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Jtapjs & Jacts. i ? ?At a meeting of the Commissioners of the city of Wilmington, on the 13th iost., the Mayor was authorized to subscribe S200,000 to the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad. At a late public meeting, the following "dry" toast was given : " The Press? the Pulpit?and Petticoats, the three ruling powers of the day. The first spreads knowledge, the second morals, and the last spreads considerably." : President Pierce has issued his proc- ? lamation conventing the United States Sen- j . ate in extra session, on the 4th of March, j This is the usual custom, and is for the pur- j pose of enabling the new President to noini- j nate to that body his Cabinet aud other im "7 * portant officers. The Alta California says: At last ad- [ vices the sdow on the summit of Salmon mountain varied from sixty to one hundred feet deep; on Scott mountain it was twelve, and on Trinity mountain eight feet in depth. The passage of these regions is extremely perilons, and can only be accomplished by the use of snow shoes. Within a year, salesaud grants of the public lands of the I nited States have been made to the extent of over thirty-nine railv lion acres. This is equal in extent to one- ' third of tha whole kiugdom of Franc^i Yet, notwithstanding the rapid disposal ot the public lands, there remains yet undispos- 1 ed of and area equal to the whole thirtyone States, or nearly as large as all Europe, c Russia excepted. 1J A nnntlAmon Tffnlflfl it\ lllll Hartford I t gUUliVUiuu ni?w>j ww VMV ?.?? ?.v.. Courant that about a year ago, while engaged in counting over money, he carlessly put his name upou the back of a ?20 bill. A son of Erin came into his office a few days *- since with the bill, and said he had come from East Hartford to get gold from the endorser. The gentleman looked in the bank, ! note reporter and found the bank had suapended payment, and was obliged to'give the j man a good bill for it. j It is now said that the report of the , * Investigating Committee of the House of Representatives, will implicate at least three members, and that they nre from New York. : We are not surprised at this intelligence, for ! New York never had any political integrity, and where that is wanting we believe that j men are capable of all the moral corruption : which has been charged to members of Congress. The country is anxious to see the report of the Committee. t The Savanuah Republican, of 17th says: A duel was fought at Screven's Fer- 0 ry, near this city, yesterday, between Dan- T iel S. Elliot aud Thomas S. Daniel, Esqrs., c both citizens of Savannah. The weapons s . used were rifles, distance twenty-five paces. b XV..anoinn.) tn rnnnwl (Kn JTlttl!> nrtl XT rfl. Tf C U1C piUW W 1VVVIU mvimmvuv^ -v suit. Mr. Daniel fell at the first fire and expired immediately, the ball having pene- ^ trated his heart.?Savannah Republican of Tuesday. We are requested to state that after a to-day, the Columbia and South-Carolina c Railroad Company will run their passenger 1 * and mail trains at night iustead of in day- t: time. The train will leave Charlotte for si Columbia after the arrival of the cars on the Ij N. C. Road, say 7 1-2 or 9 o'clock, p. m., tl thus making a through close connection, b This arrangement is to continue until about g the 1st of March, when a double daily train ol is to be run on both the North-Carolina and Charlotte and S. C. Roads, of which due notice will be given. e! If Presideut Pierce's Cabinet remains 0l as at present constituted until the 4th of a] March next, it will be the first instance in a, the history of the government, where a q Cabinet has remained entire duriug the s; whole of an administration. It is a high ^ compliment to the present able Cabinet that C1 it has hung together so well, and worked so ft! harmoniously for four long years. It is al- tl ways the desire of a Chief Magistrate that w his Cabinet should be a unit, and no one has h been more fortunate in that respect than b President Pierce. 1< The San Francisco Herald urging the 0 Democracy of that State to a careful selec- w tion of Senators, sound upon the Kansasvr-1 1-- _i_.r ,, nr? 1 d neorassa piauuriu, sa^a ; hc ue?o uu ; hesitation in asserting the probability that sl before the lapse of six years, the Senate of i the United States will be called upon for the I practical assertiou of a slave State on the li Pacific coast North of thirty six degrees and j i thirty minutes. Will the Senators from : p California be prepared to advocate, with zeal j a and energy, the right of the people of such fi a state to decide upon their own institutions, u without reference to geographical lines?" ^ We learn that James A. Price, who , is confined in the jail of this District, await- j11 ing his trial for murder, has been endeavor-1l< ing to make his escape. On Monday last: c the deputy sheriff, whilst in the cell, discov- D ered that the iron bars in the window had been removed and replaced again. The prisoner had with him a carpet bag, in the rim of which was a piece of wire, and using this wire he succeeded in opening the iron cuffs which were around his legs, and j then removed the bars from his window, i Finding the window too narrow to allow him j to escape, he had endeavored to enlarge it; by scraping the granite still with the iron bar. He did his work at night, and in the morning would replace the bars and fasten e the caffs around his legs. He acknowledged that he had been endeavoring to es- a nanfl for some time.? C'nionville Journal. ,_rT F It is said that the statement in refer- n ence to a volcano having recently made its n appearance in Pendleton county, Ya., on the fi great Back-bone Mountains, is true. The p Cumberland Telegraph says: It is at a point h on the mountain directly between the heads p of the dry fork of Cheat and the south J branch of the Potomac rivers at a place e known by the name of the "Sinks," so call- t< ed from the depressed condition of the moun- ti tain at that point. These " Sinks" are fnnnelshaped, and each one embraces as much as an acre of ground. On the 1st day of January, the reports caused by the burst- t ing forth of the subterranean firejwere heard a for a distance of twenty or thirty miles. Vast columns of flame and smoke issued from the orifices, and red hot stones were 0 thrown up in the air several hundred feet t above the mouth of the crater. Our infor- ^ mant adds that the people in the vicinity are D becoming alarmed, at the pertinacity with ?