j chastisement. Before giving our trial of negro ' i anecdotes, in our own way, and in a fur better * , way than that our appropriating friend, we pro- j I coed to give him, by way of lesson, a taste of the J | cast ig are rid en do. i "In the winter of 1853, we arrived at Colum- ' i bia, during the session of the Legislature, at a ^ i time when every hotel and boarding house were * so crowded, that we had not where to lay our j head. Our friend, already with two or three co- k tenants of his chamber, besides himself, kindly tendered us a share of his bed. Our reply, (by ^ ' way of rebuke, for his inveterate and incorrigible i propensity to manufacture editorials out of sot cial converse or friendly chat,) was?"We accept j the hospitality of your chamber, but not of your , I bed; for we arc afraid we shall dream, and you . i will publish our dreams." Here followed tho anecdotes in Mr. Y's style, * I J 1 i out we navcn trocm tor tucm. mey nre tuc same i ?s Mnj. Perry's, only "long drawn out." Our renders will be kind enough to remain in a Rt?te of excitement, until the reply of the Patriot j comes to hand; whereupon it (the reply of the Patriot) will be duly published. Nout verrons POSTAGE. ! It may be profitable for our readers to bear in ! j mind the subjoined regulations in regard to post- j j age on transient matter, recently issued from the | Post-Office Department :? ; 1. Books not weighing over four pounds may be j sent in the mail pre-paid by postage stamps, at one cent an ounce, any distance in the U. States i under three thousand miles, and at two cents an ounce over three thousand miles; provided they arc put up without a cover or wrapper, or in a cover or wrapper open at the ends or sides, so that their character may be determined without removing the wrapper. 2. Unsealed circulars, advertisements, business^ cards, transient newspapers, and every other article of transient printed matter, except books, not weighing over three ounces, sent iu the mail to any part of the United States, are chargeable with one cent postage each, to be pre-paid by postage ! stamps. Where more than one circular is printed | on a sheet or a circular and a lett*r, each must be | 1 charged with a single rate.' This applies to lotI tcry and other kindred sheets assuming the form and name of newspapers; and the miscellaneous j matter in such sheets must also be charged with one rate. A business card on an unsenled cnvel- I ope of a circular subjects the entire packet to let- 1 tor pOSlftge. nny umiairiii mmier, ukc h uiruular or handbill, enclosed in or with a periodical or ^ newspaper sent to a subscriber, or to any other person, subjects the whole package to letter post- 1 age: and whenever subject to letter postngc, from t being sealed or from any cause whatever, all print- < ed matter, without exception, must be pre-paid or ' excluded from the mail. It is the duty of the postmaster at the mailing office, as well as at the of- 1 ftce of delivery, carefully to examine all printed ] matter, in order to sec that it is charged with the proper rate of postage and to detect fraud. it offices where postage stamps cannot be procured, 1 postmasters are authorized to receive money in < prc-payment of postage on transient matter, but j they should be careful to keep a supply of stamps c on hand. A GOOD ONE. C IIoist, our carriage-making friend in Chester, is a a queer man. He makes good carriages; writes c capital advertisements; talks and works up to 1 science ; and, as will be discovered from the fol- j n lowing, can hit the nail exactly on the head. The j <j article, just in time for our municipality, appeared in the Cheater Standard:? - s Fkllow Citizens:?When evil becomes a pal- J pable curse it behooves every citizen to use his influence, however humble, to stop and check its ca- ? reer. Our town, a few years ago an obscure coun- c try hamlet, has, by the enterprise of our merchants and leading business men become a prosperous . place. But can this prosperity last when vice, fol- ^ ly and drunkenness are permitted to have an un- v limited sway? Is it right and just that for the convenience of the few the many shall suffer? Justice c answers,Xo. Can any man of common sense, fath er of a family or owner of slave property, look with " indifference upon our present state of affairs? 