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Scraps & Jfacte. The water in the Mississippi is, at present, only 2 feet below high water mark. Ex-Governor John Bigler, of California, has been appointed Minister to Chili The Universal Agricultural Exhibition, which was to have taken place in France next June, has been indefinitely postponed. The original Wampum-belt presented by the Indian chiefs to William Penn, has been presented to the Pennsylvania Historical Society by Mr. Glanville J. Penn. Dr. Bernhisel, the Delegate from Utah, denies the truth of the discreditable statements concerning that Territory, and says they emanate from enemies who have ever been striving to foment difficulties between the Mormons and the General Government. ? A sweet country home?with roses and honey-suckles trained to climb over it; with good taste, intelligence and beauty within ; toil enough to court acquaintance with books and flowers, and the loveliness of nature ; with peace, plenty, and love?oh ! oh! oh! boys, catch me-don't you see I'm fainting ? In Philadelphia there are no less than nine medical schools, five of them being irregular. Fifteen hundred students are claimed by the nine collectively as being the attendance this winter. Of these the Jefferson College is said to have 500; the old University School 400; Pennsylvania College 150; and the Philadelphia 100. A writer in Harper's Magazine says the Holy City is now less than thirty days from New York. Such is the power of steam. The route is thus: New York to Liverpool, eleven days; Liverpool to Marseilles, four days; Marseilles to Alexandria, eight; one day of rest, two days more to Jaffa, and two days on horseback to the gates of Jerusalem. Boy with ragged trowsers aud rimless hat, runs into Dr. Fuller's drug store with a dipper in hand. "Doctor, mother sent mc ' 1 1.1 down to tne snoticary pop quicker u Diazes, cos-hub's sick with the picken cbox, and she wants a thimbleful of polly gollic in this din tipper, cos we hadn't but a gottle, and the kint pup's got the bine witters in't?Got any?" A man who gave his name as D. D. Thompson, of Philadelphia, arrived at Charlotte, N. C., last week, and commeuced tampering with the slaves. The citizens becoming convinced that he was an abolitionist, aroused him from his slumbers at an early hour the morning after his arrival, by that appropriate old tune, "three little pigs and a short legged sow," (sometimes known as the rogue's march,) and escorted him to the North Carolina .Railroad Depot, where he was put on board the cars, and requested not to show his ugly phiz in Charlotte again. Two remarkable facts are to be noted in respect to the advancement of the whites. The first is, that the quail, unknown to the Indian, makes its first appearance?from whence no man knows?when the white man plows and plants fields, affording an abundance of delicious food to the pioneers. The second fact is, the honey bee is not found in the country while in po.ssession of 1 the Indians. . It keeps just in advance of the advancing wave of civilization. When the Indians see swarms of these new visitors 1 their wise men sadly acknowledge that it is ( time for them to abandon their pleasant hunt- ' ing grounds and the graves of their fathers ! and seek new homes. : The editors of the New York Courier , and Enquirer have been shown a sample of Sea Island cotton, taken from a bale sold in Charleston, South Carolina, at 135 cents per pound, probably the highest priee paid in twenty years. The factors who sold this bale are confident that it is the finest bale of cotton that has ever crossed the Atlantic. The planter (of Edisto, South Carolina,) took the medal in the London Exhibition of 1851, and the prize bale, though it spun yam up to No. 900, is believed to be inferior to this. This bale was picked out by the lady of the planter with her own hands, and it is a marvel the perfection to which she has brought the staple. It is to go to Havre. South Carolina is the most Democratic State in the Union. The Democratic majority is so overwhelming that there has not been a contest in the State for Governor, member of Congress, or any other prominent position for many years, on party grounds. ' One would naturally suppose, therefore, that ' of all people in the world the South Carolinians would be the most ravenous for the spoils of office?if there were any truth in the charges of Know Nothingism against the Democracy. Such, however, is not the case. It is stated that there were but four office-seekers in Washington city from South Carolina, among the thousands who had gone thither on pilgrimage 4th March, instant.? This fact is honorable to the State of South Carolina and to the Demecracy of the South. ?Columbus Sun. We briefly announced yesterday the sudden death of Mr. Eskridge Lane, of i Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a nephew of the ] President of the United States, and brother j of Miss Lane, who, at present, presides at i the White House. We learn that Mr. Lane i had been indisposed for a day or two with i intestinal inflamation, but it was not consider- i ed as atall of a serious character until the \ night before last. His death, therefore, has < taken his friends by surprise. Mr. L. was 1 about thirty years of age, and unmarried.? < Miss Lane, accompanied by the President's < private secretary, J. It. Henry, Esq., and ' several other friends, passed through Balti- 1 more this morning on her way to Lancaster to attend the funeral. The President remains in Washington?Bait. Patriot. O? - # A day or since, says the Washington Star, we had occasion to mention that the ' result of the late sale of the Delaware (In- j dian) trust lands was ?470,000. The lands : sold were only those comprised in the Eas-1 tern division of this great reservation The i Western division is now advertised to be j sold. That contains some 350,000 acres, j and will undoubtedly bring an aggregate of at least ?600,000. The tribe are also the ! owners of a home reservation almost imme-j diately adjoining Leavenworth City, forty miles long by ten broad. That would sell J to-morrow readily for ?10 per acre; or aD aggregate of- ?3,000,000. Thus their total wealth, independent of personal property? and some of them are men of considerable individual means?is about ?4,009,000.? They number in all some nine hundred souls; and, from the real estate described a- i bove, are worth an average of ?4,440 per '( soul, or ?22,220 to each family of five per- , sons among them. 11 C|f|ffrkbiIIe n<(nim edited by SAM'L W. MELTON JOHN L. MILLEB J. H. BLACK. YORKVILLEj S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 2, 1857. PERSONAL. The Co-partnership heretofore existing between Miller & Melton, having been dissolved, it is necessary that the business of the firm should be dosed. We earnestly hope all who know themselves indebted, will settle up immediately. Don't think, kind reader, because