< which the flames are kept up and the red 0 hot masses of rock thrown out, A heavy e rumbling noise like distant thunder is con- b tinually reverberating through the deep cav- v ems of the mountain, which at times seem s to tremble from summit to base. e C|e?0r(il)tIIedEn<}ttiwr EDITED BY JAM'L W. MELTON JOHN L. MILLER. YORKVILLEj S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1857. COURT CALENDAR. NORTHERN' CIRCUIT?SPRING TERM, 1857. RETURN' DAYS. Jnion, Saturday, February, 14. fork " " 21. Lancaster, 44 44 28. Chester, 44 March, 7. Fairfield " 44 14. SITTINGS OF COURT. Jnion, Monday March, 2. Fork, 44 44 9. Lancaster, 44 44 19. Chester, 44 44 29. Fairfield, 44 44 oO. TO THE PUBLIC. We take pleasure in announcing to the friends I if the Enquibkr that we have associated with us j dr. Joseph II. Black?a native and resident of j his District. This arrangement hns been made j n order that we may, without detriment to the ; japer, perform efficiently other and urgent duties i levolving upon us; as well as that we may bring , nto the public service a laborer whose abilities j ire, we think, in every respect eminent and com- ! nanding. Mr. Black is a member of a family, I veil known in this District and in many portions j t the State, and distinguished for those talents? j I nergy, perseverence, and peculiar tact in business j ?which are the indispensable agents of success- j ul enterprise. A graduate of the Erskine College, | ie will bring to his task the aids of an unusually j horough education and unusually varied acquire- i ?i nents; and, though quite n young innn, ne win j mve the benefit of considerable experience in edi- j oiial life. The arrangement will go into operation with ! he next issue, when our co-laborer will, with more ' * ' f propriety, speak for himself. Meantime, we rould ask for him a generous reception into the irele of our friends; nnrl for the new co-partnerhip, the same kindly encouragement which has itherto cheered and rewarded our labors. The business affairs of the paper will be conucted under the firm of J.vo. L. Miller & Co. RETURN-DAY.' Judging from the anxious faces of both debtors nd creditors, we feared that Return-week would lose with a fearful list of killed and wounded.? 'he fire has turned out, however, to be less threatniug than tbe smoke. Almost four hundred caes were entered?most of them small, and a goodj number comparatively worthless. We think iat the gross amount involved is considerably elow the average; and we can, therefore, conratulate the community upon jhc sound condition F the "public morals." May it so continue. "AN EARLY BIRD" dtO. Mr. Ratchford lias taken up the idea that an trly bird is apt to catch the rarest morsels : in ' - - - - | ther words, ho has "taken time t>y tneioreiocK, | ad brought on a small, though unusually varied, i ssortment of Gentlemens' and Ladies' Dross oods?of the earliest Spring styles. The very gbt of the "latest agony" of Bouuctts?at least fty styles, and some of them really charming?is oough to make even a man's purse-strings snap rnnder suddenly, and each particular gold eagle lerein squeal with ineffable delight. A pretty j oman with one of those "perfect loves" about J erhead, would charm a hyena into perfect ainia- | ility. The Ladies ought to call in and take a j >ok ; if for nothing else, at least to get an idea j f the exquisite beauties which a full assortment | 'ill unfold. Gentleman's hats are there, too, in equal abun- j ance?at the smallest calculation, 40 different t tvlcs. Call in and get a samj le. "another division !'? Verily, it was not a useless thought in our Pub- j sher to keep this common-place head in type!? j t has already saved the worth of it; and the pros- | ect is that it will yet make its impression again ; nd again. In other words, the great-moral re- j jrm progresses constantly, steadily?onward and pward! This new company was organized on j londay last, by D. G. W. P., John G. Knloe, as- i isted by Messrs. G. W. Broach and J. J. Mills of J I Lock Hill; and it is styled the "Fort Mill Divis- ^ )n, No. 47." A glance at the names of the offi- ) ers is sufficient to assure us that it is made up of j ten who "never say die":? T. G. CULP, IF. P. JNO. M. WHITE, W. A. B. J. PATTERSON, R. S. J. T. HOTCHKISS, A. R. S. J. H. FAULKNER, 8. II. M. SAVILLE, T. Wsi. J. CULP, C. L. J. FAULKNER, A. C. R. SAVILLE, I. S. J. D. HOTCHKISS, 0. S. Dr. B. M. COBB, P. IF P. Let's see. By a determined and well-directed ffort, within the period of little more than six , lonths, Nine Divisions of the Sons of Temper- j nee hare been organized and put to work pros- | erously, in York District?numbering, at a very i loderatecalculation, five hundred members! Men ! lay talk loudly of human frailty; but the faith is ' xed in us that, when thoroughly aroused and ! roperly directed, there is enough of truth and j onesty and moral courage in the masses of the eople to achieve any reform,?however difficult j lie means or great the end! . Let the faint-heart- | d ponder it?weigh it?take courage?and come j j the work; for, soberness, integrity of characer, morality, Christianity, are becoming popular! A GAME OF POKER. Those who are afflicted with the Lottery mania, rill find, on the first page, a nice calculation of he chances for the next capital prize. Read it, nd invest the surplus accordingly. Pertinent to this subject, we must perform a iuty devolved on us by a whole-souled subscriber f ours, who lives like a white man ought to and ills the soil somewhere out in the country. Read- j ig, in the Enquirer, some time ago, the an-1 ouncement of sundry "splendid sohemes" and 'magnificent and stupendous prizes," he became ' ne-sided on the lottery question, and went delib- j rately into the conclusion that he, of all men, was j ound to "win su'ttnn nut alter naving in ested $35, he has become disgusted with Sam | wan; pronounces him a "d? swindleacknowldgea himself half-seas-over generally; and de sires To challenge the said Swan to meet him a Augusta, the half-way house, anil take it out in game of "poker"?that is, make it ?70 or noth ing! He doesn't understand the wheel businoss; thinks it a humbug; but he is willing to ''go $3; better and call," in a gentlemanly game. Doe our friend Sam "see it" ? THE FLORIDA INDIANS. The subjoined extract from a private letter re ceivcd in Jacksonville, from Tampa, contains th j latest intelligence in reference to the Floridi campaign:? "We have no news in regard to the Indians.| So far as we know up to this date here, the troop i have been entirely unsuccessful in their pursni after them, although the campaign may be said ti have opened fairly a month ago. The meascl arc prevailing extensively in several voluntee companies, particularly in Moseley's, McMills and W. H. Kendrick's. One death by measles ha J -1 i. ,1 Hnnia 0CCU1TCU. lie IUII1U2V urajmil ui nu; w.i.j, u..v>w ' ive being effected, though, as usual, our cxpecta | tions are very large." RETIRED, From the following paragraph in the Chavlesto; Standard, of Friday last, we leftrn that L. "VV Spratt Esq., has retired from the editorial depart ! mcnt of that journal. "It will be seen by reference to a notice in an ! other column, that Mr. L. W. Spratt has with , drawn from the cditorinl direction of this journal and will henceforth address himself to his profes I sion. He retnins his interest in the Stundarn ! however, nnd will continue a general supervisio: ' over its affairs, which will be immediately con ! ducted by .Mr. .1. I). Budds nnd Mr. S. R. Crock or." . ? ?