0 where drunkenness is the rule, sobriety the exeep- c tion? ? Most men, however depraved, remember the sublime passage of the Christian prayer?"Lead c us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Divide the passage?who tempt us? The grogsellers! who are to deliver us from evil ??The public authorities.?If an Abolitionist were to come among us, he would be tarred and feathered.?If any of us were to see an incendiary kindling the match to fire a neighbor's dwelling, to kill him 1 would be justifiable. Is it then reasonable to have 0 our neighbors ruined by intemperance, or to see q an otherwise good man firing his brains with the fumes of alcohol, or burning up his vitals and fill- C ing a drunkards grave? r This evil is like all others, ever on the increase T ?and where will it stop, unless our citizens, who are sufferers, veto the license? Reflect a moment 5 ?you have a Male Academy?Why is it that it is e not more prosperous? The location is healthy and ^ the teacher highly qualified and competent.?Lis- ^ ten?Parents will not send their sons into a vortex of destruction. Country gentlemen have told me 1 this themselves. The mother who cries bitter t tears when her darling son chooses the sea for a a living, fears not the ship or the ocean wave whose praises the naids love to sing. No, no; it is the drunken sailor?his associates and their baneful | I influences she dreads. Is there a man in this town | j, so blind he cannot see it would greatly enhance j our prosperity if a hundred students were being ; ? educated at our Male Academy? Wealthy families t would then settle among us simply for their chil- g dren's education. Tar will drive away rats, but c really it is a novel project to drive away good citizens with whiskey. , * Can any thing be thought more contemptible j a and degrading than to see young lads, not out of I j; their teens, in all the majesty of manhood, coming i . out of a grogshop, spitting, smacking their lips i1 and wiping the mouth with a true Baehanalian ' e air? "Bobb, that was good stuff:" such can be j seen every day. How many slaveholders know j that their negroes, at early dawn go and get their : r morning drams, as regularly as their horses get h feed or water? This I can -prove by respectable s authority. But of course it most be right when Q the master, as a citizen, countenances such things. Let it be distinctly nndemtood I throw no blame e upon our present Council They are good mexyl ind my personal friends, and, if they are in the iicld igain, I shall voto for them. They have simply :arricd out the majority in the last election, who . mid by their votes?LICENSE. But permit me to suggest to every voter at the rnsning election of Town Council to cast a vote for whom he pleases, but write on that vote License, >r no License. And, if it is the desire of a majority of the citizens of Chester that Hum shall rule, by all means let them have it. But it is u>y opinion the evil lias'coma to a climax?a reaction must 1 lake place?to the joy of good house wives the demand for cloves will he less and (hen cloves will full in price. A word to my young friends, the ladies. Have you never noticed among your young male friends, 1 when the eye sparkle !, words of el'ijucncp (lowed is water from a limpid fountain, an aromatic odor nf cloves issued from the organ of speech? Mark ind notice?when cloves are in the month there i- j Bum below. Might as well try to stop the foul ; rtmonia issuing from a tnunnft: heap by breaking a j Cologne bottle over it, as to disguise the accursed iquid that makes men Devils. Some say, if we have no grogshops there will be is much or more liquor drank. That is perfect j nonsense?mieht as well sav as manv people die n Charleston when there is no epidemic as wlten tho yellow lever walketh in darkness and wasteth it noon day. An epidemic is raging here, wasting lur substance; a coroding cancer?Cut it out and mve the body politic. I have neither said or thought aught to offend ; iny man, but as a Citizen of Chester, father of a family, it is mine and every man's duty to be tryng to avert an evil which has made our happy , town a reproach. You all kuow and feel it?there s a remedy?apply it. The wife and the mother i will bless the Council elect of 1857. C. IIOLST. I DEATH OF J. B. LABORDE. ESQ.. The following sad announcement appeared, last week, in the Carolinian : We learn with much regret that our friend, | Prof. LaIlorde, received yesterday the painful in- ! telligencc from Kansas of the death of his eldest ! ton. Mr. LaBorde, it is well known, was one of ! the band of gullaut young men, who left Marion District last spring to serve the cause of the South n the struggle for her dearest rights. He has lone his duty nobly, and fallen in his patriotic rf'orts to procure for his section equal rights undor the Constitution. The sympathy of the community is with his family in their distressing bereavenent. THE TAX ACT. The following table shows tho rates of taxation his year, as compared with 1855, viz: 1856. 