you owe a small amount that the call is not intended for you; it is addressed particularly to all who are in arrears. If we can get all the small amounts that are due, it will be something considerable to us. L. M. Grist, at the Enquirer office, is authorized to make settlements, and we trust our patrons will respond to the call we have made upon them. PRESS FOR SALE. Printers are requested to refer to the advertisement under this head. CHESTER COURT. The trial of B. H. Corder, at Chester Court, for the murder of a negro of the late Henry Macon, Sen'r, endid Thursday, in a verdict-of acquittal. The case against Carter, for the murder of Gidson, was traversed to the next Court. READY MADE CLOTHING. We invite the attention of our friends in the Country to the advertisement of Messrs. Simril and Williams. Mr. Williams made his first trip to market this Spring, and we think from the samples on their counter, he has suceidcd admirably. They are in excellent plight, now, to afford the latest styles along with good bargains.? Be sure to call on them. GRAND DIVISION. We are requested to state that members of the Grand Division, with their families, will be permitted to pass over the South Carolina Railroad and return for one fare. The quarterly meeting will convene in Charleston, the 22d April. This liberal arrangement will afford to some of our friends in the country a good opportunity to visit the city, at half-price; and we trust that a goodly number will find it convenient to attend. FOR FARMERS. A Mississippi paper remarks, very correctly, that "the planter who raises an abundance of corn this blessed year of '57, will make money largely. All the agricultural world is perfectly wild on the subject of Cotton, and the largest crop ever known will be planted. If the seasons prove favorable, it would not astonish us if the next crop was greatly over four millions?perhaps four millioD, five hundred thousand bales. The prices will fall?money will be tight?provisions scarce, and big corn cribs exceedingly valuable. SALE OF NEGROES. We were present at the sale of Col. Harris' property in this District on the 25th ult. There was a great deal of property of all kinds, usually found on a well stocked-f?rm, sold at very fair prices. The sale of the Negroes was certainly extravagant. We would like to recognize in such prices, evidence of the prosperity of our people, as well as an abiding confidence in the permanence of the institution of slavery, and an earnest determination to protect and preserve it harmless, from all the assaults of Yankee fanaticism. The day is not very remote, when this great problem will be solved. We append a statement of the prices at which the negroes were sold. It is perhaps proper to remark that there were twentyeight?seven of them were either old, unsound or :r:pple, and we have not included them in our jtatement. The remaining twenty-one were sold is follows: Edmond, 30 years old sold for $ 1105 00 Burke, 40 44 44 44 44 000 00 Isaac, 27 " 44 " " 1160 00 Gilbert, 18 " " " " 1305 00 Walker, 29 " " 44 " 1175 00 Edmond, 10 44 14 44 44 1270 00 Alberts 17 44 44 44 1 150 00 Aaron, 12 " 44 44 44 10CC 00 Jacob, 9 " 44 44 " 865 00 Tom, 5 " ?? " '? 415 00 Sam, 44 " 44 400 00 Charlotte, 16 14 44 44 44 1151 00 Elsey, 16 44 44 44 44 1 195 00 Rose, 14 44 44 44 44 1020 00 Mnlinda, 10 44 44 44 44 850 00 Amanda, 8, 44 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 8 0 00 Pink, 6, 44 44 44 44 675 00 Sallie, 5 , 44 4 4 4 4 4 * 4 8 5 00 Lilc 36 years old, and2 small children, 1270 00 YORK DIVISION, NO. 26. At a meeting of the above Division, on Friday ;vening last, the following Brethren were elected :o serve as officers during the present quarter:? D. J. LOGAN, W. P. G. W. MELTON, 11'. .4. W. B. METTS, R. S. W. D. MILLER, A. It. S. JNO. J. SMITH, h. 8. TIIOS. H. SMITH, T. JAS. ALLEN, JR., C. J. G. FERGUSON, A. C. JNO. WITHERSPOON, I. S. JNO. KINCAID, 0. S. J. C. MILLER, P. lV. P. SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY. Richard if. Clark, the Chairman of a Committee appointed, last Summer, to tender the hospitalities of the city of Macon, Georgia, to Col. Brook9, has published the letter of the much-lamented Congressman, in reply. It contains a fund of earnest, practical truth, which comes to us now as from an oracle; and, for itself as well is forthe source whence it emanated, it deserves to be carefully pondered. The storm then threatening. has snent its furv. and an almost breath ?i r <* ' ~ less calm is upon us. But the elements, as vigorjus as ever, have only to assume new combinations, to illustrate the truth of every line and word and syllable of this letter. Our own creed could not be presented, more tersely and yet more completely:? '90 Depot; 6th Sept. Gentlemen.* Your kind invitation to visit and address the Citizens of Macon, i eached me only yesterday. I left Washington six days before the adjournment of the extra session. As agreeable as it would have been to me to visit my friends in Eufaula, I at no time entertained such a purpose. My engagements at home will confine me here until the opening of tbe next session. To be very frank with you, although I will support the Democratic nomination, I am by no means a National Democrat. The times require that the South should look alone to herself. I shall support Mr. Buchanan, bat with the feeling that his election will but retard the coming issue, and not prevent it. Though I would much prefer to have the sectional issue sternly made, yet I am unwilling to do evil that good may come of it, and therefore will co-peratc with nty Democratic friends, who see ?discern hope, when I do not. Whenever the South moves in her own, seperate defence, I am willing and ready to go anywhere, and devote my energies in any way that will promote thecause of Southern disenthralment. We of the North and South are no longer the same people, and our political existence is as intolerable to me as the fabled union of the living and dead bodies. Ask the first intelligent child you meet if he would rather be an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Russian, or a Yankee, (by which the child and I both mean a Black Republican,) and his answer ' will teach a political lesson and that is, that a government that is not founded in the affections of the people cannot or should not last. : Upon the hearts of each succeeding generation this sentiment takes an increasingly stronger hold, . and it is fatuity to disregard its admonitions. I have the honor to be your obliged servant, P. S. BROOKS. SONNETS and POEMS, by PAUb H. HAYNE. This is the modest title of a neat little volume, recently issued from the press of Harper and Calvo, Charleston. It has adorned our table for a | month, and a month ago ought to have been made ( the theme of our best endeavor. But ours must , be a running pen; and when discussing a Carolina book?the work of a master-hand, bearing, by the way, a heart within it as