>?n : W. B. CARLISLE, ESQ,. A correspondent of a Richmond paper, who ha : been takiug notes in Charleston, penned the sub joined handsome compliment to the accomplishes editor of the Charleston Courier. A young mar ' Mr. Carlisle has already deserved a perrunnen reputation in the State : and in his new office a one of the editors of RurselV* Magazine, he give promise of a higher and a yet more useful career It is a duty to watch the progress and record th successes of such men; and we porform it will pleasure. Associations of his profession are of the most delightful and elevating kind. And indeed, if it were not for the few bright spots and pleasant memories in his career, lie would have but little to sustain and console him ; for too frequently he is bui poorly remunerated for his services, and in place of thanks and gratitude, receives neglect and abuse. It is impressed with these facts, therefore, aud not from any fancied notions of u life of literary ease and enjoyment, that we put on the editorial robe and install ourselves "knights of the scissors." iioJjST, AOA IX. Our eccentric friend, Hoist, has added another to the stock of sensible things of which the Standard has been .i/ioA-eaman?another "spoke in the wheel," which is rolling on in the way of moral and social reform. He ngain touches up a theme, and discusses it in a style, which befits the goodly towu of Yorkville as well. The last paragraph refers to the action of the Chester Council, recently, in playing havoc with a gambling den in that vicinity. Itut, to the "marrow of the bone": "To act the reformer is at any time an irksome task: Severnus and John Huss were burnt: Martin Luther had to flee for his life, but those times are gone by, a new era has dawned upon the world, the civil right of man must be respected. Intendantand Wardens of Chester, you are sustained in your acts of reformation by a stronger influence than the will of sceptre and crown, the power of PUBLIC OPINION! Not only the citizens of Chester bnt the whole country are rejoiced at your action. Now, says the country gentleman, my wife and daughters can come into your town to do their purchases without being stared at by the drunken men, or hear obscene remarks made when passing a crowd of the Lords of Creation, emitting the sweet odor of bad liquor and tobacco juice; others say, our negroes can now come in and attend to business without getting drunk, that alone is a blessing.? This is strong language but it is the truth and I can prove it. A very intelligent gentleman who lives a few miles from Chester, told me himself, 'I could send three loads of wood into Chester every day, make six dollars, besides benefitting the people, but I dare not.' Why? My negroes get drunk, so the wood remnins at home." Here is a very smnu uem, oui sua me citizens suirer. Who don't recollect the cold snap a few weeks ago ?every body was running after a load of wood as if it was California gold. If that man had not been driven out of market by liquor, you would have had three more loads of wood every day. Parents can now send their sons and daughters to our academies without the first being ruined by evil example, or the other offended by indecent conduct in our streets. Chester is like Richard in the play, 'Herself again!' at least for twelve months. Again, Gentlemen, you will receive the silent thanks and prayers of many a wife and mother. You have dared to take another bull by the horns, and may you, like Sampson of old combating the lion, have the power to pull them out by the root. I mean the curse of civilization, the vampire of society, the GAMBLERS?those traveling upas trees in whose shade every thing withers and dies. The hawk who merely fulfills a natural law and steals a chicken is shot for the act; but the gambling thief who robs the family of this comfort and the poor victim of peace and happiness, he is made welcome, daring to associate with gentlemen. "Mr. Carlisle is a young gentleman 01 Dngn promise, of very highly cultivated mind, and on of the finest specimens of a high souled and whole soulcd Carolina Gentleman I have ever 9een. Hi graduated with great distinction at the Soutl Carolina College in Columbia, and has applied hi fine powers and acquirements with unflagging en ergy to his honorable vocation. It requires m prophet to predict for such a man a brilliant am useful future. It is no matter of surprise tha the journalists of South Carolina occupy so higl a place in the respect and confidence of that com munity, when wc find its rauk9 filled by men s< eminently calculated to guide and enlighten pub lie opiuion." CHEERING NEWS FROM WALKER. The steamship Texat arrived in New Orleans 01 the 18tb, with dates from the Balizc to the 10th She brought the following cheering intelligence ol the progress of Walker's revolution in Nicara gua:? Col. Titus Lockridge had proceeded up theriv er, attacked 800 Costa Iticnns at Condy's Point near the mouth of the Scripaqua, and defeatet them with a severe loss. The loss ou the Amer'r can side was trifling. The machinery of the steam er, in which were Col. Lockridge and his party getting out of order, shecamoback to Punta Are nas, had repaired and gone back again. Then was little doubt but that the Americans would bi in full possession of the river in a week. Dates from General Walker's cainp are to tin 8d instant?brought by the Orizaba from Panama The nrniy under Canos had appeared nenr Rivns but were driven back on the 28th ult. Genera Ilenningson, with a force of 400 men, attackoi 1500 of the enemy, at Fort George, drove then from their position, and then returned to Rivas Wnllfov'* whole force at Rivas amounted to 180( men of whom 1100 ore fit for duty, in excellcn health and spirits. They have ammunition foi tlxrco montKo. A private despatch to the agent of the Associa ted Press in this- city, dated Greytoww, iOih iiut. confirms the above intelligence. THE LEXINGTON FLAG. We have received the first and second number.' of a paper with the above title, published in Lex ington, S. C., and edited by Drehcr and Loppard It is quite a handsome sheet, and the numbers he fore us give promise of a more than ordinarilj able management in the editorial department.? The newly-fledged "quills" run knowingly upon editorial topics; just as much so as if they had beou in training a twelve-month. Witness the following paragraph :? "In assuming the position of Editors of this sheet, we are not altogether unaware of the nature of the duties which we will have to perform, and of the trials and perplexities to which wc arc about to subject ourselves. No public relation is more laborious, trying, and responsible, when it; duties are faithfully discharged, than that of the editor. At all times, in calm and in storm, in the sunshine of prosperity and in the gloom of adversity, he must be at the post of duty, and meet in every respect the requirements of an exacting public. It is true, he hqs his pleasures, and, though few, they are intense and .pure; and the t ! f A SELF-MADE MAS. ' a, , The number of what arc styled "self-made . men" in Congress, is increasing?their history is _ ( becoming an every (lay truth, a striking and 5 . cheering commentary upon the noble institutions s under which wc lire and prosper. These peculi' arly American characters hare for runny years j held a prominent plaec in the roll of the Ilonse: ! 