1855. [.and, ad valorem, per $100 $0 60 $0'60 Slaves, per head 70 75 jVeo negroes 2.00 2.00 rown property, advalorcm, per$100 12,V 25 Sinployments and professions 50 60 laukenpitnl paid in 25 40 foreign bank agencies 25 no tax -i -1' Lx ?A_? ktn iir\ I jnsugui capital -U -u insurance agencies, prcm., per cent 1 1 Sales of merchandise &c. per $100...15 25 <t >( <t jjy transient traders 25 25 Dramatic representations, pcrday 10.00 10.00 WORTH CAROLINA. LEGISLATURE. North Carolina legislators do business in tho ightway. When Chrismas comes,they (bi-ennially, lowcvcr) quietly go home, see the family, and, on he 1st of January, go hack forthwith to work.? [ iVe should pattern after them. They have returno ltalcigh, and arc disposing of the public busi\ess industriously. Inter alia, we notice that they have passed bills o incorporate the North Carolina and New York | Steamshin Company; to punish betting at Faro; j ind to amend the act incorporating the Trustees I >f Davidson College, permitting them to removo | he institution to any other part in Mecklenburg? j crimps. Charlotte. A bill has been introduced to [ imend the Constitution so ns to abolish the capi- ; ation tax, except on negroes; also, a bill to in- j :orporate the Dank of Lincolnton?capital $300,- ; )00; and the Bank of Salisbury?capital $500,)00; and a bill to|oxe!npt a free-hold homestead, >f $1,000 value, from levy and sale. The condiion of the Wilmington and Charlotte Railroad, is eprescnted thus: The entire length of the road s to be 270 miles, and under the present charter he State has agreed to endorse its bonds for $2,108,000. No endorsement will be called for pri>r to the meeting of the next Legislature, as it is ntended to prepare the entire road-bed before aying track. To enable stockholders to take conracts and fiuish them with their hands, January 1, 1859 has been fixed as the time for completion ?f those already made between Lum'oerton and ho Pee Dee and from Charlotte West. From Lurajerton east no contracts have been made, and that lortion of the road is not expected to be ready for aying track prior to July 1, 1859. The following exhibit of the affairs of the State } College shows that, though ou a different scheme, j lie old North State contributes as much annually I ,o her University as does South Carolina. The ?aUtbury Watchman says: From the report of Ion. Charles Manly, Treasurer to the Board of rrustces, we learn that the receipts from Nov. 20, 855, to Nov. 20, 1850, were $21,811,29; and lis disbursements S12.G31.G5: balance in the reasurv, including previous year's balnncc of $2,'11 00, S14,801 25. The receipts for the year invebeen: Bank dividends 15,250; interest on Hate and individual Bonds $3,124 77 ; Cash for louse and lots sold $413; Cash from sales of esiheated property $G,023 52. The available funds ind investments of the institution, exclusive of :ash on hand as above, are 1000 shares in the Jank of the State, par value $100,000; N. C. md Virginia bonds $25,000; individual bonds 524,510; total $150,510. Income and Liabilities of the State.?A statement | ubmitted by Mr. Treasurer Courts in compliance vith a resolution of the Senate. The receipts ino public fund from ordinary sources for fiscal rear ending Nov. 1, 1857 are estimated at $387,?75 45; and for the year ending Nov. 1, 1858 at 5402,413 31. The estimated disbursements are, or '56-7 $450,912 92, and for'57-8 $477,092 92. Jstitnated ueficit for '50-7 $63,237 47 ; for '57? 