steadily and warmly as i it grasps a poet's pen?chaste, unique and most beautifully fiuished, it calls for a more practised skill than ours can pretend to be, even after so long delay. As the title indicates, Mr. Hayne's volume is ( made up, for the most part, of Sonnets?forty-four in number. In the preface, the author makes a clever and very scholarly defence of the difficult school of poetry to which he has devoted his fine talent; with which, at the outset, we are constrained to take issue. While we cannot admit, with Dr. Johnson, that the Sonnet is "incompatible with the genius of the English language we mustin> sist that the cultivation of its arbitrary and artistic style is wholly inconsistent with the true mission of the American poet. Sonnet-writing might, perhaps, be deemed valuable as an aid to the study of the art?an exercise conducive to directness and condensation of thought; but if this be its chief value, we can only assign to the 1 sonnet a rank with the school-boy's "composition," and preserve it, if at all, merely for "the good it has done." But even this meagre claim is to be regarded as of doubtful merit. Au appearance of most elaborate polish, a perfectly-flowing rythm, a severe and subtle manner of thought, that artificial and unnaturally constrained air which the Sonnet has about it, tend certainly to detract from the effect of any poem. The fastidious Atheuian thought that the master-piece of Demosthenes "smelt of the lamp and so we fancied, as we perused the exquisitely polished lines which compose the burden of the volume before us. Each thought came out chastely-conceived, delicate, refined, terselywrought, and, at times, with all the voluptuous glow of artistic beauty; but not as a thing of life, instinct withfeeli"g, out-gushing as fountainwaters, clear, stiong, and rushing with a gladdening melody. It pleased us as the wax-flower pleases; but it wanted the freshness and redolence of Nature's spontaneous mnking. Labor seemed to be of its life-blood ; and the idea of labor, even though suggested with the highest at tainments of the art, is never more irksome than when it attaches to the^oem. The perfection of art is to conceal art, wo are told: the Sonnet makes no suggestion more patent. Again, we doubt if the crowning excellence of this school of poetry?condensation of thought? bo not. if we may so speak, its most serious fault. A thought, in itself poetical, will appear comparatively dull and prosaic, when too much abstracted ?too clearly cardinalited. A rose torn from the bush, though beautiful, looses much of its loveliness when removed from its back-ground of native vendure ; so a poetical idea must be less attractive nnd less poetical, when deprived of the graceful imnjery and pleasing associations whieh are wont to attend upon it. The true poet must write of and for the masses. Contemplative beauty, quiet meditation and dreaming sentiment may please the mere literary epicure whose fastidious taste seeks only for dninty tit-bits of word-painting. But to make tho great heart of humanity pulsate to his numbers, the poet must appeal to the great heart of humanity. No tribunal is more jealous of its court; none more exacting. If a poet desires but a place with the dusty cob-webs of the alcove, ho may consult the schools of tho learned ; but if he would be immortal, if he would enstamp his thought upon the world, lie must write of the simple joys and sorrows, the heart-burning throbs of love and hate, the common-place emotions which impart intensest passions to the human life "around the hearths of common men." lie must forget to make of his words a smoothly or grandly flowing rytlim?he must cease to invest an 'airy nothingness' with 'a local habitation nnd a name' he must throw his wierd enchantment around the every-day thoughts and feelings and words of every-dny life. Thus alone can the mission of our poet be fulfilled?thus alone can he appeal to mankind for a Dame which they will not "willingly let die." As well try to harness down the mighty power of the elements, as to confine such human thoughts with the four teem of a Sonnet! We need not prove that the poet's success is in the keeping of the masses?in the current and />nnf>.nl1iirl lw tl,o Qvmnntliipe nf pnmmnn lifp V'/UViV.IVU J WJ M.J/M?.Vw vvW...?M ...W. Critics pompously assigned to Byron and Burns places on the second-rate list. And yet, the fervency of Hate and Love, the intensity of Misery and Bliss, and the melahcholy splendor thrown around his life-labors, have made Byron in a sense the most popular poet that has ever written. The same remark, slightly modified is, true of the Ayrshire Bard. The loftiest flights of imagination, the widest stretch of thought, the suhlimest conceptions, can never exert that potent influence over a people to which all give place under the enchantment of Burns' glow of love, his exuberance of joy, his flashes of wit and bon-hommie flow of feeling ! Milton trusted to his sublimity ; the masses marked it for religion's sake; and now,"a very select coterie appreciate Paradise Lost.? Dante appealed to every passion of the human heart, and he has moulded and brought to living light the beautiful Tuscan, which "? melts like kisses from a female mouth.'' Every thing around us is well calculated to stimulate the poet to this?his mission. American life, in its antecedents and its consequents? in its past and present and future?in the external and internal influences which direct and control its destiny?Is fraught with the highest elements of poetry, and suggestive of its grandest themes. Within it, is a mine of purest gold; and to the working of it, our poets might well betake , themselves. In Mr. Hat.ve's Sonnets, and in his poems especially, the reader will easily detect a remarkable talent for the task; He deals much in familiar household thoughts, and in a style exceedingly clever and happy; and we are sure that, unconstrained by the conventional system of the Sonnet, he has powers which are fully equal to the highest work his mission can impose. Asaj Sonnet-writer, he has been justly assigned the first position amongst living writers; as a poet, properly so called, we believe that he is fitted for ' the same relative position. With this opinion in , view, we have, to the neglect of the little volume , before us, sought to employ whatever of influence 1 we might to woo him from his self-imposed bur- . den, to the working of that more generous and inviting field which promises, to the faithful and capable husbandman, a smiling and most bountiful harvest. ( A mere glance is sufficient to assure us that the i poemt are by far the best portion of the book? to assure us that the positions we have taken are proved. The "Ode to Sleep" is a remarkable production?replete with the evidences of true poetic power?the most ethereal flights of a chaste i ' and refined imagination. It reminds us of that 1 region of mystic beauty, that "Pleasant country, girt with twilight caim, In whose fair heaven a moon of shadowy round, 1 Wades through a fading fall of sunset rain." ' We copy the opening and closing stanzas ; and we appeal to the reader if the opiate of an Indian Summer's eve could so lull the semes, and make all the soul to fade off and lapse more sweetly and balmily into the shadowy realms of dreamland.? The whole conception is exquisitely beautiful: Beyond the sunset and the amber sea To the lone depths of ether, cold, and bare, Thy influence, Soul of all tranquility, Hallows the Earth, and awes the reverent Air; The laughing rivulet quells its silver tune; The Pines, like priestly watphers, tall and grim, Stand mute, against the saintly Twilight dim, Breathless to hail the advent of the Moon; From the white beaoh the Ocean falls away, Coyly, and with a thrill; the sea-birds durt Ghostlike from out the distance, and depart With a grey fleetness, moaning the dead Day; The wings of Silence, overfolding Space, Droop in dusk grandeur from the heavenly steep, And through the stillness gleams thy starry face, Serenest Angel?Sleep. * * * " # * * * Then woo we here amid these flowery charms; Breathe on my eyelids; press thy odorous lips Close to mine own; enfold mc in thine arms, And cloud my spirit with thy sweet eclipse; And while from waning depth to depth I fall, Down-lapsing to the utmost depth of all? Till wan Forgetfulncss, obscurely stealing, Creeps like an Incantation on the soul, And o'er the slow ebb of my conscious life Dies the thin flush of the last conscious feeling, And like abortive thunder, the dull roll Of sullen passions swells far, far away? 0, Angel 1 loose the chords which cling to strife, Sever the gossamer bondage of tny breath? And let me pass gently as winds in May, From thedimrealm which owns thy shadowy sway, To thy diviner sleep, 0, sacred Death! That Mr. IIatne possess a marked versatility of talent?a power to attain as well to the bighcsl reach of passion?can be seen in the fiery and powerful poem of "Queen Galena." It has the genuine ring about it. The design is "to portraj the frenzy of an Eastern Sultana, whose lover hat deserted her, fascinated by the softer charms ol some blonde beauty of the West": Hold! let the heartless Perjurer go! Speak not! strike not! he is My foe, From me, me only, comes the blow? I will repay him woe for woe; Look in my eyes! my eyes are dry, I breathe no plaint, I heave no sigh, But?will avenge me ere I die. Think you that I shall basely rest, And know the bosom mine hath prest, Is couched upon a colder breast? Think you that I shall yield the West, The Orient soul my nature nurst, Till the b'ack seed of treachery burst, And blossomed to this deed accurst? My rival! 0! her eyes are meek, Her faltering presence wan, and weak As the faint flush that tints her cheek, 'Tis not on her that I would wreak My vengeance?sooner would I wring Life from an insect-birth of spring Than palter with so poor a Thing. But He?I tell you if He flew, As it was once his wont to do, Bcpentant?pleading?quick to woo, With all his wild heart flaming through The glance of passion?it were sweet, Yea! noble, righteous, just, and meet, To slay him kneeling at my feet 1 He ahull not weu her; by Heaven's light He shall not; o'er my lurid sight Throbs a thick fire; the ancient might Of a stern race is stirred to-night; My sovereign claim annul?disown! I will repay him groan for groan, Or?stab him at the altar-stone! We must close an already long article with n sweetly meditative and pathetic poem, entitled "The Presentiment." Many a grave like this it in the church-yard ; and uot a few of ourreaderf will recognize an original, and bear testimony tc the fidelity of the picture. Over her face, so tender and meek, , The light of a prophecy lies, That hath silvered the red of the rose on her cheek, And chastened the thought in her eves. Beautiful eyes, with an inward glance To the spirit's mystical deep; Lost ill the languid gleam of a trance, More solemn and saintly than sleep. Tt hints of a world which is alien and dim, Of a nnture that hovers between The discord of earth, and the seraphim's hymn, On the verge of the spectral?Unseen ; And forever and ever she seems to hear The voice of a charmer implore, "Come! enter the life that is noble, and clear; Come grow to my heart once more." And forever and ever she mutely turns, From a mortal lover's sighs; And fainter the red of the rosc-^lusli burns, And deeper the thought in her eyes. The seeds arc warm of the churchyard flowers, That shall blossom about her rest, And a bird that shall sing by the old church towers, Is already fledged in its nest. And so when a blander summer shall smile, On some eve of soft July, We will lend to the dust her beauty awhile, 'Neath the hush of a moonless sky. And later still, shall the churchyard flowers Gleam nigh with a white increase; And a bird outpour by the old church towers, A plaintive poem of peace. This is Mr. Ilavne'ssecoud volume of poetry; nndt though the former essay was deemed of noblest promise, those who have been permitted to enjoy both accord toits successor much more of the element of true poetry. A young man, he is now undoubtedly in the front rank of our poets ; and he has within him a wealth which must, after a while, endow his own name with the fairest characters, and enrich valuably and permanently the Literature of the South. ? <mi - -?? MERE-MENTION. An interesting article about King's Mountain will be found on the first page. The steamer Illinois brought the news, last week, that one hundred and thirty deserters from Walker's army have taken passage for the United States. Three thousand Costa lticans are ?n route for Nicaragua; and Walker's case is consequently considered desperate. Don't believe it. The same arrival reports that there is no chance for the settlement of affairs between Granndaand the United States. We publish a history of the Dred Scott case of which many of our readers desire to know something. The annual address before the Societies at Franklin College, Athens, Geprgia, will be delivered by Hon. L. M. Kcitt. A new Post Office has been established in Mecklenburg Co., N. C., called White Oak Branch, J. S. Waters, P. M.?on the route to Wadesboro'. The celebrated Joliffe case, in Barnwell, where the testator, who died suddenly in Ohio, left his estate to his negro wife, has been decided in favor of the will. An important fact is announced in regard to the Florida Everglades, of which the reader will find a statement in this fssue. The Carolina Times says: "Nr other portion of the South will compare with it in adaptation to the culture of the sugar cane and other tropical pro? ??? -ii -< ?i.:_ 1 3 ducts. unuer tue "SWftnip (jmuv mi ui ung Hiuu is the property of the State, and by licr internal improvement act, it has been pledged a9 a basis of credit for the several Railroad enterprises of Florida. Not the least important of