1 hut not until late years has the aristocratic Seni ate opened the door to their vigorous and .leterm- j L' ined knocking. Now, they take position among its i x J Icadcrp. | The new Senator from California, David 11. ~ ] Broderick, adds another to the number. He was t | born on tbe Capitol Ilill, in Washington ; and ?f o ter a career which, even in tins rapiu age, is | 8 I without a parallel, "returns on the 4ih of March, j * j as a Senator, to the very spot*where lie ganiboll- ; s : ed when a child." The correspondent of the F.vt~ j * j ning Xcirs thus sketches his history:? I "David C. Broderick, who is elected for the ; long term to succeed John B. Woller, was former; ly a stone mason in the city of New York, lie \ was one of the Sachems of the order of Tamman ' ny in that city, and was considered there, what '. i is called a great party worker. He was at one .. ; time a member of tho New York Common CounI cil. Einigrnting to California, when the golden j fever first raged, he soon become promiucnt by i- j his bold and open opposition to the Vigilance i- | Committee, which then had full sway in San FranI, ! cisco. He would monnt the rostrum in the presi ence of an excited multitude about to hang a [ f, j criminal and protest against their unconstitutional j u proceedings. He amassed considerable wealth ' i- ' which he spent in party purposes in endeavoring - | to reach the United States Senate. It is told of i j him that he vowed never to return to the Atlantic ; States until he came at Uncle Sam's expense as a j United States Senator, and Ills trip here now in , s | that capacity, is his first return. Defeat after j i defeat has encountered him; but never discour- j . : aged him. He was always one of these njjver say ; j die men. >i j His escape from death once was very rcraarka- j ! ble. Engaged in a duel with the late J. Caleb ; Smith, a son of Ex-Gov. Smith of Yiririniu. he s was about to take off his watch, deeming it con- i 8 . trary to rule to carry anything that would pre- j . vent a ball from having a fair show at his body, j e ! Mr. Smith noticing hiin about to divest himself of ; ' his watch waived the necessity of his doing it.? j The result was, the watch saved his life. Mr. j | Smith's ball, on the first fire, struck it and eraj bowelled itself in its works. Jlc will no doubt be | e 1 an energetic and successful business Senator." 1 I j FOREIGN NEWS. h I The A*ia arrived on the 22d inst., with advices I s | from Liverpool to the 7th. The cotton market | 'o | was somewhat easier, but the article is not quoi tably lower. Inferior grade?, firm. Sales during t | the week, 45,000 bales ; of which speculators : J took 0,000, and exporters 8,000. Breadstuff's j } dull; provisions, steady ; money, easier. j The Queen's speech had been delivered before 1 Parliament. Touching American affairs she says I that negotiations between the United States, Great ; i Britain and Honduras are advancing, and it is . ! hoped that the Central American difficulty will f i soon be settled. The British army were advan ! cing towards the interior of Persia. Advices from Mexico are important. A treaty - I had been concluded by Minister Forsyth, the j prominent clause of Which, is said to provide for the loan of $15,000,000 by the United States to Mexico?$3,000,000 to be applied to the payment of American claims. As a security for the loan the United States are to receive fifteen per rent, of the customs revenue of Mexico. Other provisions of the treaty look to a less restricted con^ercinl intercourse between the two nations tn nnQtnl rr><rnlntinnq nnrl ntbor minni* tnniftq.? ! j It seems that Comonfort is in a fair wny to estab* : lish his government more permanently. Just 1 here, our renders may take n glance at one of those ) wild rumors which sometimes get into circulation, t for which in this instance the N. 0. Picayune is r responsible:? "The Havana Prensa of the7th (says the Picamnii1 i.nrTT-rti nrrTmt t.. TT . nfl?.i Mexican general, D. Joaquin Raitgel, who is on his way hither with "the project of a protectorate ; of the United States over the Mexican nation . the realization of which, the Prensa thinks would ' \ he the death blow to the Mexican Republic. Gen. i Rnngel will remain in ITnvana but a few days . j longer, when he will proceed directly to the United States. Such a thing would be a blessing of in! conceivable valne to Mexico; whether the United r ! States would be equally benefitted is doubtful.? ! We still hold to the idea of a military republic t ! (in American hands) for the whole region from j the Isthmus of Panama to the Rio Grande." ; Another equally wild rumor is at hand which, : though relating to matters somewhat domestic, | proceeds from foreign quarters and is entitled to . ; consideration under this head The European correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing ! from London, on the 30th ult., is responsible for ( i it. He announces : > I have to chronicle an event of the very highest > importance which has recently happened at the French Court, and which cannot fail to interest i ueeply society in America, as well as in Europo.? ; The Empress Eugenie made her appearance last rceek , ! tci/hont any crinoline or hoops, and looked the bet) tor for it. Feminine diplomatists predict now a speedy fall of the reign of hoops, though it is not j yet certain whether even a French Empress may i be able to succeed with such a coup d'etat, and to i overturn nn ugly fashion by her sovereign will.? ; Louis Napoleon, who was always opposed to the i crinoline, has made up his mind to crush it, and, flushed with success in the diplomatic line, does not doubt that his endeavors will triumph. MERE-MENTION. i The present charming' 'spel!" of pleasant weathj er will put thrifty house-wives in fine train for I gardening: and Esrfr Jefferys and L. P. Barnett ; & Co., propose to supply the dmderatum in anex! cellent variety of fresh and genuine Landreth's and Weathersfield's seeds. In the Horticultural i department, Mr. Fentress, who will visit Yorkville i Court-week, proposes to supply all demands.? j Make out your memoranda. Several tracts | of land are offered for sale in this issue. Mr. A. L. Gardner desires to sell a tract 4A miles north j of town, containing 101 acres, which, if not dis- | posed of previously, will be put up to the highest i bidder on Sale-day. Col. Bowen will sell four j likely negroes next Sale-day. On the snino day, ! ! J. M. Smarr, Agent, will expose to sale five shares i j of King's Mountain Railroad stock. See adver- | I tisements. The Columbia papers bring us interesting rei ports of a lecture delivered before the Athenieum, I last week, by Judge O'Neall?subject, "Columbia I forty-five Years Ago." We would have given "a j pretty" to hear it; and we hope it will be published in extenso. Judge O'Neall is a regular bundle of reminiscences?all of which ought to be gathered up and published, in his own style. The Mobile Tribune recently offered a prize for most accurate estimate of the cotton crop of the current year. Seventy-four have have been sub? . C.. I.: ~l ?. Q O to AO A Kolnu n nA tt.a Inn UJlllUU , LUC UI^LICJSI, umvs, ouu iuc x%j jj ? est, 2,699,995. The average amount is 2,966,210 bales. The Senate has passed the bill dividing Texas into two judicial districts. The very latest advices from Mr. Buchanan's conclave, I fixes the Cabinet as follows: Cass, Secretary of State; Floyd, ofVa., War; Brown, of Tcnn., Navy; Cobb, of Georgia, Treasury; J. Glancy