574, 079 01. " Looking to the contingent as well as to the :ertain liabilities of the State within the period unbraced in these estimates, a prudent forecast ind jealous regard for our public credit" iadu:es the Treasurer to recommend measures for in xeasing the annual receipts at least $100,000. In the estimate of receipts no dividend from tho f. C. Road is included, the amount of its divilendsbeing "uncertain." For the Yorkville Enquirer. TEMPERANCE MEETING. Messrs. Editors:?By invitation of the Sons of temperance of Beth-Shiloh Division, the citizens f the vicinity met, on Friday last, at Beth-Shiloh Ihurch, to hear addresses from Dr. Campbell, and | Jol. Bcatty, members of the Order, who had been equested to speak on the occasion. The day was ery unfavorable from the intensity of the cold, rei li was quite grauiymg to see so maDy 01 tne | ieigbbors in attendance, and especially of the fe- j aale portion of the community. It would seem j hat the ladies every where arc decided friends of | 'cmpcrance, and of all and any, who advocate the j he good cause. May heaven bless the women is j . prayer full of hope. Beth-Shiloh Division promises to do much good, t is respectable in numbers?turned out arrayed n regalia, in its full strength, and presentsd a | ight, in its young men, cheering to the heart of | he benevolent, and exciting hopes for Church, J Itate and society in general. This Division is pe- ! uliarly blessed in one particular?a Minister of he Gospel now fills the chief office in the Division, nd is not ashamed of his position. If he succeed n banishing intoxicating drink from his Church, j t is what some Ministers in the District dare not i iffeotually attempt. Of the addresses it is perhaps prudent I should lot say a word. Other sections may hereafter mve an opportunity of hearing them for themelves: for I am confident the speakers have no bjection to delivering like sentiments on all propir occasions, and would rather seek than avoid ike opportunities. She persuasion is atmg ui i"i '"i*T'lthrtiiii"ilnn i'?FTI '1'" ":l my mind, tlint they hay enlisted for the war. Be this as it may, there were several thing: which occurred after the speeches, which I cai tell all about. Some of the ladies brought forth ai array of baskets, and spread a full, rich and dain ty feast, of which even temperance men heartib partook, and which some men would have swal lowed much more willingly, than they would tin speeches. After the pleasant repast, thus furnished by th< ladies the Division assembled in their room, am went to work. It was soon announced, that sev eral were knocking for admission into the rank: of the Sons of Temperance. Men, young and ol? ?KIders of churches, and heads of families wen anxious to raise the standard of eternal opposi tiun to King Alchohol. They were received, am greeted with a brother's welcome. The number o ladies announced as ready to become visitors, thi writer will not uudertake to guess, but it wn3 cer tainly large. I am assured that the Division ii well satisfied with it? day's work. VENUST YEXIL. PRACTICAL LOVE. [The subjoined commun'cation emanates professedly from the pen of a plough boy, and claims barring quotation-marks, to be original. We con fess that wo nre somewhat skeptical on this point such an admirably-writ ten article, it seems to us could only come from a tutored hand. Burns, however, was n plough-hoy, and our young frienc may be entitled to a place in the catalogue wit! him. So we publish ; and if he will write nnothei like it, we shall publish again.] There arc two species of affection prevalent ii this world, each claiming admission under thi name of love. O ie is that pure genuine emotion arising from the congeniality of two kindred soul: ?which binds them heart to heart as with a bant of gold -which beautifies and adorns every though ?which purifies < very feeling and concentrate! every thing that is good, beautiful or true in th< image of the loved one. So powerful is this affec tion that pagan nations have deified it, and manj a pensive maiden or disconsolate lover have pour cd out propitiatory libations to this Love-God.? Anacreon, who deserves to be called the poet ol love?has made it the theme of a beautiful sonnet the opening lines of which, describing its anoma^ Ions and contradictory nature, have been thm translated by Cowley: "Almighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, and love in vain." But this only expresses the feeling when a clou'' of doubt hangs over the lover. When this is re moved and he feels conscious of, or hopes for reel procity, the wholo world seems bright and g'orh ous, a'"d he walks forth?a king among men. Tin magic lamp of Alladiu could build up a magnifi cent palace in a>ingle night; so the power of lov< can transform the realities of this world into i splendid vision, where everything is gorgeous am beautiful as a dream of heaven. This feeling hai been beantiful'y expressed by Coleridge in his ver ses to Genevieve: "All fears, all passion?, all delights? "M--. ?i..v. r M IlUltJVCr BlIIQ LUIS IIIUIWII HUIIIC? All lire but ministers of love: And feed li is sacred flame." Although the whole world appears radiant, it i because the lover sees nothing. The image of th beloved one is the focus of every thought, and thi beauty playing in her eye and the music flowinj from her lips is ever waving before his sight oi ringing in his en* and thrilling his soul with ineff able joy. There is nothing selfish in the genuim lover?he lives only to make the one he loves bap py. If there is a cloud on her brow, it gather too on his?if her roseate cheeks are paled by dis ease, his too catches a sympathetic pallor?if six is smiling and linppy. his heart is as bright as th< radiant sky of heaven. "0 happy love ! where love like this is found ! 