the consequences likely to follow, will be the facilities it will afford to Gen. Harney for operating against the Seminoles, who, when they took refuge in these Everglades, were well-nigh inaccessible. A correspondence in the Richmond Enquirer informs us that Mr. John A. Washington has ^ain consented to dispose of the Mount Vernon Bstate to the Commonwealth of Virginia, for ?200,000. The Ladies' Mount Vernon Associations, throughout the country, are making increns;d exertions to procure the amount; and, as ever, they will succeed. Col. Jno. H. Wheeler has resigned his place a9 Minister to Nicaragua. rhe Edgefield Advtrtistr has been authoriied to i withdraw Gov. Hammond's name from the list of i I candidates in the 00 District. It appears, how- | ! ever, that many of his political friends have dei terrained to advocate his election nolem volent, and arc preparing for the canvass. Gen. Bonliam, Mr. Sullivan of Laurens, and Mr. Marshall, of Abbeville, are in the field. At the recent Court, in Pickens District, twenty i nine "true bill"" were found by the Grand Jury? | seventeen of which were for "retailing without j license." The Pickens people are on the right | road. Wonder how many such bills might be found in York District, if enough tnen of moral courage could be found to present them. Say ?? The election to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Col. Brooks, has becu ordered by Gov. AUston to take place on the first Monday in May. John Applcton has vacated his position as Editor of the Union, on account of ill health. It is thought that Hon. F. P. Stanton, of Tennessee, will succeed liim. The reported recall of Mr. Forsyth is unfounded. The treaties he negotiated have merely been sent back with instructions to him to obtain important amcudments to them before they can be considered by our government. State elections will be held in Ponneationt and Rhode Island, in the car ly part of April, when a warm contest is anticipated between the Democratic and Republican parties. A Convention is to be held in Worcester, Mass., to take "prompt, efficient, organized, , united, and continued action in the crisis resulting from the Drcd Scott decision and the condition of r affairs in Kansas. At a recent meeting of the t Board of Charleston College, the degree of L. L. [ D. was conferred on Hon. Mitchell King. ? The fillibustering expedition to Sonora, the r North-western State of Mexico, from California, j promises to result in warm work. The Mexicans f have despatched strong forces to meet them. The Kansas Free State Convention, in session at Topeka, adopted a resolution not to participate in the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention, provided for by the late Legislature. They adhere to the Topeka constitution, and will urge it before Congress as the choice of the majority of the citizens of the Territory. The post of Governor has been given to, and accepted by, Hon. Robert J. Walker, of Mississippi, Secretary of the Treasury under President Polk. This is decidedly the best appointment that could have been made; and we have strong hopes, under such fair auspices, for the safety of Kansas to the South. A letter from the U. S. Supreme Judge in Utah, gives a deplorable account of af! fairs in that Territory: "The leading men of the | church are more traitorous than ever. Only a I few days since, all the papers, records,, dockets, and nine hundred volumes of the laws, were taken out of the Supreme Court Clerk's office and burned. And this is not the only instance of the kind. I say to you again, and through you to the President, that it is impossible for us to enforce the laws in this Territory. Every man here holds his life at the will of Brighatn Young, and here we nre without protection." The Republican State Convention, held in Harrisburg, on the 2Gth nominated Wilmot, the "Proviso" man, for Governor of Pennsylvania. An effort will be made, and we hope successfully, to put the great Southern mail on the upper line, by Charlotte and Columbia to Augusta. AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND. Our latest dates from Europe were brought by ' the steamer Europa. The cotton market was ' steady and prices uuehanged; sales of the week ' 48,000, bales, of which speculators and exporters took about 8000. Every indication seems to authorize the belief that the market will steadily maintain an upward tendency, until after the end of this year's season. Indeed, we may doubt whether the average rate will, for many years if ever, decline to the ruling figures of last year.? The demand for fabrics, already exceeding the supply, is increasing; the stock is every day decreasing at an "alarming" rate; it is ascertained beyond doubt that the only source of supply must , be found in the Southern States; and a crop of four millions will not more than suffice to prevent an advance in prices ut terly inconsistent with the prosperity of the Manufacturing Districts. Our only fear is, that an ill-advised movement will be made by speculators, so as to produce a crisis and, as a consequence, a serious check to legitimate operations in the trade both at home and abroad. Shrewd speculators hold the opinion that during the summer, prices will advance to twenty cents ; and we have heard of several wagers turning upon such an event. With present influences at wont, we sec no reason why it may not occur. The Evropa veports that the Persian treaty is pronounced satisfactory in England. The Persians are to evacuate Herat within three months after the ratification ; whereupon the English are immediately to evacuate the Persian territory.? In Parliament, notice has been given of enquiry respecting the relations between Great Britain anil the United States. Lord Palmerston's Ministry determined not to vacate their officers, upon the decision against the government, in Parliament, upon the Chinese-War question; with the | view to try the issue before the people at the ensuing elections. It is believed that Palmerston will be able to carry a small majority, at least, into the next Parliament. Inasmuch as this will now be the great question in England, the following concise statement of the position of parties, tnken from the Charleston Mercury, will be read with interest:? The position of Lord Palmerston's Administra tiou seems to be simply this: It has received a de1 cisivc defeat on a measure on which the Ministry | was fully committed. The war with the Chinese ! has been condemned by a vote of Parliament.? But, as the Parliament itself expires by legal lim! itation in the month of May next, the Ministry have determined, with prudence that every body ( must appiovc, to retain their offices till the elec. tions for a new Parliament are held. The struggle will be a very severe one, but it is by no j means improbable that Lord Palmerston will be | sustained?and this, not because the people of i Great Britain care much, one way or other, for . theChsnese war, out because the Ministry will be ( i opposed, in the popular elections, by three sepaj rntc parties, who can scarcely, by any system of ( jobbing or bargain! g, be brought to coalesce to j j such a degree as to enable them to form a respec- , tabic Administration. There is, first, the Tory party, headed by the Earl of Derby, Lord Ellenborough, Sir Bulwer i Lytton and Mr. D'lsraeli; second, the old Peel [ party, as they art called, represented by Lord Aberdeen, Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, and j others; and third, the Free Trade party, lead by ! Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright. These parties have i all united in defeating the Ministry ou the recent vote. There is, perhaps, another party of some- , what doubtful strength, of which the head is 1 j Lord John Russell, whose personal position is cer- i tainly one of hostility to Lord Palmorston, nl- j though his political opinions confine him within ; a very narrow circle of opposition. Taken all to- j gether, these parties form a negative force which ! | is much superior to that which the Ministry can ! command; but they have no natural cohesion, and j it is precisely in this incompatubility of the ele! inents of opposition, that the strength of the pre sent Ministry consists. They may be voted down ' a hundred times, and yet, when the serious ques- g tion comes up, of who are to represent their oppo- ' j nents in the actual conduct of the Government, it I will probably be found that the mass, which was c J so formidable in the negative vote, will crumble r 1 to pieces in the attempt to form a consistent work- . I ing organization. And it is the conviction that ! this must be the likely result of a triumph of the I various elements of opposition, that will prove : i the great strength of the Ministry in the coming elections. There must, at any rate, be a Govern- 1 ment, and although the people of Great Britain i r may not be very well satisfied with that of Lord r Palinerston, they will console themselves with the ? reflection, that on auy decisive question the ma- . jority of Parliament will always hold an effectual check upon its measures. In short, It will be a t i Ministry always at the mercy of Parliament. 1 j SPAIN AND MEXICO. { . Accounts from Spain state that preparations , for the invasion of Mexico are progressing on a . large scale?the first movements being designed , against the city of Vera Cruz. It is thought that ] the attack upon that fortress will be conducted ( without the aid of strictly military forces, amount- ] ing merely to a blockade and bombardment; ( and that the difficulty can be adjusted without resort to an extended scale of operations by land. The enmity between the parties, however, is very hitter, and although both are alike weak and im- I potent, there arc evidently outside influences, on I each hand, which may operate to prolong the struggle. The Spanish government appears to look to France and England for aid, if need be ; or in any event, for an active interference to enforce the neutrality of the Uni*:d States; while Mexico has every assurance that our country will not quietly permit the re-establishment of a Spanish monarchy on this Continent. The Monroe Doctrine, promulgated at the outset against the designs of the Holy Alliance, which sought to restore Spanish dominion in the Colonies, must Knnn r4i?nntl?r oirnlnut onw rnmr?m?nt nn tliB nnrfc of Spain or her allies, tending towards the acquisition of territory in Mexico. To regard peaceably such on event, would be to abandon a firmly-settled policy upon the very ground which necessitatated its adoption. Rumors by the Europa informs us that England and France hove refused to guarrantee the Island of Cuba, if hostilities commenoe; and that the latter Power has proposed to mediate on the part of Spain. These statements, however, are not confirmed. As far as we are enabled to see, a war is inevitable, which at some period may result in the most serious complications, between the United States and Europe. The subjoined paragraphs will inform the reader as to the history of the pending dispute:? The mal-administration of justice in Mexico had given rise to claims against that government by Spanish subjects, in the same mlnner that it had given rise to claims by the citizens and subjects of other nations. After long continued attempts to obtain an adjustment of these claims, the Spanish Minister finally succeeded in negotiating a convention in 1851, which was modified and extended by another, in 1853, by President Santa Anna. Under this convention a commission was appointed to examine and pass upon the claims, and performed the greater part, if not all, of the work, and partial payments were made in Mexican scrip. When Santa Anna was driven from the country, and Comonfort came into power, it was found by the latter that an extensive system of Gardinerism and Galphinism had been practiced in this matter of Spanish claims, and he not only refused to pay the balance of scrip due on the fraudulent claims, but endeavored to get back thaf wlrch had been issued on them. This led to a protest and some harsh intercourse on the part of the Spanish Minister, and the exhibition of a Spanish naval force in the harbor of Vera Cruz. The result was that the Mexicans, instead of becoming intimidated at this demonstration on the part of Spain, became more firm as regarded the Government, and on the side of the people the old bitter feeling against the mother country was aroused. Besides looking to her own resources, Mexico turned her eyes to this country; and on . the part of the fillibasters, some strong propositions, bearing on Cuba, were made to her. But the quarrel did not come to a head during these disputes, which occurred lost year; and the expedition against Mexico, which was said to have been preparing in Havana, was dissolved. Intercourse was again resumed, and a repudiation of some of the most obnoxious claims took place. A resumption of good feeling on the part of the people was not so easy a matter?the more so as Spanish agents were found conniving with the clergy in their attempts at rebellion?and it was generally believed in Mexico that the Spanish Government, the priests and Santa Anna, were conspiring to subjugate the republic once more to ti e Spanish croww. Taking advantage of th)3 state of p jpular irritation, a party of bandits attacked the hacieuda of San Vicente, belonging to a Spaniard in the district of Cuernavaca, on the 18th of December last, and shouting "Death to the Spauiards," put several of them to death, among whom was a boy fifteen years old. The local government immediately arrested the porter of the estate, on suspioion of being an accomplice, and the general government, at the request of the Spanish Charge, caused other arrests to be made. On the 13th of January nine prisoners were held on the charge, and the case was in the