Jones, Tenn., Post Office; Jacob Thompson, of Miss., Interior; Toucoy, of Conn., Attorney General. An affair of honor between Maj. Wm. Wallace I and James G. Gibbes, of Columbia, has been sat- j isfactorily adjusted. It grew out of a communication published in the Carolinian, while Mr. Gibbes was temporarily in charge. Our friend of the Anderson Carolinian is in search of : a travelling dentist, Dr. W. E. Edwards, who : made defalcation in the advertising line. His operation on our cotemporary's eye-teeth was sue- j cessful. Pass him round. J. W. Arnold was j elected Sheriff of Lawens District, on Monday be- j fore last. Dr. E. K. Kane, the distinguished I explorer died at Havana, whither he had gone for j his health. ?Congress has passed a bill to in- j crease tli? pay of army officers. - Very well; but tlioy/'/r might also be bettor paid. A bill baa also passed both houses, providing for an equitable dattribution of the public lands to the States. Tn the ITonse, the bill to repeal the laws of Kansas and provide for a new election of the Legisla- ; ; tore, passed by a majority of twenty votes. The Senate, in executive session, killed the Central American treaty by postponement till the 5th" of March. The House, 011 the 18th, passed the Submarine Telegraph b'dl by 21 majority, but with amendments which will reqir.ro the concurrence of tlm Senate. The Standard announces that an effort will bo made to rc-org\nize the Division, Sons of Temperance, in Chester. "Many j citizen?," remarks our neighbor "of sterling worth and character, have given their names and erabarked heartily in the good work and many more are expected soon to unite and help roll on the great Temperance ba'.l, until the Kingdom of AU cohol shall have not one advocate or votary in old Chester." The Sumter Watrhman says that Samuel S. Tindall "who had been tried and con- i victcd of murder of his wife, suffered the extreme | penalty of the law, for that offence, on Friday Inst, i between the hours of twelve and two o'clock. He j ascended the gallows, betraying but little trepidation or unusual alarm, and with calmness said, "Farewell, my dear friends?prepare to meet me in heaven." The rope was then adjusted and the cap placed over his face. Being then asked by the Deputy if lie was ready, be replied, "yes," in a distinct and audible tone, and in a brief space of time thereafter was in the presence of his Maker. He died with scarcely a straggle. A clause in one of the code hills of the State of Mississippi, prohibiting negroes from preaching, has passed the Legislature of that State by an almost unanimous vote. Advices from Northwestern Texas state that much alarm exists in consequence of depredations by the Camanches. Within one month, twelve men have been killed, aud a large amount of stock destroyed. The settlements are entirely defenceless. EDITORIAL CONVENTION". We would suggost a Convention of the proprietors of newspapers in South Carolina, to be held, say at Columbia or Charleston, for the benefit of the press, and to to endeavor to introduce the cash system for subscription and advertisements.? There are many other things which need reform in Newspapcrdom. If a body of the working-men would meet, with some object ia view, and accomplish sometliiug after it had met, it would be of some benefit. We should be glad to hear from the j presses in general ?xvewnerry nun. Since tlie utter failure of the effort to establish a Press Association, we have to a great extent lost confidence in tho efficiency of any movement designed to create a community of interest and of conduct bctweeu the country prosses in the State. The difficulty lies in the debatable proposition whether there exists, in tho highest degree, that sentiment of good faith which is requisite to a strict adherence to prescribed rules and regulations. A failure in a single instance would render null all the resolves which a Convention could determine upon in a month's discussion. Upon this point, we are yet to be fully persuaded. We have no objection, however, to tho effort; and to the desirable end we shall willingly contribute whatever may bo in our power. With the Laurensville Herald, wc think it should be a Convention of country editors and proprietors exclusively; and held in one of the country towns?say, Wiiinsloro'. THE " CORRUPTION COMMITTEE.? The Committee appointed by the House of Representatives, to investigate the charges of corruption against that body, have, after an earnest and laborious inquiry, made their report, presenting an array of facts which arc of the most startling character. Messrs. Gilbert, Edwards and Matteson, of New York, and Welch, of Connecticut, are the members specially named; against whom reso lutions of expulsion have been reported. Of course, the report was followed by much excitement and debate, which have not reached the high| est point. The following apt remarks are from the Carolina Time*: The report roccommends the expulsion of four members. They are Edwardst Gilbert and Mattison of X. York, and Welsh of Connecticut. Simonton, the Reporter of the N. York Timet, who was instrumental"in having the charges brought and investigated, is also recommended for expulsion from the privileges of the floor as a Reporter; they are all Black Republicans, as was suspected from the beginning. Francis S. Edwards represented the 33d District of New. York, and was the Black Republican candidate. William A. Gilbert represents the 23d District, also nominated and elected because he was a Black Republican; Orsamus B. Mattcson represents the 20th Ditrict, nominated uud elected because he was a Black Republican. W. W. Welsh represents tho 4th Congressional District of Connecticut, and was also nominated and elected because ho was a Black Republican. We have not the least doubt that these men are very fair average examples of the morals that obtain in that unprincipled party. We need not, perhaps, repeat what is already known to most of our readers, that this Simonton is the Washington correspondent of the New York Timet, and that he made the first public charges of Congressional corruption, through the columns ef that paper. He 1 was then arrested by order of the House, and confined for several days in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, for refusing to testify before the investigating Committee. It is said that he was once a tailor in the city of New York. We take occasion to repeat what we expressed heretofore in ti. is connection?our sincere gratification that no Southern man and no Democrat has hern implicated in these most disgraceful disclosures. DIR. BOYCK'S SPEECH. Wo have read the speech of our Representative, on the Tariff; and though treating an utterly hackneyed theme, we confess that we found the perusal a pleasure as well as a means of solid instruction. The propositions arc not new, and they are startling only as clearer exhibitions of the iuiponding evils which a tariff for protection threatens to precipitate upon the country ; yet, the style of the argument is peculiarly attractive and j excellent?terse, logical and of great force?and the entire effort exhibits a depth of thought and an extent of research and political learning which materially