0 heartfelt raptures! bliss beyond compare! I've paced much this weary mortal round, Ami sage experience bids me this declare? If heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare. One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, Tn other's arms breath out the tender tale Beneath the milkwhito thorn that scents tlx evening gale." But, as we have said, there is another species ol affection which skulks under the name of love.? As it savors rather of worldly prudence or selfish ness than genuine affection, we term it?practical love. Sometimes it is so covertly concealer! that it can scarcely be distinguished from the purr elevated feelings of the heart. But when pul to the test, the mask is quickly removed and thc selfishness and worldly emotions which had usurped the sacred name of love, stand ont in repulsive attitude. Let one whose affection is permeat ed by this selfish element, bo rcqnired to make r few sacrifices?let her be compelled to choose be tween poverty with love, and wealth without itlet her be importuned by friends to forget the our she has vowed to love forever?let her be temptec to this course by the alluring promises of wealth, or let malice and slander be called in to traducr his once fair name and alienate her affections? and if her love falters and fails, it is but a basr counterfeit affection, and if it must be called love, let it be termed practical love. Let it not skulk ' 1 --- i ?i.? UIKItT 11 nwru ?U .'HtlCU III iuc UUUIUH ovui nuivu has so often maile glad the city of the heart?without a qualifying epithet, expressive of its mongrel character. We know that those who profess such affection attempt to justify their course by specious and*plausible arguments. They are continually canting about 1tmptin<j Providence?as if Providence would not rather shower i's blessings upon the generous and open-hearted than the coldblooded and hypocritical. Have they forgotten the curse that fell upon Ananias and Sapphire, when they were afraid to tempt Providence? Thus these hypocrites in love are struck with a moral blindness, and vainly imagine that by concealing their genuine feelings and professing an at'achment they do not feel, they are acquiring the favor or over-reaching the wisdom of Providence. But it is seldom that we find the young advocating a practical love, until they have been schooled by others in the ways of selfishness, and had the clear bright fountains of the heart polluted by the unfeeling philosophy of Age. The time is past when mankind seemed to acquiesce in the belief, that there was no such thing as affection or choice in selecting a partner for life; and that parents or friends were the proper persons to select husbands and wives. The custom originated in a barbarous age and under an oppressive feudal system, when families were divided into petty clans, and sought by strong and wealthy alliances to increase their power and influenco. It makes the trenerous blood boil with indication, to read of the tvri;uny in the baronial halls of old; when some fairy maiden was affianced against her will to a brutish dotard or wealthy booby, and languished in duress because she dared to love one God had made worthy of her affection and esteem. Think of it!?the rosy cheek of youth pressed by the icy lip of age?the warm and ardent heart chilled by contact with a cold and pulseless bosom?silken ringlets mingling with hoary locks?in a word, youth, beauty, sentiment, innocence and ardour, joined to age, deformity, selfishness, debauchery and heartlessncss! Does not Nature revolt from such a spectacle ? And when we are told that this unnatural state is brought about for the sake of wealth?for "siller an land"?which can only be enjoyed for the brief an<T transient space of fifty or suty years, do . we not pity the shortsightedness of the polioy, whioh would mar all true