hands of the tribunals. But it did not go on with the rapidity which the.Spanish representative desired, for on the 10th of January he addressed a nole to the Government, demanding immediate aotion, accusing the authorities of a want of will to do justice, and fixing the term of eight days for the arrest, trial and punishment of the criminals. Oo the 19th be wrote again, stating that he bad not received proper satisfaction in the matter, and ho demanded his passports, which were given to him, with a temperate reply to his note, setting forth that the conduct of the Government did not call for this violent course, but that it could not, with I proper self-respect, decline his reqfiest.? FROM FLORIDA. " - '* Additional advices from Florida report that the ^ troops are making every effort to ferret out "Billy i Bowlegs" and his band. Gen. Harney had set out 1 on the search, under the guidance of the Squaw , recently captured by the volunteers near Lake ] Itopogee. A letter from Fort Myers, dated the < 9th, says:? Lieut. Freeman is here; hia arm is broken above the elbow, but he is doing very woll. He had a very narrow escape. He went with six men down to a garden, two miles and a half from his camp at Bowleg's town. While in the garden, the foremost man, Chilton, of Co. G. was shot through the head. Freeman says he then advanced with the five men in the direction of the shot, came to a clear spot, and saw the Indians on the other side, placed his finger to his nose in mark of contempt, and retreated. Came back to Chilton's body, dragged it a piece, and covered it with brambles, then started for his camp on a trot: but just as he the first shot, a volley was poured into them, was entering a clear spot, some half a mile from wounding four. Freeman was knocked down by the windage of g a ball that barked his nose. He rose and saw twenty Indians all in red shirts aiming at him.? t He fired his pistol in the breast of the largest? j They fired a volley into him, riddling his clothes t and breaking his right arm. His pistol flew over ( his head. He gave a yell, and ran as fast as pos- j sible. Tho Indians followed on slowly setting fire l to the woods, and fired three times into his camp. c He sent an express to Stevenson, and Chambers a reached him at 12 with company A. Stevenson, ^ with Archer's mounted party arrived at daylight. t Archer and Rich were sent down to the gardens a with one hundred men, to bring off Chilton's body, j. They arrived at the garden, and Archer and Rich j were sent down with theadvnnceof ten men, when ? the Indians poured in a volley. The rest of the t jtorv is all confused, and we must wait for Arch- v ;r's story. Four drummer boys left Fort Keais a bliing, and have not been seen since. Three men a were killed, and one died of wounds. Seven oth;rs were wounded. THE COMET. A letter dated Paris in the beginning of March i P i tl lays: c ' To-day we have had quite summer weather in 0 ['aria. The event has caused public attention to I n >c almost entirely absorbed with the comet which I d liousands here believe will smash our globe on Si ;hc 13th of June next. The conict is the subject tl >f almost universal conversation. Although we h lave fewer works on prophecy in France than in n jondon, wc have, nevertheless, prophetic alman- tl ics and somnambulists, and dreamers of dreams, ind spirit rappers, which make up lor the defi- > licncy, and are now unceasing employed. Up to ! h he present moment the comet has not affected tl he value of bills due after the 13th of June. tl The disastrous results of the expected stranger, a ays the Timtt, have been nredicted by one of the ^ >renchers of Paris. It is what is popularly call- j, id the comet of Charles V., the famous Spauish M nonarch whose history Robertson and Prescott j ^ lave narrated. It appeared toward the close of j ^ lis reign, and impressed liiin so profoundly, that | a t is said, lie abandoned his throne and fled to a ci doister. We arc not disposed to credit all that is elated of Charles in this connection with the phclomenon, but it is very certain that the constern- o] ition in Europe was universal. We can hardly iclicvc that any of our readers will be alarmed by . ft| he statements they may have seen coming from it d. Babinet, a French Savant. Ono of these was, c< * - * that this globe of ours is to be pretty severely shaken, if not destroyed, by coming in contact with a comet in Juno next. We hare the best of Eiuthority for annouociug that no such calamity is likely to occur. And, to remove the fears of such as may have apprehended danger, we publish a letter from the distinguished Prof. Pierce of Cambridge, to whom the editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser applied for information. Harvabd College, March 24, 1857. My Dear Sir: What Babinet, who is an excellent popular lecturer, a good physicist, but no ^ geometor or astronomer, may have written about a possible comet or collision with a comet?or what some unknown German may-have done of the same kind?is wholly unknown to me. But ^ neither of them, supposing the German to be of equal scientific position with Babinet, can have fl predicted in. June nny such collision, for / am pot- J Hire that there are not the data for tuch a compntation. and Babinet is.at least of too respectable a- cH bilities to involve himself in such an absurdity. The only matter of prediction, relating to comets which has recently come under my observation, consists of a series of signal failures com mitted by the English astronomer Hind, which have been discussed with cutting severity by a German mathematician, and shown to be utterly without foundation. This Hind is the man who was recently appointed to the control of the Eng- |f lish Nautical Almanac, in opposition to the rival claims of Adams, whose name is so celebrated in connection with the discovery of Neptnne. ^ Yours, &c., Bbn/amih Picsck. From the National Intelligencer. ^ The Everglades of Florida. Facts that I will presently relate indicate that new and extensive vent has been formed for the waters of the Everglades at some period since the 15th of last November. These faets point to some place between Cape Sable and Cape Romano, near the southwestern extremity of the peninsula of Florida, as the location of this new vent, and from them it seems probable that the new outlet or outlets is or are connected with some deep hole in the interior of the "glades," by a cavernous channel through the rotten, tertiary lime rock which ^ underlays the whole peninsulaand shallow shores; ^ and I think the water will be found bubbling op somewhere in Gallivan's bay, outside of the cluster of Mangrove islands, sometimes' called the Labyrinth. As many of your readers may not be acquainted with the situation of the Everglades, permit me to say that at their southern extremity, when the water in them is high, if has an elevation above mean tide of near ten feet.