enhances Mr. Boyce's reputation, and gives him a stronger title to the confidence of his | constituency. If possible, we shall find room for j the entire speech. Meantime, our readers will : find the main argument included in the following epitome:? Mr. Boyco starts out by showing that the surplus in the treasury amounts now to $19,000,000; that in June, 1858, it will amount to $43,995,000; that this is raised from the labor of the country; that the withdrawal of so much capital from business will tend to cause a commercial crisis: that such a fund will induce corruption into the government ; and collected from articles of prime necessity, and from rates which diminish import, it is unwise and unprofitable; and for these reasons, if for no other, the policy of protection ought j to be abandoned. In reference to the main principle of tlint policy, he speaks as follows; I now propose, Mr. Chairman, to consider the | report from the majority of the Committee of Ways and Means on this subject. That report rests upon the idea that the protective policy is a wise policy, and that the tariff should be modified in subservience to that policy. I wish to examine j that question; and if I destroy tho foundation upon which the report rests, then the superstructure [ erected upon it must fall to the ground. To put j the argument in the most striking and compretien- I sible light, I will state it in a simple and practical j form. Certain persons wishing to go into manu- j facturing, ask Government to aid them in a busi- ; ness naturally unprofitable, by preventing the con sumers of the country from buying foreign goods i cheap, in order that those consumers may be com- | pelled to buy their goods dear. These are the three propositions necessarily involved in the demand for protection. Lot us examine them. " As regards the first proposition, Government is asked to aid men in embarking in an unprofitable ** ' a. - " Z. business. I tbink that I haro stated this propo- | sition correctly. The proposed business is either profitable or unprofitable. If it were profitable, j no application would be made to Government for ] nid. The .very fact of the application to govern- | ment necessarily implies that the business is un- j profitable. This is a logical conclusion of abso- j lute certainty. Assuming then, that the proposed j business is unprofitable, what courso ought Government in take? Is it not plain that, if it did nny- j thing, instead of aiding persons to go into an uu- , profitable business, it should rather discourage them from it? For itjnust be observed that Government does not by its action increase the capital of a country : it cm only give a new direction to it. The capital of a country, then, remaining the same, I insist it is unwise for Government, as a mere question of political economy to aid in turning nny portion of tho capital of a country into an unprofitable channel; because in the degree that the rates of profit upon the capital thus unprofitrt K1 tr <1* ..nithwl I.. A?aHA?o onfa nf nf/lUlo 4*wIjr IIIIWICU 10 uviun mc OTCia^ litvv vr* j^ivm<o of the capital of the country generally, to that extent there is an absolute loss to the productive energies of the country. Therefore, it is unwise in any country to turn capital into any channel yielding a less rato of profit than the average profits of the country. But such a policy is peculiarly unwise with us, having, as we do, a new vast, and undeveloped country, needing only the application of capital and energy to produce the grandest and most profitable results. So much for this first proposition. As regards the second proposition, that the consumers should not be allowed to buy foreign goods .J cheap. I shall not dwell upon the injustice involved in this proposition, though it strikes me as j a direct attack upon the right of property and tho right of labor, to prohibit a man from buying or selling to the best advantage. To the extent that he loses by your prohibition, to that extent you ( havo confiscated the fruits of his industry. But, , what wisdom is there in this proposition? It is true, we are often told by the monopolists that it ( is ruinous to buy cheap foreign goods. But I can hardly conceive of a more monstrous fallacy than ' this idea. Test it by every day's experience and j common sense. Suppose, Mr. Chairman, you should go into a tailor's shop to buy a coat, and tho tailorshonld say to you; "You may have this one for thirty dollars, it was made in the United States; but you may have that other one, which is just asgood, for fifteen dollars, as it was made in Jburope. lvnat would youao: nny, with all your aversion to foreign influence, yon wonld, I imagine, take two of the fifteen dollar coats, rather than ono of the thirty dollar coats. Everybody acts upon this principle; it is the wisdom of every day life. It is wise in individuals to do this, why is it not wise in the country to do the same? To show the infinite absurdity of this idea, let ns suppose that foreign countries, instead of selling us their goods cheap, should give them to us. What would bo the consequence ? Why, our utter ruin; for if it is injurious to buy cheap, of course it would be utter ruin to get for nothing. Such is the logical conclusion to which this argument necessarily tends?a consequence so absurd I shall not dwell longer upon it. Now for the third. In order that these manufacturers may succeed, they require you to make the consumers of the country purchase from them , at a price enhanced to the extent of the duty on the foreign article. What justice is there in that? Why is it that one portion of the people should be compelled to buy from another portion, and a smaller portion, at a higher price than they could buy elsewhere? Why should the great body of the American people be required to pay in the enhanced price an indirect tax to the manufacturers? Is there any justice in it? In reading the annals of the middle ages, we are shooked when we are informed that the fierce barons of those times were wont to descend from their mountain fastnesses and levy contributions from the people of the valleys at the point of the sword. We considered they were barbarians. Now, what difference is there in principle, whether you levy tribute at the point of the sword or by the legerdemain of legislation ? Suppose a direct tax was levied on the great body of the American people to be paid over as a bonus to the manufacturer: would the people stand it? No, I sir; the 7ery stones would rise in mutiny against its payment. What is the difference in principle whether you do it directly or indirectly? In one case you do it with manliness: in the other with concealment. If you ask what are the profits-of the ifianufacturers, the reply is, "they do not make more than six or seven per cent." After the honorable gentleman from Rhode Island [Mr. Durfee] made his speech two weeks ago upon the subject of free wool, I asked him what were the profits of the woolen manufacturers? He said that the woolen manufacturers wore losing money, but that the cotton manufacturers said they were making six per cent. What is the result, them? Why, the great mass of the people have been made poorer to assist these men in making average