felicity, to acquire that whioh, while possessed, is but an empty pageant, and which mail be left behind at last ? Pour self-deluding sophists t u I Preparing to lire forever on earth, when yon must i ! soon go hence to another scene, wbore wealth cani | not purchase repose and the lip cannot cheat with - a smile. And think you there ie no moral turpitude y . in acting a lie?a life-long falsehood ? Can thore - | bo n more opprobrious ein than Practical Lore ? e ; Is it not really more contemptible than filching a , purse, to pretend what we do not feel?to profesa e i o bo the wife of the bosom, when the heart's warm 1 I blood flows to another?to steal as a friend into I * "* - the secret penetralia of the soul of one we despise s ?to tutor the face to smile on one in every, way ] repulsive ? Let us then call things strictly by t ! their right name and ask what is practical lore i ? . It is practical lying, practical deception, practical 1 adultery, practical covctousncss, practical roguery, ' f practical folly,?in a word?it is a practical per[j version of the laws of Nature and the richest. . blessings of heaven! Start not at the catalogue! 3 A tyro's logic could easily substantiate every item without the aid of a special pleader. It Is in this i way we are often cheated by specious phrases.,? j Many a fair lady, no doubt, has thought herself ! verv wise and nrndent and entirelv mriltles* in indulging in practical love. And many aaago old ' aunt, nncle and papa, have imagined themselves great philosophers as they schooled the ydung .. ' hea t in the first lessons of deception and hypdejd' cy. We are aware that such matches are some* *3. ' times apparently hnppy?that & few cold notares' have lived togethor peaceably without love?hare plodded on through life without a noble thought or generous aspiration?as Byron says of two of . the characters of Don Juan? "Wishing each other not divorctd hut dead, e They lived rmpeetally as man and wife." , ' But who would not rather choose an exalted n 3 love, a pure disinterested devotion, than the sordid* * attractions and deceptive allurements of Maramoa? * Ilns earth a joy that shadows forth the perennial 3 gladness of Paradise ? .. i "There's a bliss beyond all that the mlofttrel has told, r When love unites two in one heavenly ftc ;- >'vWho with heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all ills and love on till they die. f One hour of a passion so sacred, is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering.bfigs,.. And 0! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this?it is this." ' Who would ask more than the realization of this - picture of Tom Moore's? Let as then cherish as a priceless gem early love, for a life-time search cannot find its peer. ^ "0 let us prize the first blown bud of love; I Let ns love now in this onr fairest youth,. i When lovo can nnd a fall and road return." The accumulation of wealth may beguile the | tedium of age?the pursuits of ambition may git? j wings to the fleeting hours?the oc^niremeut of knowledge nnd the investigations of science may occupy the mind for a season, but all in vain will " they attempt to usurp the throne of love. Wiihj out the pure affection of a noble soulcd woman', nnd consequently without domestic bliss aud the 3 joys of homo ; what is life but a fitful .fever, and man but the foot ball of circumstanoeS^Biaf ^ve" him love, nnd ho hn^a mitleiu around which the hopes of iife can cluster?he has s'ome&in? taltira J for?something to bid him aspire?something to i nerve his heart in every trial of We. Give htm R Love, and he has a consolation in tbe hoorofdeath. In the words of an old school-mate: j "Sweet it is t To love, to feel our hearts together drawn . ? By nameless ties; and sweot to hope that love r By dentli blown out, will brightly beam again, _; When lighted at the Fountain of all Light" W. W. X. M - .> . . ?. From WuhlngtOBt > 5 -7 _ | Washixgtox, Gee. 27. I Tho prcmaturo oxposure of th'e Gillas and Ckrj endon convention places the admin'stration, and B the friends of the arrangement at great disadvantage. By the way, I found, to-day, that several intelligent members of the House had taken up' . the impression that the Senate bad given their assent to the convention. Gn the contrary, it was | communicated to them, confidentially, a few days I before Christmas, and it is not probable thatlts 1 j provisions were known to many Senators befojre ' its publication in tbe New York Herald. 