- -Their northern extremity is probably a number of feet higher.? Their whole extent, when fall of water, is .near one hundred and fifty miles long, by an average breadth of ninety miles. This includes Lake Okachobee, which, with the Kissimmee river, is in the same basin of drainage. The Indian name of "water grass," indicates the character of the glades, and in their highest stage their avenge depth of water is less than three feet, of which more than two feet were subject to being evaporated and drained off by the old outlets., A tolerably well-defined rim ofJimestonpenoloees-the water in the basin of the glades, and short rapids usually attend the outlets that have' been formed through this "rim;" but small caramons outlets are known to exist by fresh water bubbling up m many places in the sea near the shore. The water in the Ererglades is generally the highest at the beginning of winter, after ttie summer and autumn rains, and lowest at the commencement of M summer; but they frequently remain quite full A for one or two years together, when there is rain H in excess. Such was the-case in 1866; and on - W the loth of last November, perhaps later, they were unusually full, and had been so for more than two years. The facts that indicate new rent to the waters of the glades are as follows: On the last days of December we bad rumors that large bodies of fresh water had been encountered in the bay to the north of Key West, and it soon- became evident that there was some troth in them from the number of fish and reptiles, which. alone inhabit shallow salt water, coming on shore, deatl and dying. On the 5th of January this fresh water Was driven into Key West harbor by a strong northwest wind, where the writer of this tried it with suitable instruments, and otherwise set about an inquiry as to the cause. I found the water, then inlhe harbor, 21?, Beaumc hydrometer, sea water generally indioating by it to 6?. Prom tB$6th to the* 19th of January, this fresh water was driven into the harbor at three several times, when the water indicated from from 2J? to 8?; at tbe intervals between its visits tbe water In the harbor was at 4]? to 5?. On the 28tb of February tt^ras again fl driven into the harbor by a northwest wind;, but ^ in tire mean time I bad gathered other fleets that connected this phenomenon with the Everglades. I learned that on the 1st of January .the. water of the glades at tbe Miami river, near Cape Florida, ? was much lower th8n it craftily is after a'dry win- fl ter and spring; and, although water then had nearly ceased running out of the known outlets, yet in the next twenty days the water fell eight inches at that, place. About the middle of February a small division of our army, in pursuit of the remnant of Seminoles, passed over a part of tb? glades, near Cape Sable, without being aware of it, so dry had that part become ; and'it is related that about the same time and place detachments of tUfe army were compelled, in search of fresh water, to go three and four miles on to them be? fore finding it; yet it is known that there was at mIA L?nma nnwin/?" mnnk waiau * ? aAM '^4 hi kUV OWJUV ^VIIUVI 111 14 Vy it nowi UU VUvUI Ut IUCU northeastern extremity. This shove that th? new outlet must be at their southwestern side.-? The further proof of this is that about the 1st of i February a vessel from henee to Cedsr Keys crossed a streak of discolored water four miles wide, >ome fifteen miles to the north of the Northwest Pass to this harbor. It was as well defined as the water at the month of the Mississippi, and lad a direction from southwest to northeast, in which directions this "streak" extended as far a8 the eye conld reach. On her return, two week ater, the same vessel crossed the same streaks some fifteen miles to-tho eastward of where it did jefore, finding it of the same width, with the same lirection, and in the same general line. Many ither vessels have fonnd much discolored brack- ^ sh water in the bay between Cape Sable and Bo- A nano since the 1st of last January, and altogeth* :r it would seem that this new outlet for a month ir two must have discharged'as much water as is * irdinarily disoharged by the Mississippi, to have iroduced the effect that it has in the bay and in training the extended surface of the glades in so hort a time. It is useless to speculation the ultimate effects o be produced by this new outlet, bnt it is .not mprobable that it may reclaim large bodies of he most fertile land, which, under a late act of Congress, must inure to the benefit of the State of flonda. That there is a new outlet is I think nade certain by the facts I have stated; bat of :ourse I may be mistaken as to its exact location md as to its being cavernous. I could, however rere it useful, state many more facts and reasons o fortify my position as to the place of the outlet nd its kind; but Mr. Dorr, of the Coast Survey, 3 now in search of it by permission of Professor iache, who, on being informed of the phenomenon, are direction for a limited search. I have no doubt hat lie will find the source of this fresh water ritbin the week to which his searce is limited, nd this will supersede all necessity of speculation s to the place and form of it. W. C. D. Key West, (Ela.) March 15, 1857. History ot the Dred Scott Cjmc. It is due to the public that we remove the imrersion sought to be made by political agitators, liat this case was got up and pushed to a final onclnsion in the Supreme Court, by the friends ~ * f the present administration, as a party movclcnt, or otherwise. On the contrary, it has been one solely by those who now complain of tho rc lt. The suit was instituted and prosecuted by liem; but whether for political effect, or with the ope of securing a different conclusion, we shall ot attempt to determine. The true history of lie matter is this: Scott instituted a suit in the circuit eonrt of lissouri to obtain a discharge from servitude for imself and family. On the trial it was proved iathe hud been originally a slave in Missouri; jat his master first took hint to the military post t Rock Island, in Illinois, and, subsequently, to ort Snclling, in Minnesota, at a point north of ie Missouri Compromise line, and that he and j is family subsequently returned with him to , lissouri. It was contended in hia behalf, that lasmuch as his owner had volnntarily taken him ) places where slavery did not exist by law, both \ e and his family became free, and remained so fter returning to a slavebolding 8tate. The cir?it court decided in his favor. On appeal to the ipreme court of the State, that tribunal held that e and his family, on retorning to the State, connned slaves. . Between the annunciation of the j pinion of the court and filling of its mandate in I ie circuit court, Scott voluntarily dismissed his -J lit in the State court, thus evading the decision gainst him; and thereapon instituted another i the circuit court of the United States. In this