profits. As the indirect tribute levied from the consumers by the manufacturers, only raises their profits to the country, it follows, then, that this indirect tribute is a loss to the productive energies of the country, and the effect is the same thing to the country as if, under a free trade poli-' cy, this amount bad been thrown into the sea. I have thus gone through with the three propo* sitinns invnlvpd in the demand fnr nrntention ; as they are all fallacies, it follows that the syst em resting upon them is also a fallacy. In further continuation of his argument, Mr. Boyce shows that in the enhanced price upon articles of domestic produce, occasioned by the tariff, the people of this country have paid to manufacturers, since 1816, $1,000,000,000. That the effect of this has merely been to encourage the production of articles that would not have been produced without that; the operatives in these employments receive no higher wages than they would have received in other pursuits, and only some twenty thousand manufacturers, therefore, have been enriched by an expenditure of $1,000,000,000. He favor3 direct taxation as the best mode of raising a revenue; but, as a step in that direction proposes to reduce all imposts to 20 percent., and to place tea and coffee on that list, and subject to ouly such restrictions as would result from this policy, he proposes to leave all the people of the ' country free to sell where they can sell dearest, and buy where they can buy cheapest, without the legerdemain of legislation to control them. Great Amount of Coin in the New York Sub-Treasury. The receipts into the sub-treasury at New York , continue very large, and the eyes of those who con- , trol our banks all over the country, indeed the j eyes of all who know any thing of cause and , effect, are watching the absorbing operation there with the liveliest interest. On Monday eve- ] ning the depository of the government at New- ] York, known as the sub-treasury, held nearly fifteen millions of dollars, being an increase in one , day over the payments of over one million of dol^. ( lars. This is an amount unheard of since we were j a government. As yet the imports continue very j heavy, and New York importers are complaining of slow sales and low prices. The Philadelphia Ledger says: This condition of things makes pinching times with the New York banks and merchants for coin, and street rates are steadily on the ad Yfince. Fortunately wc have a sub-treasury.? If all this coin went into the banks, and should be made by them, as it would be, a base for further discouuts, the present excessive imports being unknown, would bo increased, and unconscious of the mines swelling and glowing beneath us, the grand explosion only would arouse us to our ruin. Not so under the independent treasury. It daily informs us of the operations of trade, and how extrvaguntly we are expending abroad.? There is timely admonition, which the banks, in self preservation, are compelled to heed, and by denying accomodations to the imports and merchants depending on them for current means, compel them to pause. Thus will the drain of coin for imports be nipped in the bud. Inconvenience and embarrassment are no doubt felt, but they will not in all probability last many weeks. *We expect a cessation of imports, and a gradual depletion of the sub-treasury, and with these the usual freedom and case in the New York money market. As yet, rates have not been much effected in this market, but they soon will be unless there is a let up at New York. i | The Fourh Estate Upheld.?In a recent issue of the Vicksburg Whig, we find the article which wc subjoin. It contains some very shrewd remarks clothed in playful humor. It is but too true, thnt ; the Fourth Estate is held very cheap by unreflecting persons. Still in this, as in many other things, the progress of education and enlightenment is correcting the evil. Here is the Whiff's article: Who shall be Governor??Under this caption the Brandon Platform has a lender of a column in length, in which the editor urges the claims of our cotempocary, Ethel Barksdale, Esq., of the Missmippxan, tor tne otnce or uovernor. we sec- i e ond the motion. It is about time tbe fourth es- t tate was recognized. The editorial tribe have ! k made many Governors, Presidents, and great men j t generally, and it must be confessed that very of- r ten we have made them out of precious small ma- ( terials. The only objection we have to Barksdale c is his Democracy, but as a democrat will most likely be chosen anyhow, we will agree to waive f that objection in this instance and stand up for the c press. t Barksdale is rather a good fellow, (always bar- i ring his democracy,) and is a good editor?and i to make o-good editor 'require*-* deuced sight more bnilne than arc usually found In guberna torjal mansions. To tell the truth, there are pre- flj cioos few of the great men of the day who, if they H wonld exchange, dignities for a month with a H shrewd editor, would not come out with a cont-i- H dcrable abatement of Consequence and a .valuable H addition to their stock of gumption. For the I thirty-ouo Governors in this Union, we wil%a dertukc to name thirty-one editors f let them change places for a month?let the Govern omfflny editor, nnd the editors play Governor, ahdatlw fl expiration of the month,- if the newspaper ers don't corse their new editors, and'thopeepb 1 of the States praise their mew Governor* any- 4M body that wauts them can have our earr and cat them into shoestrings. On the whole, ihen, w? m declare for Barksdale for Governor," though when I he is elected, We bog biro to understand s most not expect us to (lownto his level. .K he chooses to descend from the dignity of the ediiopal chair to become Governor, that is his -concern, not ours. For oureelf, we adhere to the tripod, and would not exchange the sway of our sceptre for that of any Governor extant. I ' 1 ** fl Correspondence of Hew York Dally Hews. 1 Washirgtok, February 18. 9 An impression seems to have fastened itself up- 9 on the public mind, not without good cause, that 9 the Cabinet is finally determined anon. It is, is 1 one particular, different from that telegraphed yep < by the Associated Press lust night, and^s oh ' lows: Lewis Cass, Secretary State; Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasory; Isaac Toucey, Attorney General: J. Glancey Jones Postmaker General; J. B. Floyd,'Secretary of War; Francis W. Pickens, Secretary of tho Navyf Aaron V. Browu, Secretary of the Interior. > There is a remote possibility that-Mr. Nathan Clifford, of Maine, may be substituted for Mr. . Toucey, and that Mr. Pickens, of Sooth Carolina, may not go into the Cabinet. The possibility, how- ' ever, is very remote.; If Mr. Pickens, should not go in, Governor Floyd would be Secretary of the i Navy instead of Secretary of War, and that dis- ^ tinguished statesman and vnlerous' soldier, Gen. ^^9 John A. Quitman, wonld be tho head of .the war Department. Gen. Qaitman's selection wonld bet- J ter please the State Rights sentiinent of the South than any other that could be mflic^. , J 'X/'? 