'They ; probably ordered it to be printed with jthe correspondence accompanying it, and a copy of ihe trea3 ty was either communicated to the/Terald, by some j person to whom a copy was confided, qr it was f; surreptitiously obtained. But-the :pabbc. have j the treaty before them, and will foym'^pme judg"! ment of it, without access to thcWrb'spoodence i which led to it, and therefore, upon a pa.rtisd.view . I of the snhiect 8& ..., I A1 really some opposition is manifested to the* treaty, and its friends, and the friends of th&Aitf: ministration, have not the means of vindicating t the proposed arrangement. The Convention, it will ho observed, completely and satisfactorily settled the dispute as to the construction of the Clayton Bulwer \treaty,, in regard to the Bay Islands and the limits of British . Honduras. 80 far as that original treaty is cttrrit ed out. But the British pretensions in regard to the Mosquito Indian protectorate arc recognized, sad - provision is made for the perpetual interference , ! of England with the Nicaraguan isthmus. If may, . | in time, lead to new complications of a'more seri! ous nature than those of which it proposes to re-' , i licve the parties concorned. " Considering the brevity of the session:and the..;, i importance of th. subject, it may woll be spppos-' cd that the Senate will find it difficult to dispose ! | of the Convention before the 4th. of March next. ' It may lie over as an embarrassment to thelncomi ing administration. v. y Mr. Letcher's tariff bill, reported from the n|iI nority of the Committee of Ways and Meanp, is * 1 movement in tho right direction, and, with some I! modifications, will be generally acceptable. ' It ! reduces the revenue from imports to abont forty, j five or fifty millions. The average rate of duties is fixed at 20 per i cent. Some of the lower duties might as well be ! remitted entirely, for collection will cost as much as they will produce. The Committee on Territories of the House,' will report a bill for the admission of Minnesota , as a State. But they disagree as to the limits of tho nptv Stflto Sump momhAra aro in fnvA* nf i dividing the territory by the parallel of forty-six, j leaving another territory on the shores of Lake i Superior, to be hereafter admitted as another i State.?Correspondence of the Charleston Courier, January 1. The correspondent of the Charleston Standard. says: To very few, does Mr. Buchanan' confide the secrets of his policy, but enough has been elicited to enable me to give you the names of the new Cabinet, as at pressnt determined on by Mr. Buchanan. This determination may or may not be changed, but I can say positively that the names now submitted are the ones at present in the eye of the President eleot, vis: Lewis Cass, Secretary of State. Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury. J. B. Floyd, Secretary of War. Nathan Clifford, Secretary of the Navy. Jesse D. Bright, Secretary of the Interior. J. Glancy Jones, Postmaster General. J. P. Benjamin, Attorney General. It is well known that Mr. Clifford was the stannoh friend of Mr. Buchanan throughout the contest, and was also the partner of Mr. Appleton, Mr. Buchanan's confidential friend and secretary; hence his prospects for a position in the new Cabinet. Mr. Benjamin is urged by Mr. Slidell, and his appointment is regarded as an opportune reward for services rendered by the old line Whigs, of which Mr. Benjamin has been a prominent member. Mr. Cobb represents the Union Democracy, while Mr. Floyd, of Virginia, stands for the 8tates Rights school. The Cabinet, as given above, is only known among the leading Democrats, and I find gives much dissatisfaction to the States Right* men. Should Mr. Bright be re-elccted to the U. S. Senate, then his place in the Cabinet will be filled by another; and should Mr. Thompson, of N. Jersey, not be re-elected, then Mr. Jones may have to give way and take-a foreign Mission. The new treaty with England whiohis now pend log oerore me aonaie, ana waion n&s rouoa its way into the public prints, is universally condemned by politicians of all parties here, and will never be confirmed by the Senate. If not disposed of before the 4th of March next, it will be withdrawn by Mr. Buchanan, as Gen. Cass is amoBg its bitterest opponents. It beats the Clayton-Bulwer treaty in yielding-to- England the guardianship of the Central American States?and the country is familiar with the. condemnation heaped upon that tMfttj r b/tifeiftnMKtte perty, becawitcro