1 1 Dr. Kane. This distinguished gentleman, who if Is feared M is dead, has been previously font times in the same critical condition, viz: once in Egypt, from an attack of plagoe; onco in Africa, prostrated by the African fever; once in the Mediterranean, with lock-jaw, and he was dangerously treanded in the Mexican war, while carryingdespatchesfor i Gen. Scott between Vera Crux anfl MeXvio. The last and fatal attack was of a scrofulous nature, arising from sourvoy and exposure during bis Northern explorations. He was 34 years of oge, liavintr hoon Kai^i in VVV*? UV?U WW I He received bis classical education it-ihe University of Virginia, and his medical edacation-at 4fci y University of Peursylvania, wherehs. gradnated } as a doctor of medicine In 1848.'? Bob* after 1 ceiving his degree heVw appointed surgeon to the first American mission to China. . He travelled ah- t tensively in China, the East Indian Archipelago, 1 British India and Egypt'. -After his return to the ] United States from these adventares^hd paxt sail- " ed for the West Coast <>f Afrwss, andv-fwltedtbe si ave factories from Cape Mount to the river Bets- i ny. During the war with Mexico Jn 1847 he I visited that conntry and performed *'peri Idas see- J vice io bearing President Polk's dcsnBtbfeS'ie tfftkr J Scott. On the return of peace he was assigned to I the coast survey under Prof. Bache.-aujl was at work in the Gulf of Mexico when the first AmerT can expedition Was organised to ,search for 8ft M John Franklin. Dr. Kane went; out as senior sur- fl geon; on his return he published a narrative of mm the cruise, and it was ' scarcely ready before lie started on the Beoond expedition to t&SNfcrotio. regions, from which he returned with his health fatally injared. . v . '?v, Correspondence of the rhartMtoa sUadmL WAtHisare*, February 18,18?7. Wednesday was the day.designated'by the Gojr* stitution of the United States, and the jo vat resolution of the two Houses o| Cdhgipssa, forth* President of the. Senate, in the preseoce aif hoth Honse9, to open and declare 4te .VateB.fof President and Vice President, cast aftheiaie election. Accordingly the Senate was received to the Hall of Representatives, and the _President, pro tern, (Mr. Mason of Va,,) commenced .tbfc count by opening and handing to the tellers the electoral vote of Maine. The ceremony oontianed without < interruption until the vote of Wieeoosto was an- a nounced, when Mr. De?cber, of Virginia, objected I to the vote being counted. The Chair corrected | the objection at the time, and afier-the count biu I been gone through with, the Hort O. W. Jonse, f of Tennessee, (one of-the? taUeis*} stepped'hi j front of the Chair and announced the vote, as follows: ' . t'M For James Buchanan...^..174 votes j For J. C. Element (including the vote ' of msconsin) li votes The chair then,declared the vote accordingly, j when the Hall was immediately thrown in the greatest confnsion, and became a pandemonium on earth. The yells of members and genators were truly distressing. Cries of "Mr. Speaker," "Mr. ^ Chairman, and "Mr. President," were among the distinguishable sounds?but the preslding-of- I ficer steadily refused to entertain any, motion , whatever. He stated that he had done all the Constitution and joint rcsolntion required at Ua | hands. The.two houseB, however, thought they I had a right to decide upon the legelCty.-of the vote of Winconsin?and voices were heard over the ball, -protesting against the tuurpaAipn of the chair which was tantamount to seizuig uponthAfleeiion of President. The chair again. explained?bat Messrs. Toombs, C&ss, Cobb, Haven, Douglass, Butler, Orr, and many others, protested ia totras still louder and louder, until the tithifl" became alarmed. Mr. Orr, of 8. C., mored'thaf the rote ( of Wisconsin be rejected?and Oes, Cass was soon heard exclaiming "the government is being overturned"?"a vote taken here is revolution,4tt Judge Butler here chimed in, "riTnever yield fherights of the State"?' 'South Carolina aboil never i be swallowed up by the,numerical force'of this House." The question' which seemed to create the confusion was, "Who should decide upon, the legality or illegality of the electoral rote of a State ?" As the Chair on the one side assumed to decide, so did the members on the other continue j to protest until the confusion became so great, that the Senate, in the utmost disorder, made a Jk precipitate retreat from the hgll and hastened to their chamber. , , The difficulty was clearly not one provided for J| by law, and it will at once become fcne subject Of egislation. ji? Yesterday the two Houses met inf>etter mood, ' , md concluded thit the President and Vice President should be notified of their election without further delay,?and guard against difficulties in future. - i ' l From the Edgefield Advertiser. ( The hr.*t Chapter. i On Friday last the remains of Hon. Preeton S. I Brooks reached Augusta, in oharge of Messrs. I Frazier, Addison, Mims and Holiingsworth, of Edgefield; Messrs. Suber, Pratt and MbLemore, )f Newberry; Messrs. Kixkwood and Lowndes, . )f Charleston; and Mr. Gibba and a College Comnittee from Columbia. The coffin was taken in land at the depot by the Mayor and Aldermen of Vugusta and quietly conveyed in the city hearse :o the City Hall;,where it was placed in state in :he centre of the large" and handsome Council Chamber. Hundreds were there in mournful sience to look upon the scene. Scarcely a word irord was audible for miqqtes at a time, as the imnonse crowd came and went in orderly succession. A nu? _ii- j J lu? iccuug rrita ouupuuy ueep huu uwuecKa; ind will long fee adverted to by many citizens of 3outh Carolina then present, as a manifestation j it once grateful to us and honorable to Georgians. * At a quarter past four o'clook p. m., it was an- | jounced that the procession was formed without, ind ready to accompany the corpse to the town of Hamburg on the South Carolina side. - The coffin vas again taken in hand by the Augusta members ( >f Council and carried to the street, where it wm jlaced in a large and elegant hearse drawn by bur elegant black horses, which had'beep procu ed for the occasion through the Mayor of Charleson. The procession consisted of a troop of Cavalry, four uniform companies of infantry*? long train if carriages and a number of citizens oq foot?the rhole preceded by a band of music with jnnffled .4 Irums. The length of the column could nod have j teen less than a half-mile. As it passed through Jroad Street, almost every, piazza balcony and J rindow were crowded with- ladies, eager to witless this sad tribute to the gallant deceased.? ilanv of thenromiiiAnt JmeinaM 1 d; and the whole occasion was, every way one to { ie long remembered. We catanot avoid repeating, hat the manner in whioh oiiir Augusta friends lave acted in this- matter has drawn many a heart owards them, and has gone far to make as feel core warmly alive to the fact, that Georgia and Jarolina are indeed sisters, bound together by tics if feeling as well as of interest At a little before dark the procession halted in rout of the. American Hotel, Hamburg; when the offin was taken from the hearse by the officers of he Volunteer Companies and deposited in the i lotel parlor, which, had been appropriately hong | vith black. The escort from Augusta then re< * ... -i